Child Welfare: England 1872-1989

Routledge, 1996. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Printed grey boards, clean and bright with minor scuffing and tiny bumps to spine and one corner. Minor spotting to page edges. Some light pencil underlinings confined mainly to the introduction and first few chapters but contents o/w clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings.This copy belonged to Professor Roy Parker, the first professor of social work and social administration at Bristol University, so the underlinings may be useful. If not, they can be easily erased. xv, 354 pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "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." - publisher's blurb. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.