Question follow-through · 33997
Schools: Equality
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
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 22 Mar 2025 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
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
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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