A hospital-based social education project is taken to mean a scheme in which a group of school pupils regularly spend some time each week in a hospital or similar institution. Two groups are involved in the organisation and ultimate success or failure of such a scheme: the school staff and ...
This document considers that the role of volunteers working in psychiatric hospitals is essentially to add a dimension of reality to the lives of the patients and, by so doing, to help them maintain, develop and strengthen their links with the community. A variety of voluntary services that are being ...
This book studies voluntary service in the field of hospital, and makes some suggestions for future policy. It surveys the administration of the new hospital service, and studies voluntary service against this background. The phrase`voluntary service' covers the following : unpaid service by men and women who form part of ...