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Committee, which provides centrally organised opportunities for training which
develops and sustains the skills of workers in the Health, Welfare and Children's
Departments.
Its policy has been developed in full partnership with member boroughs to
meet the following needs :
(a) To obtain and retain for London the necessary number of skilled workers.
(b) To ensure that existing trained and untrained field workers will have the
opportunity to develop and acquire knowledge and new techniques.
(c) To put forward constructive proposals for providing new training courses
and extending existing facilities to ensure that the London boroughs
maintain and increase their share of available workers.
(d) To see that knowledge gained from work done in the London boroughs
social services is spread throughout the country, particularly to the universities
and training establishments of all kinds; and
(e) To use its resources to ensure that facilities for practical work placements
and visits of observation are made as effectively as possible. It will not
in any sense wish to act as an unnecessary intermediary where direct links
operate, but will help establish these links.
The London Borough of Enfield, through its Establishment Committee, set up
an Advisory Committee on Education, Training and Qualifications of Local Government
Officers. The committee consists of representatives from each of the main
departments of the borough council and is convened by Mr. G. M. Noble, DeputyBorough
Librarian. Dr. J. D. Russell represents the Health Department.
The Advisory Committee meets regularly to consider and make recommendations
concerning applications by officers for approval to attend courses leading to
recognised qualifications.
Dr. Gough-Thomas, the Principal Medical Officer for Mental Health, sponsored
by both the council and the Enfield Society for Mentally Handicapped Children,
attended the First Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study
of Mental Deficiency which was held in Montpelier.
Of the eight trainee public health inspectors undergoing training for the Public
Health Inspector's Diploma of the Public Health Inspectors' Education Board, six
were engaged on sandwich courses and two were day release students. These
courses are undertaken at Tottenham Technical College, but one student was successful
in his application for admission to Aston University, Birmingham, after
completing his first year at Tottenham.
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