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Across the Generations - Old People and Young Volunteers (Hardcover)
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Across the Generations - Old People and Young Volunteers (Hardcover)
Series: National Institute Social Services Library
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Voluntary work is sometimes praised, sometimes criticised, but was
seldom the subject of objective evaluation. Given the importance of
the voluntary sector in the social services at the time, the lack
of systematic research into its performance was cause for concern.
Originally published in 1975, the particular value of this study
was twofold: first it provided a detailed and vivid picture of the
work of one section of the volunteer movement - young volunteers
working with the elderly; second it examined the wider issue of how
voluntary work can be evaluated. The particular volunteers studied
were organised through Task Force, a London based agency, but both
the substantive and research issues discussed had a far wider
relevance. A key part of the study explored over a period of twelve
months, the development of relationships between a group of old
people and the volunteers allocated to them. The authors
established a new method of assessing success in these
relationships. They then explored possible reasons for the
successes and failures in the relationships they studied. They
suggest possible changes in the organisation of the work which
might help to increase the success rate of volunteer agencies. The
book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the place of
voluntary work in our society. At the time it would have been of
special importance to staff and members of organisations involved
in voluntary social service, to social workers and social
administrators, and to those who were training to join their ranks.
The book is based on an eighteen-month field study of Task Force;
Roger Hadley and Adrian Webb directed the research and Christine
Farrell was the research officer for the project.
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