A New Macedonian Call?

Abstract

"Those of us who can remember the excitements of the Chuter Ede, Rab Butler partnership prior to and during the passing of the 1944 Education Act, will understand when it is claimed that social workers of all disciplines were just as excited by the Crossman/Ennals partnership after the publication of the Seebohm Report and prior to the passing of the Local Authority Social Services Bill. This Bill contains the key recommendations of 'Seebohm', which among other things recommended the unifying of the Welfare Services into one Social Service Department. Mr Crossman, (then Secretary of State for Social Services) in moving the Second Reading, described the primary object "of the personal social services as strengthening the capacity of the family to care for its members and to supply, as it were, the family's place where necessary and to provide social support or if necessary a home for people who cannot look after themselves or be adequately looked after in their own families""