Government's record on health services
1927-09 1927 1920s 11 pages - 3 - The Health of the School Child As the law stands at present, the main public provision for the health of children of school age is associated with the work of the Education Department. Thus we have not only Inspection and Treatment of the defects of school children...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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September 1927
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| Summary: | 1927-09
1927
1920s
11 pages
- 3 - The Health of the School Child As the law stands at present, the main public provision for the health of children of school age is associated with the work of the Education Department. Thus we have not only Inspection and Treatment of the defects of school children including their teeth, but also the provision of Special Schools for all sorts of defective children. The pre-tuberculous child is dealt with in open-air schools and the mentally and physically defective children in special schools. It therefore follows that the Local Education rate as well as the grant in aid from the Board of Education (amounting roughly to half the sum of money provided locally) are both spent not only on the education of children, but on the care of their health as well. Now, the record of the present Conservative Government as regards education, may be described as one long struggle to cut down expenditure in this important service, and the success of this policy, in spite of the resistance of many of the local Education Authorities, may be judged from the fact that the education estimates for 1927-28 would have been £767,617 less than those of 1924-25, had it not been for the automatic increase in the cost of teachers' pensions, over which the Conservative Government had no control whatever. We have seen in rapid succession the issue of Memorandum 44, Circular 1371, and Circular 1388, and the Economy Bill all aimed primarily at the reduction of public expenditure on education. Admittedly, some of these have been withdrawn under pressure from the Local Education Authorities, but not before they have had their effect on expenditure on education and health. Two concrete examples typical of many may be given. In January 1926 the Berkshire Education Committee met and had presented to them estimates for an increase in expenditure for the following year amounting to £3,507. With Memorandum 4.4 before them, they decided to reduce this estimate by nearly £3,000, the largest reduction being
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