SfR.—How heartily 1 aaree with Mrs. McKaill's letter on the
inspection of foster-homes. I should. however, like her plea for the part-time paid employment of married' trai4ed social-workers to be extended beyond their use in Children's Departments. The Mental Health Services, the Probation Service, the Prison After-Care Associations/ the National Assistance Board, besides many voluntary organisations, are continually complaining of the shortage of skilled workers, and at the same time continually refusing part-time work to qualified women. I myself have recently trained, and was „amazed at the iystem whereby over a hundred new students in training are released every two months-to play postman's knock over the poorer. parts of London. To have to confide intimate details to a different girl: every few months, in return for some possible financial or other help surely saps the very pride- Upon which an integrated family life must be built. Why not recruit into these services, on a basis of three full 'days weekly, at half the full-time salary, married women of 30-50 who are qualified and experienced, and who would certainly give more continuous service than students in training or recently trained ?—Yours faithfully,
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