§ SIR JOHN BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the Board of Education has yet taken any, and, if so, what steps to revive the former Instruction to Her Majesty's Inspectors whereby they were directed to require all cases of the infliction of corporal punishment in public elementary schools to be recorded in the school log-book, and whether, in view of occurrences which have been brought to the notice of the Department, the recording of such punishment will henceforth be made obligatory in all cases.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Board of Education have in the instructions to inspectors directed that, in addition to the log book, a separate book must be kept in which every case of corporal punishment inflicted in the school should be entered.
§ SIR JOHN BRUNNERIs that universal?
§ SIR J. GORSTYes.