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Board certify that the child should be so dealt with, you must notify the
County Council. You must also notify to the County Council any mentally
defective child who on or before attaining the age of 16 years is about to
be withdrawn or discharged from a special school, and who you think should
be sent to an institution or placed under guardianship. If notwithstanding the
certificate of the Certifying Officer the Education Committee is of opinion that
the name of the child should not be notified to the County Council, or if you
think that a child should be notified who has not been certified, the case must
be determined by the Board of Education.
MODEL ARRANGEMENTS.
The Board of Education have also issued a set of Model Arrangements
for dealing with mentally defective children. They for the most part deal
with the matters dealt with in the regulations. They provide further that the
Head Teachers shall report to you all children they come across attending
school, who appear or are reputed to be mentally defective, and the same
applies to Attendance Officers for children not attending school. The School
Medical Officers shall report to you all children found by them to be mentally
defective. This Committee will make arrangements for the examination by
the Certifying Officer of any child reported by these Officers or a parent. The
child shall be examined within three months of the age of 7 years and at such
other times as may appear to you desirable. You must also arrange for the
examination by the Certifying Officer of all children attending special schools
at least once a year (or once in six months if the parent desire it) in order to
determine whether (1) he can be discharged from the special school or class
to an ordinary elementary school, or (2) is capable of receiving further benefit
from the special school or class, or (3) whether he cannot be instructed there
without detriment to the interests of the other children.
The Certifying Officers will after examination furnish you with one of
five certificates and a full report on form "F." This has 8 headings and 63
sub-headings and occupies over two pages of closely written foolscap, so that
it is quite a formidable document. The blank forms of certificates A, B, C, D
and E and report F, will be supplied by the Board of Education.
MEMORANDUM.
The Board of Education have issued also a memorandum explanatory of
the Regulations and Model Arrangements, which documents have the approval
of the Board of Control, the central authority under the Act. The Board of
Education is of opinion that (speaking generally) children who are rightly
classified as "idiots or imbeciles" are ineducable, while children rightly