§ 38. Mr. William Wellsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department at how many detention centres the course of training is based on a six-month period of detention; and whether such centres are now available so that courts of competent jurisdiction may now order committal to them.
§ Mr. TaverneOne detention centre at Swinfen Hall, Lichfield, provides a special course of training for boys sentenced to six months' detention. At all other detention centres in England and Wales, young persons may be committed to serve for three or six months' sentences but there is no separate course of training for the latter.