Child Protection in England, 1960–2000

Jennifer Crane is a Public Engagement Research Fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded project, ‘The Cultural History of the NHS’, at the University of Warwick, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Battered Child Syndrome: Parents and Children as Medical Objects.- 3.Establishing Child Voice in Public.- 4. Inculcating Child Expertise in Schools and Homes.-  5. Collective Action by Parents and Complicating Family Life.-  6. Mothers, Media, and Individualism in Policy.- 7. The Visibility of Survivors and Expertise as Experience.- 8.Conclusion.- Index.

“This is an interesting and suggestive book, useful for historians of activism, childhood, emotion, welfare, media as well as contributing to historical accounts of privacy and confessional culture. Successfully mapping such a large and diverse sector is especially impressive given the eclectic and idiosyncratic nature of the field and ethical issues surrounding archival records on historical abuse.” (Chris Moores, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 56 (2), 2021)