§ 63. Mr. Ogdenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the types of employment and training that are available to boys and girls committed to approved schools, the remuneration that is paid for such work and the date when the rates of pay were last reviewed.
§ Miss BaconThe list of subjects in which practical training is available is as set out below. Children of school age in approved schools are not employed at all. Boys and girls over this age working in the training departments of a school are not paid but get pocket money. Older boys and girls may also go out to work and, where they do, the employer pays the rate for the job. The school then makes certain deductions, the boy or girl is allowed some spending money, and any sum remaining is saved for his or her release.
The main forms of practical training given in approved schools are as follows:
Boys
- Carpentry and joinery.
- Painting and decorating.
- Brickwork.
- Plastering.
- Plumbing.
- Electrical installation work.
- Cabinet making.
- Wood machinists' work.
- Mechanical engineering.
- Motor engineering.
- Agricultural engineering Farming.
- Gardening.
- Catering.
- Seamanship.
- Tailoring.
Girls
- Cookery.
- Housewifery.
- Needecraft.
- Laundry.
- Typing.
- Shorthand.
- Book-keeping.
- Gardening.
- Animal Husbandry.