The Social Services : The immediate problem and the way forward
1944 1944 1940s 34 pages the recruitment of many mothers into industry, and fathers into the services. The establishment of many new play centres and the extension of school meals is a welcome advance, incomplete though these services are. When fathers return, and mothers do not go out to work in su...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : The Socialist Medical Assocation
[1944?]
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| Summary: | 1944
1944
1940s
34 pages
the recruitment of many mothers into industry, and fathers into the services. The establishment of many new play centres and the extension of school meals is a welcome advance, incomplete though these services are. When fathers return, and mothers do not go out to work in such numbers, many children will prefer to eat and play at home, but both parents and children will have realised the value of these amenities, and reactionary local authorities must not be allowed to withdraw them. They will continue to be necessary, especially while the housing problem remains. Other developments in social services for children should include a great extension of special shows for children in cinemas and theatres, and also concerts for children, though these may be perhaps considered to be a part of the educational rather than the social services. 3. Youth. Before the war there was little special provision for young people other than evening institutes (in most of which the emphasis was on improving qualifications for work) and clubs run by churches and other bodies whose aim was either to assist in propagating a religious or political doctrine, or to help young people who were considered to be in some special danger owing to their surroundings. The war has brought new danger and problems for youth, which have been met to some extent by the 8
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