Social Work with Children

by Juliet Berry Rout ledge and Kegan Paul (library of Social Work), 90p Getting through this book is like getting along a public footpath which has become overgrown with brambles; you've got a vague idea where you're going, but the spikes keep catching in the sleeves of your woolly. Let's have a quote to see if we can catch the stylistic flavour: 'When the care of an immigrant toddler is distributed between people of different cultures he is likely to have additional speech difficulties but Bernstein introduces an academic dimension into such common sense. Bernstein has studied the sociological implications for some years and