§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement about the use of reading recovery programmes in Northern Ireland and his assessment of their effectiveness. [1791]
§ Mr. AncramTraining for teachers in the reading recovery approach is available in four board areas, and will be in the fifth from September 1977.
The Queen's university of Belfast school of education is carrying out an evaluation of the effectiveness of reading recovery in two board areas, and the findings of the evaluation are expected shortly.