7 Development Of A 'Welfare' Agenda

Question 1

New understanding of childhood - conception that children need…

Answer 1

Different ‘treatment’ from adults

Question 2

Throughout 1800s - 2 aspects addressed issues:

Answer 2

Factory Acts - children gradually removed from workforce

Mass education began (not free and for all until 1881)

Question 3

(Throughout 1800s) at same time: increasing numbers of young people - orphaned, engaging in vagrancy, hanging around on the streets - seem as…

Answer 3

‘Trouble’

Question 4

‘Trouble’ children & new focus on welfare resulted in(4):

Answer 4

• growth in focus on causes of juvenile delinquency
• poor parenting, neglecting and lack of education = kids in need of ‘caring reform’
• children seen as ‘innocents’
• start to see different ‘treatment’ of C&YP within criminal justice