Address: Shawford, Hampshire
Questions were asked in Parliament on 28th July 1977 about “conditions in the Glenham Children’s Home at Shawford, near Winchester”
HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1977 → July 1977 → 28 July 1977 → Written Answers (Commons) → SOCIAL SERVICES
Glenham Children’s Home, Shawford
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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, on how many occasions since January 1973 his Department’s social work service officers have visited the Glenham Children’s Home at Shawford, near Winchester; and what was the date of the most recent visit.
Social work service officers have visited Glenham Children’s Home on six occasions since January 1973, the last visit being on 3rd March 1977.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what reports he has received concerning con- 498W ditions in the Glenham Children’s Home at Shawford, near Winchester; and whether he is satisfied with the arrangements for the care and control of the children entrusted to the home by local authorities.
We have received reports from our social work service officers following visits to Glenham Children’s Home. We have received also a number of complaints from local people about the behaviour of the children. We cannot say that we are satisfied with the arrangements for the care and control of the children when they are outside the home and advice has been given to the Proprietor on matters that have come to attention.
Local authorities placing children in the home have a duty to ensure that their welfare is promoted, to review their progress at six-monthly intervals and make other arrangements if the child’s wellbeing requires it.
We are currently reviewing the statutory arrangements for the regulation of all kinds of private and voluntary homes in the personal social service field—including private children’s homes—and arrangements are in train for informal consultation with the local authority associations about what should be done.
HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1977 → July 1977 → 28 July 1977 → Written Answers (Commons) → EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Glenham Children’s Home, Shawford
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asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science on what date she first received representations concerning the registration of the Glenham Children’s Home at Shawford, near Winchester, as an independent school.
The Compton Parish Council wrote to the Department on 10th May 1976 to inquire whether Glenham Children’s Home, Shawford, was registered as an independent school.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when she expects to make her decision concerning the registration of the Glenham Children’s Home Educational Unit in Shawford, near Winchester, under Part III of the Education Act 1944; and whether Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools will be authorised to visit this establishment.
I have nothing to add to the information I gave the hon. and gallant Member in my letter of 26th May.
Eric Harold Brown John – Superintendent of Glenham children’s home
13.4.32 – 1997
Eric Brown John is on electoral rolls as resident at Port Werburgh, Vicarage Lane, Hoo, Rochester, Kent ME3 9TW 1998-2018
He was Director of a Company The Dutch Barge Association Ltd from 1996-7
ISN survivors say that he had a yacht and took children to the Isle of Wight.
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