An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Protection of Children and Young Persons, Reformatory and Industrial Schools, and Juvenile Offenders, and otherwise to amend the Law with respect to Children and Young Persons.
Citation
8 Edw. 7. c. 67
Territorial extent
United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent
21 December 1908
Commencement
1 April 1909
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes
Middlesex Industrial Schools Act 1854
Reformatory Schools Act 1866
Industrial Schools Act 1866
Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868
Reformatory and Industrial Schools Acts Amendment Act 1872
Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Manx Children) Act 1884
Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1885
Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act 1891
Reformatory Schools Act 1893
Industrial Schools Acts Amendment Act 1894
Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Channel Islands Children) Act 1895
Infant Life Protection Act 1897
Reformatory Schools Act 1899
Youthful Offenders Act 1901
Secretary of State for Scotland Act 1904
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
The Children Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67), also known as the Children and Young Persons Act 1908, passed by the Liberal government, as part of the British Liberal Party's liberal reforms package. The Act was informally known as the Children's Charter and largely superseded the Industrial Schools Act 1868.
It established juvenile courts[1] and introduced the registration of foster parents, thus regulating baby-farming and wet-nursing and trying to stamp out infanticide. Local authorities were also granted powers to keep poor children out of the poorhouse/workhouse and protect them from abuse. The act also prohibited children, under the age of 16, working in dangerous trades, purchasing cigarettes, entering brothels, or the bars of trading pubs. Additionally, it prohibited the consumption of alcohol, for non medicinal purposes, before the age of five. The act also prohibited children from learning criminal "tricks of the trade" in adult prisons, where children were often sent to serve time if a crime had been committed. Instead the Children's Charter had allocated Borstals. It eventually led to many councils setting up social services and orphanages.
^"1908 Children's Act was created to protect the poorest children in society from abuse". Intriguing History. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
The ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67), also known as the Children and Young Persons Act1908, passed by the Liberal government, as part of the British...
one act. It was preceded by the Children and Young Persons Act 1920 and the ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67). It is modified by the Children and Young...
Trials and 'Baby-Farming' in England and Wales in the Wake of the ChildrenAct1908". Crimes and Misdemeanours. 3: 60. "The-shipman-inquiry.org.uk". Archived...
Act 1908, section 11 of the Prevention of Crime Act1908 and section 99(6) of the ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67). Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing)...
Kingdom, which met from 29 January 1908 until 21 December 1908. Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) This act was not printed by the King's Printer...
"Standard Drop" method of hanging that came into use in 1866. The ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67) abolished the death penalty for a child or "young...
Midwives Acts, the powers of the Home Secretary in relation to the ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67), and the duties of the Insurance Commissioners and...
chastisement was explicitly abolished. The ChildrenAct 2001 repealed the 1908act but, except in children detention schools, did not explicitly prohibit...
a marriage without banns; incest; sodomy; and bestiality. In 1908, the ChildrenAct1908 banned the execution of juveniles under the age of 16. In 1922...
that reason. The Borstal system after 1908 was organized to reclaim young offenders, and the ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67) prohibited imprisonment...
of work and moral welfare of young children employed in cotton mills but were effectively unenforced until the Act of 1833 established a professional...
Midwives Acts, and the powers of the Home Secretary in relation to the ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67). Most of the Local Government Board staff transferred...
Trials and 'Baby-Farming' in England and Wales in the Wake of the ChildrenAct1908". Crimes and Misdemeanours. 3: 60. "Trial of Annie Walters (54), Amelia...
1772" was assigned by the Short Titles Act 1892 and again by the Short Titles Act 1896. The ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67) removed the death penalty...
mentally disabled children and adults. Following the passing of the ChildrenAct1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67), which allowed "feeble-minded children" to be placed...
child, contrary to section 12 of the ChildrenAct1908 Form 7 - Larceny, contrary to section 67 of the Larceny Act 1861 Form 8 - Robbery with violence...
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