by Tony Parker
with Mary Miller as Freda Wills, Ray Smith as Stanley Maxwell, Barry Jackson as John Black, Constance Chapman as Mrs Lawrence
You have to like kids a lot to take other people's on full-time. Mrs. Lawrence is a kind-hearted woman, but someone must be to blame for what is found in her house. The 'Welfare' and the local paper are on the job in a flash. It is a scandal, and it is tidied up. But the calls for help don't stop, and Mrs. Lawrence goes on answering because nobody else does.
Bang on target... an aggressive piece of TV pamphleteering. (Daily Express)
It worked splendidly a terrific sense of immediacy... (Daily Mail)
A scarifying study... (Daily Telegraph)