It is not often that I have occasion to quote
from The Daily Worker, but that paper's Parliamentary Correspondent gives so instructive an annotated picture of the Government's attitude on the Curtis Report as to deserve wider publicity. It begins thus :
The Government's response to the scandalous revelations of the Curtis Report on the care of children in institutions is—a circular frem three Whitehall departments urging lecal authorities to take acticn. This astonishing anti-climax came last night from Mr. Arthur Greenwocd, the Lord Privy Seal, in one of the most complacent speeches that I have ever heard from the Government front bench in the present Heuse of Commons.
There was not one word in it to suggest that the Government was in the slightest degree impressed by the sheer urgency of the dreadful conditions to which thousands of children are condemned.
And although Mr. Greenwood admitted that legislation was necessary, he held out no prospect whatever of legislation during the present session. The best he could promise was legislation " when we have the opportunity."
There is very little to quarrel with in that.
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