§ Mr. HENRY WALKERasked the President of the Local Government Board, in view of the importance of preserving children as far as possible from any connection with the workhouse, whether he sanctioned the practice of some boards of 278 guardians of bringing children from receiving homes to the workhouse to be handed over to their parents when these were taking their discharge; and, if not, whether he would express his official disapproval of the practice in question?
§ Mr. BURNSIt is necessary when an able-bodied parent is discharged from the workhouse that his children should be discharged with him, and in these circumstances it does not seem to be practicable to avoid an arrangement of the kind referred to in the question.