ABSTRACT
APART from the chapter just completed, the study so far has been mainly concerned with moral welfare work as a particular form of social work, but, as we were constantly reminded, it is social work undertaken in the name of the Church, and it must now be considered in this context. At the centre, the Church of England Council for Social Work is a constituent council of the Church Assembly Board for Social Responsibility; at the diocesan level moral welfare boards or councils are formally recognised as part of the administrative machinery of their respective dioceses and moral welfare workers, on taking up their appointments, are licensed or authorised by the diocesan bishop. The connection between local moral welfare work and the work of the parochial clergy is, however, less easy to define, and relationships between moral welfare workers and the clergy would seem to vary from person to person, parish to parish and between one area and another.
