![]() ![]() Much of the former is out of print and many conference papers dealing with broad trends in social work were unpublished. The first is to place on line a substantial amount of my published and unpublished work since 1954. ![]() There are three main reasons for establishing this website. There are now more than 100 Social Work courses across China. I was involved in the resurgence of social work in China, after many years in which it was banned and played an active part in its early development. Of particular interest have been my close links with China and Hong Kong, through a close association with the Poly- University of HK. In parallel ,I have supervised a significant number of overseas students, mostly for Ph Ds. I have travelled a good deal in Europe and the Far East.as lecturer ,consultant and related activities. I have also been involved in research in this field and have published widely on the topic. From the late 80s, there has been growing awareness of the issues surrounding the protection of vulnerable adults generally. This was consolidated by a period as Chair of Age Concern, England. However, from the 1980s, I have also been keenly aware of the predicament of some vulnerable elderly people. In recent months these issues have received widespread national publicity. I have been involved in many such inquiries, in one way or another. It has been followed by hundreds of ‘Serious Case Reviews’ into the deaths or serious injuries to children where maltreatment is alleged and has had profound consequences for social work. This was a momentous event in the history of social work and allied professionals in this country. Of particular concern to me since the 1970s has been the issue of child protection/safeguarding which arose from my being a member of the inquiry into the death of Maria Colwell in 1973. My published work has been weighted towards child welfare however, there are also a significant number of publications relating to care of vulnerable adults, social work and social work education generally, and interprofessional work in these fields. ![]() Reading English Literature at Oxford enriched this search for understanding and two long vacations as an undergraduate, working at the Mulberry Bush School near Witney which cared for profoundly disturbed children, channelled my interest towards some form of therapeutic intervention From this, I went to the LSE where I took the course in “Child Care” social work in 1953.My tutor was Clare Winnicott. Looking back, it is clear that from an early age, I was fascinated by the people –relatives, lodgers, relatives around me and sought in some way to make sense of their lives. My brother, who was 7 years older than I, was a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm for most of the war years. His first wife had died of TB as did his daughter when I was five. My parents brought with them my father’s daughter by his first marriage. My father had been a civil servant in Dublin under British authority who feared discrimination at the time of the change of government. I was born in South Croydon in 1930, the youngest child of Irish Protestant parents who emigrated from Dublin in 1920 when the Republic of Eire was established. ![]()
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