Introduction In this chapter we analyse the spread and dissemination of child guidance in the 1930s in three ways. First, we examine the propagation of child guidance ideas through various media and events. ese included articles in popular journals and meetings for lay persons put on by child guidance sta . Note is also taken of the ways in which such sta sought to convert fellow professionals, non-medical and medical, not directly involved in this branch of child psychiatry and psychology. Second, we examine the spread of clinics to centres such as Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol (in 1930, 1931, 1933 and 1936 respectively, with Birmingham having a claim to be the rst local authority clinic) and how this contributed to a wider acceptance of the child guide message in o cial circles. ird, we then turn to Scotland. Here, the Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic in Glasgow was both an exemplar of the American/medical model and of a particularly Roman Catholic approach to child guidance. Scottish child guidance as a whole, though, was dominated not by psychiatry but by psychology, thereby sharply di erentiating it from the predominant situation in England.