Pathways to the 1946 Curtis Report and the post-war reconstruction of children's out-of-home care
Pathways to the 1946 Curtis Report and the post-war reconstruction of children's out-of-home care
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1946 年柯蒂斯报告的途径和战后儿童户外护理的重建
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10.1080/13619462.2019.1609947
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2019
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0.7
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Lynch G
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作者：
Lynch G
1946年《儿童保育委员会报告》的发表是英国儿童家庭外保育的一个关键时刻。随着1948年《儿童法》实施了其主要建议，并建立了儿童保育中央培训理事会和内政部儿童保育咨询理事会等机构，该报告在将儿童保育的渐进方法与战后新兴的福利国家联系起来方面也具有更广泛的公众意义。这篇文章认为，柯蒂斯委员会的创建是远远不可避免的，并导致相互作用的日益认识到的问题与支离破碎的立法和行政框架，儿童的照顾和一个成功的公共运动，以改革标准，在住宅儿童保育创造了政治条件，工党政府认为有必要建立一个正式的调查委员会。这些进程对委员会的工作产生了很大的兴趣，因此委员会的最后报告受到了公众的极大关注。虽然它作为政策变化机制的效果参差不齐，但编写报告的背景意味着它成为战后新兴福利国家儿童保育标准的重要基准。
The publication of theReport of the Care of Children Committeein 1946 was a pivotal moment for the out-of-home care of children in Britain. With its key recommendations implemented in the 1948 Children Act and the creation of bodies such as the Central Training Council in Child Care and the Home Office’s Advisory Council on Child Care, the report also had wider public significance in associating progressive approaches to child-care with the emerging post-war welfare state. This article argues that the creation of the Curtis Committee was far from inevitable and resulted from the inter-play of the growing recognition of the problems associated with a fragmented legislative and administrative framework for children’s care and a successful public campaign to reform standards in residential child-care which created the political conditions in which the Labour Government felt obliged to establish a formal Committee of Inquiry. The degree of interest that these processes generated in the Committee’s work led to its final report receiving substantial public attention. Although its effects as a mechanism of policy change were uneven, the context through which the report was produced meant that it became a significant benchmark for child-care standards in the emerging post-war welfare state.