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Loan of Girls to the Weekly Boarding Unit
Girl trainees are loaned to the Weekly Boarding Unit for 12 hours each week helping
to look after and play with the children in the Unit.
Laundry
More work was taken, and between 500 and 600 articles are now being laundered
weekly.
Christmas Crackers
More crackers were made this year than previously, and many orders were forthcoming
for the following year. Only certain trainees were sufficiently adept for this work."
Uxbridge Adult Training Centre
Uxbridge Adult Training Centre is a mixed centre providing 125 places. The Manager reports
on the year as follows:
"During 1965 the Centre was fortunate in maintaining a steady flow of work; October
was the exception when approximately one third of the trainees were not fully occupied.
Some work contracts were finished and new ones were obtained from other sources.
Due to staff shortages the garden activities were severely curtailed.
Six trainees obtained employment and are continuing to give satisfactory service to
their respective employers.
Future plans are for courses of further education for trainees, who would thereby
benefit, and for the segregation of the very low grade trainees."
These Centres cater for children and trainees not only from the London Borough of Hillingdon,
but also from the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hounslow, Richmond-uponThames
and Surrey County Council.
New Projects
(a) In Hand
As mentioned earlier in this report, the Borough took over a Hostel for the Mentally 111 in the
building stage. However, as this Borough has already a 30-place Hostel for the Mentally 111, this
new Hostel would be more useful for subnormal cases. At the close of 1965, consideration was being
given to this matter.
(b) In Future
The existing Junior Training Centre and Special Care Unit are in adapted premises which are
not suitable or satisfactory. Accordingly, in the Ten Year Plan it is proposed to commence the
replacement of the Junior Training Centre and Special Care Unit in 1966. Consideration is also being
given in succeeding years to the provision of a Workshop for the Subnormal to be attached to the
Hostel for Subnormal Patients, a Home and Day Centre for the elderly mentally ill, and purposebuilt
Adult Training Centre and Weekly Boarding Unit as the present ones are in adapted premises
and are not entirely satisfactory.
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