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means on a national scale of bringing employers who desire work- 
people and workpeople seeking employment, both adults and 
juveniles, into touch with one another. The exchanges are avail- 
able to both without charge. Special machinery is provided for 
meeting employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied locally, 
and workers who find employment at a distance through an ex- 
change may receive an advance of money to enable them to pay 
their fares to travel to their new employment. Through the 
machinery provided by the exchanges constant movement from 
one area to another in this country is already proceeding. (In 
certain areas in England and Wales, including most of the im- 
portant large towns outside London, the responsibility for the 
administration of employment agency work and unemployment 
insurance for juveniles has been undertaken by Local Education 
Authorities.) 
Training Centres for Adults for Employment in this Country. 
52. The Government have established four training centres 
at Wallsend, Birmingham, Dudley and Bristol, for young 
unemployed men up to the age of 25 (29 for ex-service 
men), of which those at Bristol and Dudley have been brought 
into being during the last three months. A further centre will 
shortly be opened in Scotland. The number of places at present 
available is 1,600, and the annual turnover about 3,500 trainees 
a year. The new Scottish centre will add about 150 places and 
about 300 to the turnover. The training is designed to improve 
general employability, to teach workshop discipline and the use 
of tools, to equip the men in fact to obtain work in occupations 
other than those in which their sole prospects would lie if they 
remained in their home areas. The courses last for a maximum 
of six months; men from distant areas are accommodated at 
lodgings near the centres. A high proportion of the men now 
undergoing training are miners and, on the basis of past experi- 
ence, the prospects of employment for men at the end of their 
courses are good—over 90 per cent. of the men trained to date 
have been placed in employment in Great Britain, the majority 
in jobs with a prospect of continuity. 
Juvenile Unemployment Centres. 
53. Juvenile unemployment centres are of long standing, but 
the provision of centres has recently been widely extended in the 
Durham and Northumberland and South Wales coalfields. Pro- 
vision is also being made in the Scottish coalfields. There are now 
about 2.000 boys, the greater number of whom are between the