Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 9 March 1939.
The voluntary offers which are being made to accommodate unaccompanied school children are, in the view of the Government one of the most valuable forms of national service. Where a householder has undertaken this form of national service and in addition desires to undertake some other form of national service which would involve absence from home for longer or shorter periods, arrangements would naturally be made by the householder and by the authorities to bring the various periods of service into co-relation.