by Andrew Mickel

Following Community Care's article last week about what social work practices from the past should be revived, there's another interesting blast from the past by novelist Hilary Mantel in the London Review of Books about her time as a social work assistant in the post-Maria Colwell years. The article nicely captures how little the pressures on staff have changed in the last three decades. 

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/06/hilary-mantels-memories-of-soc.html