§ Mr. T. GRIFFITHSasked the Home Secretary whether he has received any communication from the women probation officers for the London Juvenile Courts expressing the views that, fundamentally, the present system of dealing with the juvenile delinquent requires no drastic change, that in their opinion it is essential in probation work that the magistrate should be in close personal touch with the child through the probation officer, deprecating the creation of a Central Court presided over by one magistrate only instead of the existing District Juvenile Courts, and strongly urging that the appointment of women assessors in Children's Courts to be entirely unnecessary; and if he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. SHORTTI have received the communication referred to in the first part of the question. It is based on an entire misconception of what the Bill proposes, but of course the views of experienced women probation officers will receive every consideration.