Despite increasing specialisation, centralised Scottish Office funding and the advent of National Standards and other directives, probation work in Scotland remains firmly located within social work. As a contribution to the current debate in England and Wales about severing links between the Probation Service and the wider social work profession, Fergus McNeill, of Strathclyde Social Work Department, highlights the relevance of generic social work theory and practice in selecting methods of intervention, as illustrated in his work with a probationer.
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