Abstract
Prevention, defined in the dictionary as ‘to deal with something before it is expressed’, is now a concept in much use. Governments wish to prevent a host of eventualities, ranging from road accidents to nuclear war. The term is now so widely employed within the health services that preventative medicine has become another speciality. Within the social services prevention can refer to preventing the mentally disordered from entering institutions or preventing the elderly from having to leave their own homes. This book has a much more limited focus. It is concerned with prevention in child care, with the prevention of the kinds of problems that are likely to bring families to the attention of the courts and the personal social services. In particular it gives attention to preventing the difficulties and circumstances which can lead to children having to leave the care of their natural parents, although, as will be seen, over time the meaning and objectives of prevention have expanded beyond this brief.
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Holman, B. (1988). The Victorian Legacy. In: Putting Families First. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19057-7_1
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