Industrial Schools Act 1857
WHEREAS Industrial Schools for the better training of Vagrant Children have been and may be established in various Parts of England, and it is expedient that more extensive Use should be made of such Institutions, and that the Responsibility of Parents to provide for the proper Care of their Children should be enforced: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,...