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StorageSiteUCL Institute of Education
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Reference Number NCV/3/2
Title"SCNJO: Minutes of Conference"
Date1940-1944
DescriptionStanding Conference of National Juvenile Organisations (SCNJO), signed minutes (1940 Jan 8 - 1944 Mar 21), including:
- Ongoing discussion of provision of hostel accommodation and social welfare facilities for young workers drafted into towns;
- Ongoing discussion regarding the recruitment and training of leaders;
- Notes on preparation course for voluntary helpers (1940 Jan 26);
- Reports from Youth Liaison Officers on their work in the Regions;
- Agreement to keep the editor of the Times Educational Supplement regularly updated on the work of the constituent voluntary organisations (1940 Apr 8);
- Discussion of a memorandum on the Manchester Youth Group's suggestion for a Junior Civil Defence Service (1940 Jun 5);
- Draft of "A Call to youth" to be published under the title of Prime Minister, Winston Churchill (1940 Jun);
- Chairman reported on conversations with Archbishop of York and others regarding planning a policy for post-war reconstruction (1940 Oct 21);
- Discussion of welfare of evacuee children over school-age;
- Ongoing discussion of concerns over juvenile delinqency;
- "A summary of measures adopted by the Conference from the outbreak of war to June 1941";
- Chairmanship passes to May Curwen (1941 May 9);
- Suggestion that a full-time Secretary should be appointed (1941 Sep 4);
- Amended constitution and procedure for the SCNJO, (1941 Nov);
- Formation of more local standing conferences, and several more member organisations admitted to the SCNJO;
- Mentions of the Anglo-Soviet Youth Friendship Alliance (1942 Feb 24);
- Discussion of the women's junior air corps (1942 Jun 23);
- List of voluntary youth organisations not associated with the SCNJO. The Navy League Cadets, Air Cadets Corporation and Association of Jewish Youth are listed as organisations with the right to send non-voting observers to to SCNJO meetings (1942 Dec 15);
- Preparations for a three-week SCNJO exhibition to be held in Harrods from 29 March 1943 (1943 Jan);
- Chairmanship passes to P. B. Nevill (1943 Apr 20)
- Plans for loaning the exhibition to Manchester 24 May - 5 June, and then to Bristol 19-26 June (1943 Apr 30);
- Agreement to change the name of the conference to "The Standing Conference of National Voluntary Youth Organisations" (SCNVYO) (1943 Sep 21)
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