TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lafferty,Renée Nicole
TI  - The guardianship of best interests: institutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 
T2  - McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two
SN  - 9780773587946
AV  - HV745.N6 
U1  - 362.73/2097162209034 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Poor children
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Nova Scotia
KW  - Halifax
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Case studies
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Enfants pauvres
KW  - Soins en institutions
KW  - Nouvelle-Écosse
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Pauvres en milieu urbain
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Canada
KW  - Post-Confederation (1867- )
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "We Need No Reform": The Organization of Local Services and Administrative Innovation, c. 1850-1924 -- Race Uplift, Racism, and the Childhood Ideal: Founding and Funding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children -- The Unremitting Exercise of Watchfulness: Institutional Environments, Routines, and Practices -- "Out of Mutual Respect Will Come Mutual Responsibility": Coordinating Services and Promoting Interagency Cooperation after World War One -- Managing "High Standards of Professional Ethics": Institutionalization, Gwendolen Lantz, and the Emergence of the "Modern" Children's Home, c. 1940-1952 -- From Protection to Treatment: Group Care and the Transformation of the Institution after World War Two -- Conclusion
N2  - A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=516663
ER  -