HC Deb 13 March 1930 vol 236 cc1479-80
60. Captain PETER MACDONALD

asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the number of unemployed women and the difficulty of obtaining female domestic labour, he will consider the possibility of giving special domestic training to suitable pupils during their final year at the State elementary schools and of making special arrangements for placing such girls in suitable households?

Sir C. TREVELYAN

A large number of the girls in public elementary schools already receive instruction in domestic subjects during their last years at school, and the schemes of reorganisation now being carried out will lead to a considerable further increase in the facilities for this work. Arrangements already exist in many areas for placing girls in employment, either through the juvenile employment bureaux of the local education authorities or through the Employment Exchanges of the Ministry of Labour.

Mr. ISAACS

If anything is done in this connection, will the right hon. Gentleman ascertain as to the suitability of the households by inquiring of previous servants?