The social workers' guide : a handbook on information and counselfor all who interested in public welfare / [edited by John Bernard Haldane].

Date:
[1911]
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Credit: The social workers' guide : a handbook on information and counselfor all who interested in public welfare / [edited by John Bernard Haldane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Social Workers’ Guide Able-bodied Paupers.— (See also Indoor Relief, Outdoor Relief, Poor Law Reform, Recovery OF Cost of Relief and Unem- ployment.) The General Order of 1844 requires that, subject to cer- tain exceptions, every able-bodied person, male or female, in need of relief is to be relieved wholly in the workhouse (see Workhouses), to- gether with such of the family of every able-bodied person as may be resident with him or her and may not be in employment, and together with the wife of every such able-bodied male person, if he be a married man and if she be resi- dent with him ; but the Guardians are not bound to require any child of an able-bodied person who can support itself to go into the work- house with the parent if it appear expedient that such child should continue in employment. The chief exception is that of “ sudden and urgent necessity,” but this does not authorise permanent or continued relief. If the necessity, moreover, is sudden, i.e., unexpected, but not urgent, or urgent without being sudden, the relief must be given in the workhouse. The other exceptions are where such persons require relief on account of sickness, accident, or bodily or mental infirmity affecting such person or any of liis or her family ; where relief is required for the burial of any of his or her family ; where a widow is in the first six months of her widowhood ; where a widow has legitimate children depending on her ; where relief is needed for the wife and children of a husband who is in legal confinement, or for the wives or children of soldiers and sailors, or for the wives of non-residents. A boy of sixteen, capable of earning his living, may be able- bodied, and no relief is to be given to any able-bodied male while he is employed for wages or hire by any person. Every able-bodied male person, if relieved out of the workhouse under a labour test order, is to be set to work by the Guardians, and to be kept employed under their direction and superintendence so long as he continues to receive relief. In cases of exceptional distress not dealt with under the Un- employed Workmen Act, it is important that the work provided should be:— 1. work which will not involve the stigma of pauperism ; 2. work which all can perform, whatever may have been their previous avocations ; 3. work which does not compete with that of other labourers at present in employment; and 4. work which is not likely to interfere with the resumption of regular employment in their own I—(1415)
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