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  1. Eileen Younghusband was also active at an international level, initially through the British Council and the UN, and from 1950 through the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), initially as board member and from 1961 onwards as (honorary) president. She made it her task to promote high standards of social work education ...

  2. Feb 27, 2017 · In 1945 Younghusband chose to return to LSE on a salary of £500 pa to become the practical work organiser and tutor in social science for the Colonial Social Service Students. She accepted the post despite being offered £800 to continue work at the National Assistance Board and a generous £1,500 for a short term contract with UNRRA.

  3. Tweet 1947 Eileen Younghusband The importance of high standards for social work education : Social worker Eileen Younghusband (1902-1981), not to be confused with the second world war heroine with the same name, is in several ways an important part of 20th century social work history. She was active during the most decisive formative decades of the welfare state, contributing significantly ...

  4. Dame Eileen Younghusband (1902–1981) was an international educator and scholar who influenced the development of social work around the world. She helped transform the International Association of Schools of Social Work from a predominantly Western organization into a worldwide, United Nations-linked body to establish schools of social work in developing countries.

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  5. Born in London in 1902, the daughter of a diplomat, Eileen Louise Younghusband was raised in Kashmir, India, and privately educated. She then attended the London School of Economics, where she became a tutor in 1929 and a lecturer in 1933. Younghusband developed the school's first applied studies course to train professional social workers.

  6. Committee work that Younghusband’s impact was felt in social work services and social work education. Cooper (1982) suggested that, like Beatrice Webb (an earlier British social reformer), Eileen Younghusband ‘equipped herself to make full use of the committee system and the published report as a way of achieving social reform’.

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  8. Eileen Younghusband's publications include: The Education and Training of Social Workers (1947) Social Work in Britain (1951) Social work in Britain, 1950–1975: a follow-up study (1978). Biography. Eileen Younghusband: A Biography, Issue 76 of Occasional papers on social administration; ISSN 0473-7520 by Prof. Kathleen Jones,

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