Local Authorities (Boarding Schools)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 June 1947.

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Photo of Mr Kenneth Lindsay Mr Kenneth Lindsay , Combined English Universities 12:00, 26 June 1947

Is it not a fact that all building priorities for education up to 1949 are now to meet the raising of the school-leaving age and to reduce the size of classes? Is it not common sense, if boarding school education is to be undertaken at present that the pupils have to be sent to independent schools, although on what basis no one seems to be quite clear?