§ Mr. Russell Johnstonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, what are the numbers of mentally-retarded children with an estimated intelligence quotient of under 50 beneath the age of 15 in Scotland, and county by county within Scotland.
§ Mr. Russell Johnstonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, what educational provision is made county by county in Scotland for those children under 15 years of age whose estimated intelligence quotient is beneath 50.
§ Mr. RossMentally handicapped children in Scotland are not classified in terms of intelligence quotient. At January, 1965, 1,614 children of school age had been ascertained as mentally handicapped to such a degree that they required special educational treatment in an occupational centre.
91WDetails are given in the following table:
Area Children in Occupational Centres at January, 1965 COUNTIES Aberdeen … … — Angus … … 17 Argyll … … — Ayr … … 87 Banff … … — Berwick … … — Bute … … — Caithness … … — Clackmannan … … 22 Dumfries … … 21 Dunbarton … … 78 East Lothian … … 19 Fife … … 151 Inverness … … —* Kincardine … … — Kirkcudbright … … — Lanark … … 236 Midlothian … … 40 Moray and Nairn … … 26 Orkney … … — Peebles … … 6 Perth and Kinross … … 22 Renfrew … … 110 Ross arid Cromarty … … 28 Roxburgh … … 11 Selkirk … … — Stirling … … 35 Sutherland … … — West Lothian … … — Wigtown … … 10 Zetland … … — BURGHS Aberdeen … … 64 Dundee … … 85 Edinburgh … … 119 Glasgow … … 427 TOTAL (SCOTLAND) … … 1,614 * Exceptionally, the Inverness-shire Education Authority have made arrangements whereby the appropriate local health authority, acting as their agents, cater for some 20 children of occupational centre standard.