HC Deb 19 December 1966 vol 738 c227W
Mr. Hamling

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers have taken one-year qualifying courses for teaching educationally sub-normal children during the last 10 years; and how many teachers so qualified are at present employed in teaching posts utilising their specialised training.

Mr. Redhead

In the period 1957–66, 1,999 teachers took supplementary one-year courses to give them further qualifications to teach educationally subnormal children; the figures of teachers so qualified and at present in teaching posts of this kind are not available.