intermediate treatment

British  

noun

1. social welfare a form of child care for young people in trouble that involves neither custody nor punishment and provides opportunities to learn constructive patterns of behaviour to replace potentially criminal ones

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Example Sentences

Labour's intermediate treatment centres, outsourcing NHS surgery to private companies, did cut waiting lists, but at hugely inflated cost.

From The Guardian

Furthermore, after the removal of diseased rubber from the drying-shed, freshly prepared rubber may be hung on the same supports without becoming affected, and without any intermediate treatment of the wooden bars, providing the crepe is thin and weather conditions are good.

From Project Gutenberg

The utility of raking, as an intermediate treatment between scrapings, seems to have been clearly demonstrated.

From Project Gutenberg

He can rival Watteau in the use of soft chalk, Leonardo in the use of the pen, and Van Eyck in the use of the brush point; and there are examples of every intermediate treatment to form a chain across the gulf that separates these widely differing modes of graphic expression.

From Project Gutenberg

The intermediate period needed intermediate treatment; the gap between James Madison and Abraham Lincoln could not be judicially filled by either of them.

From Project Gutenberg