Approved Schools: Issues for the System
The cost of care and the question of success.
Approved Schools
The Ingleby Report:Chaired by Viscount Ingleby
A thorough review of the management of young offenders
The Beginning of the Approved School System
How standards of staffing, training and physical conditions in schools for young offenders were improved over four decades.
‘The Second Curtis Report’ Chaired by Dame Myra Curtis
An outstanding report which had a massive impact at a critical point
A Measure of Success
An event which showed the long-term impact of Wellesley’s nautical training
A Brief History of Events and Trends from 1695 to 1969 in the Residential Care of Young Offenders in the UK
1695 August Hermann Francke (1663-1727) opened an orphan asylum at Halle in Germany, the first reformatory. 1706 Jean Baptiste de la Salle (1651-1719) started a boarding school at St. Yon, France, which evolved into a reformatory; several Roman Catholic approved schools are still run by the Brothers of St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle. 1735-1811 … Read more
The Month’s Theme: Looking Back to Look Forward
If one is working with children and young people there is usually so much going on that one does not have time to collect one’s thoughts. If adults don’t set the pace for the children, they will find themselves playing catch-up on what the children are up to. And if you’re a manager, you probably … Read more
The Court Lees Affair
A scandal which rocked the approved school system and heralded its end
‘After Grace, Teeth: A Comparative Study of Residential Experience of Boys in Approved Schools’ by Spencer Millham, Roger Bullock and Paul Cherrett
Spencer Millham, Roger Bullock and Paul, Cherrett (1975) After Grace, Teeth: A Comparative Study of Residential Experience of Boys in Approved Schools London Human Context 0 903137 11 9 Following his successful collaboration with Royston Lambert, head of the Social Research Unit at King’s College, Cambridge, in a sociological study of boarding schools (Lambert and … Read more
Another Move for Admiral Boscawen
How the Admiral’s history tells the ever-changing story of child care
‘Children Referred to Closed Units’ by Pat Cawson and Mary Martell
The ignored facts about young people who were locked up
‘Spare the Child’ by David Wills
The struggle to change a traditional approved school to offer relationship-based treatment