HC Deb 24 July 1930 vol 241 cc2420-1W
Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE

asked the President of the Board of Education whether he has considered the proposal that girls who are still at school should be informed of the attractions offered by domestic service as a career; and, if so, whether he proposes to recommend the suggestion both to the appropriate Government Departments and to the local authorities concerned?

Miss BONDFIELD

I have been asked to reply. I may say that, with the approval of my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Education, local education authorities are increasingly providing for the teaching of domestic subjects in girls' schools. Conferences held at the schools, and juvenile committee rotas at the exchanges and bureaux, to advise children about to leave school on the selection of a career, recommend the adoption of a domestic vocation in the case of all girls for whom such occupation is considered most appropriate; the facilities provided by the home training centres are also made known in suitable instances. In the interests of the girl of secondary school education, the Headmistresses' Association, in conjunction with my Department, is on the point of publishing a pamphlet within the "Choice of Career" series on opportunities open to domestic science trained candidates.

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