[Report 1949] / Birmingham Education Committee, Special Services After Care sub-committee.

  • Birmingham (England). Education Committee. Special Services After Care Sub-committee.
Date:
1949
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    Special Services After-Care Sub-Committee ANNUAL REPORT 1949 The Special Services After-Care Sub-Committee, which has been in existence since 1901, has pleasure in presenting its 49th Annual Report. The Committee continues to supervise and assist all persons who attended Birmingham Schools for the Educationally Subnormal, and to provide train- ing for those children incapable of benefiting from education in schools. The report for 1948 having dealt exclusively with juveniles, the present report covers the full number of cases dealt with to 31st December 1949, and follows on from the 1947 report published in 1948. One of the main undertakings during the last two years has been to survey the current file after the dislocation and subsequent disappearance of many cases during and immediately after the war. The first step has been to try to retrace many of these cases and this has proved a most difficult task, of which much still remains to be done. Thanks are due to the many people who have given help in this direction. As a result of these efforts, the case load was slightly increased. Secondly, an effort has been made to select as many cases as possible for presenta- tion to the Case Committee as no longer in need of further supervision. In doing this, the main considerations have been social stability over a considerable period and a reasonable chance of security in the future for the person concerned. If, however, any of these cases are later discovered to be in need of observation, advice or care, they can be returned to the current visiting list.