Summary
Political expediency and children in local authority care
The concerns expressed by Archie Beaton at the relationship between children's hearings and social work (The Herald Society, August 2) point out a wider problem endemic within social work for many years, namely the effect on service delivery when policy and practice are dictated by large, remote bureaucracies in which self- justification and self-protection are the principal priorities.See the full content of this document
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Letters
On one occasion during my 20 years as a practising social worker in Strathclyde Region, Community Care, the pre-eminent social work mag...
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