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