Book Reviews : The Church in Social Work Penelope Hall and Ismene V. Howes Routledge & Kegan Paul 35s
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056601200217 |
| Published date | 01 June 1966 |
| Date | 01 June 1966 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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taking
place
allow
selectivity
and
is
there
a
need
for
a
further
appraisal
of
the
Detention
Centre
structure’?
Since
this
project
was
completed
statu-
tory
after-care
has
been
introduced.
There
are
now
facilities
for
a
compre-
hensive
follow-up
of
those
who
have
served
a
sentence
of
Detention
Centre
training.
A
further
project
would
com-
plete
the
picture
and
perhaps
enable
wider
and
more
positive
conclusions
to
be
drawn.
DAV1D
A.
FOWLER
Young
Mothers
Josephine
Kamm
Brockhampton
Press
15s.
This
is
an
excellent
little
book
which
a
woman
probation
ofiicer -
and
indeed,
any
social
worker
doing
preventive
work
with
the
14-17
age
group
girls - would
find
useful
for
her
office
library.
It
is
a
simply
told
tale
of
a
grammar
school
girl
who
is
pregnant
and what
happens,
but
its
value
lies
in the
straight-
forward
factual
accounts
of
events
which
are
only
too
familiar
to
us.
The
central
figure,
Pat
Henley - the
&dquo;young
mother&dquo; - has
no
father.
He
deserted
the
family
some
years
pre-
viously,
her
mother
is
unsympathetic
and
will
not
accept
the
baby
- &dquo;Pat
can
come
back
here,
but
not
the
baby&dquo; -
and
the
14-year-old
brother
must
never
know.
Pat’s
chief
support
is
her
20-year-
old
sister,
and
her
sister’s
boyfriend,
both
satisfactory,
warm
personalities.
This
sister,
Christine,
was
at
a
Secondary
Modern
School,
which
neatly
widens
the
number
of
families
who
can
identify
themselves with
both
girls - and
their
mother!
I
felt
however
that
the
elder
girl
and
her
fiancd
are
almost
too
sen-
sible
and
stable
to
be
true.
The
Moral
Welfare
Worker
comes
into
the
situation
and
the
usual
arrangements
are
made,
including
the
final
week
at
a
Mother
and
Baby
Home.
There
is
no
question
of
marriage
with
the
putative
father - the
conception
of
the
child
was
somewhat
glossed
over!
-and
the
baby
is
to
be
adopted.
But
after
the
birth
Pat
finds
she
loves
and
has
very
strong
feel-
ings
for
the
child,
and
she
tries
to
find
a
way
of
keeping
it.
She
is
unsuccessful,
and
her
feelings
and
those
of
the
mother
and
the
other
people
with
whom
Pat
comes
into
contact
who
try
to
help
her
are
carefully
described,
with
simple
psychological
assessments.
All
the
references
to
and
descriptions
of
the
social
agencies
and
workers
in-
volved
are
unsentimental
and
accurate -
Mrs.
Kamm
is
clearly
experienced
in
this
field
- and
yet the
book
is
a
story
and
interesting
to
the
large,
but
unsophisti-
cated,
age-group
for
which
it
is
written.
I
lent
Young
Mothers
to
a
carefully
selected
14-year-old
(who,
incidentally,
lent
it
to
all
her
mates)
and
she
com-
mented
&dquo;It’s
good - and
my
mum
thought
it
was
good
too - but
someone
ought
to
write
a
book
like
that
for the
boys!&dquo;
Well,
Mrs.
Kamm - how
about
a
book
for
the
boys?
M.
WATTS
The
Church
in
Social
Work
Penelope
Hall
and Ismene
V.
Howes
Routledge
&
Kegan
Paul
35s.
This
is
an
account
of
the
social
work
undertaken
in
the
Church
of
England
from
the
Foundation
of
Christ’s
Hospi-
tal
in
the
sixteenth
century
to
the
present
day.
I
had
expected
it
to
be
rather
tedious
but
that
it
is
not,
is
a
tribute
to
the
authors
rather
than
the
subject.
In
the
past,
the
Church
has
often
inspired
society
to
take
action,
but
these
days
seem
rather
remote
from
today,
when
their
social
work
pre-occupations
seem
almost
exclusively
with
the
unmar-
ried
mother,
and
too
little
with
the
mani-
fold
complexities
of
the
moral
scene
as
it
appears
to
the
average
citizen.
One
of
the
most
interesting
parts
of
the
book
to
me,
was
the
account
of
the
Michelhurst
experiment
where
a
paid
parish
worker
was
part,
and
obviously
very
much
part,
of
a
new
parish
on
a
new
housing
estate.
Would
that
there
had
been
many
more
of
such
projects
to
report.
The
book
is
based
on
a
criti-
cal
study
of
work
undertaken
in
a
Nor-
thern
and
a
Southern
Diocese
together
with
the
method
of
training
or
lack
of
it,
of
people
employed
by
Church
of
England
bodies
as
outside
workers
or
in
residential
establishments.
I
concur
with
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