Membership of Council as at 9 March 1989

HC Deb 16 March 1989 vol 149 cc327-8W

Chair

• Professor B. Saul—Vice Chancellor, University of York

Other Members

• Kina, Lady Avebury—Planning Co-ordinator, Tower Hamlets, Social Services Strategy Group
• Mrs. V. Benjamin—Training Officer, Gwynned Social Services Department
• Dr. B. R. Bewley—Senior Lecturer and Consultant, Department of Information and Planning, St. George's Hospital, London
• Mr. M. G. Clarke—Director, Local Government Training Board
• Mr. P. Cresswell—Social Worker, Speke, Liverpool
• Miss J. D. Ford—Lecturer/Acting Head of Department, Department of Social Administration and Social Work, University of Glasgow
• Miss. S. Hall—Principal Officer, Research and Development Barnardo's
• Miss M. C. Hartnoll—Director of Social Work, Grampian Regional Council, Aberdeen
• Miss S. Irwin—Director of Social Services, Northern Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland
• Councillor Mrs. D. N. James—Chair, Social Services Committee, Surrey County Council
• Mr. D. N. Jones—General Secretary, British Association of Social Workers
• Mrs. T. Jowell—Director, Community Care Special Action Project, Birmingham Social Services Department
• Dr. G. H. Michael—Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Ulster
• Mr. E. Morrell—Chief Probation Officer, West Midlands Probation Service
• Professor J. O'Neill—Former Director (retired), Trent Polytechnic, Nottinghamshire
• Professor P. Parsloe—Head of Department/Professor of Social Work, University of Bristol
• Professor G. Pearson—Head of School of Social Work, Middlesex Polytechnic
• Mrs. C. C. Pryde—District Officer, Social Work Department, Motherwell, Scotland
• Councillor B. M. Scott—Vice-Chairman, Social Work Committee, Strathclyde Regional Council
• Mr. P. G. Senior—Senior Probation Officer (Training), South Yorkshire Probation Service, and Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Sheffield City Polytechnic
• Mr. J. W. Small—Assistant Director, Social Services Department, London Borough of Hackney
• His Honour Judge E. Stockdale—Circuit Judge
• Mr. T. C. Storrie—Principal, Cassio College, Watford
• Dr. R. G. Walton—Director of School of Social Work, University College, Cardiff

Mr. Burt

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many post-qualifying social work courses specialising in mental health and mental disorder have been approved by the Central Council for Education and Training of Social Workers; and how many students completed these courses in each year since 1983.

Mr. Mellor

During the period that the Approved Social Worker (ASW) Examining Board was in being (1983–1986), 1,660 candidates working with mentally ill people were successful in ASW examinations. Since 1986 the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work has approved 60 training courses for ASWs in local authorities with places for approximately 900 students. In addition, since the 1983–84 academic year CCETSW have approved the following relevant post-qualifying courses:

1. (a) Mental illness disorder: seven specialist courses with an output of 91 social work students arid 36 non-social work students;
2. (b) Mental handicap: six specialist courses which have provided an output of 11 social work arid 16 non-social work students;
3. (c) Other post-qualifying training courses: a further 103 social work students undertook options in this area of work as part of other post-qualifying studies.