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(b) In agreement with the Children's Officer, to carry out visits of inspection
and advice to private residential nurseries in the Borough.
(c) To advise the Children's Officer on the placing of children with handicaps,
subject if necessary to an initial arrangement with the I.L.E. A. for a medical
officer to advise in the case of children of school age.
(d) To keep a register of handicapped children.
(e) At the request of the Chief Welfare Officer to arrange for medical examinations
for the registration of blind and partially sighted persons.
(f) To provide relief nursing staff at Welfare Establishments and residential
schools, requests for agency nurses being made through the I.L.E. A.
(g) At the request of the Children's Officer to seek statutory medical reports
on children before being placed for adoption (Adoption Agencies' Regulations 1959)
or for boarding out (Boarding Out of Children Regulations 1955), and to obtain
additional information in the interests of the children and the prospective adopters,
and to co-operate in the continuance of a central index.
13. Home Nursing
(a) To administer the Borough Home Nursing Service
(b) To loan, as equipment for patients being nursed at home, large items and
articles which by their nature are unlikely to be in frequent demand, and to arrange
for articles to be supplied by the Home Nursing Service or British Red Cross Society.
114. Priority Housing
In consultation as necessary with the Housing Manager, to deal with the allocation
of accommodation offered by the Greater London Council for rehousing of families on
preferential medical grounds.
15. Prevention of break-up of families
(a) In co-operation with the Chief Welfare Officer and the Children's Officer and
other statutory and voluntary agencies to set up a Borough Co-ordinating Committee
to continue in the Borough the work of the L. C. C. Divisional Co-ordinating Committee,
with subsidiary intermediate case conferences, for the prevention of the break-up of
families and of the neglect or ill-treatment of children in their homes. (The
Medical Officer of Health will be Chairman, and the Principal Social Worker will act
as Secretary of the Committee, maintaining a confidential index of families).
(b) To circulate in conjunction with the Chief Welfare Officer and the Children's
Officer, to interested persons and agencies a directory of organisations undertaking
social casework in the Borough.
16. Payment for residential accommodation
In consultation with the Borough Treasurer, to negotiate and pay maintenance
rates for accommodation used in the provision of personal health services, and of
allied services under the Education Act.
17. Charges to users
To apply charges in accordance with approved scales to the recipients of
services provided under the National Health Service Acts, subject to Committee approval
for the provision of service without payment of the assessed charge in any particular
case.
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