7 FEBRUARY 1947, Page 5

It is now nearer five months than four since the

Curtis Report was placed in the hands of the Ministers responsible for the appoint- ment of the Committee, yet the Government has given virtually no indication of its intentions rearding the Committee's recommendations —far-reaching and vitally important though they are universally recognised to be. The one official statement, made in the House of Lords, is that responsibility for all "deprived children" will hence-

' forward be concentrated in one Government Department, but there is no indication of when this is to happen or which the Department in question is to be. Procrastination of this order says little for the Government's zeal for social reform.

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