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Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Percival, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: The Approved School
The country's approved schools are under the spotlight of publicity and no one knows exactly what is going to happen to them. They are condemned as junior prisons, places where the not-so-innocent learn the tricks of the trade of the hardened criminal. They are defended as schools which achieve success with the failures of every other educational and social service; the end of the road that leads back to a normal way of life.
Under new legislation the schools will become part of a new system of community homes run by local authorities. But how will they change? Will the present regime alter significantly? Will the present staffs remain in control?
For the second of two programmes on this subject, Man Alive's outside broadcast unit goes inside Chafford Approved School at Ramsey, Essex, and with the boys, the staff, and those who've been through the system, tries to find out.

(Colour)