§ Mr. Tom Clarkeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report, the information available to him on the numbers of children with statements under the Education Act 1981 in each local education authority in England; and what is his estimate in each case of the percentage of these children who are persons to whom section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 applies.
§ Mr. DunnThe information about children with statements, derived from returns by local education authorities, is set out in the following table. Assessments for the purposes of section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 are carried out by social services departments, and are a matter for my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Social Services.
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Number and Proportion of Children with Statements of Special Educational Needs as at January 1986: England Local education authority Number of pupils with statements Percentage of school population with statements Avon 6,454 4.20 Barking 352 1.40 Barnet 676 1.40 Barnsley 457 1.20 Bedfordshire 1,576 1.70 Berkshire 2,252 1.80 Bexley 739 2.20 Birmingham 3,517 1.90 Bolton 632 1.30 Bradford 1,381 1.60 Brent — — Bromley 794 1.80 Buckinghamshire 2,661 2.50 Bury 576 1.90 Calderdale 345 1.00 Cambridgeshire 1,928 1.80 Cheshire 3,373 2.10 Cleveland 2,276 2.10 Cornwall 1,109 1.50 Coventry 1,019 1.90 Croydon 854 1.70 Cumbria 1,235 1.50 Derbyshire 2,919 1.90 Devon 2,918 2.00 Doncaster 124 0.20 Dorset 1,681 1.80 Dudley 912 1.90 Durham 1,646 1.60 Ealing 654 1.50 East Sussex 1,747 1.80 Enfield 769 1.90 Essex 4,674 1.90 Gateshead 608 1.80 Gloucestershire 217 0.20
Local education authority Number of pupils with statements Percentage of school population with statements Hampshire 5,303 2.20 Haringey 547 1.80 Harrow 571 1.80 Havering 615 1.60 Hereford and Worcestershire 52 0.04 Hertfordshire 3,446 2.00 Hillingdon 565 1.50 Hounslow 417 1.30 Humberside 2,319 1.60 ILEA 7,241 2.20 Isle of Wight 337 1.80 Isles of Stilly 1 0.40 Kent 4,934 2.00 Kingston upon Thames 381 1.80 Kirkless 1,027 1.50 Knowsley 389 1.30 Lancashire 4,154 1.80 Leeds 1,554 1.30 Leicestershire 1,725 1.20 Lincolnshire 1,972 2.20 Liverpool 1,676 1.90 Manchester 248 0.30 Merton 58 0.20 Newcastle upon Tyne 864 1.90 Newham 738 2.00 Norfolk 1,695 1.50 North Tyneside 602 1.80 North Yorkshire 1,748 1.60 Northamptonshire 1,754 1.70 Northumberland 874 1.70 Nottinghamshire 2,531 1.50 Oldham 664 1.60 Oxfordshire 968 1.10 Redbridge 708 2.10 Richmond upon Thames 294 1.30 Rochdale 682 1.80 Rotherham 871 1.90 St. Helens 640 1.90 Salford 742 1.80 Sandwell 1,066 2.00 Sefton 641 1.20 Sheffield 1,368 1.70 Shropshire 1,145 1.60 Solihull 133 0.40 Somerset 1,319 1.80 South Tyneside 422 1.60 Staffordshire 2,628 1.50 Stockport 889 1.80 Suffolk 1,598 1.60 Sunderland 1,002 1.80 Surrey 3,355 2.00 Sutton 347 1.40 Tameside 789 2.10 Trafford 404 1.20 Wakefield 943 1.70 Walsall 734 1.40 Waltham Forest 726 2.10 Warwickshire 1,639 2.00 West Sussex 1,254 1.20 Wigan 218 0.40 Wiltshire 1,862 2.10 Wirral 1,081 1.80 Wolverhampton 758 1.60 TOTAL: England 135,303 1.7