Terry Bamford

Terence Donald BamfordOBE(1942 – 9 February 2020)was a social worker and writer on social work topics.

He had a degree in law fromUniversity College, Oxford,and a Diploma in Social Administration from theLondon School of Economics.

He worked as a probation officer for eight years before becoming Assistant General Secretary of theBritish Association of Social Workers.He then worked in Harrow and served for two years as Chair of the Association. He was Director of Social Services in Northern Ireland from 1985 to 1990. For ten years he was Executive Director of Housing and Social Services in theRoyal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.He was appointed an OBE in 2000.He was chair of Kensington and ChelseaPrimary Care Trust.In 2008 he was awarded the Medal and Diploma in Memory of Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol by theInternational Federation of Social Workers.

He died on 9 February 2020 at the age of 77.

Publications

• Managing Social Work.Tavistock Library of Social Work Practice. Vol. 239. Tavistock. 1982.ISBN978-0-422-77970-8.
• The Future of Social Work.Macmillan. 1989.doi:10.1007/978-1-349-20369-7.ISBN978-1-349-20369-7.
• Coulshed, Veronica (1990)."Foreword".Management in Social Work.Macmillan. p. xi.doi:10.1007/978-1-349-20851-7.ISBN978-0-333-51483-2.
• Commissioning and Purchasing.The Social Work Skills Series. Routledge. 2001.ISBN978-1-134-53925-3.
• A Contemporary History of Social Work.Policy Press. 2015.ISBN978-1-4473-2215-3.