§ DR. COOPER (Southwark, Bermondsey)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been drawn to the exclusion, from September, 1906, to the present date, of Ellen and Edward George from the Rolls Road London County Council School on the ground that they are suffering from ringworm; whether the certificate excluding these children from school was signed by a nurse; whether he is aware that, on the children being taken to the London Hospital for treatment, the parents were told that the children were not suffering from ringworm but steatorrhœa, a non-infective disease; whether, although the parents have given the teacher a certificate complying with Section (C,) Subsection 10, Article 3, of the School Management Code, the children are still refused admission; whether this exclusion is in opposition to the wishes of the managers of the school, who are anxious that the children should return; whether the nurse on whose certificate the children
§ of Education what was the number of public elementary schools transferred from the class of non-provided to provided between 1st January, 1906, and 30th June, 1907; how many of such were so transferred from the Anglican, Roman Catholic, or other denominations or bodies, respectively; and what is the total school space therein and the total number of children in average attendance thereat.
§ (Answered by Mr. McKenna.) were excluded possesses any medical qualification; if not, whether a medical certificate given by an unqualified person can exclude a child from school; and whether his Department propose to take any, and, if any, what, action in the matter.
§ (Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The Board of Education have no information as to the incidents referred to. In the event of an appeal being made to them on the ground that the children have been excluded from school on other than reasonable grounds, the circumstances will be carefully investigated before a decision is arrived at.