Unemployment and the child : being the report on an enquiry conducted by the Save the Children Fund, into the effects of unemployment on the children of the unemployed and on unemployed young workers in Great Britain.

Date:
1933
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Credit: Unemployment and the child : being the report on an enquiry conducted by the Save the Children Fund, into the effects of unemployment on the children of the unemployed and on unemployed young workers in Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report on an Enquiry conducted by the Save the Children Fund into the effects of unemployment on the children of the unemployed and on unemployed young workers in Great Britain PRGE Asta: Turis report represents the British contribution to the international study of the effects of unemployment on children and young persons, undertaken under the auspices of the Save the Children International Union, of Geneva.* The international enquiry was set on foot at the repeated request of many of the member organisations and more urgently because the Union felt it was not possible for it fully to carry out its duties based on the Declaration of Geneva (the Child Welfare Charter adopted by the League of Nations in 1924) without the information that such an enquiry could give. The Save the Children Fund of Great Britain appointed a special Committee of Enquiry, which began its investiga- tion by issuing a questionnaire dividing the subject mainly into two categories—viz., the effects on children of school age and under, due to the unemployment of their parents, and the effects on children and young persons over school age, due to their own unemployment. The questionnaire was sent to education officers, medical officers of health, school medical officers, clerks to Local Authorities, certain head teachers and assistant teachers, probation officers, officials of child welfare centres, * The reports on other countries are being published by the Save the Children International Union of Geneva, and may be ordered through the Weardale Press, Ltd., 40, Gordon Square, London, W.C.1. [9]