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Summary Of Winnie's Case Study

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Moran was upset with the court decision in Winnie’s case. She decided to do something for a change. She thought that she has to write a letter to Premier Bennett about improving the child welfare services. She also gave an example of Winnie who face that problem and there are also many other children who face the same problem. According to Moran (1992), “the copy of the letter would be sent to various newspaper and to the leaders of the opposition political parties” (68). In the letter she also wrote that she had a lot of files on her desk in which the problem is social. Only few people had psychiatric problem rather than social (Moran, 1992, 69). Moran pointed in her letter that even if the staff was increased it did not solve the whole problem.

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