HC Deb 15 December 1977 vol 941 cc338-40W
Mr. Terry Walker

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the local education authorities which provide financial assistance with the cost of boarding for children with specific reading difficulties whose educational needs are not met by local authority schools.

Miss Margaret Jackson

My Department does not collect this information.

Mr. Terry Walker

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many local authorities in England and Wales have established remedial education centres, as recommended in the Report of the Advisory Committee of 1974; and if she will list those authorities.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Centres which provide remedial education for children with specific reading difficulties have been established by the following 75 authorities in England:—

Greater London

  • Inner London Education Authority
  • Barking
  • Barnet
  • Bexley
  • Brent
  • Bromley
  • Croydon
  • Ealing
  • Enfield
  • Harrow
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Kingston-upon-Thames
  • Merton
  • Newham
  • Redbridge
  • Richmond-upon-Thames
  • Waltham Forest

Metropolitan Counties

West Midlands

  • Birmingham
  • Coventry
  • Dudley
  • Sandwell
  • Walsall
  • Wolverhampton

Merseyside

  • Knowsley
  • Liverpool
  • St. Helens
  • Sefton
  • Wirral

Greater Manchester

  • Bolton
  • Bury
  • Manchester
  • Rochdale
  • Tameside
  • Trafford
  • Wigan

South Yorkshire

  • Barnsley
  • Doncaster

West Yorkshire

  • Bradford
  • Calderdale
  • Kirklees
  • Wakefield

Tyne and Wear

  • Gateshead
  • South Tyneside
  • Sunderland

Non-Metropolitan counties

  • Avon
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Cumbria
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • East Sussex
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Hertfordshire
  • Humberside
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Lancashire
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • North Yorkshire
  • Northumberland
  • Oxfordshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • Warwickshire
  • Wiltshire

I understand from my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales that centres of this kind have been established by the Powys and Clwyd authorities.