§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the numbers of (a) blind and (b) partially-sighted children being educated in (i) special schools and (ii) ordinary schools in each of the local education authority areas in England.
§ Mr. DunnThe information requested as at January 1983 is:
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Special Schools† Maintained Primary and Secondary Sciwols Local education authority Number of pupils who are blind Number of pupils who have partial sight Number of pupils who are blind* Number of pupils who have partial sight* Coventry — — — 17 Dudley — — — 8 Sandwell 5 1 1 4 Solihull — — — 4 Walsall — — — 17 Wolverhampton — — 3 32 Knowsley — — — 3 Liverpool 120 120 — 12 St. Helens — 3 — 2 Sefton 18 2 — 6 Wirral — 1 1 11 Bolton — — — 6 Bury — — — 7 Manchester 26 42 — 20 Oldham — 30 1 6 Rochdale 2 — — 3 Salford — 15 — 4 Stockport — — — 12 Tameside — — — 7 Trafford 5 2 — 3 Wigan — — — 1 Barnsley — — — 17 Doncaster — 11 — 1 Rotherham — 6 2 30 Sheffield 49 1 14 29 Bradford — 66 — 12 Calderdale — — — 3 Kirklees — — 2 13 Leeds — 7 8 51 Wakefield — 2 — 20 Gateshead — 3 — 10 Newcastle upon Tyne 27 20 1 27 North Tyneside — 1 — 6 South Tyneside — 3 — 3 Sunderland — 9 — 3 Isles of Scilly — — — — Avon 8 30 — 26 Bedfordshire — 1 1 25 Berkshire 1 1 1 52 Buckinghamshire 2 12 — 37 Cambridgeshire 4 7 4 37 Cheshire — 7 — 40 Cleveland — 8 — 28 Cornwall — — 1 37 Cumbria — 2 1 18 Derbyshire 5 6 3 21 Devon 40 105 — 18 Dorset — 1 11 3 Durham — 1 1 37 East Sussex — 91 — 13 Essex 3 9 — 38 Gloucestershire 1 3 4 16 Hampshire 3 5 3 15 Hereford & Worcester 79 1 1 15 Hertfordshire 71 9 3 47 Humberside — 18 — 31 Isle of Wight — 2 1 10 Kent 72 3 2 28 Lancashire 3 112 2 28 Leicestershire 16 41 1 10 Lincolnshire — — — 10 Norfolk — 39 — 17 North Yorkshire 39 7 — 15 Northamptonshire 19 7 — 22 Northumberland — — — 7 Nottinghamshire — — 4 43 Oxfordshire 2 3 — 21 Shropshire 100 1 — 3 Somerset — — 1 18 Staffordshire 1 1 — 30 Suffolk — — — 10 Surrey — — — 11 Warwickshire 38 231 — 10 West Sussex 14 1 1 7
Special Schools† Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools Local education authority Number of pupils who are blind Number of pupils who have partial sight Number of pupils who are blind* Number of pupils who have partial sight* Wiltshire 3 2 1 27 England 996 1,674 83 1,529 The pupils included above are classified by their major handicap. * Including some part-time pupils. † Including non-maintained special schools, and blind and partially sighted pupils in special schools for other handicaps.