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In a few urgent cases the children are sent to the Holiday
Homes during the winter months, but the majority of the children
are sent away between April and October. Full advantage
is taken of the school holiday periods. In order to ensure that a
sufficient number of places will be available for Hornsey
children during the summer, it is necessary to book accommodation
at the Holiday Homes months ahead.
It is proposed, therefore, that the Children's Holiday SubCommittee
should meet in March each year and allocate among
the various schools the approximate number of holiday places
available, having regard to the amount of the funds in hand on
the 31st March. The Honorary Secretaries of the District Care
Committees would then be informed of this allocation and invited
to submit from time to time the names of the necessitous children
from their respective districts recommended for holidays. This
list would be prepared after consultation with the Head Teachers
concerned and forwarded to the Secretary for Education. The
children thus recommended would be examined in due course by
the School Medical Officer, and lists of the children finally selected
would be forwarded to the District Care Committees and the
Head Teachers, together with particulars as to the place and
time of the holiday in each case.
Schools of Recovery.
The Education Authority have entered into arrangements
by which delicate children may be sent to the following Schools
of Recovery for lengthy periods with the object of setting them
up into a condition of permanent good health:—
The Ogilvie Home and School, Clacton-on-Sea (for boys and
girls between 7 and 12 years of age).
The Russell-Cotes Home and School, Parkstone, Dorset (for
boys and girls between 6½ and 14 years of age).
The Middlesex King Edward VII. Memorial Home and
School, Bexhill (for boys and girls between 9 and 14 years
of age). N.B.—This institution is available as a school
of recovery during the winter months only.
During their stay at these Schools of Recovery the children
are taught by trained certificated teachers, and the schools are
recognised by the Board of Education as public elementary