Name Terry Bamford | Role Writer | |
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Books The Future of Social Work, A Contemporary History of Social Work: Learning from the Past, Managing social work | ||
Terry Bamford OBE is a social worker and writer on social work topics.
He has a in degree in Law from University College, Oxford and a Diploma in Social Administration from the London School of Economics. He worked as a probation officer for eight years before becoming Assistant General Secretary of the British Association of Social Workers. He then worked in Harrow and served for two years as Chair of the Association. He was Director of Social Services in Northern Ireland from 1985 to 1990. For ten years he was Executive Director of Housing and Social Services in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He was appointed an OBE in 2000. He was chair of Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust. In 2008 he was awarded the Medal and Diploma in Memory of Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol by the International Federation of Social Workers.
Publications
Managing Social Work 1982 The Future of Social Work 1989 Management in Social Work 1990 Commissioning and Purchasing (The Social Work Skills Series) 2001 A contemporary history of social work 9781447322153 2015