Social Changes Due To the War
| Date | 01 May 1941 |
| Author | Agnes A. Crosthwaite |
| Published date | 01 May 1941 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054100301401 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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SOCIAL CHANGES DUE TO THE WAR
An Address to 28th National Conference
By AGNES A. CROSTHWAITE (Honorary Secretary, British Federation of Social Workers)
HE
special concern of this conference is with
circumstances. So we are learning to act and think
one aspect of social security, but the task I have
more rapidly; we are ruling out all inertia. Even
been given is to give a very quick cursory survey
more important is the far-reaching nature of the
of what is happening in our family life in Great
change.
Every family in this island, has been
Britain to-day and in the lives of the individuals who
affected in this war, not only from the point of view
don’t happen even to have a family. I have got to sur-
of material security and physical security, but, far
vey what we
are going through now-in March, 1941.
more important, from the point of view of our inti-
The only real qualification I can have for doing so is
mate, personal private life. That has been truly
that my work for the last five years has been with
broken up, in a way probably never seen before.
various bodies of social workers like yourselves who,
The billeting officer knocks at the door. I was in
as you know, have come together in a Federation,
a large house last week where there were two
so that we can get a composite picture, not just one
evacuee families, a French officer and his wife, and
f rom our own angle, in the hopes that in that mar-
another French refugee family, and every week
vellous time after the war when each city has its
about four or five men from the balloon barrage
Centre of Social Service, the probation officer will
come to get three days’ rest.
There you see your
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not say,
This is a Court case,&dquo; and the psychiatric
personal lives do have to come in. But it is not
social worker reply, &dquo; Oh, no, it is a Child Guidance
only for the big houses. It is just as important
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