Heirs to a Heritage Dear Sirs
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900335 |
| Date | 01 September 1982 |
| Published date | 01 September 1982 |
| Author | Peter M. Sturge |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
involving specialist posts (not roles),
his recent article in the Economist,
area policy papers and the pushing of
17.4.82) and R. W. Revans (especially
clients through (often authoritarian) pro-
Action Learning in Hospitals: Diagnosis
cesses without giving them a service and
and Therapy, McGraw and Hill, 1976).
meeting their needs is to move away
These stimulating works are of real per-
from probation as a client oriented
tinence to this debate and would be of
social work agency towards the punitive
interest
to
anyone concerned about
arm of the criminal justice system which
probation.
will sell out clients and ultimately leave
Yours sincerely
them untouched.
D. M. BURNHAM
A shame, Bill McWilliams? Well at
Manchester
least you seek guidance as to why your
principles may serve the New Orthodoxy,
Heirs to a Heritage
but your cry for unifying aims for the
service including the surveillance of
Dear
offenders surely drops neatly into the
Sirs,
At
Dave Burnham scenario.
a time when our Association is
A
negotiating the withdrawal of seconded
way forward is indeed difficult to
envisage, but must entail the defence of
probation officers from prison establish-
the client-centred social work
ments, I would invite members to reflect
system,
and the resistance
on the
to specialist
path which eventually led to
posts,
pro-
bation officers taking
process and hierarchy. I wonder,
up that challenge.
as
H. A. Thomas can’t
We are heirs to a heritage which in-
see the link between
hierarchial
cludes the labours
line
of the early reformers,
management and the
the Prison Gate Missionaries of the nine-
single salary scale, can we perhaps count
teenth century and the hard slog by the
on his vote when the issue re-emerges?
workers of the National Association of
Yours sincerelv
H. J. DAVIES
Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society. They
Probation Officer, Manchester
firmly established the right of a prisoners
access to a concerned person within the
prison, one who was not...
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