The Child Guidance Council and the Commonwealth Fund

who have a special interest in the whole problem. Among the Associations represented are the Central Association for Mental Welfare, the Charity Organisation Society, the Institute of Hospital Almoners, the Magistrates' Association, and the National Council for Mental Hygiene. The immediate work of the Council will be educational. Interest in, and understanding of, the Child Guidance Clinic Movement needs to be stimulated in this country, and it is intended, by means of literature, lectures, and propaganda among teachers, social workers, magistrates, etc., to familiarise the public with the fact, already proved by the efforts of the Commonwealth Fund in America and by individual work in small clinics in this country, that much may be done in the early stages of maladjustment to prevent a child slipping into the ways of the delinquent. The Child Guidance Clinics, established through the Commonwealth Fund of America, are especially notable for the carefully organised social work which is an integral part of the handling of each individual case, and it is on this special aspect of the work that the Council will concentrate. In order that a first-hand acquaintance of the Clinics may be available for people in England, the Commonwealth Fund has most generously invited certain persons to visit the States for periods extending up to three months. The