Congress on Social Work: The International Congress on Social Work and Service, State, Municipal, and Voluntary, which is to be held at the University of London from May 30th to June 5th, should prove to be of considerable importance if those who take part in organising it include a sufficient number of women and men well versed in the subjects with which it is to deal. The executive committee has at present two women members only — Lady Downes, late inspector of boarded-out children under the Local Government Board, and member of the Central Poor Law Conference Committee; and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, Commissioner of the Board of Control under the Mental Deficiency Act — but doubtless other women will be invited to join, as there are already nineteen men upon the committee. The Subjects arranged for the congress to discuss are: (1) Thrift in its relation to relief; (2) international provision for the assistance of deserted children; (3) the assistance of prisoners and extradited persons; (4) the care and control of the mentally defective; (5) State insurance and hospitals; (6) the relation of the municipality to public and private assistance; (7) the housing of the working classes; (8) the work of school care committees. All these are subjects upon which it will be interesting to learn the views of experienced women as well as men.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949