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employment nearer home. One replacement was obtained in September.
Report of Family Casework for the year 1969
Families already receiving casework help on 31.12.68 45) 56
" taken on during year 11)
" still receiving casework help on 31.12.69 31
Cases closed during 1969
Satisfactory - no further need for casework help 12
Left district 5
Evicted 2
Break up of family - children received into care 1
Transferred to other services 3
Not benefitting from casework help 1
Client refused help 1
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Casework help available during year
1 full-time caseworker throughout year
1 " " " for 9 months
2 part-time caseworkers
Giving approximately ½ of their time throughout year
= equivalent of 2¼ full-time caseworkers.
Approved case load 10-15 families. Average case load = 13-20.
Families referred:
By Case Conference 5
School Health Service 3
General Practitioner 1
Self-referred 1
Chief Nursing Officer 1
N.B. A further 43 families have received casework help during 1969 from
the Social Workers (Health Services) as part of their work for the
I.L.E.A. These are all families with a child attending either a
Special School, Special Investigation, or Audiology Clinic.
Renal Dialysis
It is now possible for patients with diseased or non-functioning
kidneys to be kept alive by a process of renal dialysis, which is carried
out in hospital. These patients have to attend hospital two or three
times a week and stay overnight. As this causes disruption of the patient's
life, consideration has been given to making this process available to
the patient in his or her own home.
During the two years .just past,2 patients have had structural alterations
to their houses carried out by the Council, thereby enabling them to have
renal dialysis in their own homes.
During this year, structural alterations were carried out to the
home of a woman with a severe kidney complaintc This has enabled the
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