Voluntary Action

workers?deals with Voluntary Social Service inspired by the philanthropic motive. This section deals with a great variety of organizations, showing the way in which many of them have developed to meet the needs of a changing social structure. Particularly striking in this connection is the evolution of the Charity Organization Society with its emphasis on the giving of material aid, into the Family Welfare Association concerned with the many tangles of human life, and providing personal service and guidance in all kinds of problems many of which have nothing to do with financial difficulties. Many instances are given in the Report of co-operation between Voluntary Bodies and Central or Local Government, and two chapters are devoted to some of the many needs which statutory social services fail to meet?e.g. those of the aged, the physically handicapped, the unmarried mother, the overworked housewife.