§ Mr. GOLDSTONEasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the London County Council is proceeding to transform the upper portion of the Ponton Road London County Council school from a day industrial school into a remand home and place of detention, while continuing an infant school on the ground floor of the same building; whether he is aware that there is only limited school accommodation in the neighbourhood; and whether, in view of the feeling prevalent amongst the parents of children attending the Ponton Road school, and of the need for further school accommodation in the neighbourhood, and also of the effects which a close association of a remand home with an infants' school may have on the children attending the latter, he will take action so as to ensure that the London County Council shall arrange for a special remand home to be erected on some site apart from a public elementary school?
Mr. PEASEI have received no official communication from the London County Council on this subject, but I understand the Press reports that the council have resolved to take the action stated. I am not aware that there is any special pressure on the elementary school accommodation in this district, and I have received no representations from or on behalf of parents of children attending the infants' school. So far as I know there will be no communication between these infants and the children in the remand home, but if it should prove that the new arrangement is disadvantageous to the infants I shall, of course, communicate with the council in the matter.