CHILD WELFARE
DEPARTMENT'S NEW POLICY
(Ter Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
Important changes are about to lie made by the chad welfare brunch of the Education Department with regard to older girls who require institutional training, it is proposed to close the girls' school at Cavershani, Dunedin, and remove the inmates to a suitable place in Christchurch, which will be thoroughly modern in its equipment and more central. The policy of the department is to leave children in their homes wherever possible, but if this cannot be done then to pl:r:e them in a family home. There are 12 small receiving homes in various centres for children without parents or with unsuitable parents, "or who have committed offences, Those requiring discipline number approximately 7o boys and 20 girls, and the department finds it new necessary to provide a separate place for the older girls. Certain proposals have been put forward for a "central village" of cottage homes to deal with children generally, but the number is too small, in the department's estimation, for an elaborate and costly scheme.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16389, 11 July 1927, Page 7
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