Reviews : Social Work and Housing Gill Stewart and John Stewart Macmillan/BASW, 1992; pp 188; £9.50 pbk
| Author | Len Cheston |
| Published date | 01 March 1993 |
| Date | 01 March 1993 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455059304000109 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Social Work and Housing
Overall a book that is easy to read
with a helpful resource section but
Gill Stewart and John Stewart
possibly a disappointment to Probation
Macmillan/BASW, 1992; pp 188; £9.50
Service feadcrs.
pbk
Len Cheston
A welcome book in a very neglected
SPO, ILPS Borough High Street
area of social work. It aims to piece
together surveys and policy analysis
with the use of case histories sug-
Probation, Prison and
gesting areas of good practise and
Parole : a true story of the
demonstrating some of the limitations
work of a probation officer
in this area of work. The book does
this by examining a number of different
J R Mott
types of housing problems. This
Temple House Books, 1992; pp 147;
method works well with three chapters
£6.95 pbk
on ’relationship breakdown’, ’homeless
Tucked in between the
families’ and ’difficult estates’. These
weighty newly
three chapters all offered insights and
published tomes dealing with the
analysis that would be of interest
Criminal Justice Act comes this idiosyn-
to
cratically anecdotal true
probation workers.
story of a
The
working probation officer in the 1960s
chapter on ’moving to in-
and ’70s, whose care for the offender,
dependence’ I found more disappoin-
and dedication to the job was
ting. The analysis of policy
unques-
was too
tioned throughout
shallow with
many years of ser-
no examination of the
vice. I visit a prisoner who had Dick
problems of homelessness for young
Mott as a supervisor, and who recalls
black and young lesbian and gay peo-
’what a gentleman he was... better
ple. The reality for many young peo-
than you youngsters today!’
ple in London that hostels are their
From the story of the judge asleep
only way of getting into permanent ac-
in court to the Home
Office Inspector
commodation was not mentioned and
telling Dick that his methods of gain-
assumptions about the standard of
ing successful completion of...
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