80. Mr. Jenningsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education whether, in regard to children of officers and men in the Armed Forces, he will institute a system whereby suitable record cards of children moving from school to school, by reason of the orders given to their parents on posting, will be made prompty available to the head teacher of the school to which the parent will on posting be legally obliged to send his child, in order that the new schooling may be a suitable continuation and as effective as possible.
§ Sir E. BoyleMost local education authorities already arrange that when a pupil moves from one school to another, information of the kind my hon. Friend has in mind shall be made available to his new school. My noble Friend is glad that the particular importance of this in connection with the children of officers and men in the Armed Forces will be brought to the attention of authorities by this Question and Answer.