§ Mr. EasthamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government have any plans to alter the way in which prison education is currently delivered through local education authorities; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggUnder current arrangements the great majority of education for people in custody is provided by teachers who are employed by and professionally responsible to the local education authority. The Government have no plans to change this means of 41W providing education. As part of the ongoing work of the prison education branch, agreement has been reached with the local authority associations to set up a working party on the role of local education authorities in providing education in prison. The aims of the working party are set out in the Government reply to the second report from the Education, Science and Arts Committee (Cm 298), copies of which are in the Library.