§ 101. Mr. Alportasked the Minister of Education how far it is in accordance with the policy of her Department to rely upon the report of the school psychologist during the final stage of a child's primary school education in order to decide the form in which he or she should be placed on transfer to a secondary modern school.
§ Miss HorsbrughThis is a matter for local education authorities rather than my Department. So far as I am aware, the procedure which my hon. Friend describes is limited to a small-scale experiment in the Colchester area which is being carried out at the request of the heads of several secondary modern schools. Children are placed in the appropriate form of the secondary modern school to which they are due to go, with the help of tests conducted by the psychologist attached to the child guidance clinic.