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"Child Care: The Need for History" - Recordings of the talks at the CCHN Inaugural Conference, 2008 -
 
 
 
 

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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.

Patron: Lord Listowel

 

 

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The aim of the website is to help build tools for research into child care history. You may be a former child seeking information about a place in which you once lived. You may be an academic pursuing a line of enquiry for a book. You might be a policy maker gathering the historical tools for a new piece of legislation, or a writer looking for contextual detail and storylines, or a family historian trying to track down the lost years in the childhood of an uncle. Perhaps you're a social worker, trying to understand a reference in a file?

Whatever your interest, start with "Research Resources" in the Main Menu. This has a series of publicly accessible databases:

  • Archives
  • Libraries
  • Museums
  • Oral History


If you have a reference or information which is not in the databases, please add it!

If you do not find the information you need there, then become a Member. As a Member you will be able to join specialist forums, ask questions, and create new web-pages or even forums to help you find the information you need.

 

 

Who? When? Where?

 

Unknown group photograph from David Wills Collection
Please click photograph  for a larger version.
 

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.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

How can you share your unique knowledge with others?


Add to the "Research Resources" databases - see the 'Research Resources' Menu above. Become a Member, join the Forums and create new information resources. Or, email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .