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Homelessness

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

26.8, Male, Single, 55-64 yrs, High grade mental defective, Stammering, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/25
Scope and Contents "Patient has NFA [No Fixed Abode]. Occupation: Farm Labourer. Rate-aided patient. Patient was illegitimate. Admitted to CRI. Presently in Galloway House. Diagnosis: Mental Deficiency. Patient is a vagrant and was unable to give a proper account of himself during his two days stay at Notwen House. He has a marked impediment of speech. Knows his name, cannot give his address. Says he worked at harvesting in summer and shawing turnips in winter. Patient works very well in the ward, but is at...
Dates: Other: November 1946

26.52, Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/25
Scope and Contents

"Speech bad, doubtful if he can speak, ? too dull? "you cannot make anything of him". Has a very bad squint. Father was a regular soldier for 17 years, finds it hard to settle to work. Owing to this they lost their house. From a bad family. Now a labourer. Mother is careless but feeds her family well, an easy going type. Now squatting, fairly clean."

Dates: Other: November 1946

26.81, Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, November 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/25
Scope and Contents

"Not exacly dull, a bit backward, has not had much of a chance. Nurse confirms - mentally very low, should be in a home. Parents move about a lot - at present squatting. Home conditions pretty poor."


Relatives in survey: Mother 26.85; siblings 26.83, 26.82, 26.87, 26.86, 26.84

Dates: Other: November 1946

Clause 28 puts young people at risk of homelessness, SCSH tells MSPs (Scottish Council for Single Homeless), 27 Apr 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/252
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 27 Apr 2000

Evidence to the Local Government Committee Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland ) Bill (Scottish Council for Single Homeless), 6 Mar 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/196
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 6 Mar 2000

Homeless because of sexual orientation (The Scotsman), 3 Feb 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/96
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 3 Feb 2000

[Loose Correspondence], 10 Nov 1977 - 9 May 1997

 File
Identifier: GD61/4/1/4
Scope and Contents This folder contains loose correspondence including letters from clients to befrienders, and letters from LGLS to members and potential volunteers. There is also correspondence from external organisations including: National Association of Young People’s Counselling and Advisory Services; the Scottish Minorities Group; the Department of Education; the Gay Outdoors Club; Catholic Marriage Advisory Council; Brook Advisory Centre; Edinburgh District Council; Strathclyde Gay and...
Dates: 10 Nov 1977 - 9 May 1997

Research, 1957-1967

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1966/4/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Papers relating to John Spencer's time as Professor of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Includes teaching material, research, correspondence and conference papers.

Dates: 1957-1967

Student Papers and Theses, c. 1960

 File — Box JS23
Identifier: Coll-1966/4/1/8
Scope and Contents Student essays submitted for marking by undergraduates at the School of Social Work: Proposal for a Study of the Exercise of Discretion by the Police of a Metropolitan Areas in the Disposition of Juvenile Offenders; The Persistent Criminal: His Characteristics and Some Treatment Considerations; Special Projects and the Use of Detached workers in the Prevention of Delinquency.Theses submitted as part of the requirements for Degree in Master of Social Work: Criminality and...
Dates: c. 1960

Urbanisation and Communities

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1966/6/4/5
Scope and Contents Reference material relating to housing, communities, town planning, and homelessness.Journal articles and reprints: A housing project wends it's weary way Canadian Public Administration Journal.Photocopies and typescripts: Development of indigenous leadership in an urban area (1954); Social Planning Council of Toronto: A statement of housing and urban renewal; The Lorado Taft lecture: Urbanisation in the middle and late 1960s (1964); Sperry...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1940-1978