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Protective liners were also issued to 75 patients.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
The Mental Health Services continued to expand during the year and dealt
with an increased rate of referrals. Difficulties were still encountered in terms of
staff shortages and limited facilities generally, but there were some interesting
developments.
Mental Health Social Work
The mental health social work services were further strengthened by the
Council's decision to provide a third senior mental health social worker. This
will lead to the development of the service on area lines and give incentive to the
building up of the area teams on a professional team-work basis. The benefits
of the department's training programme began to be felt as trainees returned
from full-time courses. Others continued their period of training and will return
to the department in 1970 and 1971.
Adult Training Centre Changes
A number of mentally handicapped men from other Local Authorities,
who had been attending Clapham Adult Training Centre, were withdrawn during
the year thus making it possible to integrate the Lambeth women who had
previously travelled daily to training centres in other areas. A number of trainees
continued to make good use of the day training facilities at the Manor Hospital,
Epsom, and it is expected that this arrangement will continue until Lambeth's
purpose-built centre is opened.
Junior Training School Developments
Construction of the Windmill Junior Training School, Mandrell Road, was
well advanced by the end of the year in preparation for its opening in 1970.
Designed to accommodate 114 children, the school is planned on one level as a
double octagon, with the assembly hall and therapeutic pool forming the focal
centres. Classrooms and other facilities are grouped round the perimeter in each
case.