Panorama
VHS Colour Unknown 18.04.1988 0:00
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Summary: Documentary looking at the crisis experienced by Social Services due to the increase of child abuse cases.
Title number: 1676
LSA ID: LSA/2192
Description: Panorama looking at the rapid increase of cases of child abuse. Features Greenwich Social Services. Those at risk has gone up by a quarter over a year. Reconstructs a case study not Brent related. The difficult position social workers find themselves in and the dangers if they do nothing. Some archive footage and history of social workers. Interview with Baroness Faithfull, one of the original child care officers. Footage of seminar at North London Polytechnic at Highbury for prosective social workers. Retained by Brent Museum and Archives in the light of the Jasmin Beckford case.
Credits: Editor: Tim Gardam
Producer: Shaun Woodward
Further information: To view this film one week's notice is required. Please contact Brent Archives, Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, Willesden Green NW10 2SF. Tel: 020 8937 3541. Email: archives@brent.gov.uk.
Keywords: child abuse; social services;
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