Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868

Industrial Schools Act (Ireland) 1868
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to extend the Industrial Schools Act to Ireland.
Citation31 & 32 Vict. c. 25
Dates
Royal assent29 May 1868

The Industrial Schools Act (Ireland) 1868 or the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 25) was an act of Parliament which created industrial schools in Ireland to care for neglected, orphaned and abandoned children.[1]

To prevent proselytism or changes in the religion of a child committed, Catholic and Protestant children were sent to separate schools.[2]

  1. ^ Gillian Carol Gear (1999). "Industrial Schools in England, 1857-1933" (PDF). University of London Institute of Education. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  2. ^ Chapter 2 History of industrial schools and reformatories www.childabusecommission.ie