wn Minister.

(2) The Director of Education has a huge Department of his own to
administer, and he cannot be expected to give to child welfare the
full measure of attention it should have.

(3) The Minister of Education must in the main find his principal
and absorbing interest in the school system, and he could hardly
devote to child welfare the same degree of attention that could be
expected from the Minister of Social Welfare.

(4) There would be times when the Superintendent must find it
burdensome to have to work through a Department with far-reaching
special interests of its own.

(5) The public standing and prestige of the Superintendent of Child
Welfare would be enhanced if he were recognized as the head of his
own independent Department.

The arguments on the other side may be summarized in the following way:

(1) Child welfare by itself would make a relatively small
Department and as such it might tend to become inbred and to
stagnate.

(2) A separate Department of Child Welfare would cost more than at
present because it would not be able to rely upon some of the
staffing and administrative facilities of the Department of
Education.

(3) Some of the institutions now conducted or controlled by child
welfare are really schools and as such they would always need to be
under the real control of the Department of Education.

(4) In actual practice no one could define with precision where the
functions of child welfare could be separated from those of
education.

(5) Over the years child welfare and education have worked out
their own joint policy of administration. They have in fact worked
along in harmony and with effective co-operation, and there
appeared to be no sound reason for disturbing a set-up which was in
fact efficient, economical, and harmonious.

We were completely satisfied that the present arrangement has the full
support of the Director of Education and the Superintendent of Child
Welfare. This view has also the support of the Public Service
Commission. After a study of the evidence that was placed before us we
came to the unanimous conclusion that matters should be left as they
are.

If it was decided by Government that child welfare should remain linked
with the Department of Education it would be advisable that some form
of administrative procedure should be