Adoption

Three printed Home Office reports. Child Adoption Committee. First Report. Second Report. Third and Final Report.

15292 — All three published in London by His Majesty's Stationery Office. The first two published in 1925 and the last in 1926. All three 8vo; the first and last 12pp the second 8pp. All three in good condition on lightly aged and worn paper. With shelfmarks stamps and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library London. The remit of the committee was 'to examine the problem of child adoption from the point of view of possible legislation and to report upon the main provisions which in their view shuold be included in any Bill on the subject'. In an amendment to the final report Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks instructs the committee 'to enquire into the working of the provisions of the Children Act 1908 which deal with the protection of infant life and the visitation of voluntary homes'. The only copies of the three reports on COPAC are at the University of Southampton. All three published in London by His Majesty's Stationery Office. The first two published in 1925, and the last in 1926. unknown