§ 43. Mr. Evelyn Kingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will issue advice to local authorities 136W in the matter of married women in their seventeenth year attending school.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonMy right hon. Friend does not consider that there is a general need for advice in this subject. She has, however, made it clear that any authority which consulted the Department would be advised only to prosecute the parent of a married 16 year old—particularly of one who no longer lived at the parental home—after the most careful consideration had been given to the particular circumstances of the case, and especially to whether such a prosecution was really required by educational considerations.