Evacuated Children.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education. – in the House of Commons at on 19 June 1941.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Mr Herwald Ramsbotham Mr Herwald Ramsbotham , Lancaster

It is the duty of the parent to cause his child to receive efficient elementary education, and the expression "parent" is denned in the Education Act, 1921, as including "guardian and every person who is liable to maintain or have actual custody of the child." It would be for the courts to decide whether persons on whom the children are billeted fall within this definition.