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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.

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

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