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9. Tenby Road Clinic, Tenby Road, Edgware.
Minor ailment 1
Dental 2
Speech 1
*Chiropody 1
10. Cecil Park Clinic, Cecil Park, Pinner.
Minor ailment 1
Dental 4
Speech 2
*Chiropody 7
11. Caryl Thomas Clinic, Headstone Drive, Wealdstone.
Minor ailment 1
Dental 8
Dental (orthodontic) 7.25
Ophthalmic 1
Orthoptic 2
Speech 10
*Chiropody 5
*Shared with Section 28, National Health Services Act cases.
CHILD GUIDANCE AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
I am indebted to the Director of Education Mr. R. S. Ball, for the
following reports on the work of the Child Guidance and School Psychological
Services during the year.
Child Guidance Service
Dr. James Hood, Consultant Psychiatrist, North West Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board, to Harrow Child Guidance Clinic, reports and
comments as follows.
The Child Guidance Centre at 82 Gayton Road increased its establishment
of child psychotherapists (non-medical) during the year, to 1 7/10
whole-time equivalents. In December 1970 the sessions were shared
between five therapists. The posts attracted suitable applicants from the
Tavistock Clinic, and four of the five therapists also held part-time
appointments there.
The Senior Social Worker establishment of three full-time was filled
for only 7 months of the year, and social work has not kept pace with the
other professional components of the service—psychiatry, educational
psychology, child psychotherapy and specialist teaching. The special
skills acquired by suitably qualified senior social workers (formerly
psychiatric social workers) as a result of their experience of working in
child guidance and child psychiatric clinics were in great demand as a
result of the rapid expansion of professional social work and social work
training, a demand stimulated by the Seebohm Report and subsequent
legislation.