MR. WHEELHOTTSEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in view of recent occurrences, it be not possible, either by the exercise of powers now in existence, or, failing them, by statutory enactment, to ensure the due provision of so-called Homes and Houses of Refuge for Children; and, if such powers can not now be enforced, whether he will, early next Session, introduce a Bill having for its object such supervision?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that in May last he sent a Circular to Mayors and other local authorities with regard to the due supervision of so-called Homes and Houses of Refuge for Children, and the answers he had received led him to hope no further legislation would be necessary.