§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if her Department has received a survey by her inspectorate on bad schools; and if she will list the schools that the inspectors criticised.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsAs I stated in a reply to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Eton and Slough (Miss Lestor) on 13th July, there never has been any draft report or anything resembling such a draft. To assist me to consider how good practices might be encouraged in comprehensive schools, Her Majesty's inspectorate provided me in January 1977, as part of its normal internal business with my Department and not as a formal survey intended to lead to publication, with illustrations of the factors which make for success, or create problems, in the development and running of comprehensive schools. Neither my Department nor Her Majesty's inspectorate discloses the names of schools considered in internal exercises of this kind. Nor does Her Majesty's inspectorate disclose the names of schools referred to in reports issued for general publication. However, it is Her Majesty's inspectors' policy to inform any education establishment and, where necessary, the authority concerned of strengths and weaknesses observed during an inspection visit.