"[3] Its first chairman was John La Rose, and it initially received funding from the Inner London Education Authority before that was shut down by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in 1989.
[3] Dr Kehinde Andrews, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, has noted that there has been little research about the Black supplementary school system in the UK because "Most of the effort to overcome racism in education [have] focused on changes to mainstream schooling and policy.
Andrews notes that "The biggest issue facing Black supplementary schools is the decline in attendance.
[7] In 1996, Educator (Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE) was commissioned by Birmingham Partnership for Change (BPC) and the Supplementary School working group of BPC's Education Forum to undertake a small-scale review and evaluation of the then provision within the Supplementary School movement in Birmingham, UK.
the report identified eleven recommendations to empower, unite and develop the Saturday school movement in Birmingham.