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Items of Interest in 1950
Two external events have affected the Child Guidance Clinic
this year :
(1) The Chairman of the Middlesex County Council called a
meeting on juvenile deliquency early in the year, as a result of
which local committees have been set up in the Petty Sessional
Divisions. The Psychiatrist from the Ealing Child Guidance Clinic
and Miss Wilson, the Educational Psychologist, were asked to serve
on the Brentford Committee, which first met in September, 1950,
and will be reporting to the Chairman of the Middlesex County
Council in 1951.
(2) The Ministry of Education appointed a Committee of
Enquiry into the treatment or maladjustment in children. All
Child Guidance Clinics have been interested in this Committee in
various ways. The Ealing and Twickenham Clinics jointly have
prepared evidence for the Committee. The Psychiatrist of the
Child Guidance Clinic has been asked to serve on a Committee of
the Royal Medico-Psychological Association preparing more general
evidence for the Committee and has been invited by the Committee
to give individual evidence. This work is a matter of the very
greatest interest and importance but has taken a good deal of
time in 1950, and will take up still more time in 1951. The material
for the evidence for the Committee is available in this and the
Twickenham Clinic, but not in a form in which it will be useful.
Much as we should like to use the information available to us for
research purposes, in the ordinary way we have not the time. It
will, therefore, be necessary to make a special effort to compile
statistics that will be of value to the Ministry's Committee of
Enquiry and this will involve a great deal of work in the examination
of old and current cases.
This is another undertaking which may interfere with the
normal work of the Clinic in the coming year, but we feel that it is
of the first importance to do what we can to assist this Committee
whose findings will affect our work for years to come."