Ms June Tinsley:

On the type of school book rental schemes, the Department issued guidelines but it is up to each school to determine what they want to cover. In our case, the parents' association is taking the lead on it and on what we want to cover. We would like at least all text books to be covered. In the school in which I am involved, we are covering the text books, the copy books and the stationary but not the arts and crafts materials. There needs to be a model set out to ensure that it covers as many options as possible for parents so that they are not burdened with additional extra-curricular matters such as arts and crafts materials.