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(14) FULL-TIME COURSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR BLIND,
DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC STUDENTS.
The Local Education Authority do not maintain any courses of training for
Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic students.
(15) NURSERY SCHOOLS.
There are no nursery schools in Barking. The problem of nursery schools
is one I have dealt with in previous Reports and I find there is nothing to add to the
remarks then made.
(16) SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION.
Secondary education is maintained in Barking by the County Council, but the
dental inspection and treatment of the children in attendance at the Barking
Abbey School is undertaken by you at a certain charge. This work has been much
appreciated, and its success indicates the urgent need there is for the medical
and other allied services you provide to be extended to these children. It is obvious
that a compact and progressive town such as Barking has a different system of
administration from the County, and is in a position to afford facilities which would
be difficult, if not impossible, for the County Authority to provide. Further, the
children in attendance at the Barking Abbey School come largely, if not altogether,
from the same homes as those children who attend your own schools, and in the
past if a child with a distinguished career at school has won a place at the Barking
Abbey School he has thereby been cut off from the services which are available to
the age of 14 years to those who do not achieve success.
(17) PARENTS' PAYMENTS.
From time to time you have had under consideration arrangements for the
recovery of cost of treatment from parents of children attending public elementary
schools. Certain alterations have been made during the year 1935.