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Approved School Orders

Volume 530: debated on Thursday 22 July 1954

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104.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action is taken by courts to see that in all cases where boys are ordered by a magistrate to be sent to an approved school from a remand home such orders are carried out; and in how many cases his attention has been called to non-compliance with such orders.

It is open to a court to authorise the detention in a remand home of a child or young person in respect of whom an approved school order has been made pending the completion of arrangements for his reception into a suitable school or on account of his ill-health. Such an order falls to be renewed by the court after each period of 28 days, and is therefore kept periodically under review by the court. I am not aware of any case of the kind referred to by the hon. Member.