Colleagues will be saddened to learn that Vic George died suddenly last Monday.

Vic will be remembered as a kindly, self-effacing and scholarly man who did much to shape the careers of his colleagues and contributed greatly to the discipline through his teaching and his many books. These include the seminal Ideology and Social Welfare and Globalization and Human Welfare and British Society and Social Welfare (with Paul Wilding), European Welfare Futures, Major Thinkers in Welfare​, Modern Thinkers on Welfare (with Robert Page) and many others.

Vic originally trained as a social worker and worked in London as a child care officer. He carried out research on social security at LSE. His first book, Social Security, was the subject of a Guardian editorial. He then moved to Nottingham and to Kent in 1973, where he was the founding Professor of Social Policy and Administration. He retired in 1998. He will be missed by many in the discipline.​

 The funeral will be at Barham Crematorium at 14.00 on Tuesday 10 October.