§ 13. Mr. Fitchasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he proposes to introduce the Group Council Scheme into all Her Majesty's prisons; and if he will make a statement on this experiment.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe object of group counselling is to help inmates to think out their attitude to society, to authority and to their own future by means of free discussion in a small group with a member of the staff. The system is in operation in six prisons and five Borstals, and I am arranging for its extension to three more prisons and three more Borstals. Whether it will prove desirable or practicable to use it in all prisons I cannot yet say.