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13 J. Soc. Welfare & Fam. L. 1 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/jnlosclwl13 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial This edition marks an important stage in the development of the Journal. The new design and format brings the Journal into the 1990s in terms of presentation, whilst the new title reflects not only the increasing coverage given to family law issues by the Journal in recent years, but also the increasing significance of this area of law to those interested in the general field of social welfare and related issues. The policy of the Journal remains unaltered however. It will continue to be a journal which is concerned with those aspects of law and related processes which are of relevance to law- yers, social workers, probation officers, those involved in the caring pro- fessions, both voluntary and statutory, and to those interested in related areas of social policy and administration. The editors will therefore con- tinue to welcome contributions from academics, practitioners and policy makers in these fields which will maintain the traditionally high quality of articles published in the Journal. The articles in this edition reflect all of these points. John Eekelaar has offered a searching analysis of one of the central principles underpinning the Children Act 1989, that of parental responsibility. This serves to set the scene for a number of articles which we shall be publishing during the course of 1991 which will deal, either directly or indirectly, with various aspects of the Children Act in the period immediately prior to its imple- mentation. It may also set the scene in terms of other important areas in which we would hope to receive contributions, where parental responsi- bility is also a central element in the underlying philosophy-for example, the proposals contained in the recent White Paper (Cm. 1264) Children Come First for a fundamental revision of the arrangements for the collec- tion and enforcement of maintenance payments, or the proposals of the Law Commission (Law Com. No. 192) in Family Law: the Groundfor Div- orce for the reform of the law relating to divorce, or the proposals con- tained in clauses 46-48 of the recent Criminal Justice Bill, which also reflect this philosophy. Other articles in this edition reflect concerns about equally important issues in other areas of social welfare. Jean McHale addresses an important and thus far substantially neglected area of the widespread debate about the most appropriate response to the major problem presented by the spread of HIV, for focusing upon some of the legal and ethical problems surrounding the use of needle exchange schemes for injecting drug users. Ian Loveland's discussion about the policies and practices relating to the housing of homeless persons identifies a number of concerns about the legality of much council decision-making in various areas of housing administration, the most appropriate ways of responding to this, and the problem of the lack of accurate factual information. Crucially and once again, as with many areas of current debate about social welfare and family 1

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