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Wednesday, March 8, 1972
Mr. Heppell says there have already been close consultations
with other interested bodies, including in particular the Advisory
Committee on Social Work Training.
He hopes it will be possible for the Department to put forward
agreed proposals for a College for Social Work Training, "in one form or
another within three months."
But before this is done, there will be further discussions with
Dame Eileen who is now in Hong Kong again as the guest of the University
of Hong Kong, which is conferring on her an Honorary Doctorate of Social
Sciences. Dane Eileen has been invited by the Social Welfare Department
to remain for another week to advise in more detail on her ideas regarding
the two-year course.
Reconstitute
On her other recommendations, Mr. Heppell says Dame Eileen's
proposal that the Advisory Committee on Social Work Training be re-
constituted to form a strong advisory or consultative committee is being
"actively pursued."
He notes that the updating of the 1965 "Survey of the Need for
Trained Social Workers" is in hand, and that a new survey has been carried
out and is now being analysed.
But he believes that further development in in-service training
must depend on the outcome of proposals for a College for Social Work
Training, "and wide-reaching forward plans in this field, accordingly,
cannot be made until the College issue is settled."
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