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8 Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Q. 1 (1979)

handle is hein.journals/npvolsq8 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF VOLUNTARY ACTION RESEARCH/1 ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES APPEARING IN THIS ISSUE VOLUNTARY ACTION: IN SEARCH OF A POLICY? Adrian Webb The concentration upon state social services which has dominated post-war British social policy has left little room for voluntary social action at a philosophical or theoretical level. Ideological and economic changes have now begun to bring the alternatives to state social provision to the fore. In the particular case of what are now called the personal social services, these alternative forms of service and care have always been of great practical significance and amount to a larger input of man-hours than the state services. Nevertheless, they have been largely ignored in theory and in public policy. The article examines four recent reports which partly counteract this neglect, but which still fail to outline a broad conceptual and policy framework within which to discuss the role of 'voluntary social action'. THE ORIGINS OF THE FAMILY FUND Jonathan Bradshaw In November 1972, the Secretary of State for Social Services announced that he would establish a fund to help relieve the burdens experienced by families with severely disabled children. To administer the Family Fund, as it was called, he turned to an independent body the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust. The origin of the Fund is traced and it is shown that it was not a premeditated policy initiative but a response to a public campaign over thalidomide damaged children. The motives that lead to government to turn to an independent Trust and the role of the main participants in the policy making process are discussed. REFUGES FOR BATTERED WOMEN: SOCIAL PROVISION OR SOCIAL MOVEMENT? Jan Pahl Refuges for battered women have been set up in many parts of Britain and North America during the 1970's, mainly as a result of the efforts of voluntary groups. However, while some see the refuges primarily as accommodation, for others they represent a practical expression of a more general concern about the ways in which structural and ideological forces in the wider society tend to lock women into particular roles within the family. The paper considers these two positions, drawing on a research study carried out in one particular British refuge; it concludes that though there are many contradictory aspects to the movement for women's refuges, these ambiguities may be a source of strength to the movement. COMMUNITY ACTION AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION Hywel Griffiths This paper considers whether community action organisations constitute a fundamentally different type of voluntary action from voluntary organisations concerned with social welfare and development. Exploring the different characteristics of each by reference to two research studies undertaken at the New University of Ulster it is argued that these are best explained by reference to their respective locations and circumstances. Assuming therefore that both types of organisation are but different expressions of the one phenomenon, 'community involvement', the author goes on to indicate how a much more useful distinction can be made between, what are defined as, appealing and non-appealing organisation. Some implications of such a distinction are suggested including the implications for statutory policy.

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