This file contains 36 items:

• Parliament and social work series II, nos. 1, 3 and 4, June 1967 – July 1967 (folder 1)
• Parliament and social work, Parliamentary session 1967-68, nos 1, 2 ((3 October-9 November), 3 (13-16 November), 4 (17-23 November), 5 (24-30 November), 6 (1-7 December), 7 (8-14 December), 9 (18-25 January), 11 (2-8 February), 12 (9-15 February), 13 (16-22 February), 14 (23-29 February), 15 (1-7 March), 16 (8-14 March), 17 (15-21 March), 19 (29 March - 4 April), 20 (5-11 April), 22 (3-9 May), 23 (10-16 May), 24 (18-23 May), 25 (24-31 May), 26 (11-13 June), 27 (21-27 June), 28 (28 June – 4 July), 29 (5-11 July), 30 (12-18 July), 31 (19-26 July), 32 (14-17 October), October 1967 – October 1968 (folder 1)
• Parliament and social work, Parliamentary session 1968-69, nos 33 (18-31 October), 34 (1-7 November), 35 (8-14 November), 36 (15-21 November), 37 (22-28 November), 57 (16-19 June), October 1968 – June 1969 (folder 2)

The series is not complete. It covers a wide range of topics presented in the House of Lords and House of Commons including the following examples: school milk; pre-school play groups; family allowances; psychiatric research and social workers; evicted families; juvenile courts; detention centres; remand homes; community service; unwanted coloured children; mental health care; welfare foods; national minimum wage; drugs; family endowment scheme; disabled children; welfare benefits; young people voluntary service; social services and defence costs; corporal punishment; young offenders; probation service; and youth employment.

This file contains 26 items:

• ACCO Parliamentary Proceedings report nos. 13 to 22, covering a range of topics presented in the House of Lords and House of Commons including the following examples: World refugee problem; homelessness; capital punishment; cervical cancer tests; phenylketonuria; Aberfan disaster; divorce laws; local authority social services; child cruelty; probation officers; world hunger; alcohol and tobacco; social services; drug addiction; disabled children, corporal punishment; unemployment benefit; hospital service; welfare benefits; foster parents; child poverty; Seebohm report; murders; hypothermia; after care hostels; invalid children; day nurseries; mental health services, children’s toys’ safety; young offenders; loneliness; criminal justice bill; child care officers, October 1966 – December 1966
• ACCO Parliamentary Proceedings report nos. 23 to 31, covering a range of topics presented in the House of Lords and House of Commons including the following examples: school milk and meals; nurseries and child minders; foster children; children in care; welfare accommodation; local authority care; welfare benefits; tattooing; inflammable clothing; oral contraceptives; child poverty; deserted wives; homelessness; low paid workers; housing; National Health Service; illegitimate children; social services; abortion admissions; play centres; disabled children; school milk and meals; approved schools; maintenance orders; child care officers; abortion; youth service, January 1967 – March 1967
• ACCO Parliamentary Proceedings report nos. 33 to 39, covering a range of topics presented in the House of Lords and House of Commons including the following examples: social security; remand homes; health centres; approved schools, school meals; welfare benefits; national minimum wage; family poverty; community youth service; corporal punishment; probation service; housing; mothers prison sentences; illegitimacy; social service; Children Act 1958; nurseries and child minders; homelessness; Justices of the Peace; children’s homes; family planning; young offenders; drug addiction; cervical cancer, Scottish marriage law; remand homes; disabled children; psychiatric services, mental health and institutions; child sex offences; community care; child allowances; chronic sick; abolition of juvenile court and setting up of family courts, April 1967- June 1967

This file contains 3 folders:

• Accord, vol 3 no. 3 to vol 6 no. 4, New Year1958 - Summer 1961, vol 4 no. 1 is missing (folder 1)
• Accord, vol 7 no. 1 to vol 8 no. 4, Conference Edition 1961 - Summer 1963 (folder 2)
• Accord, vol 9 no. 1 to vol 12 no. 3, Autumn 1963 - Winter 1967, vol 9 nos. 2 and 4, vol 10 no. 4, vol 11 nos. 1, 3 and 4 and vol 12 nos. 1 and 4 are missing (folder 3)

"Accord" was founded in 1954 as the newsletter of the South East Region and later became the Association of Child Care Officers national journal. In January 1968 “Accord” was incorporated with the journal “Social work”. The set of volumes is not complete.

This file contains 8 items:

• 1958/59 annual report
• 1962 annual report, including listing of officers and committee members, President’s report, Standing Committee on Salaries and Service Conditions report -- Standing Committee on Training report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Organisation Sub-committee report -- Greater London Bill -- Regional committees’ reports -- Treasurer’s report
• 1963 annual report, including listing of officers and committee members, President’s report, Standing Committee on Salaries and Service Conditions report -- Training Committee report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Legal Sub-committee report --Organisation Sub-committee report -- Regional committees’ reports
• 1964 annual report, including list of past Presidents -- President’s report -- Treasurer’s report -- Training Committee report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Organisation Sub-committee report -- Legal Sub-committee report -- Report on child protection provisions -- National membership register -- Regional committees’ reports, enclosures include 1965 AGM agenda -- 1965 AGM resolutions -- minutes of the AGM of 10 and 12 April 1964 -- information on candidates for vice-president -- 1965 conference programme
• 1966 annual report, including -- list of past Presidents -- Executive Committee report -- Treasurer’s report -- Training Committee report -- Salaries and Service Conditions Committee report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Organisation Sub-committee report -- Legal Sub-committee report -- Regional committees’ reports -- minutes of the 1966 AGM enclosed
• 1967 annual report, including -- list of past Presidents -- Executive Committee report -- Treasurer’s report -- Training Committee report -- Salaries and Service Conditions Committee report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Regional committees’ reports, enclosures include 1967 AGM agenda -- 1967 AGM resolutions --minutes of the 1967 AGM -- 1967 conference programme -- ACCO leaflet, Training for the child care service, March 1967
• 1968 annual report, including -- list of past Presidents -- Executive Committee report -- Treasurer’s report -- Training Committee report -- Salaries and Service Conditions Committee report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Legal Sub-committee report -- Regional committees’ reports, enclosures include 1968 AGM agenda, minutes and papers -- 1968 conference programme -- two copies of 1968 AGM open session programme with annotations
• 1969 annual report, including -- list of past Presidents -- Executive Committee report -- Treasurer’s report -- Salaries and Service Conditions Committee report -- Training Committee report -- Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee report -- Regional committees’ reports, enclosures include 1968 conference programme -- 1969 AGM minutes -- 1970 AGM agenda -- subscription leaflet for ‘Social work today’

This series consists of 3 sub-series:

• Meetings, publications, reports, papers and leaflets of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), 1957-1969
• Executive Committee papers and correspondence of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), 1966-1971
• Parliamentary summary reports of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), 1966–1969

This file contains 31 items:

• Photocopies of Social Work Services Group circulars relating to the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 from October 1968 – September 1969
• Strathclyde Regional Council practice instruction note and letter, Preventative use of section 12 finance, 11 April 1985
• Report on elderly residents, Isle of Eigg, by Ian Aitchison, 3 November 1986
• Article, ‘The success of a unique scheme for elderly mentally ill people’, “Social work today”, 16 November 1987
• Newspaper cutting of article 'Housing needs of elderly - subject to new survey', The Oban Times, 26 November 1987 
• Page with various articles from “Social work today”, 14 December 1987
• Statements by Griffiths to the Secretary of State regarding overview of community care policy, stamped BASW Scotland, 12 February 1988
• Article, ‘Nothing ventured…risk taking in community care’, “Social work today”, 10 March 1988
• Three pages of articles relating to elderly care, “Social work today”, 4 August 1988
• Brochure on Ardnamurchan, published by General Accident for the Glasgow Garden Festival, 1988
• Social Work Research Centre newsletter, issue 4, December 1988
• Photocopy of book chapter 6, ‘The Badenoch and Strathspey Social Work Team of the Highland Region’, by Raymond Green, 1989
• 2 letters to Vera Hiddleston from Social Work Research Centre, University of Stirling, regarding research on the needs of elderly people, 2 February 1989 and 29 March 1989
• 4 letters to Dennis Gower, BASF, from Social Work, Fife Regional Council, regarding social welfare expenditure, 30 May 1989 – 14 June 1989
• Correspondence between Dennis Gower, BASW, and Department of Social Work, Strathclyde Regional Council, regarding promotion of social welfare, 25 and 31 August 1989
• Article, ‘Revelations from a Greek island’, “Social work today”, 21 September 1989
• Promotion of social welfare: working group, BASW Scottish Committee, discussion paper and consultation document, 16 February 1990
• The Promotion of social welfare, Fort William Training Centre, report by Gareth Evans and Vera Hiddleston, handwritten and typescript copy, 28 May 1990
• Paper on Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: Section 12, by Liz Timms, July 1990
• Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: Section 12, extracts from official guidelines for interpretation, c1990
• Promotion of social welfare: draft policy document, by Vera Hiddleston, Basil Kift and Liz Tims, 14 October 1990
• Part II Promotion of social welfare, sections 2 and 3, copied from “Child Care Law Review”, 31 October 1990
• Letters to Dennis Gower from Social Work Departments in Central Regional Council, Highland Regional Council and Fife Regional Council, regarding BASW’s report from the Working Party on Section 12, 2 May 1991 – 10 May 1991
• BASW briefing, ‘BASW Working Group report (Nov 1990) Section 12 to promote social welfare
• Consultation document 1, Support for families in the community, “Child care law review”, undated
• Cutting of article ‘COSLA criticises Scottish Office’, Social Work Today, undated
• Handwritten notes and typescript copy on Dalmore House, undated 

The papers relate to proposed research of the needs of elderly people in the West Highlands under section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 - promotion of social welfare. Its focus is on Dalmore House in Strontian, a purpose-built home for care of the elderly set up by Argyll County Council which became a Resource Centre for the elderly. 

This file contains 7 journals:

• BASW News, no.5, 1 September 1970 and inserted guide to BASW regions and branches 1970
• BASW News, no.7, 1 October 1970
• BASW News, no.9, 1 November 1970 and inserted leaflet for newsletter “Parliament and Social Work”
• BASW News, no.10, 1 December 1970
• BASW News, no.12, 1 January 1971
• BASW News, no.14, 1 February 1971
• BASW News, no.16, 1 March 1971 and inserted BASW subscription forms

Published twice monthly with “Social work today” mid-month and then independently at the end of each month. The set of volumes is not complete.

This file contains 5 folders:

• Case conference, vol 12 no. 2 to vol 13 no. 12, June 1965 - April 1967, vol 12 nos. 1, 7-9 and vol 13 nos. 2-3, 6-11 are missing (folder 1)
• Case conference, vol 14 nos. 2-12, June 1967- April 1968, vol 14 nos. 1, 4, 6-7 are missing (folder 2)
• Case conference, vol 15 nos. 1-12, May 1968-April 1969, nos. 5, 7-8 are missing (folder 3)
• Case conference, vol 16 nos.1-6, May 1969 - October 1969 (folder 4)
• Case conference, vol 16 nos. 7-12, November 1969 - April 1970, no. 10 is missing (folder 5)

A monthly professional journal for the social worker and social administrator. Published jointly by the Association of Social Workers and the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers as Case Conference Ltd. It was first published in 1954 and the final issue was in April 1970. The set of volumes is not complete.

This file contains 5 items:

• Developments in education and training for the certificate of qualification in social work, 1977-1987, CCETSW consultative document no. 1, August 1976
• Alternative patterns of education and training for the certificate of qualification in social work, CCETSW consultative document no. 2, August 1976
• Practice teaching in Scotland, the report of a working group, CCETSW, April 1979
• Expectations of the teaching of social work in courses leading to the certificate of qualification in social work: analysis of responses, and some policy issues arising from the consultation, CCETSW, July 1979
• Policies for qualifying training in social work: the Council’s propositions, January 1985, CCETSW paper 20:3, January 1985

The Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work was established in October 1971, as successor to the Council for Training in Social Work. It offered recognised training courses and qualifications for social workers and social care staff in personal social services. It ceased operations in September 2001 when its functions were taken over by new national care councils: General Social Care Council (GSCC), the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), the Care Council for Wales (CCW), and the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC).

This file contains 6 items:

• Non-accidental injury to children: Glasgow Division Guidelines, Strathclyde Social Work Department, April 1978 
• Child abuse: what role for NSPCC?, “Community care”, no. 252, 22 February, 1979
• Child abuse: Glasgow guidelines, Strathclyde Regional Council Social Work Department, September 1982 
• Recent developments in child abuse: conference held at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee on 19th September 1984, extracted from “Child abuse review”, vol1, no.2, British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, 1984
• Child abuse: report of the Working Group on Social Work Issues in Child Abuse, Central Advisory Service Social Work Services Group, Scottish Education Department, November 1985 
• The report of the inquiry into the removal of children from Orkney in February 1991, House of Commons, HMSO, October 1992 

This series consists of 5 files:

• Richard Clark child abuse inquiry related papers, 1974-1975
• RSSPCC Overnewton Centre reports and related correspondence, 1978-1987
• General child abuse related reports and studies, 1981-1987
• Orkney child abuse inquiry related reports, articles and briefing papers, 1991-1992
• Orkney child abuse inquiry newspaper cuttings, 1991-1992

This series consists of 3 files:

• Child care and training related reports, leaflets and circulars by the Scottish Home Office and Scottish Education Department, 1948-1975
• Child care training, reports, memos and newspaper articles, 1960-2000
• Speaker and lecture notes by Vera Hiddleston on social work and child care, 1962-2002

This file contains 25 items:

• Home Office circular no. 160/1948, Children Act 1948, 8 July 1948 (folder 1)
• Training in child care: memorandum of guidance by the Home Office, August 1956 (folder 1)
• Refresher course for child care officers, Scottish Home Department, September 1957 (folder 1)
• Refresher course for child care officers, Scottish Home Department, September 1959 (folder 1)
• Child Care 1962, Scottish Education Department, 1963 with enclosed circular letter no. 13/1963 regarding the report (folder 1)
• Home Office circular no. 204/1963, Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963: Extension of powers of local authorities to promote the welfare of children, 17 September 1963 (folder 1)
• Wanted a home, Home Office leaflet, 1963 (folder 1)
• Child Care 1964, Scottish Education Department, 1965 (folder 1)
• Home Office circular no. 22/1964, Children and Young Persons Act 1963: Parts I and III, 22 January 1964 (folder 1)
• Child Care 1965, Scottish Education Department, 1966 (folder 1)
• Home office circular no. 102/1965, Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963: reports to the Secretary of State, 7 May 1965 (folder 1)
• Home office circular no. 134/1966, Medical examination of children in care, 22 July 1966 (folder 1)
• Joint circular from the Welsh Board of Health, Home Office and Welsh Office, Homeless families: temporary accommodation, 31 October 1966 (folder 1)
• Home Office circular no. 73/1967, Emergency training for child care officers, 6 June 1967
• Juvenile offenders and those in need of care, protection or control (England and Wales), Home Office, August 1967 (folder 1)
• Home Office circular no. 224/1968, Family Allowance Acts: Children in care or under detention: notification to the Ministry of Social Security, 9 October 1968 (folder 1)
• First report of the study group on fieldwork training, Central Training Council in Child Care Committee A, March 1970 (folder 2)
• Joint conference of tutors of residential and field work Courses, conference papers, Central Training Council in Child Care, 15-17 May 1970 (folder 2)
• The structure of courses -- some implications for the patterns of fieldwork training, Study Group discussion paper no. 1, Central Training Council in Child Care, September 1970 (folder 2)
• New perspectives in social work: development needs of long serving unqualified social workers, Report of the CTC/CTSW working party, November 1970 (folder 2)
• Implications for 1 year non-graduate, course proposals in paper “New perspectives in social work” for training of older experienced staff in local authority social service departments, Central Training Council in Child Care Committee A, c1970 (folder 2)
• Social Work Service Group circular no. SW20/1971 and appendix, Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: memorandum on contributions under part VI of the act, 20 August 1971 (folder 2)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW14/1974, Residential and other resources for children, 6 September 1974 (folder 2)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW18/1975, Social work statistics, 29 August 1975 (folder 2)
• Child care training, Central Training Council in Child Care, Home Office, undated (folder 2)

This file contains 6 folders:

• Child care news, no. 1-24, 1960-1963, nos. 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 19 and 20 are missing (folder 1)
• Child care news, no. 25-45, 1964-1965, nos. 27, 31, 32, 36, 37, 39 and 41-44 are missing (folder 2)
• Child care news, no. 46-57, 1966, no. 55 is missing (folder 3)
• Child care news, no. 58-81, 1967-1968, nos. 60, 62-67, 70, 73, 75, 78-80 are missing (folder 4)
• Child care news, no. 85-93, 1969, nos. 82-84 are missing (folder 5)
• Child care news, no. 94-102, 1970 (folder 6)

The set of volumes is not complete.

This file contains 16 items:

• Magazine of the Residential Child Care Association, vol 7, special feature: family-group homes, 1959 (folder 1)
• Memorandum on the boarding-out of children, Scottish Home Department, HMSO, 1959 (folder 1)
• The role of the voluntary homes: a report by the Scottish Advisory Council on Child Care, Scottish Education Department, c1959 (folder 1)
• Child care: the quarterly review of the National Council of Associated Children’s Homes, vol 14, no.1, January 1960 (folder 1)
• Garvald School, Dolphinton Peeblesshire, Annual Report 1961 (folder 1)
• The future of the local authority personal social services, Association of Child Care Officers, 1966 (folder 1)
• Administration and staff supervision in the child care service, by Priscilla Young, Joyce Warham, Dorothy Pettes, Association of Child Care Officers, monograph no. 2, c1967 (folder 1)
• Courses recognised by the council for the training of child care officers, Central Training Council in Child Care, September 1968 (folder 1)
• Report of the working party on professional integrity in the child care service, Association of Child Care Officers, April 1969 (folder 1)
• Child care commemorative report 1949 – 1970, Association of Child Care Officers, 1970 (folder 2)
• Assessment of children: report of a study group set up by the Chief Social Work Adviser, Social Work Services Group, January 1971 (folder 2)
• Staff development and in-service study paper 3: continuing needs for professional development, Central Training Council in Child Care, 1971, and inserted letter regarding the pamphlet, 17 August 1971 (folder 2)
• Strathclyde’s children: 111 children whose parents are the regional council, Strathclyde Social Work Department, February 1980 (folder 2)
• Addendum to handout “working with children: the statutory provisions”, 1983 (folder 2)
• Residential child care strategy for the eighties: home or away? Strathclyde Regional Council Social Work Department, c1983 (folder 2)
• Under Fives - Final Report of the Member/Officer Group, Strathclyde Regional Council, January 1985 (folder 2)

This file contains 7 items:

• Timetables and list of lectures for University of Edinburgh child care course 1960-61 and 1961-62, October 1960-1961
• Report, The work of a child care officer, undated
• Draft circular to Local Authorities and Health Boards, Non-accidental injury to children, undated
• Memorandum on suggested legislative changes, undated
• Confidential report, The child care service at work: report of a study tour of four working weeks in the Children’s Departments of seven Scottish Local Authorities, Tom Burns and Susan Sinclair, January 1962
• Photocopy of newspaper article, ‘Demise of the ragged trousered philanthropists’, The Weekend Scotsman, 8 June 1985
• Newspaper cutting, Obituary for Barbara Kahan, childcare pioneer, The Guardian, 9 August 2000

This file contains 4 items:

• Children’s panel summer school programme 7-9 September 1979
• Vera Hiddleston’s talk reflecting on her experience as a panel member, presented at the Children’s panel training 1979 summer school
• Study of children’s panel/social work department operation, Social Work Services Group, Scottish Education Department, July 1980
• Social work in the hearing system, report with handwritten annotations, undated

This series consists of 1 file:

• Background papers for proposed research on care of elderly adults in Ardnamurchan, 1987-1989

This sub-series consists of 4 files:

• Executive Committee papers and correspondence of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), May 1966 - November 1966
• Executive Committee papers and correspondence of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), January 1967 - November 1967
• Executive Committee papers and correspondence of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), February 1968 - December 1968
• Final and undated Executive Committee papers and correspondence of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), 1970-1971

This file contains 19 items:

• Confidential ACCO report and letters regarding action in response to re-organisation of child care service at West Bromwich Council, 24 May 1966 - 29 June 1966
• Minutes and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 17 September 1966, including -- agenda -- report by the Honorary Secretary -- report of the Training Committee -- report of Salaries and Service Conditions Committee -- report of Publications and Public Relations Committee -- minutes of the Conference Sub-committee meeting on 1 July 1966
• ACCO report, Training for the child care Service, September 1966 
• Draft report, Evidence of the Association of Child Care Officers to the Royal Commission on the Civil Service with attached letter, 21 October 1966 
• Minutes and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 26 November 1966, including -- agenda -- letter regarding working party on Approved School aftercare -- report of the Training Committee -- report of the Salaries and Service Conditions Committee -- letter regarding membership of the Publications and Public Relations Committee -- minutes of the Publications and Public Relations Sub-committee meeting on 19 October 1966 -- minutes of the Organisation Sub-Committee meeting on 4 November 1966 -- letter regarding report on the functions of the Presidency

Regular agenda items include NALGO negotiations; office accommodation; salaries; Seebohm Committee; Home Office Children’s Department; training for child care officers; local authority services; regional re-organisation; national and branch organisation; parliamentary matters, publications; Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers; Association of Family Caseworkers; representation in other organisations.

This file contains 34 items:

• ACCO draft survey of services provided for young people, undated
• Reports from the Association's representatives on other bodies for the year 1967/68
• Minutes and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 3 February 1968, including -- agenda -- list of papers -- report of Training Committee -- report of Salaries and Services Committee -- minutes of the Publications and Public Relations Committee meeting on 10 January 1968 -- membership figures -- report by the Legal Sub-Committee on juvenile courts with handwritten notes on reverse -- minutes of the Liaison Committee meeting on 12 December 1967 -- report on the Standing Conference of Organisation of Social Workers -- report of the Executive Committee for the year 1967
• Report of Training Committee for the AGM 1968
• Report on the National Bureau of Co-Operation in Child Care, March 1968
• Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers discussion paper no. 3, Registration, and comments on the paper, April 1968
• Confidential minutes of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 5 April 1968
• Minutes of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 7 April 1968
• Minutes of the ACCO AGM on 5 to 7 April 1968
• Minutes and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 15 June 1968, including agenda -- report of the Training Committee -- report of the Salaries and Service Conditions Committee –- report of the Publications and Public Relations Committee – Memorandum by the Home Office ‘Children in trouble’ –- discussion notes for the white paper ‘Children in trouble’ –- confidential draft Home Office memorandum on adoption practice, May 1968
• Letter from Keith Bilton to Laura Grimond regarding legal position of children in foster homes, 9 August 1968
• Agenda and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 5 October 1968, including report of Salaries and Service Conditions Committee –- minutes of the Public Relations Social Policy and Social Action Working Party meeting on 8 August 1968 –- draft constitution of the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers; draft memorandum on adoption practice, September 1968
• Report on the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 6 December 1968 regarding the ACCO constitution, December 1968
• Schedule of committee meetings, undated

Regular agenda items include ACCO constitution; pre-school child care; professional training; salaries; local authority services; Seebohm Report; child poverty; pre-school child care; single-parent families; Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers; NSPCC; NALGO; parliamentary matters; residential child care; Williams Committee; child poverty; homelessness; branch organisation; Home Office and Central Training Council.

This file contains 26 items:

• Papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 28 January 1967, including -- agenda --Report of Training Committee -- report of Salaries and Service Conditions Committee -- confidential report on meeting of NALGO Special (Gradings) Sub-Committee with representatives of social worker organisations on 30 November 1966 -- minutes of the Publications and Public Relations Committee meeting on 12 January 1967 -- report of the Membership Sub-Committee -- draft annual report of the Executive Committee -- report on the AFCW Council meeting on 16 December 1966
• Minutes of the ACCO AGM on 31 March to 2 April 1967
• Minutes of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 17 June 1967 and attached letter, 17 July 1967
• Report of the Membership Committee, August 1967
• Salaries and Service Conditions Committee policy statement for consideration at meeting on 28 July 1967
• Report on Organisation of campaign on publication of Seebohm Committee report
• Minutes and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 2 September 1967, including -- agenda with handwritten annotations -- report of Training Committee -- Salary and Service Conditions Committee report into compensation for overtime -- report of the meeting of the Publications and Public Relations Sub-Committee meeting on 19 July 1967 -- report of the meeting on 16 August 1967 to formulate views on the organisation of a unified association of social workers
• Minutes and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 11 November 1967, including -- agenda with handwritten annotations -- report of Salaries and Service Conditions Committee -- minutes of meeting of the Salaries and Service Conditions Committee and Training Committee on 21 October 1967 -- minutes of the Publications and Public Relations Committee on 11 October 1967 -- report of Training Committee -- minutes of Liaison Committee meeting on 23 October 1967
• Directory of Committee members 1967/68, alterations December 1967

Regular agenda items include professional training; annual conference; training inspectorate; Central Training Council; salaries; roles; ‘Accord’; ‘Social work’; ‘Child care news’; parliamentary matters; membership; appointments; Seebohm Committee; local authorities; child poverty; white papers; Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers; NSPCC; entry into the service; film to publicise residential child care work; Williams Committee; correction in children’s homes; Aves Committee on Voluntary Workers in the Social Services; approved schools; immigrant welfare; NALGO negotiations; ACO ACCO amalgamation

This file contains 14 items:

• Pages 2 and 3 of undated agenda, c1970
• Page 1 of letter from ACCO regarding the establishment of the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research in Social Work to publish “Child care news”, 19 May 1970
• Letter from the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research in Social Work to Vera Hiddleston inviting her to general meeting of the society, 10 June 1970
• Training Committee report to the convenor of the final meeting of the committee on 6 June 1970
• Agenda and papers of the ACCO Executive Committee meeting on 20 June 1970, including letter from Keith Bilton, ACCO, to K Osborne, Central Training Council in Child Care, regarding two-year training for residential care staff, 10 June 1970 -– report of the Publications and Public Relations Committee –- paper on the future of “Child care news” by the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research in Social Work
• BASW Council, members appointed to the committee, 3 December 1971
• Memo from Keith Bilton, ACCO, to members of the Executive and Training Committees regarding training of field and residential workers in child care, undated
• Salaries and Service Conditions Committee, Policy statement, undated
• Notes for discussion on the future of the annual conference, ACCO, undated
• ACCO letter to members regarding the directory of office-holders and committee-members, undated
• Guidance to the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations, ACCO, undated

This file contains 16 items:

• British Association of Social Workers letter regarding appointment of Committees of the Council, 15 December 1971 (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW3/1973 regarding the Adoption Act 1968 (commencement no. 1) Order, 30 January 1973 (folder 1)
• NHS Circular no. 1975 (Gen) 5, Non-accidental injury to children, 18 April 1975 (folder 1)
• Child abuse, methods and myths, c1980s (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group, Central Advisory Service report, Issues affecting the role of the reporter in child abuse cases, and inserted photocopy of circular letter from the Social Work Services Group regarding the report, January 1981 (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group circular letter regarding Child Abuse, February 1981 (folder 1)
• Report by Norman Dunning on the 5th International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Montreal, September 1984, on the theme Preventing child abuse: a community responsibility, 4 October 1984 (folder 1)
• Book review by Norman Dunning and David Gough of “Trends in child abuse” by Susan J Creighton, NSPCC (1984), 10th December 1984 (folder 1)
• Bexley Social Services and Metropolitan Police, child sexual abuse: joint investigative programme, Bexley experiment, c1986 (folder 1)
• Book review of “Child Abuse within the Family”, edited by Ruth Porter, Ciba Foundation, 31st January 1985 (folder 1)
• Case study: Strathclyde Social Work Department child abuse training pack for the CAS seminar, Preparation and support of social workers in child abuse cases on 6-7 March 1986 (folder 1)
• Report, A longitudinal study of child abuse in Glasgow, Volume I: The children who were registered, by Gough, Boddy, Dunning and Stone, University of Glasgow and Greater Glasgow Health Board, May 1987 and inserted letter from David Gough, University of Glasgow Department of Child Health and Obstetrics, to Vera Hiddleston, regarding the report, 5 June 1987 and handwritten notes, undated (folder 2)
• Give an evaluation of the theoretical principles which inform your management/training/consultancy project, what are the main issues in your efforts to transfer these to practical actions? Essay by Norma Buchanan, Dundee Placement, 26 June 1990 (folder 2)
• Association of Child Care Officers- Report of the working party appointed to submit evidence on the care of handicapped children, c1990 (folder 2)
• Collaborative practice between health and social work- its implications for decision making in cases of child abuse, by Netta Maciver and Patricia McCormack, Overnewton Centre, RSSPCC special unit, undated (folder 2)
• Photocopy of Scottish map detailing regional teams, undated (folder 2)
• 2 pages of handwritten notes, undated (folder 2)

This file contains 32 items:

• Ageing – It’s Changes and Its Promise, The Care of the Elderly Conference Report, 1960 (folder 1)
• Harriett Bartlett’s frame of reference, c1962 (folder 1)
• The duties and functions of child care officers, Association of Child Care Officers, 1960s (folder 1)
• Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers Annual Report, 1963 (folder 1)
• Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers Annual Report, 1964 (folder 1)
• Education for social administration, David V. Donnison, Loch Memorial Lecture, Family Welfare Association, 1964  (folder 1)
• Casework and depression, The Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, c1965 (folder 1)
• Socialism and Affluence - Four Fabian Essays, W Rodgers, B Abel-Smith, R Titmuss, P Townsend, RHS Crossman, Fabian Society, May 1967  
• Child care in the seventies, report of the annual conference, Association of Child Care Officers, 1967 (folder 1)
• The nature and objectives of professional education, Professor Brian Simon, Association of Social Work Teachers, 1967 (folder 1)
• Parliament and social work, Colin Smart (editor), Association of Child Care Officers, June 1968 (folder 2)
• Social work and the community annual conference report, Association of Child Care Officers, 1968 (folder 2)
• Draft constitution for a unified association of social workers, Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers, July 1968 (folder 2)
• Community work and social change: proceedings of one-day conference of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, University of Edinburgh, 26 April 1969 (folder 2)
• Social work in Scotland: report of a working party on the Social Work (Scotland) Act, Department of Social Administration, July 1969 (folder 2)
• Memorandum and articles of association and bye-laws, British Association of Social Workers, and inserted notes on the constitution, 14 November 1969 (folder 2)
• Paying for the social services: RHS Crossman, Fabian Tract 399, Herbert Morrison memorial lecture, Fabian Society, December 1969 (folder 2)
• Fifteenth annual report of Federation of Association of Mental Health Workers, 1968-1969 (folder 3)
• Supportive staff in Scottish social work departments, Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1971 (folder 3)
• Task and supervision in area social work - Anthea Hey and Ralph Rowbottom, reprinted from British Journal of Social Work, vol 1, no. 4, c1972 (folder 3)
• Rented housing and social ownership, Malcolm Wicks, Fabian Tract 421, Fabian Society, March 1973 (folder 3)
• Initial report on fieldwork staffing, Advisory Council on Social Work Committee on Social Work Staffing, May 1973 (folder 3)
• Fieldwork staffing (Scotland): summary of a report, Advisory Council on Social Work Committee on Social Work Staffing, Scottish Education Department Social Work Services Group, 1974 and inserted report ‘Operational research: working party report’, British Association of Social Workers (Glasgow North Branch), June 1973 (folder 3)
• Photographs of early social work in the West of Scotland: an exhibition at Heatherbank Museum of Social Work, 1975 (folder 3) 
• A guide to the structure and functions of the departments of the Secretary of State for Scotland, Scottish Information Office Reference Unit, Factsheet RF 20, 1977 (folder 3) 
• Room to Grow – Report of a special officer/member group of the council's social work committee on childcare in Strathclyde, Strathclyde Regional Council, November 1979 (folder 4) 
• A new look at the personal social services, discussion paper no. 4, ed. E Matilda Goldberg and Stephen Hatch, Policy Studies Institute, February 1981 (folder 4) 
• Members guide to the Association, British Association of Social Workers, 1984 (folder 4) 
• “Children’s hearings” in Scotland: justice, discretion and “civil procedure sui generis”, Sheriff Brian Kearney, reprinted from Civil Justice Quarterly, April 1985, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, 1985 (folder 4) 
• The promotion of social welfare: a promise fulfilled? papers presented at the Scottish annual conference 11-12 November 1988, British Association of Social Workers, April 1989 (folder 4) 
• Martin Herbert’s seven phases of going through transition, c1980s (folder 4) 
• An appraisal of the pack report, Vera Hiddleston, with handwritten annotations on back page, undated (folder 4) 

This series consists of two files:

• Government Acts and statutory instruments relating to social work, child care and sick and disabled persons, 1937-1977
• Government Reports relating to social work, child care, elderly care, local government reform and devolution, 1955-1978

This file contains 27 items:

• Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (folder 1)
• Children and Young Persons, Scotland: Remand home rules, 30 April 1946 (reprint), 1954 (folder 1)
• Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act, 1949: Exploratory memorandum, 1950 (folder 1)
• Children Act, 1958 (folder 1)
• Statutory instrument, 1959, no. 118 (S.1), Court of Session, Scotland, Act of sederunt (rules of court amendment no. 1), 1959 (folder 1)
• Statutory instrument, 1959, no. 762 (S.32), Court of Session, Scotland, Act of sederunt (rules of court amendment no. 3), 1959 (folder 1)
• Statutory instrument, 1959, no. 834 (S.43), The administration of children’s homes (Scotland) regulations, 1959 (folder 1)
• Children and Young Persons Bill, November 1962 (folder 1)
• Health Visiting and Social Work (Training ) Act, 1962 (folder 1)
• Statutory instrument, 1963, no. 2056 (C.19), The Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (commencement no. 2) order 1963, December 1963 (folder 1)
• Statutory instrument, 1963, no. 1420 (S.63), The probation (Scotland) amendment (no. 2) rules 1963, August 1963 (folder 1)
• Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, chapter 49 (folder 1)
• Social Work (Scotland) Bill (as amended in committee), April 1968 (folder 1)
• Social Work (Scotland) Bill (as amended in committee), July 1968 (folder 1)
• Children and Young Persons Act 1969, chapter 54 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1969, no. 430 (C. 10) (S.32), The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (commencement no. 1) order 1968, March 1969 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1969, no. 1565 (C. 44) Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (commencement no. 2) order 1969, November 1969 (folder 2)
• Home Office circular no. 239/1969 Children and Young Persons Act 1969, 18 November 1969 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1971, no. 492, The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Rules, 1971, April 1971 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1971, no. 1221, The Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (commencement no. 3) order 1971, July 1971 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1979, no. 1241, The Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work Order, 1971, October 1971 (folder 2)
• Social Work Services Group circular CP4/1971, The Reporter’s duties and transmission of information etc (Scotland) rules 1971, 7 April 1971 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1971, no. 525 (S. 72), The Reporter’s duties and transmission of information etc (Scotland) rules 1971, 15 April 1971 (folder 2)
• Social Work Services Group circular SW 12/1972, Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Scotland) Act 1972, 6 September 1972, with Vera Hiddleston’s handwritten notes on the Act and first page of the Act, July 1972 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1972, no. 1420 (C. 34) (S. 108), The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (commencement) (Scotland) order 1972, September 1972 (folder 2)
• Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975, chapter 21 (folder 2)
• Statutory instrument, 1977, no. 227 (C. 9) (S. 33), The Children Act 1975 (Scotland) (commencement no. 1) order 1977, February 1977 (folder 2)

This file contains 29 items:

• Report of the Committee on Homeless Children, Scottish Home Department, reprinted 1955 (folder 1)
• Children in the care of Local Authorities in Scotland, November 1958, Scottish Home Department, 1959 (folder 1)
• Memorandum on children’s homes, Scottish Home Department, 1959 (folder 1)
• Report of the Care of Children Committee, presented 1946, reprinted 1959 (folder 1)
• Remand homes, Scottish Education Department, presented December 1961 (folder 1)
• Report of the Departmental Committee on the Probation Service, Home Office and Scottish Home Department, presented March 1962 (folder 1)
• Staffing of Local Authority children’s departments, a report by the Scottish Advisory Council on Child Care, Scottish Education Department, 1963 (folder 2)
• Prevention of neglect of children, report of the Committee of the Scottish Advisory Council on Child Care, Scottish Education Department, presented 1963, with enclosed circular letter no. 6/1963 regarding prevention of neglect of children, 12 March 1963 (folder 2)
• Children and young persons Scotland, Scottish Home and Health Department and Scottish Education Department, presented April 1964 (folder 2)
• Reorganisation of local government in Scotland, first report, Scottish Education Department, 1964 (folder 2)
• Ascertainment of maladjusted children, Scottish Education Department, 1964 (folder 2)
• The child, the family and the young offender, Home Office, presented August 1965 (folder 2)
• Social work and the community, proposals for reorganising Local Authority Services in Scotland, Scottish Education Department and Scottish Home and Health Department, presented October 1966 (folder 2)
• Copy of the above with handwritten note by Vera Hiddleston inserted at page 12 (folder 2)
• Annual estimates of the population of Scotland 1966, The Registrar General Scotland, 1967 (folder 2)
• Children in trouble, Home Office, presented April 1968 with handwritten letter to Vera Hiddleston regarding the report inserted at front page (folder 2)
• Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Commons official report, 6 May 1968 (folder 2)
• Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Commons official report, 15 July 1968 (folder 2)
• Child care in Scotland, 1967, Social Work Services Group, presented July 1968 (folder 3)
• Report of the Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services, presented July 1968, reprinted 1969 (folder 3)
• Scotland: Local government reform, short version of the report of the Royal Commission on local government in Scotland, presented September 1969 (folder 3)
• Children’s hearings, Social Work Services Group, Scottish Education Department, 1970 with circular letter no. CP6/1979 regarding the booklet enclosed at front page, dated 1 October 1979 (folder 3)
• Copy of the above booklet with enclosed circular letters -- no. SW 1/1976 regarding issues arising since the system of children’s hearings was established, dated 9 April 1973 -- no. SW 1/1976 with copy of the Reporters (conduct of proceedings before the Sheriff) (Scotland) regulations 1975, dated 23 January 1976 (folder 3)
• Social work in Scotland in 1971, Scottish Education Department, presented November 1972 (folder 4)
• Report of the Committee on Abuse of Social Security Benefits, presented March 1973 (folder 4)
• Housing and Social work -- a joint approach: the interim report of the Morris Committee on links between housing and social work, Scottish Development Department, 1974 (folder 4)
• Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the consideration given and steps taken towards securing the welfare of Richard Clark by Perth Town Council and other bodies or persons concerned, Social Services Working Group, Scottish Education Department, 1975 (folder 4)
• Our changing democracy: devolution to Scotland and Wales, presented November 1975 (folder 5)
• A happier old age: a discussion document on elderly people in our society, Department of Health and Social Security, Welsh Office, 1978, with enclosed note on Conference with voluntary organisations, 4 November 1978, regarding elderly care (folder 5)

This file contains 20 items:

• Reading and District Council of Social Service 42nd annual report 1952-1953 (folder 1)
• Recent developments in case-work: report of the seminar 22-25 September 1956, The Association of Social Workers, with stamp of the Probation Officers’ Training Course, 1956 (folder 1)
• The Corporation of the City of Glasgow Children’s Department annual report 1956-1957 (folder 1)
• Help for those in need, The National Assistance Board, July 1960 (folder 1)
• Notes on the ethics of social work, The Association of Social Workers, with stamp of the Probation Officers’ Training Course, reprinted February 1961 (folder 1)
• Prospectus for Faculty of Arts School of Social Study, University of Glasgow, 1967-1968 (folder 1)
• Administrative studies for social workers: a report on the teaching of organisation theory and administrative processes to social work students, by Peter Boss and John Haines, c1968 (folder 1)
• ‘The Help’, an account of the Edinburgh Association for the Improvement of the Conditions of the Poor 1868-1906, by Rhona Morrison, Edinburgh Council of Social Service, 1968 (folder 1)
• An analysis of children’s cases in Manchester: a feasibility study, Local Government Operational Research Unit, report no. C 123, January 1972 (folder 1)
• Social workers and their workloads in Northern Ireland welfare departments, National Institute for Social Work Training, 1972 (folder 1)
• Social workers and their workloads, by Vida Carver and J L Edwards, National Institute for Social Work Training, 1972 (folder 2)
• Introducing social work, leaflet 1:4, CCETSW Information Service, March 1976 (folder 2)
• Article, ‘Is Christmas now more of a hamper?’, “Community care”, December 22/29 1976 (folder 2)
• The prosecution of children in Scotland, consultants’ report by S A M McLean and C J Docherty with J P Grant, Scottish Office, December 1984 (folder 2)
• From Clyde to Clyde: the background to Scottish child care, c1992 (folder 2)
• Bundle of papers including order form and book review for “British Social Services – The Scottish dimension” by John Murphy, 1992, with handwritten title SCOLAG 29 March 1993 (folder 2)
• Newspaper cutting on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr Barnardo, ‘The Doctor’s children’, “The Independent on Sunday”, 11 June 1995 (folder 2)
• Social Work History Network transcript of article titled ‘The origins of the British Association of Social Workers’ from “Professional Social Work”, 2000, with additional footnotes, 19 October 2006 (folder 2)
• Vera Hiddleston’s talk on SW (Scotland) Act for History Group seminar at Edinburgh University on 3 November 2006 (folder 2)
• Outline of filmstrip ‘Who cares for Philip?, fostering arranged by a local authority, A Camera Talks Production, undated (folder 2)

This series consists of 9 files:

• "Accord", journal of the Association of Child Care Officers, 1958-1967
• "Child care news", 1960-1970
• "Case conference", 1965-1970
• "Social work", the British quarterly journal, 1968-1970
• "Medical social work", journal of the Institute of Medical Social Workers, 1968-1970
• "Social service quarterly", 1969-1974
• "Social service news", 1970-1973
• "BASW news and social work appointments service", newsletter of the British Association of Social Workers, 1970-1971
• Miscellaneous social work journals: “Social work today”, “Contact” and “The political quarterly”, 1968-1970

This file contains 8 journals:

• Medical social work, vol 21 no. 4, July 1968 and inserted letter to Vera Hiddleston from Kay Richards, regarding her article in that edition.
• Medical social work, vol 21 no. 8, January 1969
• Medical social work, vol 21 no. 9, February 1969 and enclosed index to volume 21
• Medical social work, vol 22 no. 1, April 1969
• Medical social work, vol 22 no. 6, October 1969
• Medical social work, vol 22 no. 7, November 1969 and enclosed leaflet on the study of group work undertaken by medical social workers
• Medical social work, vol 22 no. 9, February 1970
• Medical social work, vol 22 no. 10, March 1970 and enclosed index to volume 22

Published 10 times a year. The set of volumes is not complete, vol 21 nos. 1-3, 5-7,10 and vol 22 nos. 2-5, 8 are missing.

This file contains 1 folder:

• Minutes of ACCO Scottish Region meetings on 11 October 1957; 8 February 1958; 12 April 1958; 18 October 1958; 31 January 1959; 4 April 1959; 9 October 1959; 13 February 1960; 2 April 1960; 15 October 1960; and 3 December 1960
• Report of Working Party 'Training for residential care', c 1960
• ACCO note on child care service and in particular Committee on Children and Young Persons, 14 July 1961
• Minutes of ACCO Scottish Region meeting on 18 November 1961
• Report 'Duties and functions of a child care officer', 12 January 1962
• Agenda and minutes of ACCO Scottish Region meeting on 3 February 1962
• ACCO Annual Report 1962
• Leaflet, Can you take a child into your home?, 1962 
• ACCO constitution, undated
• Leaflet, What is ACCO?, c1962 
• Programme for Scottish Education Department Refresher course for staff of remand homes, 20-27 November 1963 
• Address delivered by Vera Hiddleston at ACCO Annual Conference, 10-12 April 1964
• Annual conference programme with handwritten annotations, 29-31 October 1965
• ACCO leaflet, 'Children in care', c1965 [top right corner is torn off] 
• ACCO report 'Evidence to the Committee on Voluntary Workers in the Social Services', July 1967  
• ACCO discussion paper 'In service training and staff development, c 1965 
• ACCO discussion paper ' Social work and the community', October 1966 
• ACCO Report of working party appointed to consider and report on the future of the Personal Social Services and the law relating to children', 1966
• Standing Conference of Organisation of Social Workers, Discussion Paper no. 1, 'The re-organisation of social work services', 1966 
• ACCO pamphlet, 'In service training and staff development', June 1967 
• Magazine article by Janet Hitchman, 'I much preferred the children's home to foster parents', c1967
• ACCO note, Joint Consultative Committee in Child Care, undated
• First draft of memo to be presented by the Scottish region of ACCO to the Scottish Education Department on the white paper entitled “Social work and the community”, undated
• Confidential memo on an enquiry into the reactions to the experience of working in Scotland of some ACCO members who had undergone professional social work training, undated
• Social Work (Scotland) Bill, memorandum of the views of a professional working party, two copies, undated and 2 April 1968
• Report of the Committee of Children and Young Persons (Scotland), memorandum on the report prepared by the ACCO (Scottish region)
• ACCO Annual General Meeting papers, 1969
• ACCO membership figures, October 1969 
• Notes on professional standards, undated

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Meeting papers, leaflets, reports and discussion papers of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO) Scottish Region, 1957-1969
• Annual reports, annual conference programmes and AGM papers of the Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO), 1959-1969

This file contains 7 journals:

• Contact, September 1968, on the subject of ‘social work: catalyst in the community,
• Contact, November 1971, on the subject of planning and the person, with inserted programme for event titled ‘Crisis, change and learning’
• Contact, Spring 1975, on the subject of ‘abortion counselling’, with inserted minutes of the AGM of the Scottish Pastoral Association on 14 June 1975
• The political quarterly, vol 40, no. 1, January-March 1969, special issue on the future of social services
• Social work today, journal of the British Association of Social Workers, vol 1, no. 1, April 1970
• Social work today, journal of the British Association of Social Workers, vol 1, no. 2, May 1970
  -Social work today, journal of the British Association of Social Workers, vol 1, no. 7, October 1970 

This file contains 2 items:

• Training for residential work, undated
• Management course for senior social workers, Craigie College, 24-30 September, undated

This file contains 1 folder containing 92 articles:

• Photocopies and press cuttings of articles relating to the events surrounding the suspected child abuse in Orkney and subsequent enquiry. Articles from mostly from the "Glasgow Herald" and also "Independent on Sunday", "Scotsman" and "Community Care" journal.

This file contains 9 items:

• Report on children’s hearing cases in Kirkwall 4 April 1991 before Sheriff D Kelbie, undated
  Article for Glasgow Herald from Tony Worthington, Labour MP for Clydebank and Milngavie, 15th April - 1991 
• Letter to John Gilbert, Editor, Social Work Today from AMM Wood regarding reference to RSSPCC workers in Orkney case, 16 April 1991 
• Annual General Meeting, briefing paper 5, Orkney: professional issues: the RSSPCC Perspective, April 1991 
• Annual General Meeting, briefing paper 6, Why the RSSPCC supports the appeal against Sheriff Kelbie’s judgement, April 1991
• Overnewton Centre, Working with families where child sexual abuse has occurred: a review of practice 1987-1991, c1991 
• Overnewton Centre, Child sexual abuse project 1987-1991: management committee report for sponsoring agencies, October 1991 
• Submission to the Orkney Inquiry conducted by Lord Clyde, Overnewton Centre, child sexual abuse project, February 1992 
• Photocopy of Orkney inquiry report: part five summary, 27 October 1992

Following allegations of organised sexual abuse involving the children and parents of several families in Orkney, children believed to be at risk were removed from their homes between November 1990 and February1991 and placed with foster carers on the mainland. On the 4th April 1991 at Children’s Hearing regarding the case the Sheriff deemed the proceedings incompetent and the children were returned to Orkney. The case received massive media attention and sensationalised reports in the press at the time.

This file contains 16 items:

• Frames of reference for analysing social work practice in any particular field and monograph on social work practice by Harriett Bartlett, June 1961 and November 1961 with compliments slip from University of Edinburgh Department of Social Study, 20 November 1961
• Article titled ‘Social work and social values’ by Eileen Younghusband, from “Social work today”, September 1970
• Recruitment and retention of residential child care staff: a report based on the findings of a Residential Child Care Association Working Party, 1968-70, c1970
• Transcript of ‘Social work – the approach to the task’, from John Haines “The nature of social work”, published by the Social Work Advisory Service, 1970
• Breadth and depth in a social work curriculum, speech given by Megan Browne at ASWT meeting on 20 March 1971
• Booklet, “Social Work”, Lanark County Council, November 1972, with enclosed newspaper cutting of advert titled ‘Challenge to professional social workers – fifty trained social workers are needed urgently by the City of Glasgow’, 1972
• Article titled, ‘The future of social work’ by Eileen Younghusband, “Social work today”, c1973
  Towards a new social work, paper by John White, October 1973
  Role and task of social workers, paper by Roger Kent, Director of Social Work, Lothian Region, 17 November 1981
• The development role of the social worker: a central government view, paper by David Colvin for seminar on 27 November 1981
• Some broad social and demographic trends in Scotland in the 1970s, paper by Malcolm Hill for seminar on 27 November 1981
• Course in medical social work: a frame of reference for social casework, University of Edinburgh, undated but typed on headed paper [with header scribbled out] for the Poppy Day Appeal 1960
• Various types of social workers, undated
• Handwritten notes starting with p 2 on aims of training and the role of the social worker, undated
• Speakers notes on Seebohm, Seebohm Implementation Action Group, undated
• Chapter by Megan Brown titled ‘Social casework’, undated

This series consists of 3 files:

• Historical social work pamphlets and reports, 1952-2006
• Papers on the role of the social worker, 1961-1981
• Papers relating to the Seebohm Report, Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and the introduction of new local authority social work departments, 1962-1973

This file contains 30 items:

• Excerpts from the report of the Departmental Committee on the Probation Service, reported March 1962 (folder 1)
• Social work and the community, paper presented October 1966 (folder 1)
• Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers discussion paper no. 1, ‘The re-organisation of social work services’, c1967 (folder 1)
• List of associates of the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, January 1968 (folder 1)
• Social Work (Scotland) Bill, March 1968, memorandum on the views of a professional working party, 1968 (folder 1)
• The Seebohm Report: a critical evaluation, “Social work”, vol 25, no. 4, October 1968 (folder 1)
• The Seebohm Report: implications for local authorities, paper by R E Hodd, November 1968 (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW5/1968, Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: commencement of the act, 19 December 1968 (folder 1)
• The new social service departments: practical problems in planning objectives and priorities, paper by Kay Richards, “Social work today”, c1970 (folder 1)
• Statutory instrument, 1969, no. 1274 (C. 36) (S.104), Social Work, Scotland, The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (commencement no. 2) order 1969, September 1969 (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW11/1969, Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: sections 12 and 13, 24 September 1969 (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW12/1969, Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (commencement no 2) order, 24 September 1969 (folder 1)
• Social Work Services Group circular no. SW18/1969, Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: Assistance in cash, 20 November 1969 (folder 1)
• List of social work authorities in Scotland, Scottish Education Department, List K, January 1973 (folder 2)
• Photocopy of pages 54-57 from report, detailing the present position of social services and issues for discussion and action, undated (folder 2)
• Social work and the under-privileged: memorandum on the introduction of the Social Work (Scotland) Act, by Iain Jordan, Scottish Poverty Action Group, undated (folder 2)
• Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: proposals for development of social work services, a toolkit for local authorities, undated (folder 2)
• 13 newspaper cuttings relating to the role of social services, May 1969 – October 1972 (folder 2)

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• ACCO Parliamentary proceedings with summaries of topics covered in UK parliament, October 1966 - June 1967
• ACCO Parliament and social work series, June 1967 – June 1969

This series consists of 4 files:

• Child care related reports and pamphlets, 1959-1985
• General social work related reports and pamphlets, 1960-1989
• Social work and service organisation related books, 1961-1982
• Child abuse related reports, articles and pamphlets, 1978-1992

This file contains 8 items:

• British Association of Social Workers memorandum to the committee of the inquiry, 2 September 1974
• British Association of Social Workers circular no. 169 regarding the inquiry, December 1974
• Handwritten letter to Vera Hiddleston regarding regarding the case, 6 January 1975
• British Association of Social Workers letter to Vera Hiddleston regarding her participation in the press conference following the publication of the Richard Clark Committee of Inquiry, 14 January 1975
• British Association of Social Workers press release on Richard Clark enquiry, 11 February 1975
• Letter from Social Work Services Group regarding the British Association of Social Workers memorandum to the committee of the inquiry, 11 February 1975
• Handwritten notes on the timeline of events leading to the abuse from May 1972 to May 1974, undated
• Statement by the Secretary of State for Scotland on the case of Richard Clark, undated

Inquiry into the events surrounding the serious assault in 1974 of 3 year old Richard Clark by foster parents and duty of care by Perth Social Work Department.

This file contains 9 items:

• Initial review: Overnewton Centre, RSSPCC special unit, with annotations to the list of centre staff and management committeec1980s
• RSSPCC Special Unit, Overnewton Centre: Review of operations from 1st January 1978, c1978
• Letter from Professor FH Stone, University of Glasgow, to Vera Hiddleston regarding the centre, 15 December 1982
• Letters from FA Boddy, University of Glasgow, to Vera Hiddleston regarding views on the future development of the centre, 20 January 1983 and 11 February 1983
• Correspondence between Vera Hiddleston to John J McKay MP regarding the role of the centre and the need for funding for it to continue as a ‘national’ unit, 17 February 1983 and 16 March 1983
• Final report, RSSPCC, Special Unit, Overnewton Centre 1978-1987, with foreword by Vera Hiddleston, March 1987
• RSSPCC Special Unit, Management Committee paper, The future work of the unit: views of sponsors, undated
• Leaflet for the Overnewton Centre, RSSPCC special unit, undated

The specialist RSPCC Overnewton Centre was established at a time when treatment of families where non-accidental injury of children had occurred was starting to have impetus. It offered an education or re-education into family living in a mixed discipline group. Planning for the unit began in 1974. It was based in a former primary school at Yorkhill, Glasgow, and offered intensive case work service to up to 25 families where abuse of children was suspected. Vera Hiddleston was chair of the Management Committee of the centre. The Centre received substantial funding from the Scottish Office. It closed in 1993.

This file contains 17 items:

• Scottish Home Department leaflets for refresher training courses for probation officers, children’s officers and child care officers, staffs of children’s homes, supervisors of students in practical training, staffs of hostels and training homes, child care officers, October 1960-September 1962
• Miscellaneous pamphlets regarding training including -- The Scottish College of Commerce certificate course in social work -- transcript of the Charles Russell memorial lecture given on 1 December 1961 on ‘The training of girls in the Scottish borstal system’ -- International Association of Schools and Social Work, European regional seminar on the teaching of social work with individuals, groups and communities, September 1962
• Letters to Vera Hiddleston from the Scottish Education Department, Department of Health for Scotland, Scottish Home Department regarding the Younghusband Study Group and the development of professional training courses, 14 October 1960 – 28 December 1961
• Correspondence between Vera Hiddleston, Scottish Probation Officers’ Training Centre to ACCO and SACCC representatives regarding the provision of training for child care officers on the pilot Younghusband course at the Scottish College of Commerce, 21 November 1962 – 30 November 1962
• Scottish Education Department circular letter no. 51, Remand homes in Scotland, 27 December 1962
• Scottish Education Department circular letter no. 1/1963, Establishment of experimental approved school and attached approved school assessment form for protestant boys of 13 or over, 4 January 1963
• Letter from the Secretary of State for Scotland regarding the Remand Home Service, 31 October 1962
• Scottish Office child care circular letters and correspondence regarding training for child care officers, staffing of children’s homes, prevention of neglect of children, and voluntary homes, 23 January 1963 – 31 October 1963
• Newspaper cutting titled, Remand children may get TV set, undated

This file contains 29 items:

• Minutes of the SACCC meeting on 28 October 1960
• Papers regarding adoption conference in Edinburgh on 20 January 1961
• Minutes and papers of the SACCC meeting on 27 January 1961 including -- agenda -- letters to Lady Elliot from the Scottish Education Department regarding the report of the Ingelby Committee on Children and Young Persons
• Minutes and agenda for the SACCC meeting on 14 July 1961
• Report of Remand Homes Committee, SACCC, 27 July 1961
• Minute of the ACCO Scottish Region meeting on 6 October 1961
• Confidential report, The direction and content of activities in the child care service, preliminary report no. 7, October 1961
• List of SACCC members 1961
• Minutes and papers of the SACCC meeting on 24 November 1961 including -- agenda -- circular letter regarding financial assistance for voluntary children’s homes, 3 November 1961
• List of SACCC members 1961
• Circular letter no. 31 from the Scottish Education Department regarding remand homes in Scotland, 3 January 1962
• Minutes and papers of the SACCC meeting on 23 March 1962 including -- agenda -- minutes of the previous meeting -- confidential report, The child care service at work: report of a study of four working weeks in the Children’s Departments of seven Scottish local authorities, February 1962
• Minutes and papers for the SACCC meeting on 19 October 1962 including -- agenda -- copy of letter to the Chairman from the Secretary of State regarding the report of the Committee on Remand Homes, 1 October 1962
• Agenda for SACCC meeting on 18 January 1963
• Minutes and papers for SACC meeting on 24 May 1963 including agenda -- list of members 1963
• Minutes and agenda for SACCC meeting on 18 October 1963

This series consists of 2 files:

• Scottish Advisory Council on Child Care (SACCC) meeting papers and correspondence, 1960–1963
• Scottish Advisory Council on Child Care (SACC) papers including child care related course leaflets, correspondence and Scottish departments’ circular letters, 1960-1963

The Scottish Advisory Council on Child Care was was established after the 1948 Children Act as an advisory arm of the Scottish Education Department. Its members included child care professionals from local authorities and voluntary organisations at the forefront of child care work and in touch with the latest developments. It had a number of specialist sub-committees, including Training on which Vera Hiddleston served. Reports produced by SACCC led to changes in Scottish child care law and practice.

This file contains 7 journals:

• Social service news, vol 1 no. 2, November 1970 and enclosed leaflet advertising book titled “Introduction to social work” by Robert Bessell
• Social service news, vol 1 no. 3, December 1970
• Social service news, vol 1 no. 4, January 1971
• Social service news, vol 1 no. 5, February 1971
• Social service news, vol 1 no. 6, March 1971, mini-edition due to postal strike
• Social service news, vol 2 no. 11, August 1972
• Social service news, vol 3 no. 7, April 1973

A monthly publication of the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research in Social Work. First published in October 1970. The set of volumes is not complete.

This file contains 9 journals:

• Social service quarterly, vol 43 no. 1, Summer 1969 and inserted index to vol 42
• Social service quarterly, vol 43 no. 2, Autumn 1969
• Social service quarterly, vol 43 no. 3, Winter 1970
• Social service quarterly, vol 44 no. 1, Spring 1970 (pages 163-168 are missing)
• Social service quarterly, vol 44 no. 2, Autumn 1970
• Social service quarterly, vol 44 no. 3, Winter 1970-71 and inserted index to vol 43
• Social service quarterly, vol 46 no. 1, Summer 1972
• Social service quarterly, vol 46 no. 4, Spring 1973
• Social service quarterly, vol 47 no. 3, Winter 1973-4 and inserted index to vol 46

Published by the National Council of Social Service four times a year. The set of volumes is not complete, vol 43 no. 4, vol 44 no. 4, vol 45 nos 1-4, vol 46 nos 2-3 and vol 47 nos. 1-2, 4 are missing.

This file contains 14 items:

• Analysing social work practice by fields, Harriett M Bartlett, National Association of Social Workers, 1961 (box 1)
• Social casework: a problem-solving process, Helen Harris Perlman, University of Chicago Press, 1962 (box 1)
• Crime: a challenge to us all, Labour Party’s Study Group report, 1964 (box 1)
• Casework: a psychosocial therapy, Florence Hollis, Random House, 1968  
• The management of innovation, Tom Burns and GM Stalker, Tavistock Publications, 1968 (box 1)
• Comparative social administration, Barbara N Rodgers, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968 (box 2)
• School And Community, Catherine Lindsay, Pergamon Press, c1969
• The organisation of a social services department: a blue-print, Maurice Kogan and James Terry, Bookstall Publications, 1971 (box 2)
• Working relationships within the British hospital service, Maurice Kogan, Stephen Cang, Maureen Dixon and Heather Tolliday, Bookstall Publications, 1971 (box 2)
• The new Scottish Local Authorities: organisation and management structures, report of working group appointment by the Scottish local authority associations, HMSO, September 1973 (box 2)
• Social service departments: developing patterns of work and organisation, Social Services Organisation Research Unit, Brunel Institute of Organisation and Social Studies, Heinemann, 1974 (box 2)
• Only connect: lone parents and volunteers: the report of an experimental project, Beth Humphries, Guild of Service, 1976 (box 2)
• Organising social services departments, David Billis, Geoffrey Bromley, Anthea Hey and Ralph Rowbottom, Heinemann, 1980, and inserted article titled ‘Brash Brunel celebrates ten years’ by Jef Smith, “Community Care”, 3 January 1980 (folder 3)
• Research highlights, no. 4 Social work departments as organisations, Joyce Lishman (ed.), University of Aberdeen, 1982 (folder 3)