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Close co-operation and communication with the School Health Service has
proceeded during the year, particularly regarding school leavers from the schools
for the educationally subnormal, who are likely to need assistance at the commencement
of their adult life. These school leavers and young adults benefit particularly
from the community care service provided and this is reflected in the number who,
with the co-operation of the Juvenile Employment Officer and the Disablement
Resettlement Officer of the Ministry of Labour, are able to obtain and maintain
work in the community. Experience has shown that the attitude of employers
and employees is very important, and that with a better understanding of the problems
of the subnormal, wider fields of activity in which these patients can be
employed are opened up.
During 1965 a total of six trainees left the Adult Training Centre to enter
ordinary employment.
Junior Training Schools
These schools are provided for those children who under Section 57 of the
Education Act, 1944, are deemed to be suffering from a disability of mind of such
a nature or to such an extent as to make them incapable of receiving education at
a school provided by the Local Education Authority.
The London Borough of Enfield inherited the Enfield Junior Training School,
situated within the Borough at Waverley Road, and at which, places are reserved for
children from the London Borough of Haringey. In the same way, there are some
Enfield children placed at the Friern Barnet Junior Training School in the London
Borough of Barnet.
The present provision at the Enfield Junior Training School of 120 places, plus
24 places in a special care unit, is thought to be adequate for the Borough's immediate
future needs. The building, which has been adapted for the purpose, is not,
however, adequate and its replacement by a new one, providing a total of 150 places,
is scheduled in the Ten-Year Plan.
This year, in order to provide more room in the main building for the special
care unit, an additional general class-room was erected in the grounds.
The Junior Training School is open for the ordinary school terms and coaches
are used to convey the children to and from school.
The number on the roll at the end of the year was 123, plus 24 for the Special
Care Unit. The waiting list was 6.
Regular local authority medical and dental care, including speech therapy and
physiotherapy, is provided for the children.
The work done at the school by the Supervisor and her staff is both impressive
and commendable, and the whole pattern is completed by the mental welfare officers,
who maintain a bridge between the home and the school, by their supportive
community work.
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