'Archives are a partial history' emphasized by David Jones (SocWkHistoryNetwork). When conducting historical social work research, it's vital to reflect on this insight. Let's prioritize building marginalized archives for a comprehensive social work/welfare record before it fades away.
Hmm, I think the speaker is the woman who came up with the hit list for targeting families which included eupd. SHERA Research Group: Health Law Rights Support © might be one for someone for your team to attend ( virtually or in person), and jade if someone could tag her?
SocWkHistoryNetwork Select committee found the government failed to enact this, along with a failure to enact the children and families act
Definitely one for SocWkHistoryNetwork! Along with the BASW archives held by Warwick MRC, Eileen Younghusband's personal and professional papers are an absolute treasure trove to understand social work, social science and the 'classic' welfare state in Britain.
The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 brought Scottish #SocialWork under Local Authority control. Vera Hiddleston, a key figure in development of the profession, gave this talk on the Act to SocWkHistoryNetwork. See her papers access.gcu.arkivum.net/vera-hiddlesto…
#WSWD2023 #WomensHistoryMonth
Busman's holiday watching this Social Welfare History Group and SocWkHistoryNetwork webinar on sources, archives and records in social work history featuring Alice W. Campbell, Linnea M. Anderson, Dr. Jessamy Carlson 💙🇺🇦 and Rachel MacGregor.
Interesting to listen to Michael Lambert talking about the personal stories from WMRC archives which illuminate the history of the welfare state BASW SocWkHistoryNetwork CwealthSocialWk ifsw and tension between policy and practice reality.
