Katie Prince had extensive experience as a practitioner and manager in social work services for children and families. Formerly a manager of a child care team focusing upon child protection and special needs, she returned to manage a large team of social work-therapists in child and adolescent psychiatry before passing away in 2009.

• Acknowledgements. Author's Note. Preface. 1. Spoken and Written Language: A Theoretical Framework. 2. A Context for Record Keeping in Child Care Social Work. 3. The Clinic Social Worker's Perspective. 4. The Client's View. 5. Towards a Way of Examining Both Theoretical and Practice Aspects of the Interactive Process in Case Recording. 6. Discussion of the Action Research (Theoretical Perspectives). 7. Description and Evaluation of the Experience of Open and Participative Recording Practice. Conclusion. Appendices. References. Index.

Boring Records is a timely book. Social work practioners outside the UK can still find the book interesting. Those chapters which describe the clinical social worker's perspective and the client's view of social work records make provocative reading. Social workers will easily identify with the author's examples and will find her analysis of the social worker's and client's perspective of the social work records thought-provoking. I would recommend that social work agencies include the book as part of in-service training courses. The issues discussed are readily adaptable to those which are experienced by the social worker in an agency setting. In academia the book might be used by selecting those sections which are most suited to discussions on language, communication between social worker and client and ethical issues of information transfer in a social work setting.