§ 87. Mr. Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that Gillian Healan of Splott, Cardiff, was not informed that her appeal against committal to an approved school was to be heard on23rd September, that neither she nor her father were informed of the result of the appeal, that on a voluntary visit to the probation office in Cardiff she was taken in charge and sent off summarily to an approved school, that she was not allowed to visit her home to collect necessary drugs, and that she is partially paralysed following an attack of tubercular meningitis; and if he will conduct a full inquiry into all the circumstances of this case, and meanwhile release her from the approved school to which she has been taken.
§ Mr. WoodhouseWe are making urgent inquiries and will write to the hon. Member as soon as they are completed. Meanwhile this girl has been released from the approved school; she returned home on 30th November.