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ages of 16 and 18, in attendance at centres in the coalfields.” 
These centres are designed, by keeping young unemployed boys and 
girls interested and under discipline and engaged in useful occu- 
pations or recreation, to prevent the demoralisation which so quickly 
sets in among juveniles of these ages when unemployed. In the 
centres for boys which have recently been opened in the depressed 
areas, a manual element has been included in the curriculum of 
the centres and an endeavour is being made by training in the use 
of tools, e.g., in woodwork and simple metalwork, to turn the 
minds of these boys away from the only occupation of which they 
have thought in their home areas towards a new life in another 
area. Special attention is being given to the task of securing 
vacancies for these boys in other parts of the country; there is 
provision for paying the fares of boys transferred to employment 
in distant areas. 
Traming for Women. 
54. Training of women between the ages of 18 and 85 and of 
some girls between the ages of 16 and 18 for domestic service has 
for some years been carried out by the Central Committee for 
Women’s Training as part of the normal programme of unem- 
ployment relief work, and a number of centres have been opened 
in South Wales, on the North-East Coast and in Scotland. The 
Committee have now been empowered to extend this provision 
and 16 new centres will shortly be open in the depressed areas. 
At these new centres special facilities for the training of younger 
girls (16 to 18) are being provided to equip them to enter domestic 
service in other areas. 
VII. POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS OF FACILITIES FOR 
TRANSFER IN THIS COUNTRY. 
Employment Exchanges. 
95. We think it essential that public emphasis should be laid 
on the contribution that the employment exchange system can 
make to the problem, if it is properly supported by employers. 
The value of the employment exchanges lies not so much in the 
register of local unemployed that each exchange maintains, as 
In the closely articulated system which is in contact with the 
unemployed of all degrees of skill and aptitude in all areas through- 
out Great Britain. There can thus be brought to the employer 
the widest possible field from which he can select with complete 
freedom of choice. From discussions with employers we have 
gathered that there is an impression that the selection of personnel, 
* The attendance at all centres throughout the country at the end of May 
totalled about 4.250 boys and 1.250 girls.