§ MR. BROADHURSTI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether Her Majesty's Government will take an early opportunity to repeal Section 40 of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, so far as it insists upon school cards in the case of children whose parents are receiving poor law relief?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir JOHN GORST,) Cambridge UniversityThe Section referred to does not mention school cards. The system of school cards is prescribed by the guardians of the poor under the direction of the Local Government Board. The Committee of Council do not attach any educational value to the section or the system; but they understand that the section is of importance, in the opinion of the Local Government Board, in connection with out-door relief.