This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. It provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth century assumptions and prejudices about care-experienced pupils helped shape education policy and continue to do so today.

Chapter 1: Understanding care and education

Chapter 2: Workhouses, district schools and the monitorial method in the nineteenth century

Chapter 3: Flat feet and saved souls: training in the Victorian orphanage

Chapter 4. Mother Empire: Placements, displacement and migration

Chapter 5: Troublesome nippers: evacuation, the Curtis Report and post war policies

Chapter 6: The people behind the pedagogies: Influential theorists in progressive education and care

Chapter 7: Fliers, hurdlers, pedestrians: Leaving education and care