This group did not include boys sent toapprovedschoolas a solution to more general social difficulties or inadequacies.
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According to the 1934 law, a juvenile who had escaped from anapprovedschoolcould only be punished by increasing the period of detention by six months at the most.
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There is one 15-year-old boy who has been there 31 days awaiting a place in anapprovedschool.
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My conviction is that a juvenile court never makes anapprovedschoolorder, unless it has come to the conclusion that it has no alternative.
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We do not want the situation to arise when simply because a child has been to anapprovedschoolit is stigmatised for life.
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There is an essential difference between a fit person order and anapprovedschoolorder.
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They are better qualified to judge than the court, which would have seen nothing of the boy since he was sent to theapprovedschool.
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Whatever the cause, a term of 17 months in anapprovedschoolfor such an offence as truancy is beyond understanding—certainly beyond mine.
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Only one was sent to anapprovedschool.
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I feel strongly that this is an offence which does not merit detention in anapprovedschool.
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Perhaps it was because they were lower-than-average intelligence that they had become in moral danger and had been sent to anapprovedschool.
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Four hundred and fifty-four boys and 27 girls, including committals to await removal to anapprovedschool.
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These figures include committals to await removal to anapprovedschool.
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The total prison, borstal,approvedschooland detention centre population was 34,700.
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I once visited anapprovedschoolwhich had 118 boys in residence at the time.
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