§ Mr. ACLAND ALLENasked the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the action of the Wolverhampton Board of Guardians in allowing the workhouse to be used as a place of detention for juvenile offenders, although the consent of the Local Government Board had been refused to such an arrangement on the ground that the workhouse was not a proper place for such a purpose; and will he say what action he proposes to take?
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§ Mr. BURNSI understand that in June last a boy was brought to the Wolverhampton Workhouse by a policeman with an order for admission signed by a stipendiary magistrate, and was admitted. The clerk to the guardians subsequently informed the clerk to the magistrate that this was irregular, as the Local Government Board had not given their consent to the workhouse being used as a place of detention for children. The Local Government Board have recently been approached by the Staffordshire Standing Joint Committee, with a request that they will consent to the workhouse being used as a place of detention for children under the Children Act, 1908, and have intimated to them that consent could only be given if certain conditions can be fulfilled, and for a limited period.