Schools: Equality
Commons · Question 33997 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Kim Johnson
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a public inquiry into the policy of so-called educationally subnormal schools in the 1960s and 1970s and (a) the number and proportion
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 22 Mar 2025
The department does not currently plan to establish a public inquiry into the policy framework surrounding placement of children in schools for the so-called “educationally subnormal” in the 1960s and 1970s, but is keen to ensure that the mistakes made in...