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sometimes by voluntary bodies with financial support from the national exchequer or from local funds. The parents of children suffering from certain special defects are compelled to send the children to school for the whole period between the ages of seven and sixteen.
In cases of moral delinquency, or were children under the age of seventeen need such care or protection as their parents or relatives cannot provide, the chilaren are brought before a juvenile court, which may consider it advisable to commit them to the care of the local authority. The children are then generally boarded out with foster parents, the local authority having the same rights and powers over them, and the same liabilities in respect of them, as if they were the childrens' parents.
The physical, mental, and moral welfare of British children is thus provided for, with the result that a healthier, more vigorous, alert and self-reliant nation is now growing up.
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