"DULL" CHILDREN
ENGLISH INVESTIGATION
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received January 28, 12.10 p.m.)
RUGBY, January 27.
■The- Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) announced that in order to gather information about methods of treatment of juvenile delinquency he is holding a conference of people interested in these problems. One of the objects will be to discover the percentage of "dull' children in ordinary schools and in Home Office, schools.
Sir Samuel Hoare remarked that the Home Office schools were not prisons but schools, and very good ones. About 8000 boys and girls were being trained in them, and when it was-realised how many had been, handicapped by poverty, unsatisfactory homes, and mental or physical backwardness, their success was remarkable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 9
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