Ministry of Health Disability Project

The Tavistock Institute Centre for Applied Social Research was given a grant by the Ministry of Health in 1966 to undertake social research into residential accommodation for the disabled. The research was undertaken in two phases. Firstly, the TIHR undertook intensive studies in homes providing long-term residential care for the disabled, with interviews, group discussion and observation methodologies being employed to explore the ways in which homes were organised, run and managed. Secondly, the action research approach was adopted in a smaller number of homes where changes were being enacted or contemplated and the TIHR worked with those involved to tackle and resolve any issues surfaced by such changes.

File includes: Doc. No. T.600 'Proposal for Pilot Reasearch Project on Residential Institutions for the Physically Handicapped' (1965)

Doc. No. T.788 'Centre for Applied Social Research: Ministry of Health Project'

Doc. No. T.1060 'Progress Report for the Ministry of Health on the Study of Residential Homes for the Disabled'

Doc. No. T.1044 'The Post of Warden Le Court', a note prepared for the selection procedure of the post of Warden at Le Court residential home.

Doc. No. T.951 'Le Court: Working Note No.1' (1966)

Doc. No. T.1033 'Le Court: Working Note No.2' (1967)

Doc. No. T.1043 'Le Court: Working Note No.3: the Role of Warden at Le Court' (1967)

Doc. No. CASR.15 'Le Court: Working Note No.4: The Relationship between the Trustees of the Cheshire Foundation and the Management Committee of Le Court' (1967)

Doc. No. CASR.58 'Le Court: Working Note No.5' (1967)

Report 'Dependence, Independence and Counter-Dependence in Residential Institutions for Incurables' (1970).