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BOROUGH CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE.
Three meetings of the Borough Co-ordinating Committee were held during
1968. Subjects discussed included such matters as drug addiction in
relation to the Dangerous Drugs (Notification of Addicts) Regulations, 1968,
voluntary services by young people, (Joint Circular by Department of
Education and Science, Ministry of Health, Home Office and Ministry of
Housing and Local Government) and the co-ordination of information on
private and voluntary projects within the borough. The problems of some
fifty-five families causing concern to statutory and/or voluntary services
in the borough were considered at Case Conferences in order to co-ordinate
the services already working on their behalf and to consider whether
further help needed to be provided for them.
At the beginning of the year, the department had two full-time family
caseworkers working with thirty families (124 children). At 31st December,
1968, only 4 locum tenens family caseworker was available with part-time
family casework help from two other social workers but, despite this,
twenty-three families (97 children) were being given support.
Close liaison continued to be maintained with the Family Welfare
Association and the West London Family Service Unit. Grants made to these
two bodies were £1,600 and £3,000. Details of their work in respect of
families resident in the borough are as follows:-
Family Service Unit
Family Welfare Association
No. of families
with whom
caseworkers
were working
No. of
children
in
families
No. of families
with whom
caseworkers
were working
No. of
children
in
families
On 1st
January, 1968
51
208
85
113
Added during year
18
65
101
182
Withdrawn during
year
13
47
112
144
On 31st
December, 1968
56
226
74
151
DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY.
Arrangements for providing the borough's domiciliary midwifery service
have continued as before with midwives of the Council, the Kensington
District Nursing Association and Queen Charlotte's Hospital all playing
their parts.
At the end of November, one of the Council's midwives retired and was
not replaced in view of the reduced demand for domiciliary confinement.
This fall in the number of home confinements has been observed over the past
three years but has not been so marked in 1968 as in 1967.
Year
No. of Home
Confinements
% reduction
1965
310
-
1966
236
24
1967
139
41
1968
102
27