| Description | Volume contains a procedure card for entering and discharging a child in the book, and example forms for admitting and discharging children from boarding out.
Indexed. Entries are in order of committee meetings (i.e. in approximate order of boarding out date). Placements appear to be mainly in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Wolverhampton, but there are also some further afield, such as Cardiff and Exeter.
Columns are: entry no.; details of child: surname, Christian names, date of birth, sex, religious persuasion; details of foster parents: surname, Christian names, address, religious persuasion; date boarded out; type of placing (short/long term, etc.); where child previously living; care authority or voluntary organisation by whom boarded out; by whom supervised; care authority (where child in care boarded out by voluntary organisation); date boarding out ceased; reason for cessation; remarks. |