The author brings together a range of views on hostel régimes, warden styles, and residents' needs and points to the usefulness of there being some matching of them and coherence between them. He sug gests that the warden's role is critical and that, as the person on the boundary of the residential institution and the outside world, careful arrangements for support and consultation are needed.
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