HC Deb 25 May 1971 vol 818 c90W
Mr. John E. B. Hill

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the current constitution of the committee which advises her on handicapped children.

Mrs. Thatcher

The current membership is as follows:

Chairman Professor Jack Tizard, Head of the Department of Child Development in the University of London Institute of Education.

Members Professor S. D. M. Court, James Spence Professor of Child Health, University of Durham; Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital and Babies' Hospital; Paediatric Physician, Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dr. D. E. Cullington, Medical Officer of Health and Principal School Medical Officer, Berkshire. Miss L. Faithfull, Director of Social Services, City of Oxford. Dr. P. J. Graham, Head of Department of Psychological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. Professor O. P. Gray, Professor of Child Health at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff; Consultant Paediatrician, United Cardiff Hospitals and Welsh Regional Hospital Board; Paediatrician, National Spastics Society. Mr. R. Gulliford, Organiser of advanced diploma course for teachers of educationally subnormal children, Birmingham University. Mr. D. D. Johnston, Headmaster, Percy Hadley School for Spastics, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dr. M. L. Kellmer-Pringle, Director, The National Children's Bureau. Dr. W. E. D. Stephens, Chief Education Officer, London Borough of Waltham Forest. Mr. J. Taylor, Headmaster, Stepney Green School. Dr. Mary Wilson, Staff Inspector of Special Schools, Inner London Education Authority.