Association of Children's Officers. 1948-1981

MSS.378/ACO/CO/1/3/1-11 Recommendations of Report of the Royal Commission on the law relating to mental illness and mental deficiency which specifically affect children, March 1958.

Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, 1928-1975

Includes files such as:

MSS.378/APSW/P/16/5/1-65 . 1. "Marital difficulties", by E. E. Irvine, undated, 1937. 2-3. "Psychiatric social work in mental hospitals", by Dr Kimber?, undated, and report for press: "The psychiatric social workers in the mental hospital". 27."Psychological work with mothers and children in maternity and infant welfare clinics": report of a talk by Miss Ruth Thomas given at APSW general meeting, March 1947, including ensuing discussion.

MSS.378/APSW/P/17/6/1-36 Ministry of Education Committee on maladjusted children (1950) "Evidence...to the Ministry of Education Committee on Maladjusted children", August 1951.

British Association of Social Workers.

Includes numerous files and papers on all aspects of mental health from 1970 onwards.

Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (CCETSW).

This collection contains microfiche of CCETSW files. These include information on courses and training schemes, on their approval and assessment, and on the development of social work training.

The following collections are concerned chiefly with those who worked with the mentally ill as nurses, carers or warders. There are a number of items which provide information on working hours, rules and regulations of institutions, wages and conditions etc.

MSS.292/847.38/1 Mental Hospitals and Mental Health. 1949-1957 Correspondence including concern at people being improperly certified due to the lack of other available accommodation; 1951 Congress Resolution on the Mental Deficiency Laws; Royal Commission on the Laws relating to Mental Illness; conditions in mental hospitals. Documents including reports, memoranda, evidence to the Royal Commission.

MSS.292/673.14/9 1937-1959. Correspondence regarding mental nurses; including conditions; enquiries; resolutions; title of mental nurse. Documents including reports and memoranda. Psychiatric nursing: today and tomorrow, report to Ministry of Health, 1968; Lord Latham and mental nurses, by George Gibson, 1942; The work of the mental nurse, Manchester Mental Nursing Survey, 1955.

National Union of Teachers

Only recently catalogued, this collection contains a number of items relating to mental health issues.

MSS.179/EDU/3/11/1309 London Teachers' Association conference resolutions. Includes resolutions on the status of junior and senior schools, reduction in the size of classes, maintenance grants, appointment of assistant teachers, appointment of head teachers, reporting of mental deficiency, and staffing of nursery schools. 1929

MSS.179/EDU/3/11/2308A Royal Commission on the Law Relating To Mental Illness and Deficiency. 1954 – 1955 3 files

MSS.179/EDU/3/11/2461A Medical examination of teachers. Alterations to Ministry of Education circular on x-ray examination of the chest for entrants to teacher training; revision of Notes of Guidance on Medical Standards for entrants to the teaching profession; definition of mental disorders. 1951 - 1962

MSS.179/EDU/3/12/32 NUT Evidence to the Royal Commission on the Penal System in England and Wales. 1964-1965. NUT memorandum of evidence; members' replies to a circular on which the memorandum was partially based; copies of earlier NUT statements on young offenders and related issues; publications on the ascertainment of educationally subnormal children and the education of maladjusted children; Board of Education Memorandum on Juvenile Delinquency (1949); 'Report of a Committee to Review Punishments in Prisons, Borstal Institutions, Approved Schools and Remand Homes' (1951).

There are also a number of individuals’ papers of relevance:

Papers of Alan Cohen, psychiatric social worker:

5 boxes of papers, reports, publications on mental health, social work training and family services.

Dame Eileen Louise Younghusband (1902-1981), welfare worker.

She pioneered social work training in the UK and overseas. Her archive includes many files on the family and children affected by mental illness and neglect, juvenile delinquency, adoption and poverty.

National Institute for Social Work (NISW)

MSS.463/box 96 Organizational Structure and Care in Institutions for the Retarded' – final report, with letter, 1975 (?).

Other archive collections.

MSS.119/4/5 'Legal responsibility and mental deficiency', published by Central Association for Mental Welfare. 1924MSS.233/3/5/2 Typescript drafts of "Are we hanging lunatics?"by Samuel Leff, MD, DPH, barrister-at-law, 1954, possibly written with the assistance of Michaelson; typescript draft of an untitled article also about the insanity defence and capital punishment

MSS.209/21/3/998 "Happiness is their tutor": visit to new school for mentally defective and sub-normal children in Manchester ('Daily Herald') In folder MSS.209/21/3, which should be ordered as a whole.