§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what arrangements are made for the training of staff for junior attendance centres;
- (2) what arrangements he makes for the inspection of junior attendance centres;
- (3) what arrangements he makes for the maintenance of standards in junior attendance centres.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonJunior attendance centres are staffed by police officers or teachers who are already well qualified by their professional training and experience: no additional training has been found necessary. Inspections are carried out periodically by officers of the Social Work Service of the Department of Health and Social Security acting on our behalf, who make reports to us; the necessary standards are given effect by the Attendance Centre Rules (SI 1958, No. 1990) under which all the centres are required to operate.
§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department 48W voluntary and statutory, in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region in each of the last five years; and if he will indicate the total amount paid into each category in each respective year.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe table below lists the categories of grants paid during the last five years. It also shows classes of recipients for each category and the amounts paid in 1974–75. Financial information in a similar form for the four years preceding 1974–75 is not readily available and cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.
whether he will institute research to ascertain the success rate of junior attendance centres as measured by reconvictions or any other appropriate yardstick.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe Cambridge Institute of Criminology published a detailed study of attendance centres, carried out with Home Office encouragement, in 1961. ("Attendance Centres", by F. H. McClintock and others, Cambridge Studies in Criminology, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1961.) There are many claims upon scarce research resources and funds, and evaluation of penal measures is exceptionally difficult; however, we have in mind the possibility of supporting further research in this field.