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One family sent to Frimhurst Recuperative Home because of
low standards of child and home care, returned after six months'
training to fresh accommodation provided by the Housing Department,
and although still under supervision, has presented no major problems
since. During the school holidays boys whose unsupported mothers
found their care difficult in holiday time were financed for three
weeks at camp. Recuperative holidays were also arranged for mothers
and young children and for the children in one family so that the
holiday coincided with their mother's confinement.
Although much work with families "at risk" is carried out
by staff of the Health and Welfare Department, the successful or even
partially successful outcome in the majority of cases could not be
effected without the close co-operation and assistance offered by
other statutory and many voluntary organisations.
PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL WORK TRAINING
The report of the Younghusband Committee in 1959 drew
attention to the difficulties of ensuring adequate numbers of suitably
trained staff to man the social work services, staff who would be able
to perform "the essential function of social workers in health and
welfare services, to assess the disturbance of equilibrium in a given