The Local Picture: Approved Schools on the Ground

This chapter builds on the insights revealed in Chap. 4 and then positions the girls in the sample against existing discourse about girls in the juvenile justice system in this period, and evidences more nuanced findings, including evidence of much younger children appearing in the schools, and the dominance of larceny amongst criminal convictions within the school populations. It also examines how care or protection, later care or control orders were utilised by the juvenile courts in this period, and how the after-care and licensing arrangements were made for these children. Finally, it examines the impact of absconding from the schools, and how the reporting of such behaviour fed into contemporary constructs of moral welfare.