On receiving this book in the post, I was immediately encouraged by the author’s biography, as written on the back cover: “Chris Dyke is a social researcher and lecturer with research interests in autism, the effectiveness of professional interventions, the risk assessment of violent offenders, and cognitive biases in assessment. He worked in residential care, local politics and charities before qualifying as a social worker in 2006, and worked for local authorities until becoming fully independent in 2015. He likes trying new things, challenging his own assumptions, and finding out he’s wrong at least once a day.” I felt this was a rather unusual description of someone’s ‘story’ and it encouraged me to want to read the text with the hope and expectation that it would provide a refreshing perspective and had the potential to bring an otherwise ‘dry’ subject to life.
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