Abstract
It is a great privilege to be asked to give this memorial lecture. There must be few in this audience who do not know the name of Jack Kahn, if only from his classic writings on school refusal. To many of us, however, he was a dear friend as well as a rather special colleague. I seem always to have known Jack, although in fact I probably first met him in the middle ‘60s at just such a residential conference as we are having now, on that occasion in Harrogate. This was in the days of the RMPA. Jack was chairman of the Child Psychiatry Section and the guiding spirit behind the organisation of that particular conference. I recall particularly the concluding session on the Saturday morning when to our surprise (although we would be less surprised to-day) the presentation was not by one of our members or distinguished guests but by a local dramatic society who presented us with one scene from a play which Jack, as master of ceremonies with his customary skill and flair, used as the catalyst for an exciting large group discussion.
Highlights
The founding fathers of the Child Guidance Trust where, along with Robina Addis, Wallace Hamilton and others, he sought to establish a meeting place for all the various disciplines and organisations allied to oiduernotiwtyn
Leo Goodman has spoken to us about the Children Act which is pending; here in Scotland we await the deliberations of the Child Care Law Review working party.t One of the great problems for the practising clinician both north and south of the border is that legislation relating to children, adolescents, and families is not to be found in any one act of Parliament or any one book of regulations but is scattered throughout a multitude of official acts, supplements and guidance notes
The outcome of the publication of this report in 1964was as remarkable as the document itself for within a relatively short time its recommendations were enshrined in the Social Work Scotland Act (1968) and became official legal procedure, the so-called Children's Hearing System
Summary
The founding fathers of the Child Guidance Trust where, along with Robina Addis, Wallace Hamilton and others, he sought to establish a meeting place for all the various disciplines and organisations allied to oiduernotiwtyn. Leo Goodman has spoken to us about the Children Act which is pending; here in Scotland we await the deliberations of the Child Care Law Review working party.t One of the great problems for the practising clinician both north and south of the border is that legislation relating to children, adolescents, and families is not to be found in any one act of Parliament or any one book of regulations but is scattered throughout a multitude of official acts, supplements and guidance notes.
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