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Miss Johnson, Supervisor of the Redbridge Junior Training Centre retired at the
end of the summer after 36 years of dovoted service to the mentally handicapped
children and we wish her a very active and happy retirement.
Hyleford
Junior
Training
School
This exciting new building opened its doors in September for the
new term. Staff and children were delighted with it and everybody feels
very much at home. Lady Grenfell formally declared the school opened
on 28th September, a ceremony which was attended by many guests and
followed by a conducted tour arousing a great deal of interest.
Both the Special Care Unit and the Nursery Class are in heavy
demand. We admit children at the age of 3, or younger in cases of special
need. A programme of activities and training in keeping with the advanced
design of the building is already well under way.
Burnside
Adult
Training
Centre
This Centre, now in its second year, has proved itself to be extremely
well adapted for its purpose. A new programme of social training
was begun in the autumn; its aim is to make sure that all trainees receive
all the training they are capable of using, and that this is well
grounded in basic "know how".
Side by side with this go efforts to make the work programme more
diversified, productive and realistic. An improved Incentive Payment
Scheme is being worked out.
The Centre is very active in participating in sports and games
organised in the region. Staff join members of the Redbridge Society for
Mentally Handicapped Children in running a Social Club which holds
regular meetings at the Centre.
Mental Health
Hostel
Abury House, until recently the headquarters of District Nurses, is
being adapted as a 12-bedded hostel for the rehabilitation of patients
suffering from psychiatric illness. Referrals will be taken from any
sources within the Borough; though most patients will initially come from
within psychiatric hospitals, it is hoped that later suitable cases will
also be referred from psychiatric out-patients and G.P's, circumventing
in some cases the need for hospital admission. The hostel is to be
mixed, and will be very flexible as far as diagnostic categories and
length of stay are concerned.