§ MR. E. H. BAYLEY (Camberwell, N.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education if his attention has been called to a report of the hearing of several summonses at the Lambeth Police Court on the 7th instant against parents for neglecting to educate their children, when one parent stated that she had taken her children to six schools in the neighbourhood, giving up a day's work for the purpose, and only obtained admission for one child, and that Mr. Williams, the District Superintendent, informed the Magistrate that there was great lack of school accommodation in Camberwell; and whether he will take measures to require the London School Board to provide the necessary accommodation?
§ MR. ACLANDMy attention has not been called to the report in question. The parish of Camberwell forms part of the East Lambeth Division of the London School Board area. In the part of this Division which borders on West Lambeth there is pressure on the schools owing to a deficiency of school accommodation in the West Lambeth Division. The School Board have in their possession a site in Sub-division H of West Lambeth, and have been informed by the 563 Department that they should proceed at once with the erection of a school in that sub-division. The Board are also about to build another school in Holland Road, in Sub-division Z of West Lambeth. The site has been scheduled in the Bill, which will be introduced this Session. When these schools are opened the pressure on the neighbouring East Lambeth schools will be relieved. I am not aware of any other deficiency of school accommodation which affects the parish of Camberwell, but I have directed the Chief Inspector to report on the Division generally.