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Records of the Invalid Children's Aid Association (ICAA), later known as Invalid Children's Aid Nationwide (I CAN), including:

Central Administration (LMA/4248/A) records which include: minutes, agendas and indexes of the committees of both ICAA and I CAN; a series of finance records, mainly ledgers and cash payment books; Director's correspondence files; reports; casework histories; books for applications for aid and holiday placements; and records concerning clinics, homes and the Word Blind Centre run by the ICAA.

Branch (LMA/4248/B) records which cover some of the divisions and branches of the ICAA including, in the London Area, Islington, Shoreditch, Stepney and south London, and in the County Area, covering Essex, Kent (mainly Woolwich), Middlesex (mainly Tottenham), and Surrey.

Schools and Homes (LMA/4248/C) records which cover the administration of residential special schools and homes run by ICAA and I CAN, including Dawn House School, Edith Edwards House School, John Horniman School, Pilgrims School and Meath School, and consists of minutes of governors, admission registers, children's ledgers, and visitors books, as well as log books for Brooklands Home School for Delicate Children, Clevedon School, Broadstairs, Kent, and Hamilton House School, Seaford, East Sussex.

Printed Material and Audio Visual (LMA/4248/D) records which includes a variety of printed material including annual reports, bulletins for the Word Blind Centre (1963-1972) and publications including those not produced by the charity but related to the work or requests of ICAA, and a catalogue of items in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V and A)'s Beatrix Potter collection relating to the charity, school magazines, photographs of schools, children, Royal visits and other events, video and film footage including children's activities at Edith Edwards House School, Surrey, and a comprehensive range of press cuttings on the charity's work.