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Social Work Staff
No new posts were allowed the section during 1969. The
vacancy created by the death of one of the social workers,
Miss Mary Truran, was converted to 2 welfare assistant posts,
at the request of her area social work team. One of these
assistants joined her team, one another team, but though the
arrival of these workers went some way to ease pressures in
the service, there was no money available to give the third
area team a welfare assistant too. So work in this last area
continued to be done by social workers which could well be
dealt with by an assistant. By the end of the year, then, there
was 1 fewer social work post than in 1968, but 2 new posts of
welfare assistant. The 3 welfare trainees were all on full-time
courses leading to the certificate in social work. 13 of the 24
social workers were professionally qualified. The position on
31st December, 1969 was as follows:
Principal Welfare Officer 1 Applied Social Studies Certificate
Deputy " " " 1 Medical Social Work Certificate
Area Social Workers 2 One with Mental Health Certificate
one with Medical Social Work "
Senior Mental Welfare" 1 Certificate of Recognition of
Experience in Social Work
Social Workers (4 Mental 19 One with Medical Social Work "
welfare officers 15 7 with Certificates in Social Work,
social welfare officers) 1 with Degree in Social Work, 3
with Home Teacher for the Blind.
Certificates (these included two
officers who hold the Certificate of
Recognition of Experience in Social
Work, and 1 qualified as an Occupa
tional Therapist)
Two others with Certificate of Recognition
of Experience in Social
Work
Total 24
Welfare Trainees 3
Welfare Assistants 2
One vacancy at this time, for an area social worker, was
filled in February 1970 with a social worker having the Applied
Social Studies Certificate.
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