The name is absent

• Other (consultative
service to teachers)

"Analysis of 198 case records showed over 90 per cent of the child∕family problems were
either resolved or improved.

...A parent and child consumer study of the PSW’s work found very high positive scores,
no negative ratings, and appraisals which were significantly better than the 'standard’
service....

Primary

After three years, there were major improvements in Lords Park - virtually no truancy,
lowest ever repair costs, theft rate had halved, improved attitudes to school - equalling
the earlier comparison school results, and in some areas surpassing them...

Secondary

Earls Park adolescents’ (14 to 16 years) truancy went from 28 per cent to 16 per cent;
they had better behaviour and attitudes than the comparison school - especially lower
theft from school, reductions in vandalism, less under-age drinking, lowered solvent
abuse and use of hard drugs. They had marked improvements in identification with
the school, and better aspirations for the future. These results were confirmed by an
independent coterminous county-wide survey...

Factors identified which were least associated with delinquency found the second best
feature was having two parents, and having an employed father; but the strongest
statistical association with reduced delinquency was in teenagers who enjoyed school,
despite the fact that 27 per cent had an unemployed father, and 31 per cent belonged
to a single parent family, suggesting that a positive school ethos can be a protection or a
barrier against delinquency.” (p viii-x)

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