§ Mr. Lipsonasked the Minister of Education if she will consider the desirability of amending the Primary and Secondary Schools (Grant Conditions) Regulations, 1945, so that, without prejudice to the total holidays which may be granted to schools, local education authorities which have three terms in the educational year shall not be obliged to curtail the Whitsun and Autumn mid-term holidays of infants and juniors and make them take the whole of their holidays at Christmas, Easter and Midsummer.
§ Mr. Lipsonasked the Minister of Education if she will consider amending the regulations so that a school may close and take part of its holidays during term at the time of the local Wakes, without prejudicing its occasional holidays at other times, or without having to give all the children longer holidays than those granted in other parts of the area of the local education authority.
§ Miss WilkinsonI am considering an amendment to Regulation 20 which would secure that part of the school holidays permissible under the Regulations could be taken during term time in the form of mid-term or occasional holidays without prejudice to the mid-term or occasional holidays not exceeding ten days which under the Regulations count as days on which the school meets.