Liberty to Blind Man: … … …Mr. Leslie F. Scott. M.P., moved a resolution urging upon the Government to introduce the Bill at the very earliest possible moment after Parliament reassembled. He urged the importance of treating children, and referred to the proposal that the Board of Education should be the sifting machine for deciding whether the child was or was not a child that could face the battle of life by itself. Mrs. Hume Pinsent: Mrs. Hume Pinsent, in seconding, said they all knew that some Boards of Guardians, though by no means all, would have liked the Government Bill to have been framed on slightly different lines. For the sake of all the Government Bill would protect and care for, she asked them not to press their point. She was quite sure that while there were 66,000 afflicted persons who needed care and protection, every bed in the country would be wanted; and supplemented by State aid. Therefore, she hoped that different managements of voluntary homes in the country would join in sending to the Home Secretary petitioning for the Bill which would make it possible for them to enlarge the scope of their work, and to keep those children and young people whom they had got, under continuous and kindly care.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949