Undisciplined Girls
CHANGE IN POLICY CHILD WELFARE DEPT. Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. IMPORTANT changes are about to be made by the Child Welfare Branch of the Education Department with regard to older girls who require institutional training. It is proposed to close the girls’ school at Caversham, Dunedin, and to 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 the children in their homes wherever possible, but if this cannot be done, to place 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 75 boys and 30 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 so elaborate and costly a scheme.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 12
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165Undisciplined Girls Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 12
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