§ SIR CHARLES CAMERON (Glasgow, Bridgeton)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate, with reference to the 900 children of school age in Kilmalcolm School Board District who, notwithstanding the Scottish law as to compulsory education, have been left without education since April last, whether the attention of the Scottish Education Department has been called to the fact that, in the analogous case of the children collected in the Murray field Home of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, education is provided by the School Board of Corstorphine; and whether he is aware that, in order that accommodation might be provided for them, the Corstorphine School Board was compelled to enlarge the school, and whether the enlargement was ordered by the Scottish Education Department.
§ * THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireThe Department is not prepared to admit that the case of the children from the Murray-field Home, attending the Corstorphine School, is analogous to that of the Orphan Homes at Kilmalcolm. In the former case about sixty children from the home attend the public school. An enlargement of the school was suggested by the inspector in the year 1894, before any question of the attendance of the children from the home, or of the respective liability of the managers of the home and the School Board, was raised. The managers of the home were ready to educate the children in the home if the school was recognised for a grant, while 1048 a similar proposal m regard to the Kilmalcolm Homes has been refused by the managers. The Corstorphine Board desired to make the School Boards from whose districts the children came share the expense of providing accommodation, but it did not appear that this was possible under the Education Acts.