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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    women’s organisations, heads of settlements, Councils of Social Service, as well as to many individuals with special knowledge of one or other of the aspects with which the questionnaire dealt, in some. 180 towns and counties, selected by the Committee as being representative of the country as a whole. Of the information received, the major part was sub- mitted by medical officers of health, education officers, town clerks, or other officials of Local Authorities, nearly all of whom sent in extremely full replies with most careful documentation; and it is upon these that the report is very largely based. Comparatively few replies were received from unofficial sources, and of these many contained impressions rather than direct evidence ; hence the Committee was unable to make use of them to more than a limited extent. Attention should be called to the fact that the evidence received for the most part relates to 1931—1.e., before the application of the Anomalies Act and the ‘“‘ Means”’ Test and of cuts in Unemployment Benefit made under the National Economy Act, 1931. It is of importance to mention that since the enquiry was started the Advisory Committee on Child Welfare of the League of Nations has decided to consider the problem of the effect of the unemployment of the parents on their children at its 1934 session, and has asked that the results of this enquiry shall be put at its disposal ; and secondly that the International Labour Office is beginning an enquiry into the effect of unemployment on young persons in the near future. 18 Bs Misee Pw en WAG fe FR Chaiman of the Enquiry Committee. May 23, 1933. [ 10]