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4 J. Soc. Welfare & Fam. L. 1 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/jnlosclwl4 and id is 1 raw text is: Points of View New Year resolutions It is now three years since the Journal began publication-three years in which we have scarcely drawn breath in our attempts to keep pace with the Government's onslaught upon almost every area of welfare law. Now seems the time to stand back and ask a few questions-first and foremost about welfare law itself, about the philosophical and political concepts of justice and welfare rights, and about the relationship between legal and social work intervention in family life-and secondly about the style and content of the Journal. In 64 pages every two months we cannot hope to catalogue every single development which might conceivably be labelled social welfare law-nor with a production schedule of more than two months can we always be ahead of those developments. In our service sections we try above all to be comprehensive in matters of social security and welfare rights, which may not receive similar coverage elsewhere. In particular we are delighted to be able to offer a regular round-up of all the Social Security Commissioners' numbered decisions-a feature which will now appear in most issues in order to accommodate the growing volume of decisions in the supplementary benefits scheme. Inevitably, other matters can get crowded out and so we have decided to experiment by combining June Simpson's pithy and entertaining comments from the field with our own occasional forays into more legal and academic questions, in a new Points of View section designed to stimulate the appetite for the main course. M.C.H. B.M.H. Area Offices With Patchwork in the air the time seems ripe for re-examining the purpose of the traditional Social Services Area Office. I used to ask candidates for the post of Area manager if they saw the office as a citadel under siege or as a Powerhouse servicing the workers. Of course they all chose the latter and defended their choice with varying degrees of conviction: The more perceptive and honest did hesitate a little over the distinction between fact and ideal. At the Centenary Annual General meeting of the Church of England Children's Society a speaker posed an even better version. Is the Area Office, he asked, a form of dentist's waiting room?Somewhere we go to have a problem extracted or a gap filled? This way for the Blank City Area Office. What does the public expect to find? Do they go eagerly confident that here is a place they can call their own? Do we, the staff, have any expectations beyond a convenient place to site the telephones and filing cabinets and hang our hats? Could the local populace use those interviewing and meeting rooms or are they sacred to case conferences? Of course we under- stand why schools are so jealous of their premises. Education is so rigid, isn't it? We are much more adventurous. Or are we still sending out the scouting parties for a quick sortie in to enemy territory? J.A.S. 1

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