HC Deb 15 April 1965 vol 710 cc258-9W
Mr. Russell Johnston

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of children in schools in Scotland who are classified as educationally sub-normal; and whether he will publish a table indicating their dispersal, county by county.

Mr. Ross

The total number of mentally handicapped children attending special schools—including occupational centres—at January, 1964, the latest date for which full figures are available, was 8,131. Details are given in the following table:

Area Special Schools Occupational Centres
COUNTIES
Aberdeen 92
Angus 67 18
Argyll
Ayr 395 100
Banff 75
Berwick 26
Bute
Caithness 10
Clackmannan 47 20
Dumfries 75 22
Dunbarton 170 78
East Lothian 76 6
Fife 306 152
Inverness 68
Kincardine
Kirkcudbright 35
Lanark 491 225
Midlothian 137 44
Moray and Nairn 28 20
Orkney
Peebles 10 8
Perth and Kinross 48 26
Renfrew 417 108
Ross arid Cromarty 34 21
Roxburgh 30 12
Selkirk 28
Stirling 165 34
Sutherland
West Lothian 76
Wigtown 40
Zetland
BURGHS
Aberdeen 277 78
Dundee 340 88
Edinburgh 419 112
Glasgow 2,524 453
Total (Scotland) 6,506 1,625