PEDIATRICS Vol. 8 No. 6 December 1951, pp. 877-878
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

NEWS FROM ENGLAND

Editors: ALAN MONCRIEFF, M.D., F.R.C.P..

As part of the new legislation which came into force in July 1948—including the Act establishing the Health Service—there was the Children's Act. This was concerned with children deprived of a normal home life—a terminology largely derived from the report of the "Curtis Committee" which investigated the current situation just after the war. The central government body finally selected for responsibility in this matter of the care of children was the "Home Office," that is, the department dealing with national organizations such as the police, prisons, law courts, magistrates.