Deaf Children (Residential Schools)

HC Deb 13 April 1973 vol 854 cc374-5W

Mr. Woodhouse

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will make increased provision of residential schools for deaf children.

Mrs. Thatcher

A new day and boarding school for primary-age deaf children is expected to be opened in Hertfordshire in the summer of 1975, and a further school for secondary pupils may be programmed in 1974–75.