HC Deb 18 May 1944 vol 400 cc317-8
10. Mr. Graham White

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the practice of the Rochdale admonition court, by which children are cautioned by a panel consisting of the director of education, a member of the school attendance sub-committee, a head-teacher and a senior police officer, with the object of keeping them from appearing before the juvenile court; if he is aware that the court has been in existence since April, 1942; whether the system is followed elsewhere and if it has his sanction.

Mr. H. Morrison

My attention has been drawn to the arrangement to which my hon. Friend refers and I am in communication with the Chief Constable on the subject. So far as I am aware, the system is not followed elsewhere; it has not received my sanction.

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