Reference material relating to child welfare and family life.

Published material: Social Work Services Group of the Scottish Office, Children's Hearings: Questions and Answers; Houston, Donald (ed.), Social Work in the Children's Hearing System: Papers delivered at a short course for reporters to Children's Panels (1975); Rowe, A J B., Department of Social Administration, University of Edinburgh, Initial Selection for Children's Panels in Scotland; McWhinnie, Alexina, Adoption Assessments: A Team Approach Based on Research and Related to the Basic Needs of the Child [signed copy]; The Guild of Service annual reports (1969-1972); The Guild of Service, Jubilee Commemorative brochure The Guild of Service Goes on Caring (1971); copies of Transition, the newsletter of The Vanier Institute of the Family (1971-1975);; South London Family Service 10th annual report (1968-69); Marriage Guidance Council annual report (1964-65); The National Bureau for Co-operation in Child Care, annual reports and newsletters (1968); National Children's Bureau Information Service newsletters (1973); International Union for Child Welfare newsletters (1961-1967); Pre-School Playgroups Association Annual Conference (1973); An Analysis of Children's Cases in Manchester: A Feasibility Study (1972); publications of the National Bureau for Co-operation in Child Care; Association of Workers for Maladjusted Children, newsletter 1968; Burce, Nigel, Delinquency and Deprivation: A report on a study of Approved School children who had been "in care" (1968) [including associated research information on Kingswood Classifying School and other approveds schools (1948-1968)].

Journal articles and reprints: Bruce, N., Children's Hearings: A Retrospect, reprinted from The British Journal of Criminology (1975); Triseliotis, John, Courts and adoptions practice, reprinted from Case Conference (September 1968); Traditional healers and their female clients: An aspect of Nigerian sickness behavior, reprinted from Journal of Health and Social Behavior (1969).

Photocopies and typescripts: Reports of the Children's Hearing System within the County of Fife (1973 and 1974); The South East of Scotland Children's Panels' Association Newsletter (Summer 1973); Strathclyde Regional Council Department of Reporter to the Children's Panel, Annual Data Review Report (1976); BASW South East Scotland branch, Working party on Regional Planning and Provision of Residential Child-Care, interim report; Oliver, J.E., Ill-Treatment of Children: Points of Suspicion, seminar notes; Naturational Deficits and Learning Difficulties in the Young Child; Social Education Centre, Panmure House; Family Law Research Project: Working paper on marriage guidance and conciliation services in England; International Union for Child Welfare Advisory Committee on Delinquent and Socially Maladjusted Children and Young People The integration into society of residential treatment centres for juvenile delinquents and maladjusted children (1968).