'''State Children's Aid Association''' or '''State Children's Association''' was a British children's rights organization established in 1896 to support the welfare of pauper children.<ref name="TheCharity1897">{{cite book |author1=Charity Organisation Society |title=The Charity Organisation Review |date=1897 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Company |location=London |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjRFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA184 |access-date=10 September 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="archiveshub">{{cite web |title=State Children Aid Association - Archives Hub |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/9db5deea-6b43-3ed4-8a61-b9b06066ab50 |website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk |access-date=14 September 2023}}</ref> The association was active from 1897 until 1937.<ref name="VoluntarySocial1948">{{cite book |last1=Mess |first1=Henry Adolphus |title=Voluntary Social Services Since 1918 Volume 193 |date=1998 |orig-date=First published 1948 |publisher=Routledge |pages=123–124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCaNphcKh-gC}}</ref> Its headquarters were in London, at 61 Old Broad Street, E.C. in 1899<ref name="TheEnglishwoman1899" /> and at 117 Picadilly, W.1. in 1923.<ref name="TheEduTimes1923">{{cite journal |title=Association News |journal=The Education Times |date=May 1923 |volume=75 |issue=721 |page=197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBvoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA197 |access-date=14 September 2023 |publisher=S. Birch |language=en}}</ref> The main objects of the association were to obtain individual treatment for children under the guardianship of the State, and to obtain for the State further powers of control over neglected children. It agitated for better treatment of the many thousand orphan and other children dependent upon the public and advocated for doing away with barrack schools.<ref name="Labour1897">{{cite book |title=Labour-copartnership |date=1897 |publisher=At the office of the Labour Association |location=London |page=203 |volume=3 |issue=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-IsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR203 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
The organization was established in 1896 by Henrietta Barnett and her sister's husband, Dr Ernest Hart.<ref name="BritishWelfare2017">{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=John |title=The British Welfare Revolution, 1906-14 |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9781350025738 |pages=212–214}}</ref> Its first chair was Hon. Lord Herschell. Serving on its governing committees in 1897, in addition to Barnett and Hart, were Sir William Hart Dyke, the Bishops of Hereford and Lichfield, Sir James Crichton-Browne, Sir Henry Thompson, and Dr. Thomas John Barnardo.<ref name="BritishMedJ1897">{{cite journal |title=Poor-Law Children |journal=British Medical Journal |date=27 February 1897 |volume=1 |page=542 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA542 |access-date=14 September 2023 |publisher=British Medical Association |language=en}}</ref> In 1899, Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel served as the chair, Alfred Fowell Buxton as Hon. Treasurer, and Mrs. Francis Rye as Hon. Secretary.<ref name="Progress1898">{{cite book |last1=Warwick |first1=Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville Countess of |title=Progress in Women's Education in the British Empire: Being the Report of the Education Section, Victorian Era Exhibition, 1897 |date=1898 |publisher=Longmans, Green |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igZBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61 |access-date=10 September 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="TheEnglishwoman1899">{{cite book |last1=Mitton |first1=Geraldine Edith |last2=Hubbard |first2=Louisa M. |last3=Janes |first3=Emily |title=The Englishwoman's Year Book and Directory for the Year ... |date=1899 |publisher=F. Kirby, Publisher |page=212 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oa8MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA212 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="TheLancet1898">{{cite journal |title=The State Children's Aid Association |journal=The Lancet |date=23 April 1898 |page=1133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVBKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1133 |access-date=10 September 2023 |publisher=J. Onwhyn |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
The State Children's Aid Association issued its first annual report in April 1898.<ref name="TheLancet1898" /> Some of the association's committee records are held by the LSE Library Archives and Special Collections.<ref name="archiveshub" />
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Category:Defunct organisations based in London Category:Children's rights organisations in the United Kingdom Category:1896 establishments in England Category:1937 disestablishments in England