HC Deb 13 July 1928 vol 219 cc2630-2W
Mr. JOHNSTON

asked the Minister of Labour what was the amount spent in training unemployed adolescents between the ages of 16 and 18 during the first six months of this year; and in which centres such training facilities are available.

Mr. BETTERTON

Exact information is not available, but it is estimated that the proportion of the cost of juvenile unemployment centres from 1st January to 30th June, 1928, applicable to juveniles between the ages of 16 and 18 is about £25,000, and that the cost of training of juveniles of the above ages who attended centres conducted by the Central Committee on Women's Training and Employment during the same period was about £4,200. Lists of juvenile unemployment centres and of those home training centres to which juveniles are admitted are given below:

Juvenile Unemployment Centres:

  • Barking.
  • West Ham.
  • Bristol.
  • Plymouth (including Devonport).
  • Portsmouth.
  • Burslem.
  • Fenton.
  • Wolverhampton.
  • Ashington (including Bedlington, Newbiggin and Pegswood).
  • Bishop Auckland (including Spennymoor, etc.).
  • Durham.
  • Gateshead (including Blaydon, Felling, Dunston and Chester-le-Street).
  • Grimsby.
  • Hull.
  • Jarrow (including Hebburn, Wallsend and Willington Quay).
  • Middlesbrough (including South Bank and Thornaby).
  • Newburn.
  • Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Sheffield.
  • South Shields (including North Shields).
  • Sunderland (including Houghton-le-Spring, etc.).
  • West Stanley (including Consett).
  • Birkenhead.
  • Bootle.
  • Liverpool.
  • Manchester.
  • Edinburgh (including Leith).
  • Glasgow.
  • Greenock.
  • Motherwell.
  • Abertillery.
  • Aberdare.
  • Ammanford.
  • Bargoed.
  • Blaina.
  • Cardiff.
  • Ebbw Vale.

Date. Men. Boys. Women. Girls. Total.
Devonport.
4th June 1928 … … 1,488 51 100 54 1,693
11th June 1928 … … 1,508 51 73 55 1,687
18th June 1928 … … 1,492 49 94 54 1,689
25th June 1928 … … 1,492 51 86 52 1,681
Plymouth.
4th June 1928 … … 3,114 118 267 54 3,553
11th June 1928 … … 3,172 103 255 53 3,583
18th June 1928 … … 3,035 102 261 48 3,446
25th June 1928 … … 3,001 106 257 55 3,419

  • Ferndale.
  • Maesteg.
  • Merthyr.
  • Neath.
  • Pontypool.
  • Pontypridd.
  • Port Talbot.
  • Swansea.
  • Tonypandy.

Home Training Centres:

  • Blyth.
  • Annfield Plain.
  • Bishop Auckland.
  • Durham.
  • Stockton.
  • Aberdare.
  • Pontypool.
  • Abertillery.
  • Swansea.
  • Barry.
  • Brynmawr.
  • Hengoed.
  • Pontypridd.
  • Ystrad, Rhondda.
  • Hamilton.
  • Cowdenbeath.
  • Falkirk.
  • Bathgate.
  • Motherwell.