27/01/1925: The Boarded Out Children (Contracts) Order, 1925.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

THE BOARDED OUT CHILDREN (CONTRACTS) ORDER, 1925.

No. A. 54,818/1924.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

To each County Board of Health; and to all whom it may concern:

WHEREAS in pursuance of the Pauper Children (Ireland) Acts, 1898 and 1902, and the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, did, by the County Boards of Health (Assistance) Order, 1924, make certain regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the said Acts:

AND WHEREAS it is provided in effect by Article 20 of the said Order that every person with whom any orphan or deserted child shall be placed out at nurse or boarded out, shall be of the religious persuasion in which the child shall be registered, and shall be called the foster parent, and shall before receiving custody of the child enter into a contract with the Board of Health in the form prescribed by the Minister, binding himself or herself, as the case may be, to observe all the conditions in the said Order contained so long as the child shall continue at nurse or be boarded out with such foster parent:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in pursuance of Article 20 of the said Order, do hereby order, direct, and prescribe that the contract to be entered into by a County Board of Health with a foster parent under the said Article 20 of the said Order shall be in the form set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Given under My Seal of Office, this Twenty-Seventh day of January, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-five.

(Signed), SÉAMUS DE BÚRCA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

SCHEDULE REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING ORDER.

FORM OF CONTRACT.

This Indenture made this *    day of        19  ,

between the      County Board of Health (hereinafter called the Board of Health) of the first part, and†     of the second part, witnesseth that the said‡    (hereinafter called the foster parent), doth hereby accept the charge of§      , now aged about|| years, (and hereinafter called the child); and in consideration of the sum of

per month, to be paid to the foster-parent by the Board of Health as hereinafter mentioned, doth hereby covenant and agree to bring

*Insert date.

†Insert name and address of foster-parent.

‡Insert name of foster parent.

§Insert name of child.

||Insert age of child.

Insert amount.

up the child, and to endeavour to train him (or her) in habits of truthfulness, obedience, personal cleanliness and industry, as well as in suitable domestic and outdoor work. And the foster parent doth hereby bind himself (or herself) to observe and keep in respect of the child all the regulations applicable hereto which are set forth in the General Order of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, dated the Fourteenth day of March, 1924, entitled the County Boards of Health (Assistance) Order, 1924, and in particular the regulations following, that is to say:—

1. The child shall be properly and sufficiently nursed or boarded, and shall be suitably lodged and clothed and kept clean in its person by being washed once at least every day, and at all times when necessary.

2. If the child shall at any time be suffering from illness or the effects of accident, medical relief shall be obtained for it in the manner provided by law at or from a dispensary of the dispensary district in which the foster parent resides, and if the medical officer of such district shall advise its removal to hospital, the foster parent shall allow it to be so removed.

3. The child shall be presented for inspection and examination at all reasonable times when required by the Assistance Officer by any member of the Visiting Committee, or by any person having authority from the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, or from the Board of Health, to examine and inspect it.

4. The child shall be restored to the custody of the Board of Health and their officers at any time when the foster parent shall be required by the Board of Health so to restore it.

5. The child, when of sufficient age to attend school, shall, subject to the approval of the Chaplain of the County Home of the religious persuasion in which the child is registered, attend the nearest National School, or shall, subject to the approval of the Board of Health and of such Chaplain, attend some other public school, and a certificate of such attendance signed by the teacher, and showing the days of absence (if any), shall be given to the Assistance Officer each month; provided that if the school be not a National School, the child shall be examined annually by the Inspector of the Department of Education at a convenient time and place, and the result of such examination shall be reported to the Board of Health.

6. The child shall, when of sufficient age, attend Divine worship at a place of worship frequented by the foster parent and his or her family.

And the Board of Health doth hereby covenant and agree with the foster parent that so long as the child shall continue in his (or her) charge, and shall not have attained the age of fifteen years, they (the Board of Health) will pay or cause to be paid to the foster parent the sum of* on the†   day of each calendar month,

*Insert amount.

†Insert " first," " second," or "third," etc., as may be agreed upon,

and a proportionate part of such monthly payment in the event of the child being removed from the charge of the foster parent in the interval between any of the said days of payment.

And the Board of Health hereby further covenants and agrees that the child shall from time to time be provided with suitable and sufficient clothing, and that due provision shall be made for the repair of such clothing, and also for the payment of any school fees which may lawfully become due and payable in respect of the child's attendance, and education at school.

As Witness the Seal of the  County Board of Health, and the hand of the said* ,     the day and year hereinbefore mentioned.

(Present when the Seal of the said County Board of Health was affixed.)

(L.S.)

(Signature of foster parent.)

*Insert name of foster parent.

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