§ 66. Mr. WILLIAM THORNEasked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the Thetford (Norfolk) board of guardians' refusal to pay 25s. per head for boarding out poor children educated in Suffolk; whether the West Suffolk Education Committee have intimated that such children will be excluded from their schools after the summer vacation; and what action he intends taking in the matter?
Mr. PEASEI am aware that the West Suffolk Education Authority have requested the Thetford (Norfolk) Poor Law Union to contribute under Section 2 of the Elementary Education Act, 1900, towards such expenses of maintaining the public elementary schools in West Suffolk as are certified by the Board of Education to have been incurred in respect of scholars taught at those schools, who have been boarded out in West Suffolk. understand that on the 28th May last the West Suffolk Education Committee resolved to exclude such children from their schools after the end of the summer holidays unless the guardians agreed to make such contribution. I am not aware of any grounds for my intervention. I do not know what arrangements the guardians propose to make for the education of the children in question.