§ 48. Mr. Peter Archerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will establish an inquiry into the correlation between effective welfare casework and the crime rate.
§ Mr. CarlisleOne of the reasons for welfare work, in particular preventive work with families, is its value in forestalling situations which may give rise to delinquency; but I am not persuaded that a study aimed at establishing a correlation would be valuable, because of the many other factors involved.