§ Mr. Fernyhoughasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on the future of his Department's approved schools welfare officers service;
(2) if, in view of the importance of their work, he will establish facilities for the training of approved school welfare officers;
221W(3) if he is aware of the big case load being carried by many approved school welfare officers; and what steps he proposes to take either to reduce the load or to provide facilities in the way of office accommodation and clerical assistance to enable the officers concerned to perform their duties more effectively.
§ Mr. BrookeIn their recent Report on the organisation of after-care my Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders recommended, as the Ingleby Committee had done previously, that in future the principal agents for carrying out approved school after-care supervision should be the proposed probation and after-care service and the local child care authorities, and that the approved school welfare service should be wound up. I have accepted this recommendation and, after discussion with representatives of the various approved school interests, I am now considering how it can best be implemented having in mind the need to safe
Year Terms of Trade* Imports United Kingdom Exports Balance of Payments Current Account (£ million) (October, 1951 = 100) Deficit (-) or Surplus (+) 1952 … 103 80 91 + 168 1953 … 108 76 91 + 148 1954 … 108 77 94 + 125 1955 … 107 89 102 - 156 1956 … 109 89 111 + 207 1957 … 111 93 117 + 216 1958 … 120 86 112 + 342 1959 … 120 92 118 + 140 1960 … 121 104 126 - 258 1961 … 125 101 130 - 10 1962 … 127 103 134 + 102 1963 … 125 111 144 + 117 (9 months) * Export unit value index as a percentage of the import unit value index.