§ 22. Mr. Sharplesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of children without parents, foster-parents or guardians who are being educated as boarders at private schools.
§ The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith)I regret that this information is not available.
Mr. SharpiesWhat would be the position of a child who is the responsibility of an executor under a will? Would such a child be covered by the provisions of the Children's and Young Persons Act, 1936?
§ Miss Hornsby-SmithPerhaps my hon. Friend will send me details of the case he has in mind. If the child went to a private school—I think this is the crux of the question he has put to me—the situation will be improved by the bringing into force in the autumn of this year of Part III of the Education Act, in which, as he knows, the registration and inspection of independent schools by the Ministry of Education and the furnishing of particulars will be required by Regulations. If there are other points regarding the non-school life of the child, it will be helpful to have details of the particular case.