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It was a public enquiry into the death of Maria Colwell which, this chapter noted, had a significant impact on how the attention of the personal social service became focused on child abuse and how the national economic crisis of the mid and late 1970s re-set the financial horizons which were to limit the horizons and opportunities for the personal social services.
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I carried the circular in my work bag along with a set of relevant legislation—the 1948 Children Act, 1963 Children Act, 1969 Children and Young Persons Act, 1948 National Assistance Act, 1959 Mental Health Act, Boarding Out Regulations and the Child Poverty Action Group’s National Welfare Benefits Handbooks.
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It is hard not to draw a comparison with Ian Duncan Smith in the Cameron governments elected in 2010 and 2015. Initially seen as caring and compassionate, visiting the FARE project (Family Action in Rogerfield and Easterhouse) he received the approval of Bob Holman: ‘I always remember when Ian Duncan Smith first came up to Easterhouse. He came to FARE and saw it being run by what he called unmarried mothers and unemployed people. He said, and I have never quoted this, “These were the very people that Margaret [Thatcher] condemned running this project” and I was thinking that’s just what I wanted to hear him say.’ But Ian Duncan Smith, as secretary of state for work and pensions in Cameron’s governments championed and introduced social security changes which were to make the poor much poorer, and Holman commented that ‘I no longer recognise the Iain Duncan Smith with whom I have had a cross-party friendship for eight years’ [Bob Holman interview].
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Jones, R. (2020). The Seismic Shifts of the Mid-1970s. In: A History of the Personal Social Services in England. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46123-2_6
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