Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Expanded Table of Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- Foreword by The Hon. Lady Wise
- Introduction
- 1 The Statutory Framework before 1968
- 2 The Statutory Framework after 1968
- 3 Child Protection through the Criminal Law
- 4 The Legal Process before 1968: The Juvenile Court
- 5 The Legal Process in the Modern Era: Scotland’s Children’s Hearing System
- 6 Home Supervision
- 7 Boarding-out and Fostering by Public Authorities
- 8 Institutional Care
- 9 Emergency and Interim Protection
- 10 Aftercare
- 11 Emigration of Children
- 12 Adoption of Children
- Index
8 - Institutional Care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Expanded Table of Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- Foreword by The Hon. Lady Wise
- Introduction
- 1 The Statutory Framework before 1968
- 2 The Statutory Framework after 1968
- 3 Child Protection through the Criminal Law
- 4 The Legal Process before 1968: The Juvenile Court
- 5 The Legal Process in the Modern Era: Scotland’s Children’s Hearing System
- 6 Home Supervision
- 7 Boarding-out and Fostering by Public Authorities
- 8 Institutional Care
- 9 Emergency and Interim Protection
- 10 Aftercare
- 11 Emigration of Children
- 12 Adoption of Children
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
We have already seen that the preference in Scotland (sometimes legal, always factual) has long been for children who have had to be removed from their parents to be accommodated in domestic settings – in other words, boarded-out in a family environment with foster carers. Nevertheless, there have always been some cases in which it is necessary to accommodate children and young people in an institutional setting. But just as foster care offers individual children different experiences depending on the circumstances and character of the foster carer, so institutional care was and is composed of a wide variety of environments. Some set out to mimic as far as possible a family setting: the best known in Scotland was probably Quarrier's Homes, in rural Renfrewshire, which consisted of a number of detached houses each accommodating around 15 children and each house being
under the charge of a lady or a married couple, who are known as the ‘mother,’ or the ‘father and mother,’ of the houses, and who exercise very much the same control over the children, in so far as their domestic life is concerned, as if they were their own.
Other institutions, typically housing large numbers of children, were “cold and forbidding abodes”.
The nature of these institutions, their aims and philosophies, and the extent to which the state has been involved in their running, control or supervision, changed over time and the relationship between institutional care and the state today is very different from what it was 150 years ago. This chapter will look at the development of residential schools, before moving on to children's homes, and will end with an examination of how secure (locked) accommodation for children and young people evolved in Scotland.
REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
THE GROWTH OF REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
The “reformatory movement” grew out of a number of disparate attempts across Europe to provide education and skills-training instead of punishment to children whose life circumstances had thrown them into criminality. In both France and Germany philanthropic societies and individuals had established institutions to accommodate such children from the early nineteenth century.
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- A History of Scottish Child Protection Law , pp. 232 - 279Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020