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Digital copy of an Extract [from the Children's Officer's Report], January 1980, relating to children in care including Witness 171. [Some details redacted]. Taken from minutes of the Education Committee Children's Sub-Committee.

For Witness 171's witness statements to the States of Jersey Police dated 13 March 2008 and 15 March 2009 respectively, see ZC/D/AW1/B1/2/1/15/WS000133 and C/D/AW1/B1/2/1/15/WS000134.

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Reference ZC/D/AW1/A3/6/1/19/WD000985
Date 1 January 1980 - 31 January 1980
Scope and Content Discharges from voluntary homes. Includes entries regarding children discharged from La Préférence Children's Home, mentioning Paediatrician Dr Spratt and General Practitioner Dr Gilmour. Children placed in foster homes under Article 58 of the Children (Jersey) Law 1969. Includes entries regarding a foster placement and pre-adoption placement. Discharges. Includes entries regarding children discharged to their parents' care and a child discharged, received into voluntary care and placed at Haut de la Garenne due to parents' homelessness. General matters concerning children in care. Includes an entry about Witness 171 by C C O [Child Care Officer] D J C [David Castledine], referring to Witness 171's discharge from care at the age of 18. Includes comments regarding his age, noting that he was made subject of a Care Order prior to the implementation of the Children (Jersey) Law 1969 which set the age of discharge from care at 20. Also includes comments about other children, noting employment changes, rehabilitation progress, incarceration at HM Prison La Moye and transfer to La Préférence.
Names Bird, Madeline
Castledine, David
Davenport, Richard
Gilmour, Dr
Spratt, Clifford, Dr
Children's Department
Children's Sub-Committee
Children's Services
Education Committee (Children's Section)
Haut de la Garenne
HM Prison, La Moye
La Préférence Children's Home
Keywords adoption | arson | Child Care Assistants | Child Care Officers | child protection | childcare | Children | children's homes | Children's Officers | children's services | courts | employment | foster homes | fostering | Homelessness | Imprisonment | meetings | minutes | reports | voluntary homes | witnesses
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Language English
Level of description File
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Digital copy of an Extract [from the Children's Officer's Report], January 1980, relating to children in care including Witness 171. [Some details redacted]. Taken from minutes of the Education Committee Children's Sub-Committee.

For Witness 171's witness statements to the States of Jersey Police dated 13 March 2008 and 15 March 2009 respectively, see ZC/D/AW1/B1/2/1/15/WS000133 and C/D/AW1/B1/2/1/15/WS000134.

ZC/D/AW1/A3/6/1/19/WD000985

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