ABSTRACT
Chapter eight covers the period from 1963 to 1974, a significant period in the emergence of social workers as a single occupational group, following the formation of the British Association of Social Workers in 1970. In contrast to some histories which argue that social work had experienced a ‘peak’ period of achievement by the middle of the 1970s, the chapter suggests that social work should be characterised as experiencing a period of transition between 1939 and 1974.
