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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Greenwich 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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the possibilities of using community workers on certain housing
estates. It is hoped that 1969 will see the project established. It
is interesting to note that the recommendations of the subcommittee
anticipated the recommendation in the Seebohm Report
on the use of community workers.
| Number of Co-ordinating Committees | 2 |
| Number of Intermediate Case Conferences | 12 |
| 12 | |
| 11 | |
| Number of Housing Case Conferences | 37 |
| 197 | |
| 65 | |
| Number of Conferences at Homeless Family Unit | 14 |
| 34 | |
| 30 | |
| Total New Cases discussed | 243 |
| Referred by:— | |
| Children's Department | 6 |
| Health and Welfare Department | 31 |
| Housing Department | 114 |
| I.L.E.A | 3 |
| G.L.C. Housing Department | 86 |
| Department of Health and Social Security | — |
| Hospital | 1 |
| General Practitioner | 1 |
| Family Service Unit | 1 |
| 243 |
Family Caseworkers and Family Aid
During 1968 another family caseworker returned from a Mental
Health Course, having qualified as a psychiatric social worker.
It is more and more noticeable that, as staff return professionally
qualified, the quality of the service offered to the public improves.
This worker now supervises the work of the less trained, thus
allowing a more senior worker to concentrate on the needs of the
homeless family units. Our real need is for more highly qualified
and experienced staff to deal with the inadequate, non-coping
families who either come into the homeless family units or who
need help in their own home to prevent them becoming homeless