Voorbeelden van approved school

• This group did not include boys sent to approved school as a solution to more general social difficulties or inadequacies.

• According to the 1934 law, a juvenile who had escaped from an approved school could only be punished by increasing the period of detention by six months at the most.

• There is one 15-year-old boy who has been there 31 days awaiting a place in an approved school.

• My conviction is that a juvenile court never makes an approved school order, unless it has come to the conclusion that it has no alternative.

• We do not want the situation to arise when simply because a child has been to an approved school it is stigmatised for life.

• There is an essential difference between a fit person order and an approved school order.

• They are better qualified to judge than the court, which would have seen nothing of the boy since he was sent to the approved school.

• Whatever the cause, a term of 17 months in an approved school for such an offence as truancy is beyond understanding—certainly beyond mine.