§ MR. GARNETTwished to ask the Vice President of the Board of Education, Whether it is the intention of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to cancel the Minute dated the 2nd day of June, 1856, so far as it relates to Reformatory Schools, certified by the Secretary of State under the Act 17 & 18 Vict., c. 86; and if so, whether it is intended that the 7s. per week at present allowed by the Home Office for the care and maintenance of each inmate detained under sentence in any such Reformatory School shall be the only public money granted for such purpose?
MR. COWPERsaid, that the time appeared to have now arrived when Reformatory Schools ought to be placed on a more permanent footing. The Home Office had now appointed a special inspector for Reformatory Schools, and it was desirable that the Votes to these schools should be distributed through a single department, instead of two. Reformatory Schools were now able to obtain important aid from borough and county rates, and it had become necessary that the Minute of June 2, 1856, should be greatly altered and modified. For some months past no new Reformatory Schools had received the grants of the Committee of Council on Education, and notice had been given that after a limited period to be named the existing reformatories would cease to receive these grants altogether.