YOUTH CHARTER
PLAN FOR AFTER WAR
WORK AND EDUCATION
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Sept 14. A post-war charter for youth, issued today as a White Paper, recommends a 44-hour working week, inclusive of part-time school, a month's paid holiday, the raising of the school leaving age to 16, and attendance at day continuation schools until 18, with grants or allowances for parents. Other recommendations include a building programme to guarantee healthy living conditions for all youth, experiments in uniform methods of religious education by youth clubs and centres, and statutory powers for local education authorities to aid youth to find the right employment. Conversion of some military camps into holiday camps—possibly under an international scheme —is suggested. The potentialities of the cinema for good are realised in the substitution of planned cinema-going, while a quicker and wider distribution of cheap editions of good books is urged. It is recommended that the 44-hour week shall apply up to 16 in wartime and up to 18 in peacetime, and that half the holiday with pay shall be consecutive between March 15 and October 1, with Board of Education grants. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1943, Page 5
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193YOUTH CHARTER Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1943, Page 5
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