Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, Volume VIII.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.
Date:
1908
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    E.—EDUCATION AND TRAINING. (Recommkndations LXXII.-LXXXVI.) Recommendation LXXIV. Chapter That the County Council or County Borough Council, as the case may The Conmiittoe XVII. above. ][)0^ acting through its Committee for the care of the mentally defective, be under statutory obligation to provide for the manual and industrial defective^o^be and other training of all mentally defective children who come under lesponsible for Classes (3) to (9) inclusive, in Recommendation IV., except such children who have not otherwise been properly and suitably provided for. defective children. Recommendation LXXV. ■Hoi para- j^raph 3(57. That the Local Education Authorities place at the disposal of the Medical Officer of the Committee the register and roll of children who are of age to attend school, and notify to him any cases of children of that age who are thought to be mentally defective, as defined in Recom- mendation IV., and that the Medical Officer of the Committee, or one of the Medical Officers of the Committee, after consultation with the Medical Officer of the Local Education Authority, report all such cases to the Committee with a view to action being taken under Recommenda- tions XLIX. or LI. Recommendation LXXVI. Local Plducation Authority to submit attendance register of children and notify mental defectives to Medical Officer of the Committee. That the Committee, in making their arrangements under the above Examination of Recommendation, shall provide facilities for enabling any parent who is defeetfv^Xdd^ of opinion that his child ought to be dealt with under the proposed Act Medical Officer to present such child to the Medical Officer of the Committee, or one Committee, of the Medical Officers of the Committee, or a certifying Medical Prac- titioner, to be examined, although he may not have been required so to do by the Committee, and any Committee failing to provide such facilities shall be deemed to have acted in contravention of the proposed Act. Recommendation LXXVII. That the Medical Officer of the Committee, or one of the Medical Report of Officers of the Committee, or a certifying Medical Practitioner, if he is Officer of opinion that any such child is mentally defective as defined in Committee. Recommendation IV., shall report to the Committee to that effect. Recommendation LXXVIII. That it shall be the duty of the parent of any child who may be Duty of parent required by the Medical Officer of the Committee to attend for the purpose attend of examination, to cause such child to attend with that object, and any examination, parent who fails to comply with such requirement shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds. Recommendation LXXIX. N<j<; para- ”rai)li 315. That where a school authority has made provision for the education of School Authority mentally defective children under the Elementary Education (Defective toryVbhgation*^^ and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899, by special classes in public elementary to contract with schools or by boarding out or by establishing schools:— the committee as to existing special (1) the classes or schools or the arrangements for boarding out schools or classes, children shall pass under the control of the Board of Control and shall not remain under the control of the Board of Education. (2) the school authority shall be under statutory obligation in the case of special schools or classes previously certified by the Board of Education to contract with the Committee for the education of such mentally defective children as the Committee may deem it advisable to educate in that manner.