CHARTER FOR YOUTH
4 PROPOSALS IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 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 till 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 plan- ' i:ed 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 war time and up to 18 in peace time, and that . half the holiday with pay shall be con- ! secutive between March 15 and October 1, with Board of Education ■ grants. 1
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1943, Page 5
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