§ 12. Sir C. Osborneasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is aware that a qualified teacher who failed her probationary period 10 years ago, but who returned to teaching in answer to the national appeal, and was accepted for six weeks in a Cleethorpes school, where the headmistress was satisfied with the work, has been dismissed, despite the headmistress' protest; if he will investigate the case, details of which have been sent to him by the hon. Member for Louth, and rescind the regulation that premitted this action; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CroslandI have re-examined this case and think the teacher in question should have a second opportunity. I am prepared, if the local authority asks me,78W to suspend the determination made in her case in 1957 when she failed her probationary period and to allow her, if she so wishes, to resume teaching for a renewed period of probation.