| AdminHistory | The Approved School and Remand Homes Sub-Committee was formed in July 1949, and comprised of eleven members, six of whom were from the Children’s Committee, and five of whom were co-opted, but must have specialist knowledge or experience of the Approved Schools and Remand Homes and their work. The main function of this sub-committee was to manage and administer the Shawbury Approved School and the Copeley Hill Hostel and Remand Homes.
Under the new Approved Schools Act, 1933, the old Industrial School at Shustoke was renamed the Shawbury Approved School. Copeley Hill, Erdington, was a hostel and a Remand Home. The sub-committee also looked after other Remand Homes, of which there were several. The Moseley Road Home was originally for junior girls and boys, but during the Second World War took boys only. This was because a new home for girls, the Limes at Selly Oak, had been brought into operation due to the increase of girls coming under Council care. Finally, there was Forhill House, Kings Norton.
This sub-committee remained in operation until the Local Authority Social Services Act, 1970, when the Children’s Committee and the Welfare Committee were merged into the new Social Services Committee (see BCC/1/DJ). A special sub-sub-committee was also appointed to attend to matters relating to discipline at the Shawbury School, examining the rate of truancy, the reasons behind it, and the general routine and training and discipline within the school (see BCC/1/CT/7/1/6). |