Social Workers under War Conditions
Seldom has an official committee been given wider terms of reference than that of the Advisory Committee recently appointed by the Prime Minister with Lord Rushcliffe as chairman. It is instructed to consider the contribution which voluntary effort can make towards meeting " problems arising out of the war and affecting the maintenance of the well-being of the civilian population " other than that con- nected with hospital treatment. This opens a vast field of inquiry, which the Committee will no doubt have to limit on its own account. But the importance of its appointment is considerable. Co-ordination of voluntary and official effort in the field of social work is not a problem peculiar to war- time, but the war with its multiplicity of new duties, and of new organisations coping with them, has given it a new urgency. An attempt to avoid confusion was very necessary.
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