Child Welfare: England 1872-1989

By Harry Hendrick

Child Welfare 1872-1989 is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including infant life protection and welfare, sexuality, child guidance, medical treatment, war time evacuation, and child poverty. Equally importantly the book studies the attitudes to policy-makers towards children. It reveals the way in which children have been viewed both as victims of and threats to the society in which they lived.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415513138
• ISBN13: 9780415513135
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"