BOARDED-OUT CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2553, 30 August 1915, Page 2

BOARDED-OUT CHILDREN

ALLEGED NEED FOR REFORM. Under an arrangement between the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board "and the Wellington Education Department there exists a system jn Wellington, and elsewliere in New Zealand of boarding-out destitute children' with certain people wlio are recompensed b ythe State through the Education Department by money collected by rates by the City Council and paid over to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. From time to time over a period of many years the system has been criticised as one that does not altogether fulfil the intentions of the legislation provided for its operation. It is maintained that some of the children do not get the benefits of a' comfortable liome life, as was intended, but are ''farmed out" to people who make a regular business of it. The Charitable Aid Board has 110 jurisdic- ( tion to oversee the children or tho habi-' tations in which they are placed. Tho matter lias been brought under tho notice of the Minister (Hon. J. A. Hanan), and a deputation of members of the board is to wait upon him 011 Wednesday next. -