§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many children of three years and four years of age, respectively, in the administrative county of Hampshire are classified as handicapped for purposes of satisfying the criteria in paragraph 12 of Circular No. 2/73 Nursery Education; and what percentage she estimates these children represent of their respective age groups;
(2) how many children of three years and four years of age, respectively, in the administrative county of Hampshire came from homes which are culturally and environmentally deprived as defined in paragraph 9 of Circular No. 2/73 Nursery Education; and what percenage she estimates these children represent of their respective age groups.
§ Mr. St. John-StevasInformation of this kind is not collected by the Department.
§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers and nursery assistants are currently employed to teach children in nursery classes in the administrative county of Hampshire; and how many more teachers and nursery assistants on her proposed staffing ratio of about 1:13 she estimates would need to be recruited by 1982 for the administrative county of Hampshire, in order to provide full-time education for 15 per cent. of three-and 326W four-year-olds and part-time education for 35 per cent. of three-year-olds and 75 per cent of four-year-olds as proposed in paragraph 2 of Circular No. 2/73 Nursery Education.
§ Mr. St. John-StevasIn January 1972, Hampshire's two nursery classes, containing 38 full-time equivalent pupils, were staffed by two qualified teachers and two nursery assistants. In addition there were 1,760 other full-time equivalent pupils under 5 in primary schools, staffed, on the basis of the county's average primary pupil teacher ratio of 26.1:1, by about 70 qualified teachers. No realistic estimate can be made of the number of children under 5 in 1982 in the areas of individual local education authorities, but they were asked in Appendix B of Circular 2/73 to estimate the number of three-and four-year-olds in January 1976.
§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many rising-fives and other four-year-olds, as defined in paragraph 18 of Circular No. 2/73 Nursery Education, are currently attending reception classes of primary schools in the administrative county of Hampshire.
§ Mr. St. John-StevasIn January 1972, the latest date for which information is available, 1,682 rising-fives and 78 other four-year-olds were attending primary schools full time.
§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many three-and four-year-old children, respectively, are currently receiving part-time nursery education in the administrative county of Hampshire; and what percentage of their age groups each represents;
(2) how many three-year and four-year-old children, respectively, are currently receiving whole-time nursery education in the administrative county of Hampshire; and what percentage of their age groups each represent.
§ Mr. St. John-StevasIn January 1972, the latest date for which information is available, the numbers in maintained nursery schools were:
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Full-time pupils Aged 3 … … … … 9 Aged 4 … … … … 22 These numbers represent 0.1 per cent. of all the children born three or four years previously in Hampshire.
Part-time pupils Aged 3 … … … … 7 Aged 4 … … … … 7