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The employed children are carefully supervised and the Committee
satisfied that the conditions are satisfactory and the regulations complied with.
An endeavour is made to examine all employed children once a year to ensure
that the conditions of employment have no retrograde effect on the child's
health.
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY
TO CHILDREN.
The Local Education Authority have found it to be advantageous to
seek the assistance of the N.S.P.C.C. in connection with difficult cases of
children of school age whose non-attendance at school was alleged to be due
to neglect in the home. During the year ended 31st March, 1934, officers of
this Society, at the direct request of the Authority, paid 31 visits to 7
families in respect of 16 children, the majority of whom were absent from
school owing to the above cause. The intervention by the Society's Officers
had beneficial results in each case and dispensed with the necessity for Police
Court proceedings being taken by the Authority against the parents. In July,
1933, the Local Education Authority made a contribution to the Society of
£5 5s. Od. for these services,