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Fred Edwards

Fred Edwards, who has died of cancer aged 77, played a pivotal role in social work in Scotland during the 1970s and 1980s at the head of what was then the largest authority of its kind in western Europe.

Director of social work, ecologist and public servant; Born April 9, 1931; Died October 18, 2008.