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.
To prevent proselytism or changes in the religion of a child committed, Catholic and Protestant children were sent to separate schools.Chapter 2 History of industrial schools and reformatories www.childabusecommission.ie
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 134(3) of, and the third schedule to, the Children Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67).
See also Industrial school (Ireland)
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