My husband, Alan Rushton, who has died aged 79, ran a post-qualifying course for social workers specialising in mental health for many years and played a prominent part in research into children placed away from home.
From 1979 until his retirement, Alan taught mental health social work to qualified social workers at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, inspiring his students and teaching them research skills. His work on family placements of older children gained him a doctorate in 1999.
