ABSTRACT
FROM RESCUE AND REFORM TO ‘CHILDREN OF THE NATION’, c.1872-1918
Introduction
2 The Morally Reforming State: Rescue, Reclamation and
Protection, 1872-1908
PART II
The Social Services State: Providing for the Children of the Nation, 1889-1918
Conclusion
MINDS AND BODIES: CONTRADICTION, TENSION AND INTEGRATION 1918-45
4 Health and welfare between the wars
PART III
6 The Children and Young Persons Act, 1933
7 The war years
Conclusion
PART IV CHILDREN OF THE WELFARE STATE, 1945-89
Introduction
9 The rediscovery of child abuse
10 Hospital welfare, health and poverty
11 ‘Children are people too’: Child care policy in the 1980s
Conclusion
