Eileen Younghusband

This article is about the British social worker. For the WAAF, see Eileen Younghusband (WAAF airwoman).
Dame Eileen Younghusband, 1970s.

Dame Eileen Louise Younghusband, DBE (1 January 1902 – 22 May 1981) was internationally known for her research and teaching in the field of social work.

Her father was Sir Francis Younghusband (1863–1942), a British explorer and mystic famous for his discoveries in Central Asia and his leadership of the British Tibet campaign of 1903–04. She was a student at the London School of Economics 1926–29, and a member of staff 1944–58.[1]

In her Carnegie Reports of 1947 and 1950 she advocated "generic" training – a set of core knowledge common to all social workers. In 1954 she pioneered the teaching of a generic course that was to become the prototype of professional social work training in other universities.[2]

In 1955 she chaired a Ministry of Health working party on the provision of training for social workers, a rapidly expanding profession but with little opportunity for formal training. The subsequent Younghusband Report led to the establishment of the Council for Training in Social Work, which validated courses at polytechnics and further education institutions primarily for entrants to local authority health and welfare departments, issuing a Certificate in Social Work to those successfully completing such a course.

In 1968 Younghusband chaired the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's report, Community Work and Social Change.

Honours

She was appointed MBE in 1946, CBE in 1955, and DBE in 1964.[3]

Death

Younghusband died in 1981, in a car accident in Raleigh, North Carolina, while on a lecture tour in the United States; she was 79 years old.

Publications

Eileen Younghusband's publications include:

Biography

Contributor National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Great Britain), Bedford Square Press/NCVO (1984); ISBN 0719911389, 9780719911385

References

  1. ↑ Eileen Younghusband profile, lse.ac.uk; accessed 26 April 2014.
  2. ↑
    • Profile, socwork.net; accessed 26 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Portraits of Eileen Younghusband at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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