§ 79. Sir CYRIL COBBasked the President of the Board of Education what is the method of assessing grant in connection with the attendances of pupils from public elementary schools at treatment and cleansing centres; and whether, seeing that the method of recording details of individual attendances involves a considerable amount of expenditure both by the Board of Education and the local authorities, he will consider the advisability of accepting for statistical purposes a five years' average of the attendances of public elementary school children at medical treatment and cleansing centres?
Mr. WOODThe attendances of children from public elementary schools at these centres may, if a special register of the attendances is kept at the centres, be reckoned as attendances at the schools to which the children belong, for the purpose of calculating average attendance. The Board have already had before them the suggestion put forward in the last part of the question, but I regret that they were unable to accept it. I shall be glad, if my hon. Friend so desires, to consider any further representations he may wish to make on the matter, and I am quite ready to consider suggestions for alternative methods of record at the centres.