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23 Prob. J. 1 (1976)

handle is hein.journals/probj23 and id is 1 raw text is: probation journal PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROBATION OFFICERS HON. EDITOR: LESLIE HERBERT, MBE, MA Price 60p (free to members and associates) IN THIS ISSUE ... Many people believe that the Probation and After-Care Service of to- day lacks a clear, basic .philosophy. It is also often said that the Service has sold its birthright to the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. These points are picked up in the main article of this issue by a chief probation officer. Peter Bibby takes the initial letters of CCETSW-and pointedly asks: Can Colleges Educate and Train Social Workers? His article demands a response from us all. If the Service is struggling for a basic philosophy, one of the reasons may be its ever-widening range of tasks. The next two articles look at the important matter of appropriate selection for hostels and for com- munity service, with particular emphasis placed on close liaison and un- derstanding between specialist officers and colleagues in the field. Arlette Mason's short article about her prison welfare work in Brixton raises some interesting issues, including the valuable contribution which could probably be obtained if the Service were to welcome back in a part-time capacity experienced officers who had retired for domestic or age reasons. The article also challenges the Service to face up to the need to find some really positive ways of working with long-term prisoners. By contrast, we are pleased to focus attention, as we have previously done from time to time in this journal on the need to examine seriously the value of short-term work. Robert Water's timely article should stim- ulate probation officers into more active use of early discharge of pro- bation orders for good progress and conversion into conditional discharge. NAPO and the Home Office may also look carefully at the viability of short-term probation orders in conjunction with the concept of contract work, which seems to be much in vogue at the moment. Does anyone remember the detoxification centres 'promised in the 1972 Criminal Justice Act? It is a sad reflection on our own country that we need to look as far away as Poland to see a detoxification centre fully op- erational; nevertheless we are grateful to our West Midlands contributor for focussing on this positive method of dealing with drunken offenders. Finally, we are delighted to publish a scoop, having secured exclusive rights of an address to be delivered to a conference in the year 2000 AD! If this article rings true in some ears, as well as bringing a smile to your lips, then it may well help towards clarifying that basic philosophy which seems to be evading the Service at the present time.

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