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15 Prob. 1 (1969)

handle is hein.journals/probj15 and id is 1 raw text is: PROBATION Vol 15 No 1 March 1969 Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers - 4s. COMMENT Social Workers Unite! No, wE are not referring to plans for a unified association, -but to a far more modest change. On 1st January the social workers in detention centres, remand :entres and borstal allocation centres, who had previously been a responsibility >f the Prison Department, became probation officers on secondment, and were ;hus put on the same footing as prison welfare officers. We are confident that :his change will be beneficial, and that as a result the quality of the work .]one in these institutions will improve. Whatever doubts some probation officers nay have about the possibility of doing casework in prisons, there have been :onsiderable improvements overall in the service offered to prisoners and their 'amilies as a result of the changes which were introduced three years ago. We hope that those further steps now being taken to rationalise social work services in the penal system will give social workers in the detention centres i real sense of partnership with their colleagues outside in a common service. The Prison Department, however, still has a few social workers under its wing. Psychiatric social workers are employed in some units where special psychiatric treatment is available to prisoners. It is difficult to get staff to fill these posts and the workers are paid less than they would get if they were Jesignated as seconded probation officers. Is there any reason why probation and after-care committees should not be responsible for filling these posts also? CONTENTS :3OMMENT . . . . . . . . . Page 1 rHE WOOTTON REPORT AND THE PRACTICE OF THE COURTS, A. E. Bottoms 5 IAFOD MEURIG: AN EXPERIMENT IN INTERMEDIATE TREATMENT , Michael Voelcker . . . . . 8 FIFTY YEARS AGO . . . . . . . . 12 READING HABITS OF PROBATION OFFICERS, Malcolm J. Brown and J. Wallace McCulloch . . . . 13 SEEBOHM: A PAINFUL DILEMMA FOR THE PROBATION SERVICE, M. Murch 18 SOCIAL ENQUIRIES: A NEW ROLE FOR THE SOCIAL WORKER?, Robert Foren 24 PROBATION FORUM. . . . . . . . 28 BOOK REVIEWS Aggression on the Road. . . . 17 Social Problems of Drug Abuse. . . . 32 Miscellaneous . . . . . . 34 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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