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5) Office duties and meetings, correspondence and case
recording, liaison with other agencies, case conferences,
etc.
Social workers carry out most of their work during interviews
with families and individuals. A note was kept during 1967 of the
places where the department's social workers carried out any
interviews which lasted longer than 15 minutes. There were
16,830 such interviews, and they took place as follows:
10,519 in peoples own homes
1,367 in the Billet Lane offices
1,032 in hospitals, particularly Warley psychiatric hospital
421 in Collier Lodge or Westmarsh Lodge, the department's
mental health hostels
297 in the department's temporary accommodation for
homeless families
277 in the Belford Centre, the adult and junior training
centres for the mentally subnormal
258 in old peoples homes
242 in the Faringdon Centre, the occupation centre for
the physically handicapped
2,417 in other places
16,830
New Cases
During 1967 1,498 new cases came to the attention of the
social work section. The individuals, or families, concerned
were initially referred as needingthe followingservices(some,after
being contacted by social workers, were found to require other
services too):
Services for the physically handicapped — 354
A place in one of the department's old peoples homes — 240
Families and individuals needing help for a variety of reasons
other than those mentioned in this list — 179 (87 of these
were elderly people)
Families with problems connected with housing, including
some who were homeless — 176
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