Social Work on Trial

"This is an exceptional book. Its skilful blending of contemporaneous reporting, politics and social history, and strong, sustained critique, make it one of the outstanding texts of recent times. Essential reading for social workers, managers, educators, and especially students of journalism as well as social work." Angie Ash, Professional Social Work
"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