§ MR. WILLIAM JONES (Carnarvon, Arfon)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether only 60 out of 172 teachers employed under the Local Government Board are fully trained if he can state whether the Education Department has refused to inspect the Poor Law schools: and, if so, for what reason; and whether he will endeavour to secure in the future the inspection of Poor Law schools by the Education Department.
§ MR. CHAPLINAccording to the report of the Poor Law Schools Committee of the 172 teachers in metropolitan Poor Law schools 60 were fully trained and certificated under the Education Department. It should, however, be added that of the remaining 112 teachers 93 held various certificates from the Education Department which would qualify them to act as teachers under that Department. As regards the second and third paragraphs, I have stated to the House, in 176 reply to a question by the hon. Member for Shoreditch and in the discussion on the vote for the Local Government Board, that I had communicated with the Education Department as to the inspection of Poor Law Schools by inspectors of that Department, so far as the educational work in the schools is concerned. The Education Department, however, felt a difficulty in assenting to this arrangement, unless the inspection of the schools was transferred to them in its entirety, including not only the education given in the schoolroom, but also the boarding and other arrangements. In this I was unable to concur.