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© British Association of Social Workers

Reception Centres: an Index of Social Service Inadequacy

PETER BERESFORD

Peter Beresford graduated from University College, Oxford, in 1967, having read Modern History. In 1968 he worked as a social worker in a local authority welfare department. He returned to Oxford in 1968 to read for the Diploma in Social and Administrative Studies. In 1970 he wrote a detailed analysis of government reception centre provision. He is at present completing his doctorate on the problem of vagrancy in Britain

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This article examines reception centres, evaluates the adverse criticism there has been of them and suggests that it has diverted attention from the more important issue that the continued existence and changed role of reception centres indicates the inadequacy of other health and social services


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