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Brent helps in the training of professional workers; psychologists, psycho-therapists, and social
workers spend continuous periods doing practical work at the Centres as part of their training and we have
many visits from students.
The establishment of the Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic in Ladbroke Grove is also to be welcomed.
The Brent Child Guidance Service has already passed some cases, usually Roman Catholic families
who have shown a preference to that Clinic.
Contact with the Courts has not always been as close as it might have been. As can be seen from
Table 2 only 2% of the Child Guidance referrals come from the Courts. What seems to have happened on
some occasions is that children well-known to the Child Guidance Service have appeared before the Juvenile
Court and have then been remanded in custody for a psychiatric report and the investigations already completed
by the Child Guidance Service are repeated. The Service is not seeking work, it can barely deal with the
referrals that come along at the moment, but reports to the Court on children already known seem a worthwhile
use of our services, and to repeat investigations elsewhere takes up scarce professional time.