§ Mr. F. Macleanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to make a statement regarding the new detention centre for juvenile offenders near Kidlington.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeThe first detention centre, at Campsfield House, Kidlington, was opened on 25th August last. It is for boys over 14 years of age and under 17. It is at present available for use by courts in the Metropolitan Police District, the Home Counties, and the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire (except Birmingham), Worcestershire and the Black Country portion of Staffordshire. Fifty-one boys have so far been committed to the centre, and 195W 40 are there now. Thirty-five of the boys received were committed for 3 months, 7 for shorter terms and 9 for longer. It is too early as yet for any assessment of the results of this new form of sentence of which I personally have high hopes.