HC Deb 19 February 1964 vol 689 cc220-1W
Mr. Fernyhough

asked 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;

(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. Brooke

In 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.