Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 33997

Schools: Equality

Tabled: 26 February 2025
Answered: 22 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool Riverside

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

Catherine McKinnell
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...

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