Homes For Children
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Mentally handicapped children are a section of society only too easily overlooked by the rest of us - and they can find themselves isolated in institutions until adulthood and beyond. Now, a new scheme for caring for them in ordinary houses within the community is attracting a lot of attention and interest from workers in Britain and abroad.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes library footage from Barnardo’s. According to the script, the main location for the film is Skelmersdale in Lancashire. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Children; Social welfare; Disabled persons
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/1039
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- R.I. Phillips
- Presenter
- Vicki Luke
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
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How to cite this record
'Homes For Children', This Week In Britain Issue No. 1039, 1978. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329280 (Accessed 03 Mar 2025)