Priscilla Young

Priscilla Helen Ferguson Young (25 November 1925 – 8 January 2006) was an English social worker. She was director of social work education at the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (CCETSW) from 1971 to 1986. Young also worked with the Family Welfare Association, before becoming the children's department of Somerset County Council and subsequently the deputy children's officer in Oxford. She was tutor-supervisor at the University of Leicester's School of Social Studies from 1961 to 1971.

Early life and education On 25 November 1925, Young was born at her grandmother's rectory in Bath, Somerset. She was the oldest child of the social worker, secretary and teacher Fergus Ferguson Young and his wife, the former Foreign Office worker Helen Frances Graham ( Murphy). Young had a young brother and relatives who were of English, Irish and Scottish descent. At age four, Young and her parents moved to Kenya, where her father taught in a rural area. She was isolated as a white child and was educated by her mother and examined by her father. The family returned to England in 1936. Young was educated at The Kingsley School, Leamington Spa,

Career Between 1947 and 1951, she worked with the Family Welfare Association in London. Young worked in Somerset in the children's department of its county council from 1951 to 1953 before moving to Oxford to become its deputy children's officer between 1953 and 1958. She would be lecturer and then senior lecturer while at the university. for "services to social-work education". and the British Library holds tapes and transcripts of her career at the CCETSW.