| AccessConditions | The minute books of the Industrial Schools After-Care Sub-Committee and its successor sub-committees contain sensitive personal data about children throughout. The minutes include information on individual inmates with names, ages and dates of birth, name of school attended, date of committal, type of present employment and any reports or other remarks. The records have therefore been closed for 100 years, in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998). |
| AdminHistory | The management of Industrial Schools for children committed by the magistrates was the responsibility of the Attendance, Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee from 1903 - 1927 (see BCC/1/BH/7/1), after which it was then transferred to the Special Schools Sub-Committee (see BCC/1/BH/5/1). The passing of the Children Act in 1948 saw the transfer of responsibility of approved schools as they were later known from the Special Schools Sub-Committee to the newly constituted Children’s Committee (see BCC/1/CT). There is evidence of after-care work being undertaken with young people leaving industrial or approved schools in reports by the Attendance, Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee to the Education Committee. However, from 1922 it appears that such work was to be undertaken by the Juvenile Employment and Welfare Sub-Committee as they appointed an Industrial Schools After-Care Sub-Committee at their first meeting in November 1922.
Members of the After-Care Sub-Committee visited the young people on a regular basis and they tried to help them find employment to which they were suited. After the passing of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, Industrial Schools became known as Approved Schools certified by the Home Office. The After-Care Sub-Committee changed its own name in December 1929 from the Industrial Schools After-Care Sub-Committee to the Home Office Schools After-Care Sub-Committee, and from December 1934 the sub-committee changed its name again to the Approved Schools After-Care Sub-Committee. |