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The International Library of Sociology

THE CHURCH IN
SOCIAL WORK

Founded by KARL MANNHEIM

The International Library of Sociology

PUBLIC POLICY, WELFARE
AND SOCIAL WORK
In 18 Volumes

I	The Church in Social Work	Hall et al
II	Creative Demobilisation - Part One	Gutkind
III	Creative Demobilisation - Part Two	Gutkind
IV	Higher Civil Servants in Britain	Kelsall
V	Housing Needs and Planning Policy	Cullingworth
VI	Penelope Hall's Social Services of England and Wales	Forder
VII	The Price of Social Security	Williams
VIII	The Professional Task in Welfare Practice	Nokes
IX	Social Casework	Timms
X	Social Policies for Old Age	Shenfield
XI	Social Security: Beveridge and After	George
XII	Social Services in British Industry	Young
XIII	Social Services of Modern Britain	Hall
XIV	The Sociology of Housing	Morris et al
XV	Voluntary Social Services since 1918	Mess
XVI	Voluntary Societies and Social Policy	Rooff
XVII	Voluntary Work and the Welfare State	Morris
XVIII	Working with Community Groups	Goetschius

THE CHURCH IN
SOCIAL WORK

A Study of Moral Welfare Work undertaken
by the Church of England

by

M. PENELOPE HALL and ISMENE V. HOWES

First published in 1965 by
Routledge

Reprinted 1998, 1999 (Twice) by
Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2007

1965 The Central Board of Finance of the Church of England

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The Church in Social Work
ISBN 0-415-17713-8
Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work: 18 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17831-2
The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17838-X

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

CONTENTS

TABLES

THIS study could not have been completed without the interest and co-operation of a number of people whose invaluable help we gratefully acknowledge.

Professor T. S. Simey, Charles Booth Professor of Social Science in the University of Liverpool agreed that the survey on which it is based should be sponsored by his Department and arranged for Miss Howes to be attached to the Department for the period of the investigation. At the same time a generous grant, sufficient to cover Miss Howes salary for three years and other expenses incidental to the survey, was received from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

The idea of the survey originated with the Church of England Moral Welfare Council, and we owe a great deal to the then Chairman, the Bishop of St. Albans, and to members of the staff, notably Miss Ena Steel and Miss Eve Kennedy who together with the Reverend Gordan Dunstan and Miss Margaret Tilley, gave us every possible encouragement and help and did much to make our contacts with the workers in the dioceses as easy and friendly as they were.

Most of the field work was carried out in two selected dioceses, and the brunt of the inconvenience caused by the investigation fell on their organising secretaries who not only dealt with our seemingly endless requests for information but introduced us to committee members and workers and helped us in every possible way. Despite the extra work we caused them, outdoor workers and superintendents of homes made us welcome and gave us all the assistance they could, allowing us to examine records, accompany them on visits and, whenever possible, listen to interviews. The statutory officials whom we interviewed also received us courteously and dealt with the matters we raised helpfully and thoroughly, as did the sample of clergymen in the northern diocese whom we interviewed with the approval of the diocesan Bishop.

In summarising the data and writing up our conclusions we were greatly helped by the constructive and penetrating criticism of our colleagues in the Department of Social Science, especially Professor Simey and Dr. C. H. Vereker. We should also like to thank Dr. Conor K. Ward, Lecturer in Sociology, National University of Ireland, for his advice and encouragement, and Miss E. Gittus for her help in connection with the preparation and analysis of the questionnaires. Owing to the differing categories of persons interviewed there were ten different questionnaires, some of which ran to several pages. Although not printed in this volume, copies can be made available on request.

Finally, we should like to express our indebtedness to Mrs. Brown and the typing staff of the Department for the patience with which they dealt with a succession of manuscripts, corrected and re-corrected by either or both of the co-authors, to Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Martin for assisting with the typing of the final revision for publication, and to Mrs. Simmons for her help in checking this revision.

M.P.H. I.V.H.

THIS study is based on an enquiry undertaken in the autumn of 1958 at the request of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council (now Council for Social Work), one of the two constituent councils of the Church Assembly Board for Social Responsibility. The objectives of the enquiry, as set out at the time, were to examine the scope and character of the work undertaken by the Church of England under the general heading of moral welfare work, to relate it to the developments now taking place whereby statutory authorities (especially local authority health and welfare and children's departments), are taking increasing responsibility for family welfare, and to consider how far the work, as it is carried out at present, is the best response the Church can make to modern needs and conditions, or how far it should be modified or extended.

The desirability of such an examination had been stressed for some time,

Parallel to these developments was the establishment by the Church Assembly of the Board for Social Responsibility and the incorporation of the Moral Welfare Council therein, which took place in 1958. This not only marked a new development in the relationship between moral welfare work and other forms of church work, but emphasised its wider social reference. On the one hand, therefore, changes were taking place in social work which might lessen the need for the Church to continue to participate in a form of social care with which it had become closely identified; on the other, the Church was alive to the possibility of modifying the nature and range of its interests in this field. In this situation an examination of existing moral welfare work was clearly desirable.

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