Champions for Children: The Lives of Modern Child Care PioneersNumerous books have been written about Victorian child care pioneers, but few biographical studies have been published about more recent child care and welfare giants. In this book, Bob Holman, a champion for children in his own right, looks at the lives of six inspirational individuals who have made significant contributions to the well-being of disadvantaged children over the course of the 20th century.Each of the six discussed - Eleanor Rathbone, Lady Marjory Allen, Clare Winnicott, John Stroud, Barbara Kahan and Peter Townsend - has been important in establishing present systems of child care and welfare, and in stimulating debate around issues which remain high on policy and practitioner agendas today. |
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two Marjory Allen 18971976 | 23 |
three Barbara Kahan 19202000 | 49 |
four John Stroud 192389 | 75 |
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1948 Children Act academic ACCO adoption agencies Allen and Nicholson approved schools Barbara Kahan became benefits Brian Roycroft Britain campaign chair child care course child care officers child poverty children's champions Children's Departments children's homes children's officer Clare Winnicott Clifford Allen committee CPAG Daphne deprived children Donald Winnicott Donnison Dudley Easterhouse Eleanor Rathbone established evacuation family allowances father foster parents Frank Field Hertfordshire Holman Home Office hostels income inequality interview with author involved John Bowlby John Stroud Labour Party later lecturer Liverpool living London Margaret Simey Marjory Allen mother never nursery organised Oxfordshire Packman Peter Townsend political prevention private foster relationship Report residential staff responsibility Richard Titmuss Ruth Seebohm skills social services social workers society SSDs Sylvia Watson took University voluntary wanted welfare women writing wrote youth club