Eileen Younghusband

Dame Eileen Louise Younghusband, DBE (1 January 1902 – 22 May 1981) was internationally known for her research and teaching in the field of social work.

[1] In her Carnegie Reports of 1947 and 1950 she advocated "generic" training – a set of core knowledge common to all social workers.

The subsequent Younghusband Report, which was published in May 1959,[3] led to the establishment of the Council for Training in Social Work.

[8] Younghusband died in 1981, in a car accident in Raleigh, North Carolina, while on a lecture tour in the United States; she was 79 years old.

Eileen Younghusband's publications include: Contributor National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Great Britain), Bedford Square Press/NCVO (1984); ISBN 0719911389, 9780719911385