P. E. P. Report

Study of which the social work survey forms a part is anticipated and in that we shall deal again with some of the points raised earlier and those raised by critics such as your correspondent. However, lest your readers should misapprehend our tentative arguments, may I outline them here? The context is one of shortage of professionally qualified mental health social workers, particularly in the local authority service, and a situation in which the development of community care is a public policy. It was the Royal Commission, not PEP, which pointed the way and which, indeed, first suggested that PSWs be redeployed from hospitals to local authorities. Given that