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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, in England a school, generally established by voluntary contributions, for the industrial training of children, in which children are lodged, clothed and fed, as well as taught. Industrial schools are chiefly for vagrant and neglected children and children not convicted of theft. Such schools are for children up to the age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen. They are regulated by the Children Act 1908, which repealed the Industrial Schools Act 1866, as amended by Acts of 1872,1891 and 19or, and parallel legislation in the various Elementary Education Acts, besides some few local acts. The home secretary exercises powers of super vision, &c. See JUVENILE OFFENDERS.