Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report Upon the Results of the Boarding-Out System as Exemplified in the After Life of 82 Boys and 127 Girls Under the Care of the King's Norton Boarding-Out Committee: Who Ceased to Be Chargeable to the Poor Rate Between November, 1873, and June, 1889
The Committee has not found it necessary to formulate a system in order to keep itself in communication with the boys and girls who, having been in childhood under its charge, are now earning their own living. The connection with them is kept up in various ways, 1st, by the personal interest taken by the lady-visitor in the girl or boy for whose welfare she has been responsible 2nd, by the friendly relations kept up between child and foster parents, with whom he often continues to reside, and also between member of Committee and foster-parents after the official connection has ceased and, lastly, by the conviction which the children themselves entertain that if they are in need of help they will be sure to receive it from the Committee.
It will be seen, by a glance at the column containing the particulars of the cases, what a very difficult task a Committee undertakes when receiving children into its care suffering under the terrible disadvantages of inherited disease mental and physical, of mental incapacity, of being members of families belonging to the criminal or vicious classes, and by being often imbued with knowledge which is revolting and contaminating to the last degree.
The Committee has included in the Report all boys and girls who remained on its list until they began to earn their own livelihood.
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