Social work on trial

"The modern history of social work has been wracked by scandal. This detailed examination of the Maria Colwell case vividly captures the enduring charge-sheet which the profession has struggled to throw off for more than forty years." ---Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work, King's College London. "A forensic, scholarly and engaging account of the UK's most important child death inquiry and its effects on welfare policy today." ---Graham Room, Professor of European Social Policy, University of Bath.