§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what estimate his Department has of the number of teaching posts to be filled by September in primary and secondary schools.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonInformation received from LEAs suggests that there will be about 31,000 full-time teaching posts to be filled in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England and Wales by September. This
180Wreligious worship and religious instruction given in school and lay down the circumstances in which a local education authority may accede to a reasonable request by the parent that a child might participate, without cost to the authority, in an alternative form of religious instruction.