| Abstract: | Summary An article written by John Corden, in an earlier issue of thejournal, examined the application of the concept of contractin social work practice, drawing on the legal paradigm. Thispaper develops some of these ideas in a more specific way; itdescribes the way in which contracts were introduced betweenthe workers and clients of a Family Service Unit After settingout the context in which the idea was introduced, the differentfeatures of some contracts between workers and families arereported, along with the views of the different parties. Thismaterial is used to illustrate and develop some of the ideasdiscussed in the earlier paper. |
