‘Interim Report of the Care of Children Committee’ Chaired by Myra Curtis
A landmark report which created national child care training
Child Care History and Policy
‘The Training and Recruitment of Staff for Residential Work’ by Clare Winnicott
A systematic approach to the training of residential workers
‘Perinatal Mortality’ by Neville R Butler and Dennis G Bonham
How factors such as social class affect babies’ survival
‘From Birth to Seven’ by Ronald Davie, Neville R Butler and Harvey Goldstein
The importance of social class – and small schools
From Coalface to Facebook?
Using new social media and technology to record, remember and share child care experience
‘Troubled and Troublesome’ by Masud Hoghughi
A comprehensive ground-breaking study of secure care
‘Group Work with Adolescent Girls’ by Arnold Critchley and Bridget Fann
How devolving power can help young people to mature
A Fearless Frankness
The professional formation of psychiatrist Donald Winnicott, and a crucial lost episode in the history of therapeutic residential child care
‘The Adolescent Girl in Conflict’ by Gisela Konopka
A study which highlighted the lack of research about girl offenders
‘Mother and Baby Homes’ by Jill Nicholson
The first comprehensive study
A Measure of Success
An event which showed the long-term impact of Wellesley’s nautical training
A Brief History of Events and Trends from 1695 to 1969 in the Residential Care of Young Offenders in the UK
1695 August Hermann Francke (1663-1727) opened an orphan asylum at Halle in Germany, the first reformatory. 1706 Jean Baptiste de la Salle (1651-1719) started a boarding school at St. Yon, France, which evolved into a reformatory; several Roman Catholic approved schools are still run by the Brothers of St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle. 1735-1811 … Read more