of leave, are at present performed by the two officers holding the titles of "Inspector of English Schools", end these duties should in our
opinion be transferred to an officer with secretarial and accounting experience who would be responsible to the Director of Education.
2. We therefore recommend that Secretary
be appointed to the Department. We suggest a scale of salary similar to that attached to the
post of Assistant Crown Solicitor, namely £600 by
£25 to £800, and we recommend that the Secretary of
State be asked to select an officer with previous
secretarial and accounting experience to fill the
post. One of the first duties of the Secretary
would be to recast completely the office system,
particularly the arrangements for the expenditure and receipt of moneys by the Department. appointment is made we cannot see sufficient
justification for the retention of two Inspectors
of English Schools.
If this
3. The foregoing proposals would involve
additional expenditure of from £600 to £600 per
annum for the Secretary but would effect a saving
of the salary of £850 £1,100 in respect of the
Inspector of English Schools whose post would be
abolished and would relieve the remaining
Inspector of English Schools of all work other
than that of an educational nature. The proposal
would thus effect an economy in the matter of
salaries, besides affording much better
safeguards against waste and fraud and leading to
greater administrative efficiency.
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