Records of the British Association of Social Workers MSS.378 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK MODERN RECORDS CENTRE Email:[email protected] Website: http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk British Association of Social Workers 1970-1990 Administrative history: The British Association of Social Workers grew out of the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers and was formed in 1970 by the merger of seven predecessor organisations which represented specialist groups within the broader profession of social work. These were the Association of Child Care Officers, the Association of Family Case Workers, the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, the Association of Social Workers, the Institute of Medical Social Workers, the Moral Welfare Workers' Association and the Society of Mental Welfare Officers. Reference: R.W. Stacey and A.T. Collis, Catalogue and guide to the archives of the predecessor organisations, 1890-1970. Birmingham : British Association of Social Workers, 1987. R.W. Stacey and A.T. Collis, British Association of Social Workers. Supplementary Catalogue to the Catalogue and guide to the archives of the predecessor organisations, 1890-1970. Birmingham : British Association of Social Workers, 1988. The BASW archive comprises 130 cubic metres of papers, containing constitutional records, minutes and reports, including those of committees, working parties, groups and panels, circulars and papers of the Department of Health and Social Security, records relating to the National Health Service, parliamentary and local government, conferences, finance and membership, also correspondence, regional and branch records, legal papers, including case files, etc., mostly from 1970, and the records of the Social Workers' Benevolent Trust and the Social Workers' Educational Trust. For the papers of the BASW predecessors see Association of Children's Officers (MSS.378/ACO); Association of Child Care Officers (MSS.378/ACCO); Association of Family Case Workers (MSS.378/AGFC); Moral Welfare Workers' Association (MSS.378/MWWA); Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (MSS.378/APSW); Association of Social Workers (MSS.378/ASW); Institute of Medical Social Workers (MSS.378/IMSW); Society Access conditions: Most files are open, but staff files are closed under Data Protection legislation. Related material: The Social Workers' Benevolent Trust (MSS.432/SWBT) and the Social Workers' Educational Trust. (MSS.378/SWET). Records of the National Association of Probation Officers (MSS.378/PROB) and of the Association of Tuberculosis Care Workers (MSS.378/TUB). Records of the National Institute for Social Work (NISW) (MSS.463) Records of the British Association of Social Workers MSS.378 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK MODERN RECORDS CENTRE Email:[email protected] Website: http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk Table of Contents Foundation and constitution Page 1 Policy and administration 1 Annual General Meetings 1 Council 5 National Executive Committee 11 Finance and General Purposes Committee 13 Sectional Committees 16 General Committees 29 Divisional Committees 49 Advisory Panels 55 Project Groups 77 Working Parties 97 Special Interest Groups 118 Miscellaneous committees 126 Staff meetings 128 Annual Reports 131 General administrative papers 131 General papers re committees etc 132 Officers' personal files 135 BASW Archives 148 Finance 150 Operations 154 Legislation 154 Royal Commissions 173 Committees of Inquiry 174 Parliamentary committees 180 Consultative Documents, White Papers etc 181 Department of Health and Social Security 184 Parliamentary groups 194 BASW conferences, seminars and study courses 196 Children (Case files) 203 Community care 216 Cuts in social services 217 Data protection and confidentiality 221 Social work education and training 223 Elderly people 232 Fuel supplies 235 HIV/AIDS 236 Housing and homelessness 238 International affairs 241 Records of the British Association of Social Workers MSS.378 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK MODERN RECORDS CENTRE Email:[email protected] Website: http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk Mental handicap and mental health 248 Offenders 253 Parliamentary affairs 256 Pay and conditions 269 Probation Service 273 Residential and day care 274 Social Fund and social security 275 Social work volunteers 277 Other social work and related organizations, professional 278 associations etc. Miscellaneous bodies including pressure groups 300 trade unions, government departments, medical bodies etc. Miscellaneous subject files 318 Membership 324 Papers re recruitment 324 Advice and representation files 328 Publications, communications and publicity 330 'BASW News' 333 Branch Circulars and Bulletins 335 Press releases 336 'Social Work Today' 336 'British Journal of Social Work' 346 'Parliament and Social Work' 347 Other publications 350 Research 353 Publications of other organisations 353 Staffing 364 Property 366 Regions and branches 367 Dornmore Ltd/BASW Trading Ltd 403 BASW Trust 404 Records of the British Association of Social Workers MSS.378 Foundation and Constitution 1968 - 1988 4 files (1 box) MSS.378/BASW/1/1 Correspondence and papers 1968 - 1971 Original file entitled "Constitution". Includes Memorandum and Articles of Association; minutes of the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers Negotiators Group, 1970; minutes of the BASW Planning Group, 1970. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/1/2 Correspondence and papers re 1972 Revision of 1972 - 1973 Constitution Original file entitled "Constitution: 1972 Revision". 1 file MSS.378/BASW/1/3 Correspondence and papers re 1987 Revision of 1987 - 1988 Constitution Original file entitled "BASW Reorg 1987". Includes material re establishment of BASW Macmillan Ltd and BASW Trading Ltd; Memoranda and Articles of Association of BASW Trading Ltd and the BASW Charity; BASW Macmillan Ltd Report to Council, 7 December 1987. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/1/4 Memoranda, Articles and Bye-Laws of Association 1968 - 1988 1 file Policy and Administration 1950 - 2002 716 files (118 boxes) General Meetings and Annual Conferences 1970 - 1990 The earlier Annual General Meetings were also known as Ordinary General Meetings. Later the OGMs were held separately at the Annual Conference. 30 files Agenda and Proceedings of Annual General Meetings and 1972 - 1990 Annual Conferences The files containing conference papers have been heavily weeded of ephemeral administrative papers and duplicates. 19 files MSS.378/BASW/2/1 Annual General Meeting 1972 1 Records of the British Association of Social Workers MSS.378 Typescript record of proceedings. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/2 Annual General Meeting 1973 Agenda, including motions; typescript account of proceedings. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/3 Annual General Meeting 1973 Original motion papers. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/4 Annual General Meeting 1974 Agenda and minutes of the fourth Ordinary General Meeting, added to file entitled "Motions for 1974 AGM". 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/5 Annual General Meeting 1975 Minutes of the fifth Ordinary General Meeting, with resolutions, motions and typescript of proceedings, etc; AGM booklet with agenda and resolutions. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/6 Annual General Meeting 1976 Item found with annual general meeting and conference papers: list of guests for "1976 Conference Nottingham"; paper is headed "National and Local Committee Meeting - Tuesday 20 February 1976". 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/7 Annual General Meeting 1977 Minutes and draft minutes of the seventh Ordinary General Meeting [incorrectly listed on one document as taking place in 1978]; AGM booklet with agenda and resolutions. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/8 Annual General Meeting and Conference 1978 Minutes and verbatim report of the eighth Annual General Meeting; AGM booklet with agenda and resolutions; minutes, agenda etc of Annual Conference Committee; programme, papers and partial verbatim report of Annual Conference. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/9 Annual General Meeting 1979 Minutes of the ninth Annual General Meeting, 5 October 1979; AGM booklet with agenda and resolutions; 2 Records of the British Association of Social Workers MSS.378 manuscript and typescript draft, and agenda and minutes of the Additional General Meeting, 6 October 1979. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/10 Annual General Meeting 1980 Timetable and details of resolution 15: grants to branches; AGM booklet with agenda and resolutions; minutes of Additional General Meeting, 26 January 1980. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/11 Annual General Meeting 1981 AGM booklet with agenda and resolutions. 1 item MSS.378/BASW/2/12 Annual General Meeting 1982 Minutes of the Planning Group for the annual study course and Annual General Meeting, 1981-1982; conference papers. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/13 Annual General Meeting 1983 Minutes etc of the Planning Group for the annual study course and Annual General Meeting, 1982-1983; amendments to motions at the Annual General Meeting; programme, opening address, speeches etc for Annual Conference. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/14 Annual General Meeting 1984 Motions and agenda. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/15 Annual General Meeting 1984 Minutes etc of the Planning Group for the annual study course and Annual General Meeting, 1983-1984; programme, speeches and other conference papers. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/16 Annual General Meeting 1985 Minutes etc of the Planning Group for the annual study course and Annual General Meeting, 1984-1985; agenda etc, motions and resolutions for the Annual General Meeting; programme, speech, outline of other speeches and other conference papers. 1 file MSS.378/BASW/2/18 Annual General Meeting 1986 3 Records