The care committee, the child and the parent : a small volume containing the history of the provision of meals to the children of poor parents; and an account of children's care committees, their work and organisation, with particular reference to the place of the voluntary worker and the duties of an official / by Douglas Pepler.

  • Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The care committee, the child and the parent : a small volume containing the history of the provision of meals to the children of poor parents; and an account of children's care committees, their work and organisation, with particular reference to the place of the voluntary worker and the duties of an official / by Douglas Pepler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    political movements and organisations. The number of such “ whole-time ” workers is not sufficient with- out considerable reinforcements from the ranks of those whose first duty is to their profession or trade. These people, whose “spare time” is given to the cause which they care about, the children they would save, the men they would reform, the laws they would alter, the gospel they needs must proclaim, make up a force which one is encouraged to believe may yet be turned to better account. For these volunteers are not the inefficient unemployed in their trades, occupying themselves in the wide issues of social reform in order to while away the time; they are men and women whose position in the industrial or professional world is of account. A few instances may make this point clearer : (1) Solicitor: running a big Mission on the social side, is treasurer, gives minimum two evenings a week and fortnight’s camp holiday in summer. (2) Superintendent of a Borough Council under- ground lavatory: gives at least three evenings alternate weeks to a club, organises window-box competitions, flower shows, children’s bulb shows. (3) Banker: five if not seven nights a week organising activities connected with his Church and Men’s Adult School. (4) Carpenter (Trade Union Branch Secretary, chief organiser of Labour movement in the district): gives three nights a week to Care Committee, visiting in