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The caseworker and social administration

The caseworker and social administration THE CASEUORK~R AND SOCIAL ADM!NiSTRAT!O~{. I should like to express my thanks to Miss Lyra Taylor, Administrative Officer, Social Work and Research Section, Department of Social Services, who allowed me to quote extensively from her paper written in December 1947, and to the Social Workers of the West Australian office of the Department of Social Services, who helped to work out ideas for the latter part of this paper. ..ooeooo,..o The reason for this paper can best be stated in a quotation, by Una Cormack, which I have frequently heard Miss Taylor use. - "Co-operation is rare, not because social workers are particul- arly narrow-minded, short-sighted, complacent individuals. It is chiefly because, in the big towns at any rate, they do not know enough about each other's work to appreciate the necessary difference in aims, method and function , whereby each is enabled to make his contribution to the whole." Many things have been written, particularly during the last few years by Miss Lyra Taylor, about Social Workers in a statutory setting - so much so that I propose to concentrate on the work of a caseworker in the Commonwealth Department of Social Services. It will make for clarity, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Work Taylor & Francis

The caseworker and social administration

Cannon, Ethel
Australian Journal of Social Work , Volume 6 (4): 17 – Sep 1, 1952
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The caseworker and social administration

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THE CASEUORK~R AND SOCIAL ADM!NiSTRAT!O~{. I should like to express my thanks to Miss Lyra Taylor, Administrative Officer, Social Work and Research Section, Department of Social Services, who allowed me to quote extensively from her paper written in December 1947, and to the Social Workers of the West Australian office of the Department of Social Services, who helped to work out ideas for the latter part of this paper. ..ooeooo,..o The reason for this paper can best be stated in a quotation,...
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THE CASEUORK~R AND SOCIAL ADM!NiSTRAT!O~{. I should like to express my thanks to Miss Lyra Taylor, Administrative Officer, Social Work and Research Section, Department of Social Services, who allowed me to quote extensively from her paper written in December 1947, and to the Social Workers of the West Australian office of the Department of Social Services, who helped to work out ideas for the latter part of this paper. ..ooeooo,..o The reason for this paper can best be stated in a quotation, by Una Cormack, which I have frequently heard Miss Taylor use. - "Co-operation is rare, not because social workers are particul- arly narrow-minded, short-sighted, complacent individuals. It is chiefly because, in the big towns at any rate, they do not know enough about each other's work to appreciate the necessary difference in aims, method and function , whereby each is enabled to make his contribution to the whole." Many things have been written, particularly during the last few years by Miss Lyra Taylor, about Social Workers in a statutory setting - so much so that I propose to concentrate on the work of a caseworker in the Commonwealth Department of Social Services. It will make for clarity,

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Australian Journal of Social Work – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 1952

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