 This set approved schools apart from borstals, a tougher and more enclosed kind of youth prison.The term came into general use in 1933 when approved schools were created out of the earlier "industrial" and earlier "reformatory" schools.Following the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, they were replaced by Community Homes, with responsibility devolved to local councils; in Singapore, which by then was no longer under British rule, the term approved schools continued to exist.