§ Mr. Manuelasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a further statement about social work reorganisation, consequent on the decision to implement the Report of Lord Kilbrandon's Committee on Children and Young Persons.
§ Mr. RossI have invited the local authority associations to join with my Departments in setting up a working group to draw up suitable reorganisation proposals for the local authority social work services.
I am glad to say that Professor R. H. Titmuss, Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics, has agreed to assist in the consideration of this problem by accepting appointment as honorary consultant to the Scottish Office, and that Miss M. Browne, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Study, University of Edinburgh, and Mrs. C. M. Carmichael, Tutor in Case-work in the School of Social Study, University of Glasgow, have agreed to act as honorary advisers during the working out of the proposals for reorganisation.