Voluntary Organisations and Social Welfare

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Women Welfare and NGO\'s. 2. Voluntary Organisations for women types and objective. 3. Organisational structure of voluntary agencies. 4. Programmes of voluntary agencies. 5. Procedures in voluntary agencies. 6. Voluntary action in the pioneer phase. 7. Social policy in the pioneer phase. 8. The expansion of social policy between the two world wars. 9. Voluntary organisations and their relations with statutory authorities between the two world wars. 10. Developments during the Second World War: the Post-War period. 11. Persistence and change in social attitudes and their effect on social relations. 12. Influences affecting the relationship. Bibliography. Index.

"There are, however, weaknesses in the system, many of which arise from the traditional pattern of development of services for the handicapped. The dependence upon charitable enterprise, with its local variations and unevenness of operation has been characteristic. The development of the movement for the welfare of the blind in the 20 century has not been founded, as in the maternity and child welfare and the mental health services, upon a national effort to co-ordinate voluntary and statutory enterprise. Voluntary services for the blind have been built up for the most part on local interest, the national organisations concentrating largely on special activities such as the production of books, magazines and apparatus, or acting as consultants on questions of education, training and employment." (jacket)