The study of social service organisations, their structure, strategy and the quality of the services they provide is significant for outcomes for service users and for professional development. A sociological perspective defines an organization as a “social unit” built to perform a specific function in order to achieve a specific goal (Fulcher and Scott, 2007). How the organization achieves its goals depends entirely on the type of membership, mechanisms and motivations underlying the function. This essay will analyze the organizational structure, strategy and culture in the context of the statutory agency, the Children with Disabilities Team (CDT), drawing on practical experience within the team and making links to policy and policy factors and theory sociological. Payne (2005) argued that social work is socially constructed in both practice and theory. With this premise in mind, organizations are built as much as the human service professions that operate within them. The role of the social worker is essentially paradoxical, on the one hand since it promotes the rights of vulnerable groups and individuals and, on the other, it is politically constructed to provide elements of social control. Consequently, a social worker's knowledge of organizational theory is vital to understanding how organizations themselves can be a representation of political and ideological structures. CDT provides and commissions a range of services to meet assessed needs, based on guidance issued by the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (DoH, 2000a). The agency exists and provides services as part of a larger, integrated organisation, the Department for Children and Education (DCE), led by a Director of Services. CDT is a multi-...... half of the document ....../www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/equalityanddiversity/equalityimpactassessments/eiaareaservicesforvulnerablechildren.htm [Accessed 20 November 2009].Wiltshire Council., 2009 Latest news: new policies in place. Available from: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/latestnews.htm?aid=92722 [Accessed 20 November 2009].LegislationCarers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995. Elizabeth II. The Stationery Office, 1995.Carers Equal Opportunities Act 2004. Elizabeth II. The Stationery Office, 2004. Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000. Elizabeth II. The Stationery Office, 2000.Children Act 1989: Elizabeth II. The Stationery Office, 1989.Children Act 2004: Elizabeth II. The Stationery Office, 2004Disability Act 1995. Elizabeth II. The Stationery Office, 1995. Human Rights Act 1998. Elizabeth II. The chancellery office, 1998.