ABSTRACT
IN the first two parts of the study we traced the development of moral welfare work in this country from its beginnings in the middle ages and even earlier to the present time and gave some indication of both the contemporary social setting and parallel developments in other fields of social work. The middle portion of the book was devoted to a detailed description of the work as it is carried on today in two dioceses selected for detailed study. In both historical outline and contemporary portrait we allowed the findings to speak for themselves and, for the most part, refrained from comment or assessment. In these two concluding chapters we endeavour to draw together and evaluate the factual material and consider the light which it throws on issues of policy.
