From the archive: Social service in Scotland
The necessity for local partnerships between voluntary organisations and statutory bodies was emphasised by Mr G. P. Laidlaw, chairman of the Scottish Council of Social Service, at the conference at St Andrews yesterday of the Scottish Citizens’ Advice Bureaux Advisory Committee. Mr Laidlaw said that the health services could not be carried out without voluntary aid. Social service work had become much more extensive and intensive. Teaching institutions had been keeping step by turning out, through social science studies, officials necessary for the proper development of the work throughout Scotland. There was a danger that as the problems became larger and more complex people would cease to be persons and become types, but officials and voluntary workers alike must avoid that and must endeavour to be humanistic in their approach to the problems.