HOMES FOR CHILDREN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 6

HOMES FOR CHILDREN

IN THE OVERSEAS EMPIRE REPORT BY BRITISH COMMITTEE OFFERS NOT YET FORMULATED IN DETAIL. CONTRIBUTIONS BY PARENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.20 p.m.) ' LONDON, June 24. The report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Children for Overseas has been issued. It confirms the main details already cabled. If applications become too numerous, preference will be given to applicants already evacuated under the United Kingdom scheme. Arrangements should be made by the receiving body lor supplying the children with extra, suitable clothes on arrival in the various countries. The board should make a per capita grant for this charge. Generous offers of maintenance from overseas are not yet fully formulated, but the committee recommends that where the United Kingdom contributes towards the maintenance, it should be at a Hat rate, irrespective of the actual contributions from individual parents. These latter contributions will be at the same rate as under United Kingdom evacuations, namely up. to nine shillings a week where the parents are agreeable, but six shillings, or in some cases less, where the parents are unable to oiler more. Parents of children attending non-grant-aided schools may be asked to pay higher contributions. Parents will be allowed to name relatives or friends overseas to whom they would like their children to be sent.