Communities and Social Change
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UNDER the Chairmanship of Mr. Kenneth Robinson, M.P., a whole session of the Fifth British National Conference on Social Welfare?held in London at the beginning of January 1964?was devoted to consideration of "Community Care". The groups selected as needing such care were "The Mentally Disordered"; "The Physically Handicapped"; "The Delinquent"; and "Children out of their own homes". (Preparatory studies of the needs of these and other special groups had been made in the two years preceding the Conference by 28 study groups from all over the country. Their findings were summarised in the Introductory Survey* issued to all members of the Conference which will remain
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