§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether all local education authorities have made arrangements, as recommended in the rate support grant settlement, for probationary teachers to have reduced teaching time, from September, in order to receive help and guidance with their initial year's work.
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§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe Government's expenditure plans have been made on the planning hypothesis that programmes of induction, involving reduced teaching time, will have been introduced for all probationary teachers by September 1979. Information is not yet available about the arrangements made by individual local education authorities. A survey of the extent of in-service training and induction programmes is currently being carried out by my Department in co-operation with the local authorities.