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THE Federal Council of Lancashire and Cheshire Teachers' Associations has recently issued a “Report on Entry into Employment” which includes a formulation in fourteen points of what the Council regards as “a working basis under the conditions at present prevailing in the industrial world and under the Acts dealing with school leaving and the regulation of factories and workshops now in force”. Among the more significant of the fourteen points are: vocational guidance for all and, as a means for ensuring this, insistence on the submission at regular intervals by every juvenile advisory and choice-of-employment committee of reports to the appropriate authority (in one area 23 out of 24 such committees were found to have ceased to function) ; entry into employment of a school leaver to be preceded by medical examination and report, co-ordinated in each case with the child's 'health-sheet' ; all school planning to include “equipment suitable for the use of older persons, and such amenities and arrangements as will appeal to the developing mind and character of the ex-pupil” (especially in rural and detached areas) ; continuative education for all, and definite arrangements to induce all school leavers to continue their education, whether in technical, commercial or art schools or in less exacting or more general courses ; recreative facilities to be provided in connexion with all further education. The report dwells on the distressing waste of much of the good work done in the primary schools owing to lack of effective means for ensuring further education up to the point at which the adolescent attains to the will and capacity for self-instruction. “In the interval between leaving the primary school and the desire to proceed further, the foundation laid in the primary school has been lost since no means or care have been taken to retain it”.
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An Adolescents' Charter from Manchester. Nature 142, 427 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142427b0
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