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(xi) Earliest possible notification to Principal Mental Health
Social Worker of maladjusted and educationally sub-normal
children.
(xii) Inclusion in central register of information regarding "At
risk" and handicapped children.
(xiii) Medical Officer of Health and Director of Community Services
to be responsible for nominating officers responsible for the
welfare of children on the "At risk" and handicap register
and for passing appropriate information to all concerned.
(xiv) Collation of information from all available sources to ensure
proper completion of handicap register.
(xv) Medical Officer of Health and Director of Community Services
to be responsible for seeing that the register is regularly
reviewed and kept up to date.
(xvi) Nominated officer to attend Education Officer's Sub-Committee
Case Conference.
(xvii) Frequent case conferences to be held at field level.
(xviii) Statistics to be extracted from the central register for
guidance of the Education Officer in the matter of placings
for special education, and the Welfare Officer for provisions
of full range of welfare services.
(xix) Director of Intelligence,Greater London Council, to be
invited through the I.L.E.A. to undertake survey of each category
of handicapped school leaver.
Health Education and Home Safety
With the establishment of the new Health Education Council for
England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which assumed responsibility for all
the activities of the Central Council for Health Education in addition
to the promotional activities of the Department of Health and Social
Security, it was early apparent that the new Council's policy would be
that of research and that, apart from supportive services, it would be
necessary for local authorities to contribute more by way of finance and
active local preventive medicine efforts.
The London Borough of Hammersmith may claim, however, to have been
in the forefront of Health Education endeavour, particularly in regard
to pioneering project work. Following a major Campaign to combat venereal
diseases and sexual infections among young people, the year under review
has seen continuation of a special campaign to provide for Drug Recognition,
for which Britain's first mobile display panel was a special
feature. In addition five special conferences afforded extensive coverage
and received the full support of Ministries, Departments, national and
local organisations.
The "Targets for Tomorrow" national mental health campaign was extended
and at the Design for Living permanent Health Education Exhibition
at 2-6 Fulham Broadway, S.W.6, a special display was attended by delegates
to the International Congress on Mental Health.
On July 27 the Water Safety Campaign took the exciting form of a
River Thames Spectacular, with an enthusiastic audience of 10,000. For
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