Training for Social Work

Abstract

The first move to provide a course of training for social workers came in October 1913 from the Social and Political Studies Association, composed of dons and others interested in social problems, such as Sidney Ball, W. G. S. Adams, W. M. Geldart, L. R. Phelps, Miss C. V. Butler and A. J. Carlyle. A Certificate was awarded by the Association to candidates who had taken the Diploma and had pursued a course of training for at least twelve months to the satisfaction of the Committee of the Association. The course was in two parts. First, the study and observation in Oxford, for not less than two terms, of the working of such institutions as the Oxford City and Oxfordshire County Councils, the Poor Law Guardians, the Courts, local Friendly and Cooperative Societies and Trade Unions. Second, either (a) a course of supervised practical work in connection with a Settlement or some organisation engaged in social work and a report thereon or (b) a special enquiry and report as to some problem of rural or urban conditions.