CCHN
WELCOME!
The Child Care History Network aims to use the vast resources of the past to help promote the highest standards of service for children and young people and their familes Now, and in the future
Through
- Actively promoting interest in the history of services for children and young people and their families
- Identifying and encouraging the preservation of evidence and information concerning the history of services for children and young people;
- Initiating, encouraging and supporting research into the history of child care and related areas;
- Encouraging the application of lessons we learn by examining past experience to child and youth care policy development and practice.
Some of the resources you will find here:
Talks and PowerPoints from the CCHN/Warwick University Conference 2010:
"Child Care Records: Access and Use"
PowerPoints and other material from the CCHN AGM and Autumn Conference 2009:
"The Place of Ethics in the History of Child Care
Recordings of the talks at the CCHN Inaugural Conference, 2008
"Child Care: The Need for History"
Special deal for members:
“An Obscure Philanthropist”: Frank Mathews 1871 - 1948
by Tony Rees
How can you learn from and share your unique knowledge with others?
Become a Member. Add to the "Research Resources" databases. Join the Email discussion group. Create new information resources, on the website. Or, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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...and support the work of CCHN...
- £15 per year for individuals
- £30 per year for institutions and organisations
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Who? When? Where?
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Do you know who these people are? Where they are? What was the occasion? When did it take place?
This photograph is from the David Wills Collection at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre. David Wills himself is seated in the front at the far left, leaning in to the picture. Any help would be gratefully received.