Mrs. Adamsonasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will urge the Kent County Council to institute immediately in Bexley and adjoining areas under their jurisdiction a tutorial system of education for all children between the ages of five to seven years?
Mr. LindsayI understand that a tutorial system of education covering the majority of children between the ages of five and seven is already in operation in the districts referred to, and that this system is being extended. The Kent Local Education Authority are actively engaged in completing the necessary protection against air raids to enable the schools to reopen for formal instruction. A circular, of which I am sending the hon. Member a copy, was sent to local education authorities yesterday urging that further efforts should be made to secure that all children in evacuation and neutral areas should be enabled to return to school at the earliest possible date.