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Society and Social Work Training and Practice

As a one-time social worker and mental welfare officer, I had more to do with doctors and policemen than any other broadly social sector. From all I learn from my contacts with social workers and others, things are little changed today. In the nature oflife and living, they could hardly be otherwise. Parliament may pass new laws; the social work profession may be better and more extensively trained; medical research finds new treatments; the Police learn new techniques and use more sophisticated technology in responding to crime and the human condition; but people's circumstances, fears, hopes and problems stay much the same. Human nature will never alter, no matter how much the environment and social fabric does. Better training has its part to play, and this broadly is what I would like to look at in these particular contexts. Until the Younghusband Committee on social work training reported in the late Fifties, only child-care workers of social workers employed by local authorities had general and specialist social work training; moreover were required by law as contained in the Children Act, 1948, to have it and meet the professional training criteria required by the Home Office. Probation and After-Care officers are also fully formally trained within Home Office criteria. As for mental and social welfare officers of the pre-Younghusband and Seebohm eras, these were largely untrained in any formal, definitive sense, and learnt their-vocation in post. Not of course the best, much less the ideal, way, but some excellent staffemerged from their "baptism under fire", or their exercise in "trial and error" pragmatism. The Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work several pre-Seebohm training councils telescoped into one are charged with overseeing social work training, its curricula and Certificates of basic and post-qualifying Certificates. Since new social services departments emerged in 1971 in the Seebohm mould, the UK social workers have trebled in number at