Field, Frank (1973). Low Pay and Social Policy , in Frank Field (ed.), Low Pay, Arrow, 136.
2.
Meacher, op. cit., 86.
3.
Stevenson, Olive (1972). Claimant or Client?, Allen & Unwin, 125.
4.
ibid., 131.
5.
ibid., 132.
6.
Social Insurance and Allied Services (Beveridge Report, 1942). Cmd. 6404, H.M.S.O., paras. 19(x) and 23.
7.
Department of Health and Social Security Annual Report1973 (1974). Cmnd. 5700, H.M.S.O., paras. 10.14 and 10.18.
8.
Department of Health and Social Security, Supplementary Benefits Commission (1973). Exceptional Needs Payments, H.M.S.O., para. 30; see also paras. 11, 26, 29, 31 and 42.
9.
ibid., para. 33.
10.
Jordan, Bill (1974). Poor Parents, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 69.
11.
Department of Health and Social Security (1973). op. cit., para. 34.
12.
For details of the problem, see, for instance, Fisher Report, op. cit., paras. 384-91; or Meacher , op. cit., 86-89.
13.
Jordan, Bill (1973). Emergency Payments: a social security responsibility, Social Work Today, 3, No. 23, 15-16; and Jordan , op. cit., ch. 7.
14.
Calculated from DHSS Annual Report 1973, op. cit, paras. 9.27 and 10.28.
15.
Jordan (1974). op. cit., 69.
16.
Bull, David (1973). Living Beneath the Clothes Line, Guardian, 7 December.
17.
Field, Frank (1971). Skinflint Society, Guardian, 5 November.
18.
Hill, Michael (1974). Some Implications of Legal Approaches to Welfare Rights, British Journal of Social Work , 4, 187-200.
19.
Calculated from DHSS Annual Report 1973, op. cit., para. 10.28.
20.
The checklist has now been published: Department of Health and Social Security (1973). op. cit., appendix 2.
21.
Hill, Michael (1972). The Sociology of Public Administration, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 75.
22.
Hill, Michael (1969). The Exercise of Discretion in the National Assistance Board, Public Administration, 47, 75-90.
23.
Coleman, R.J. (1971). Supplementary Benefits and the Administrative Review of Administrative Action, Poverty pamphlet 7, Child Poverty Action Group, 6.
24.
ibid., calculated from table A.
25.
DHSS Annual Report 1973, op. cit., para. 11.16.
26.
Attlee, C.R. (1920). The Social Worker, Bell, 231 and 241.
27.
Burton, John (1974). Poverty, Deprivation and the Crisis in Social Work: Policy or Structure? Social Work Today, 5, No. 15, 458-62.
28.
Drinkwater, Chris (1974). Medical Work and Social Power, Lancet, 2, 210-11.
29.
Ministry of Housing and Local Government (1969). Council Housing: Purposes, Procedures and Priorities (Cullingworth Report), H.M.S.O., para. 113.
30.
Fisher Report, op. cit., paras. 185-90.
31.
For a discussion of this problem, see Stevenson, op. cit., 187-88.
