ABSTRACT
Children in adoptive homes, in private and official foster homes, in local authority and voluntary children’s homes normally receive their education outside the home in the ordinary day system. There are other groups of children however, who are deprived of a normal home life with their families because they are in boarding schools. Whether maladjusted children are described in terms of their symptoms, or in terms of the factors producing those symptoms, there is no doubt that they are closely related to deprived children in general. Treatment for maladjustment in school children may mean no more than advice and support to the parents, or some minor adjustment in school routine. Day classes for disturbed children are also arranged in a few local authority areas, the child remaining in his ordinary school for part of the day or week, but attending special classes in the school hours which remain.
