My friend and colleague, Maureen Henderson, who has died aged 83, joined the Polytechnic of North London as a social work tutor in the 1970s. At that time it had the biggest social work department in Britain and Mo soon became an important member of it, as the principal tutor and leader of the combined childcare and family social work course.
She helped to make this course reflect the community that social workers served in London, including introducing an access course for minority ethnic students. Another of our colleagues there, Mary MacLeod, remembered Mo as having, “a gentle presence that belied her fierce resolve and determination to bring a very disparate group of people together, despite ideological differences, to give our students the social work education that would focus them on serving the people for whom they were responsible”.
