HC Deb 03 August 1978 vol 955 cc481-3W
Mr. Ovenden

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest figures for the number of places provided by each local education authority in England for ESN(M) children; and what proportion of the total school places in each authority's area this represents.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Complete information is not available for children assessed as ESN(M) and placed in ordinary classes in primary and secondary schools, but those in separate types of provision are given in the following table.

ENGLAND—JANUARY 1977
Local Education Authority Number of ESN(M) Children (full-time) Percentage of total school population (full-time)
(1) (2) (3)
GREATER LONDON
Barking 235 0.8
Barnet 228 0.4
Bexley 213 0.5
Brent 304 0.7
Bromley 407 0.7
Croydon 407 0.6
Ealing 329 0.6
Enfield 262 0.6
Haringey 271 0.7
Harrow 162 0.4
Havering 394 0.8
Hillingdon 306 0.7
Hounslow 245 0.7
Kingston-upon-Thames 150 0.7
Merton 210 0.7
Newham 305 0.7
Redbridge 200 0.5
Richmond-upon-Thames 174 0.7
Sutton 184 0.6
Waltham Forest 393 1.0
Inner London 3,992 1.0

Local Education Authority Number of ESN(M) Children (full-time) Percentage of total school population (full-time)
(1) (2) (3)
METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS
West Midlands
Birmingham 1,066 0.5
Coventry 632 0.9
Dudley 441 0.8
Sandwell 575 0.9
Solihull 306 0.7
Walsall 470 0.8
Wolverhampton 436 0.8
Merseyside
Knowsley 450 1.0
Liverpool 958 0.8
St. Helens 373 0.9
Sefton 334 0.5
Wirral 378 0.5
Greater Manchester
Bolton 403 0.7
Bury 289 0.8
Manchester 1,317 1.
Oldham 356 0.8
Rochdale 403 0.9
Salford 491 0.9
Stockport 442 0.7
Tameside 230 0.5
Trafford 346 0.8
Wigan 285 0.4
South Yorkshire
Barnsley 331 0.7
Doncaster 339 0.5
Rotherham 338 0.6
Sheffield 598 0.6
West Yorkshire
Bradford 1,018 1.1
Calderdale 182 0.5
Kirklees 502 0.7
Leeds 1,392 1.0
Wakefield 462 0.7
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead 313 0.7
Newcastle upon Tyne 799 1.4
North Tyneside 320 0.8
South Tyneside 224 0.7
Sunderland 569 0.9
NON-METROPOLITAN COUNTIES
Isles of Scilly 0 0
Avon 3,517 2.0
Bedfordshire 662 0.6
Berkshire 1,018 0.7
Buckinghamshire 1,096 1.0
Cambridgeshire 884 0.8
Cheshire 1,176 0.6
Cleveland 1,211 0.9
Cornwall 370 0.5
Cumbria 636 0.7
Derbyshire 1,326 0.8
Devon 1,275 0.8
Dorset 1,243 1.3
Durham 828 0.7
East Sussex 747 0.7
Essex 1,775 0.6
Gloucestershire 843 0.8
Hampshire 2,532 0.9
Hereford and Worcester 704 0.6

Local Education Authority Number of ESN(M) children (full-time) Percentage of total school population (full-time)
(1) (2) (3)
Hertfordshire 1,160 0.6
Humberside 1,352 0.8
Isle of Wight 100 0.5
Kent 2,101 0.7
Lancashire 1,935 0.7
Leicestershire 578 0.3
Lincolnshire 1,003 1.0
Norfolk 419 0.3
North Yorkshire 524 0.4
Northamptonshire 708 0.7
Northumberland 437 0.8
Nottinghamshire 1,997 1.0
Oxfordshire 942 0.9
Salop 610 0.8
Somerset 664 0.8
Staffordshire 1,427 0.7
Suffolk 364 0.3
Surrey 1,363 0.7
Warwickshire 1,010 1.0
West Sussex 693 0.6
Wiltshire 768 0.7
ENGLAND 69,737 0.8