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Social Policy and Administration Revisited: Studies in the Development of Social Services at the Local Level
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Originally published in 1965, this standard work sets out to explore the questions: What is social administration, and how can people prepare themselves for this work? It shows the social services in continuous evolution in response to political, economic and social change, and it ends with a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the processes and causes of this evolution, and of the different contributions to change made by the various parties concerned. This analysis is based on the case studies presented in the books central chapters.

Of this new version of the book, first published in 1975, Professor Donnison wrote:

The first three chapters of the original book have been scrapped and a new introduction to the whole subject takes their place an introduction not only to the literature about social policy and administration but to the point and purpose of the subject (for students who, rightly, expect to be convinced about this before devoting their time to it).

Then follow eight case studies of innovations in the work and policies of local units of the social services including housing, education, a home help service, planning and legal aid, besides social work services. These are the original studies untouched. I have returned to each agency and found out what has happened since our original studies, adding a postscript to each, outlining the main developments since the original research, ten to twenty years ago. I dont think anyone has ever done that before. In most cases the innovating trends we identified have gone further, often becoming national orthodoxy by now. The one (on legal aid) where unexpected developments have occurred is at least as interesting.

Professor Donnison has added a ninth case study of the Department of Social Administration at the London School of Economics where he was working when the original studies were made (Professor Richard Titmuss was head of the department at that time). This study traces the development of education for social workers at a seminal stage and the difficult problems which had to be resolved when major new departures occurred in this field. The chapter will be of lasting interest to historians of social work and social work education in Britain, besides throwing light on the process of innovation in social policy.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE SOCIAL SERVICES LIBRARY

Volume 11

SOCIAL POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION REVISITED

First published in 1965 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Revised edition first published in 1975

This edition first published in 2022

by Routledge

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1965, 1975 George Allen & Unwin Ltd

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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ISBN: 978-1-03-203381-5 (Set)

ISBN: 978-1-00-321681-0 (Set) (ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-03-205083-6 (Volume 11) (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-03-205099-7 (Volume 11) (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-00-319600-6 (Volume 11) (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003196006

Publishers Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

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First published in 1965

Second impression 1967

Third impression 1970

This revised edition first published 1975

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. All rights are reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1965, 1975

ISBN 0 04 360037 9 hardback

0 04 360038 7 paperback

Printed in Great Britain

in 10 on 11 point Times Roman type by

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PREFACE 1974

I was surprised to find that a lot of people still read Social Policy and Administration, although it was written a decade ago. Since the structure of the social services and the literature about social policy have both been transformed in that time, they deserve something less obsolete.

The original book presented a set of case studies of innovations in local units of the social services, dealing with events which took place in the 1950s and the early 1960s. In this book I have not altered those studies or tried to bring them up to date in comparable detail. Instead, 1 have added a postscript to each, briefly outlining the main subsequent developments which throw light on the original story and the conclusions drawn from it. In most cases the innovating trends we identified ten and even twenty years ago have persisted; in several they have become nationwide orthodoxy. But at least as interesting are the few cases in which there have been new and unexpected developments.

I have added an extra case study, dealing with the university department in which I was working ten years ago, which was written but not published at that time. This was the longest and one of the most interesting studies in the series and it contributed a good deal to the conclusions we drew from the original book. I am glad it can now be published.

The second chapter of our original book, called The Development of Social Administration, was an introduction to our field of study. It needed thorough revision, partly to make it more relevant to todays concerns, and partly because a set of case studies which have been transformed into history by the passage of time must be placed in a more lasting intellectual context if they are to retain their interest. The result is of our original book and its two appendices now seem redundant and have been omitted from this new version.

The changes produce a slightly longer but more simply organised book than its predecessor. draws on these studies to present conclusions about the process of innovation in local units of the social services and the people who play a part in it, ending with a discussion of the practical lessons and broader theoretical implications which may be derived from this research. Some readers will start at the beginning of the book and work their way to the end; but others will prefer to start with the conclusions, in which the thread of the argument can be clearly distinguished from the examples strung along it, and turn back later to the chapters which furnish the examples that interest them most.

For help with the revision of this book I owe thanks to an even larger number of people than beforefar more than I have space to mention here. David Jones, Principal of the National Institute for Social Work, assembled a group of his colleagues for a lively discussion of the original book and the revisions it needed. My colleagues at the Centre for Environmental Studies made helpful criticisms of my first attempts at revision in a seminar and in working notes exchanged between us: I was especially grateful for the help of Peter Marris, Richard Minns and Harold Wolman. Kay McDougall, Dame Eileen Younghusband, Adrian Webb and many other colleagues of ours from the London School of Economics and Political Science gave me a lot of helpful advice. Jef Smith, Frances Cook, Alma Hartshorn, Derek Oulton, Antony Flew, Michael Zander, Maurice Kogan and Jean Donnison commented helpfully on particular chapters. I concluded my work on the book during six weeks spent as a guest of the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University where I was given further help in seminars and informal discussions.

My final thanks go again to my four co-authors who contributed to our original book, and wished me well in this attempt to rewrite it.

D.V.D.

Centre for Environmental Studies

PREFACE 1964

Many people have contributed to this book. The research on which it is based began for the purpose of teaching future social workers taking the course in Applied Social Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Thanks to a grant from the Schools research funds, Mrs Valerie Chapman was able to spend two years exploring the literature and making five of the case studies presented here. These were used for several years by students, at the School and elsewhere, whose comments helped to improve the presentation and discussion of the cases. At a later stage two more case studies were made by Michael Meacher,1 Miss Angela Sears and Councillor Kenneth Urwin,2 who were then graduate students at the School. The book was completed during a period of leave from the School which 1 spent at the National Institute for Social Work Training. I owe a great deal to Robin Huws Jones, the Institutes Principal, and his colleagues. Besides providing secretarial services and shelter from visitors and the telephone, they joined in regular and critical discussions of my drafts, inviting three others who also made exceedingly valuable contributions to these meetingsMiss Geraldine Aves, cbe, recently Chief Welfare Officer at the Ministry of Health, Dr Roy Parker3 of the London School of Economics, and Derek Newman,4 Principal of the Glacier Institute of Management. Meanwhile the whole project depended from start to finish on the directors and staff of local units of the social services who permitted us to study their work and record their endeavours to develop these services. They gave a great deal of their time and experience to the making of these studies and to the correction and improvement of successive drafts. Their generosity must not be allowed to implicate them in any errors that remain, all of which are the authors responsibility.

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