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SUMMARY:The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern 
 Britain - Dr Siân Pooley\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the social impact of private and public in
 vestments in the early years of people’s lives in twentieth-century Brit
 ain. We know a lot about the politics behind the creation of pioneering we
 lfare provision since the 1880s\, much of which sought to preserve and imp
 rove the lives of the nation’s young. These services included: legislati
 on and organisations to protect children from abuse and neglect from the 1
 880s\; infant welfare services\, free school meals and medical inspections
  from the 1900s\; and following the Second World War the payment of family
  allowances (from 1975 child benefit) and free healthcare. We know far les
 s about the social impact of this care on children and their families. Thi
 s on-going research examines the experiences of children and the impact of
  changing welfare policies in Britain since the 1880s. In seeking to place
  a spotlight on children’s embodied and subjective experiences\, this pr
 oject uses archived case files to consider not only how welfare provision 
 was used\, but also how these uses – sometimes unintentionally – contr
 ibuted to sustained and cumulative inequalities. The approach taken to stu
 dying archived case files is primarily qualitative\, seeking to bring toge
 ther microhistorical studies of subjectivity\, epidemiological approaches 
 to the life-course\, and the attention to power dynamics afforded by histo
 ries of gender and of childhood. The findings discussed in this paper focu
 s principally on previously unexamined case files relating to children bor
 n immediately after the Second World War.  
LOCATION:Old Library\, Darwin College
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