Probation and the War Three Addresses To National Conference
| Date | 01 May 1941 |
| Author | E.E. Inman |
| Published date | 01 May 1941 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054100301404 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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making N.A.P.O. that great, great Group which it
got a fair start, how easy it would be if every child
should be.
I took up a book the other day by
was in body and soul sane and healthy and well.
Francis Williams which is called, &dquo; What are we
If you could get complete team-work not only in
waiting for?&dquo; How much there is that we can do
your own but in co-operation with all social service
at once.
Great problems will be here when the end
how different things would be.
of the war comes and unless they have been faced
Now that we are working for freedom and for
now no one will be prepared for them. See now
the Peace after War we have got to act in concert
what steps can be taken to ensure that we are reach-
and to make use of every opportunity we see, at
ing towards true progress.
once.
The reply of Mr. Graham White (Chairman
Then, once more, be loyal to each other, to every
of our British Association for Labour Legislation
man and woman, to N.A.P.O., to all comrades,
and a great Liberal M.P.) when I spoke to him of
heartening each other. Don’t wait until the face is
the reported increase in juvenile delinquency was,
&dquo;
waxen and the hands are folded to lay your flowers
What the Government should do if there is an
at the feet, do it now. Do you know what it has
increase in juvenile delinquency is to set the educa-
meant to one all through one’s long, long life to
tion system going again.&dquo; What is the Government’s
s
get encouragement at the moment, to be told, &dquo; It is
solution?
To start more remand homes? If our
difficult but go on, go on, hold on and don’t fail&dquo; ?
system functioned perfectly instead of in water-
Praise from a friend, praise from a neighbour, praise
tight compartments the bricks and mortar could be
from someone who is watching you at work means so
used by the Education Authorities for our schools.
much. So praise your friends and help them on-
Every one of us has our own vision for the future,
wards now.
One word more on loyalties, coming
everyone sees the country of their heart’s desire.
from the personal to something very much larger ;
There has only been one country of my heart’s
see how
the great wave of progress rolls on and find
desire ever since I began to work and that is a
us all linked together, see how every form of social
world in which no life shall be unnecessarily handi-
service touches on another and how our work as
capped, no child, no man or woman shall be
probation officers would be easy comparatively if all
oppressed. I have seen a future with a classless
the social services were working in close union with
society and equality of opportunity for all.
one another.
How easy it would be if every child
Good-night.
PROBATION AND THE WAR
THREE ADDRESSES TO NATIONAL CONFERENCE
I.
JUVENILE COURT WORK
By MISS E. E. INMAN (London Juvenile Courts)
I SPEAK from my own experience in London reception area. The answer was that the whole
~ but I imagine that what I am going to
family-several brothers had been evacuated-had
say
will
probably
apply to
probation
given so much trouble that he had lost touch with
work in most of our large cities during the
them himself .
war.
Probation work amongst children can no
Well then the next difficulty.
Even when...
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