Roger Wilson gives the first of three talks on the tradition of social service in a changed society.
The speaker is head of the Department of Social Studies, University College of Hull.

The British tradition of social work has always challenged the policy of leaving the devil to take the hindmost. The 'hindmost' were once the poor, but today the nation provides safeguards against extreme poverty. Can it provide official means of dealing with today's hindmost, the maladjusted? If not, do their problems call for the work of the same kind of pioneering and imaginative individuals who in the past built up the social services to fight poverty? Such individuals were drawn from a leisured class: where can they be drawn from today and what should be their work?
(Second talk: Wednesday)