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4 Prob. 1 (1942-1945)

handle is hein.journals/probj4 and id is 1 raw text is: Probation The Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers and the Clarke Hall Fellowship VOL. 4, NUMBER i. JULY, 1942. THIRTIETH NATIONAL CONFERENCE REPORT PROBATION A WORK OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE MR. BARROW CADBURY WELCOMES PROBAIIUN OFFICERS HAT a tonic it would have been to us in the dark days of September 1939 if we could have fore- seen that in 1942 the National Conference of probation officers was to be the happiest ana the most inspiring of all our thirty annual meetings ! The war has made us all more consciously aware than we were before of our social responsibilities and recent conferences of social workers have disclosed a deeper understanding of human neeas and a growing demand for better co-ordination and planning of social nelp. Protessional social workers like probation officers realise, as they never did before, the deficiencies of their own service and their failure to relate day- to day experiences to the wholeness of the.problems with which they have to deal. It was thoughts such as these that inspired the Birmingham Conference. 1ihe probation officers who attended it came as for an audit or stock-taking in tneir own department of work and the closing sessions were used to re-dedicate themselves to their service for youth in the social work of the Courts. The Conference was held in Birmingham in celebration of the 21st anniversary of the foundation of the Midland Branch and was made possible only by the generosity of Mr. Barrow Cadbury and a number of his friends who sit as magistrates in Midland Courts. Probation officers take this opportunity of thank- ing them. The Deputy Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Col. Martineau) and his wife, who is a justice in the Juvenile Court, welcomed the delegates; an excellent programme of speakers addressed the meetings. On two suc- cessive days delegates were entertained at luncheon as the guests of Mr. Barrow Cadbury and his daughter, Miss Dorothy Cadbury, and at an excellent evening concert on Saturday night there was presented a very clever burlesque on the Juvenile Courts which Mr. F. C. Foster (one of the Birmingham probation staff) had written for the occasion. The bulk of the report of the subjects discussed appears in this issue of Probation but, owing to paper restrictions, the Chairman's address, a survey of the Probation Service by Mr. S. W. Harris, C.B., C.V.O., and the views of the Chief Constable of Burnley on the Probation System will be published in the next number of Probation. MR. BARROW CADBURY: Deputy Mayor, Mrs. Mar- tineau, may I add, my dear friends whom my daughter and I have again the pleasure of welcoming as our guests this afternoon. Some years ago my wife and I and my daughter welcomed many who are here to-day to Swanwick and lived three happy days in their com- pany. I am very thankful that you have been able to meet in this war year. We are hearing very much of work of national importance and I cannot but feel that the work which is being done by the members of the Probation Officers' Association is amongst some of the most important national work which is being done at the present time. And not only being done at the present time but being done on account of the future, for you are the sowers, the produce of whose work will be reaped through many years to come. Beginning with the juveniles you are getting hold of many first offenders, weaning them away from their evil ways and making good citizens of them. It is work of national importance, and from what I have known personally of so many of you, what I saw at Swanwick, what I have heard of the work, I don't think it is the official part of your work which is perhaps the most vital. That is necessary, machinery is always neces- sary, but it is the soul of the work which makes the difference. It is the friendship which you give with your work that just turns the scales and changes the lives of many with whom you deal, because they realise that not only is there someone who is trying to lead them straight but that they have also a real friend. The fact that you are helping people who are living amongst the ordinary difficulties and the ordinary temptations of life is of very great value. It is easy to take people and shut them away from temptations and difficulties, it is a very different problem when they come out after a time of protection to face up again to the temptations which surround them. You are helping them in their normal lives to go straight and to make good. I am happy to express the delight of my daughter and myself at seeing you all here and to realise that you are able in peace and quiet to hold your conference Digitized from Best Copy Available

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