| Description | Minute volumes indexed and signed by the committee Chairman. The minutes of this sub-committee are bound in their own volumes, although the minute volume for the year 1938 is currently missing (see BCC/1/BH/2/1/1/30). The minutes are handwritten up until the end of 1912, after which they appear in typescript format. The minute books were originally accessioned under the reference MS 280. The volumes contain details of the duties of the sub-committee as outlined above, and include HM Inspectors reports on Council and Voluntary Schools, recommendations for the appointment of named staff, lists of absences of named teachers, applications for leave by named teachers, the maintenance and extension of school accommodation, and reports and resolutions of several of the smaller Teaching Staff Sub-Committee, Domestic Subjects Sub-Committee, Day Trade Schools Sub-Committee and Nursery Schools Sub-Committee.
The minutes also include reports concerning the responsibilities of the Education Committee under the Adoption of Children Act, 1926, and the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933. Details include the names and ages of children appearing before the Juvenile Court in need of care and protection, name of person or body bringing child before court, the charge, and the result of the case. The Chief Education Officer reported quarterly and then annually from 1936 to the sub-committee on the working of the Adoption of Children Act. Children’s names are not given but rather the number of applications, where cases were heard, the number of successful adoptions and the number of applications refused or withdrawn.
Other statistical information given includes the numbers of applications for legitimate and illegitimate children and the numbers adopted by Adoption Societies or through other organisations or committees. Statistical returns on the Employment of Children are given from 1928. Children’s names are not given but details include the numbers of children licensed to trade in the streets, the numbers of children between 12 - 14 years registered for employment, the number of summons issued in street trading cases and the results of prosecutions, and the number of offenders in general employment cases and the result of cases, such as the amount of fine. Throughout the minute books there are occasional references to the names of children and the school they attend. |