By Pat Starkey
Households and Social employees examines the origins, improvement and effect of kin provider devices (FSU), a voluntary social paintings supplier that, throughout the post-war interval, exercised a power at the improvement of social paintings perform and coaching out of all percentage to its dimension and assets. Originating within the actions of conscientious objectors in Liverpool, Manchester and Stepney throughout the moment global warfare, FSU's cutting edge equipment of operating with negative households ended in the institution of devices in cities and towns all through Britain. This examine exhibits how FSU met the demanding situations and possibilities awarded by means of the creation of state-run social providers; evaluates its successes and screw ups when it comes to the goals that devices set themselves; and examines the conflicts that arose among FSU's dedication to independence and innovation and its dependence on neighborhood authority funding.
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ULSCA D495 (HQ)PSU/1. 5. A. Cohen, The Revolution in Post-war Family Casework: The Story of Pacifist Service Units and Family Service Units 1940–1959 (Lancaster, 1998), p7. 6. Minutes of the PSU national committee, December 16 1940. ULSCA D495(HQ)PSU/1. Minutes of the Liverpool PSU management committee, November 27 1943; minutes of the Liverpool PSU finance sub-committee, January 8 1944. ULSCA D495(MA)M1/1. 7. Cohen, Revolution in Post-war Family Casework, p17. 8. Minutes of the Liverpool PSU committee, October 12 1940.
Stephens, Problem Families: An experiment in social rehabilitation (London, 1945), p47. 43. See, for example, minutes of the Liverpool PSU committee, February 10 1943, February 24 1943, March 10 1943, March 31 1943, September 13 1944, October 4 1944; and minutes of the Liverpool PSU unit meeting, October 29 1942, December 3 1942, February 11 1943, February 25 1943, March 18 1943, April 15 1943, April 22 1943, May 6 1943. ULSCA D495(HQ)PSU/2. 44. Stephens, Problem Families, pp61–3. 45. P. Goldring, Friend of the Family: The Work of Family Service Units (Newton Abbott, 1973), p174.
Contacts have been made with several official organisations on such matters as employment, income, lost clothing coupons, housing, sanitary defects, health of various members of family, school attendance…75 While the problems faced by that family were probably unusually severe, a similar lack of basic household equipment was noted frequently in casenotes and was an indication not of incompetence – although that might have made an unsatisfactory state of affairs worse – but of extreme poverty. In many cases the suffering of the family was exacerbated by the failure of landlords to maintain their property to a reasonable standard.
