Octavia Hill (who instituted training for her Housing Association volunteers) and Margaret Sewell (warden of the Women’s University Settlement in Blackfriars, London) introduced a one-year training programme in London, which was later taken over by the Charity Organisation Society's Committee on Social Education in 1901.

Sources

• Katherine Bentley Beauman (1996) Women and the Settlement Movement, The Radcliffe Press.
• Thomas R.C. Gibson-Brydon (2016) Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London: Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable, McGill-Queens Press.