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Author:   Eileen Younghusband
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9781041247289

ISBN 10:   1041247281
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   27 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part one: Social work in some major social services 1. Changes in social work between 1950 and 1975 2. The child care services, 1948–71 3. The child care service continued: residential child care; community homes and children’s regional planning committees; youth treatment centres; intermediate treatment 4. Child care, continued: fostering; child protection; child minders and other forms of day care; adoption; the children act, 1975 5. Training for child care: child care officers; residential child acre 6. The probation and after-care service, 1950–75 7. Some major developments in the probation and after-care service in the 1960s and early 1970s 8. Probation training 9. Medical social work in hospital, general practice and the community: training for medical social work 10. Social work in the mental health services 11. Psychiatric social work: training for psychiatric social work (by Elizabeth Irvine) 12. Social work and the elderly 13. Social work and the physically handicapped 14. Training for the local authority health and welfare services in the 1950s, proposals for a new pattern and the council for training in social work 15. A family service: foreshadowings of Seebohm: the Seebohm report 16. The Seebohm report’s reception, the local authority social services Act, 1970 and the First years of the social services departments 17. Developments in Scotland leading up to and following the social work (Scotland) act, 1968 18. Voluntary organisations related to social work 19. Volunteers and volunteer service organisers Part Two: Developments in social work structure 20. Supply and demand in social work 21. Other developments in structure and practice 22. Supporting services

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Reviews of the first publication ‘…this is a work of reference – and an extremely valuable one.’ — Journal of Social Policy, Volume 9 Issue 1 ‘…will probably be a landmark for social work for many years.’ — Social Service Review, Vol 54, Issue 2

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Eileen Younghusband (1902–1981) was an internationally renowned British social worker.

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