| AdminHistory | With the passing of the Children and Young Persons Act in 1933 the management of remand homes for the detention of children and young people, the temporary detention of children and young people waiting for trial before a Juvenile Court or for children and young people waiting for conveyance to an industrial/approved school or boarding out placement was transferred from the Watch Committee (see BCC/1/AC) to the Education Committee.
This change brought the Remand Home for Boys on 232 Moseley Road within the powers of the Education Committee. It was resolved that the work should be delegated to a sub-committee of the Juvenile Employment and Welfare Sub-Committee and the existing Committee of Management of the Moseley Road Remand Home was asked to continue in office to provide some continuity. The Remand Home Sub-Committee of the Juvenile Employment and Welfare Sub-Committee first met in January 1934. The Remand Home Sub-Committee appointed its own Executive Committee to conduct routine business in the home.
The Moseley Road Remand Home moved premises in 1940 to the Camp School at Bell Heath, having been bombed during the Second World War. It moved again in 1941 to Fircroft College, Oaktree Lane, Bournville. In 1947 older boys were moved from Fircroft to premises provided by Mr Barrow Cadbury at Forhill House, Kings Norton. During this period a few girls had been accommodated on remand at the Girls’ Hostel, Bristol Road, but in 1944 a second house called ‘The Limes’ was acquired on Bristol Road and was opened as a remand home for senior girls along the lines of Forhill House. With the passing of the Children Act in 1948 the newly created Children’s Committee became responsible for the management of remand homes (see BCC/1/CT). Other welfare responsibilities also transferred were the cottage homes, hostels and boarding out and the adoption of children. |