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Fuvenile Organisations Committee 
The “Juvenile Organisations Committee” is 
rather more than an advisory committee. It is an 
active agency for stimulating and organising volun- 
tary eftort to supplement the State system of 
education and make the expenditure on it more 
fruitful. In 1916 a Central Committee was estab- 
lished by the Home Office to assist it in dealing with 
the war problem of juvenile delinquency, for the 
prevention of which the services of voluntary bodies 
working through social and recreational clubs and 
the organisations of boy scouts, boys’ brigades, etc., 
were of great value. The recognition, in Section 17 
of the Education Act, 1918, of “social and physical 
training,” provided by voluntary agencies in the day 
or evening for children and young persons, as an 
object which Local Education Authorities might 
assist, led naturally to the transfer of the Central 
Committee in 1919 to the Board of Education. It 
consists of twenty-eight persons qualified to repre- 
sent all kinds of social and recreational organisations, 
and includes representatives of the Board (whose 
Parliamentary Secretary acts as its Chairman), the 
Home Office and the Ministry of Labour. The 
Board provides it with a Secretary. One of its main 
functions was to reproduce itself in local committees, 
who would secure the co-operation of local voluntary 
agencies and enlist the sympathy and support of 
Local Education Authorities ; and at one time some 
130 of these local Juvenile Organisation Committees 
were at work. Development was severely checked 
by the financial stringency after the war, and the