§ 28 Lord NINIAN CRICHTON-STUARTasked (1) the President of the Board of Education what is happening in the Dowlais Roman Catholic school case; what position the Roman Catholic children and their parents are in in consequence of the inquiry; (2) whether the teachers in the Roman Catholic school case at Dowlais have been refused part of their salaries; and (3) whether, at the inquiry held into the Dowlais Roman Catholic school case, it was decided by the Board that the teachers had been illegally dismissed?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. J. A. Pease):The Board have given their determination on the questions in dispute between the local education authority and the managers. They have decided that they cannot overrule the local education authority in their action in refusing consent to the dismissal of the head mistress, but that no sufficient direction was given by the authority to the managers to dismiss the assistant teachers. They have further undertaken, if the managers or any other persons desire to bring charges against the head mistress which, in their opinion, are such as to render it necessary or desirable that the Board should recall or suspend her certificate, to cause the matter to be investigated. The managers have now asked for such investigation. I understand that the authority are taking counsel's opinion with reference to the payment of salaries of the assistant teachers. As far as I am aware most of the children are attending the school.