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134 Annual Report of the London County Council, 1914.
Defective children subject to be dealt with under the Act by way of notification—
(e) Defective children—
(i.) Who have been ascertained to be incapable by reason of mental defect of receiving
(1) benefit, or (2) further benefit, in special schools or classes, or (3) who cannot be instructed
in a special school or class without detriment to the interests of the other children, or
(4) in regard to whom there are special circumstances which render it desirable that they
should be dealt with under this Act by way of supervision or guardianship.
(ii.) who on or before attaining the age of 16 are about to be withdrawn or discharged
from a special school or class, and in whose case it is considered that it would be to their
benefit that they should be sent to an institution or placed under guardianship.
(9) The education officer shall compile a register of the children reported to him on the appropriate
forms, and shall add to the register the names of any children who, in his opinion, or, in the opinion of the
school medical officer, should be included therein. The education officer shall forward the forms, and
particulars of all children in the register, to the school medical officer, who shall arrange for a medical
examination of the children by a certifying officer approved by the Board of Education under section
1 (3) of the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899. Any child, who has
attained the age of seven years, reported for examination to the school medical officer in accordance
with these arrangements, shall be examined within three months of such report. Before giving a certificate
the certifying officer shall, if so directed by the Education Committee, or if he is so requested by the
parent of the child, consult the head teacher of the school, if any, which the child has been attending,
or such other person as the Education Committee may appoint for the purpose, and a copy of any report
made by the head teacher or such other person shall be forwarded to the Committee.
(10) The school medical officer shall, after the examination of the children, return the forms
to the education officer, with his reports on the children, together with, where required by the Mental
Deficiency (Notification of Children) Regulations, 1914, the certificates of the certifying officer (schedules
B, C, D or E of Model Arrangements of Board of Education), and the medical record cards (particulars
required by schedule F of Model Arrangements) in respect of the children.
(11) The Education Committee will inform the parent of any child affected by these arrangements
of any action proposed to be taken with reference to that child under these arrangements.
(12) The names and addresses of the children, together with the reports of the head teachers or
divisional superintendents, etc., who nominated the children, the report of the school medical officer,
the certificates of the certifying officer, the medical record cards, the observations of the parents and the
care or after-care committee concerned, and such other reports as the education officer may consider
desirable shall be presented to the Education Committee by the education officer.
(13) The names and addresses of the children certified by the certifying officer to be idiot, imbecile
or moral imbecile shall be notified on the approved form to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee,
and the certificates of the certifying officer (schedules C, D or E of Model Arrangements) and the
medical record cards of the children, together with such other reports upon the children as may have
been obtained, shall be forwarded with the notification.
(14) Copies of the reports of the certifying officer (Board of Education Form 306m) in respect of
children certified as being incapable, by reason of mental defect, of receiving benefit or further benefit from
instruction in a special school or of being instructed in a special school without detriment to the interests
of the other children except those dealt with in paragraph 13, shall be forwarded to the Board of Education,
and if after consideration of the reports the Board so require, the Education Committee shall
submit to the Board, for determination, the question whether the names and addresses of the children
should be notified to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee. In the event of the Board offering
no observations in regard to such notification, or determining in favour of notification, the names and
addresses of the children shall be notified on the approved form to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency
Committee, and the certificates of the certifying officer (schedules C, D or E of Model Arrangements),
and the medical record cards of the children, together with such other reports upon the children as may
have been obtained, shall be forwarded with the notification.
(15) In the case of a child reported by the head teacher of a school for the mentally defective or
other reponsible person as requiring supervision or guardianship owing to unfavourable home conditions,
or other special circumstances, but who is certified by the certifying officer as being not incapable of
receiving benefit from instruction in a special school (schedule B of Model Arrangements), the Education
Committee shall consider the reports provided for in paragraph 12 above and shall decide whether the
name and address of the child should be notified or arrangements made for the child's admission to a
residential school for the mentally defective or that no action be taken. When it is proposed to notify
such a case the special circumstances shall be reported to the Board of Education, and if the Board certify
that the circumstances render it desirable that the child should be dealt with under the Mental Deficiency
Act by way of supervision or guardianship, the name and address of the child shall be notified on the
approved form to the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee, and the reports which may have
been obtained upon the child shall be forwarded with the notification.
(1C) In the cases of the children reported by the head teachers of 'he schools for the mentally
defective, or other responsible persons, as being about to be withdrawn or discharged from a special school
on or before attaining the age of 16, and in whose case it is considered that it would be to their benefit
that they should be sent to an institution or placed under guardianship under the provisions of the
Mental Deficiency Act, the Education Committee shall consider the reports provided for in paragraph
12 above and shall decide whether or not the names and addresses of the children should be notified.
In the event of it being decided to notify such a case, the name and adddress cf the child shall be notified