Waste of Child Life: Mr. A. D. Steel-Maitland on Guiding the Young: the Birmingham Scheme: An earnest appeal for support on behalf of the local scheme for the aftercare of school children was made by Mr. A. D. Steel-Maitland, M.P., at the annual meeting of the Birmingham Diocesan Members’ Union held at the Queen’s College, Birmingham, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Howard Lloyd presided. … … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, in the course of an address on “The aftercare of feeble-minded children,” described the good work, which had been done by the After-Care Committee in Birmingham during its ten years’ existence. She mentioned incidentally that a report concerning the crippled children of Birmingham was on the eve of publication and added that the investigation would be found to point most strongly to the establishment of workshops on the same lines as the Blind Institutions … (continues) … Mrs. Pinsent expressed the opinion that the schemes for the after-care of defectives and school children would eventually merge into one organisation having one definite object – the care of the whole of the children of the city …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949