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This article explores the needs of young people leaving residential care and the provision of aftercare support in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Young people’s discharge, aftercare and post-institutional experiences occupy a peripheral position in scholarship on institutional care. This essay broadens interpretations of aftercare, which have been presented as inadequate inspections that monitored employment performance. Examining the formal and informal systems that aimed to enhance care-leavers’ welfare and wellbeing, the essay offers new understandings of the ongoing provision of practical and emotional support to young people, and the importance of sustained contact and affective ties between former inmates and institutional staff.
Author(s): Soares C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: History Workshop Journal
Year: 2019
Volume: 87
Pages: 94-117
Print publication date: 01/04/2019
Online publication date: 26/02/2019
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
ISSN (print): 1363-3554
ISSN (electronic): 1477-4569
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbz001
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbz001
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