Pursuing their concern that Probation has been facing a crisis of identity, Julian Buchanan and Malcolm Millar, of Merseyside Probation Service and the University of Liverpool Department of Social Work Studies, argue that it is essential that the Probation Service strives to preserve its social work identity, together with principles and values drawn from social work which can supply a rationale for judging practice.
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