Abstract
THE annual report of the London Regional Advisory Council for Youth Employment for 1948 contains a review of legislation introduced during the year to improve tha conditions of young workers in industry. This included the Employment and Training Act, under which local responsibility for the youth employment service will be placed exclusively in the hands of'local education authorities ; the National Insurance Act, which lowered the age at which young people can claim unemployment insurance benefit and increased both the rate of contribution and the rate of benefit ; and the Factories Act, which provides medical supervision for all young people under the age of eighteen employed in factories, in building and civil engineering and in shipbuilding. The report also contains a statement of the views of the youth employment officers of the London area on the effects of the additional year in school which followed the raising of the school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen. There was a general improvement in physique, and most boys and girls of fifteen were much more decided as to their choice of job than their fourteen-year-old predecessors had been. So far as some of the boys are concerned, however, the tendency to approach work more seriously is struggling against a sense of frustration caused by the prospect of call-up for military service. Copies of the report may be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office, price 4d.
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Young Workers in Industry. Nature 164, 98 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164098a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164098a0