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1. Poverty's Policeman.

Author

Filtness, David

Subjects
*POOR laws, *POOR people, *POVERTY, *GOVERNMENT policy, *HISTORY, *SERVICES for the poor, *NINETEENTH century, BRITISH law, BRITISH history
Abstract

The article discusses the career of British magistrate, reformer, and founder of the English law enforcement group the Thames River Police Patrick Colquhoun. It discusses the poverty policy in Great Britain prior to the legislation known as the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, Colquhoun's career and interest in the care of the poor, and his efforts at political and social reform. It also discusses his development of the concept of collateral aids in efforts to help the poor via improving habits of prudence and thrift.

Published
2014

2. ‘A Pest to Society’: The Charity Organisation Society's Domiciliary Assessments into the Circumstances of Poor Families and Children.

Author

Skinner, Annie and Thomas, Nigel

Subjects
*CHILD welfare, *SOCIAL conditions of children, *SERVICES for the poor, *POOR people, *SOCIAL conditions of poor people, *PARENTING, *CHILDREN, *HISTORY, *NINETEENTH century, *SOCIAL history, *ATTITUDE (Psychology), *CHILDREN'S accident prevention, *POVERTY, *GOVERNMENT policy, *CHARITIES
Abstract

This article examines the work of the Charity Organisation Society (COS) in assessing applications for children's admission to care in the late nineteenth‐century. It is based on an archive study of records kept by the ‘Waifs and Strays’ Society in England and Wales between 1882 and 1899, in particular 270 family assessments conducted by the COS. The focus was on parental behaviour rather than children's needs, with a strong narrative of taking children away to relieve parents of a burden. The research illuminates contested assumptions about childhood in the period, with resonance for current issues in policy and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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