VALENTINE BELL
Valentine Bell , who gave two talks in this series last week, is to give two more, both of them this week. This evening he will discuss the question of juvenile unemployment, and on Thursday show some of the many things that are being done to alleviate it.
Listeners will remember that Valentine Bell drew up the notable report for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust on Junior Instruction Centres and their Future. Since then he has visited some of these centres in every part of Britain ; seen again at first hand the places where young men and women are being helped to face both the present and future, and are being trained to earn their living as soon as the jobs come along.
He will speak of the experiment of transferring juveniles to districts where jobs are more likely to be found ; of the great work that is being done by Government, Local Government, and Voluntary organisations ; of the ' Keep-fit ' movement in the places where unemployment is gravest; of the camps he has visited ; of conversations he has had with some of these young men and women themselves.
The need for leaders, premises, and athletic grounds; the -fine work of evening institutes; the question of co-operation between voluntary and statutory bodies, and of the need for a central Youth Council-will be discussed in these talks.