Plowden Committee - Working Party 2 Papers 1-15 Comprises the following papers considered by Working Party 2: - Pre-school provision and social background - notes for discussion - summary of the population investigation committee survey; an enquiry into parental attitudes towards primary education; a suggested programme of work (paper 2) - proposals for a survey of parental attitudes and behaviour (paper 4) - Primary school building, including information on the policy of the Ministry of Education (paper 5) - further notes on the survey of parental attitudes (paper 6) - pamplet by the Ministry of Education on 'English for Immigrants', 1963 - A survey of parental choice and the relations between the schools and parents based in the experience of members of associations for the advancement of state education, by Mrs Campbell; fees at Headmasters' Conference schools in the UK and Eire 1950-1963 (excluding wholly day schools); graphs showing average cost per pupil in maintained secondary schools and average annual boarding fee in headmasters' conference schools 1950-1963 (paper 8) - Ministry of Education manual of guidance, first published August 1950, amended October 1960 (paper 9) - paper proposing a family centre in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, with an article from the Times Educational Supplement (TES) (paper 10) - Paper on the schools' side of the parental attitudes sample for the proposed questionnaire (paper 11) - Papers on the social survey report on a pilot survey and schedule for the enquiry on primary school children's parents' attitudes to primary education (paper 12) - Papers on appeals by parents to the Department of Education and Science (previously the Ministry of Education) on choice of schools (paper 13) - Paper on juvenile crime and schools, possibly by the Education Department of West Riding Council - Paper on schools with interesting parent-teacher relationships (paper 14) - Review of 'The home and the school' by J W B Douglas 1963-1964