The Social Services : The immediate problem and the way forward
1944 1944 1940s 34 pages after the war. Community centres might have become a permanent feature of village life. Boarding schools and residential nurseries might have become permanently available for delicate and ailing and difficult children. But enough was achieved to show beyond doubt the need fo...
| 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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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/B626F7C9-32DA-48F9-AB05-A8418CE7B6DF http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F1F50B92-DBB4-4AAD-8DF9-B2EBEB96909F |
| Summary: | 1944
1944
1940s
34 pages
after the war. Community centres might have become a permanent feature of village life. Boarding schools and residential nurseries might have become permanently available for delicate and ailing and difficult children. But enough was achieved to show beyond doubt the need for such amenities and the possibility of providing them. A minority of children have always had these things. Now that a few from other social backgrounds have experienced them, it is the time to see that they are extended to all. Children ought to be ensured a country holiday every year and parents should be enabled to take their own holidays apart from them if they wish. Holiday homes should also be available for children whose mothers have to go to hospital, or who for any other reason have to be temporarily away from home. At present the problem of caring for children while mothers go to hospital can only be solved by reference to the Relieving Officer, who although he may now be called the Welfare Officer, is still compelled to deal with such cases under the old P.A.C. rules, which include the means test and other inquisitions. Sometimes during the war social workers have been able to use, or misuse, the evacuation schemes to meet these emergencies. When the war is over must we go back to the P.A.C.? The problem of occupying and caring for children during out of school hours has been intensified by 7
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