A marked feature of looked after children is that the services they receive are restricted to the poor. The problems of better off families aren’t solved by taking their children into care. The social philosopher Richard Titmuss highlighted the dangers this poses in his famous dictum ‘separate discriminatory services for poor people have always tended to be poor quality services’. Whether that is still the case is hard to say as great efforts have been made to humanise provision with changes like deinstitutionalisation, safeguarding, care plans and staff training, but the links between care and deprivation seem as great as ever.

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儿童贫困：数字，语言和界限

照顾孩子的一个显着特征是，他们所获得的服务仅限于穷人。抚养子女并不能解决富裕家庭的问题。社会哲学家理查德·蒂姆斯（Richard Titmuss）在他著名的格言“为穷人提供单独的歧视性服务一直倾向于提供低质量的服务”中强调了这种危险。很难说是否仍然如此，因为人们已经在非机构化，保障，护理计划和员工培训等方面做出了巨大努力，以人性化提供服务，但是护理与剥夺之间的联系似乎一如既往。