It was felt that although the ragged schools were fulfilling a need the provision they provided did not go far enough. Prison Hulk – A ship used as a prison, used in England until the 1850s. Depending on the circumstances of the child they either attended the school daily or they were able to live in. Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders Issues 53583-53586 of 19th-century legal treatises: Author: Mary Carpenter: Publisher: C. Gilpin, 1851: Original from: Harvard University: Digitized: Jan 25, 2007: Length: 353 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan This article looks at how some poor children were dealt with by the Victorian system. Any child apparently under the age of twelve who, having committed an offence punishable by imprisonment or less. A resource for KS3 History People who were sentenced to transportation were sent abroad, usually to Australia, New Zealand or America. This gave magistrates the power to sentence children between the ages of 7 and 14 years old to a spell in one of these institutions. The money had to be found from government sources. Children were committed to reformatory schools for up to five years or to an industrial school until they reached the age of sixteen. They had been started in areas where someone had been concerned enough to want to help disadvantaged children towards a better life. I have a great uncle who has been found in this school for the 1901 census. This often proved impossible to collect because most of the children were homeless. Carpentry, shoe making, tailoring and joinery were popular trades. This was because children often lied about their age if it was advantageous for them to do so. But these were also thought to be dangerous places that would not help children to stop committing crime. During the 19th century many people began to worry about the neglected children and so more schools were opened. One of the earliest attempts to start an Industrial feeding School, as they were at first called, was in Aberdeen in 1846. People who were sentenced to transportation were sent abroad, usually to Australia, New Zealand or America. In her discussion of the 'Ragged Classes and Dangerous Classes' Gertrude Himmelfarb briefly outlines the school provision made, 'For the ragged classes ... there were the ragged schools. More and more magistrates preferred to send young offenders to the schools instead of prison. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, children who were found guilty of committing a crime were treated the same way as adults. What happened to children in Leeds who broke the law in the past? The Glasgow Reformatory for Girls, run by Glasgow Corporation, was set up around 1870. Social reform was already underway in Britain before The Waifs and Strays Society was founded in 1882. These Acts meant that children could be sentenced to a length of time in a Reformatory School or an Industrial School, for committing crimes, being vagrant or begging. Even so there were still many areas where there was no provision. Girls were expected to go into domestic service, for example become a maid, when they left the schools. Prison Hulk – A ship used as a prison, used in England until the 1850s. Using dramatic reconstruction, 12-year-old Jane Angus explains the background that lead to her being sent to a reformatory school, and what life was like there. At first like the ragged schools the Industrial Schools were run on a voluntary basis. During the 1830s and 1840s people began to call for a different method of punishment for children. Parents were supposed to contribute to the cost of keeping a child in an Industrial School. Free learning resources from arts, cultural and heritage organisations. From 1870 the schools became the responsibility of the Committee of Education.