§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many places in junior and adult training centres for the subnormal are currently provided by each local authority; how many places these represent per 100,000 population in each local authority area; and how many local authorities estimate that they will have 150 places per 100,000 population by 1978.
§ Sir K. JosephWith the transfer to the education service on 1st April 1971 of responsibility for the education of mentally handicapped children, junior training centres were absorbed into that service as schools.
The numbers of adult training centre places available to each local authority in March 1973 and the numbers these 552W represent per 100,000 total population in the authority's area are set out below.
One hundred and fifty adult training centre places per 100,000 population was the provisional target set out in Cmnd. 4683 "Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped" published in June 1971, to be achieved nationally in 15–20 years. I expect some 15 authorities to achieve this target by 1978.
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Local Authority Number of Adult Training Centre places available at 31st March 1973 Number of places per 100,000 population County Councils Bedford 175 56 Berkshire 315 60 Buckinghamshire 300 50 Cambridge and Isle of Ely 220 71 Cheshire 830 73 Cornwall 154 40 Cumberland 92 42 Derbyshire 537 80 Devon 402 88 Dorset 340 91 Durham 522 63 Essex 535 44 Gloucestershire 362 63 Hampshire 609 59 Herefordshire 56 40 Hertfordshire 625 66 Huntingdonshire and Peterborough 166 78 Isles of Scilly — — Isle of Wight 52 48 Kent 772 56 Lancashire 1,723 68 Leicestershire 360 72 Lincolnshire— Holland 99 93 Kesteven 93 58 Lindsey 283 74 Norfolk 347 77 Northamptonshire 239 68 Northumberland 280 55 Nottinghamshire 390 57 Oxfordshire 203 71 Rutland 45 152 Shropshire 149 43 Somerset 332 55 Staffordshire 334 44 Suffolk, East 148 56 Suffolk, West 80 46 Surrey 290 29 Sussex, East 234 52 Sussex, West 272 54 Warwickshire 291 46 Westmorland 29 40 Wiltshire 440 89 Worcestershire 298 64 Yorkshire— East Riding 158 60 North Riding 122 36 West Riding 1,007 55 554W
Local Authority Number of Adult Training Centre Place available at 31st March 1973 Number of places per 100,000 population County Boroughs Barnsley 80 107 Barrow-in-Furness 40 62 Bath 46 54 Birkenhead 95 69 Birmingham 500 50 Blackburn 60 59 Blackpool 100 67 Bolton 70 45 Bootle 90 123 Bournemouth 117 79 Bradford 217 74 Brighton 124 76 Bristol 295 70 Burnley 110 147 Burton-on-Trent 36 72 Bury 43 63 Canterbury 22 61 Carlisle 38 53 Chester 60 96 Coventry 280 83 Darlington 77 90 Derby 90 41 Dewsbury 30 59 Doncaster 78 96 Dudley 175 94 Eastbourne 41 58 Exeter 97 103 Gateshead 75 80 Gloucester 80 88 Great Yarmouth 60 120 Grimsby 60 63 Halifax 59 65 Hastings 74 100 Huddersfield 40 31 Ipswich 40 33 Kingston-upon-Hull 341 121 Leeds 348 70 Leicester 200 71 Linconln 110 149 Liverpool 610 104 Luton 83 51 Manchester 416 78 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 206 95 Northampton 93 73 Norwich 89 74 Nottingham 220 75 Oldham 141 134 Oxford 115 103 Plymouth 151 60 Portsmouth 135 65 Preston 80 84 Reading 97 72 Rochdale 59 63 Rotherham 90 106 Salford 140 109 Sheffield 295 57 Warley 138 85 Solihull 63 58 Southampton 205 96 Southend-on-Sea 121 74 Southport 40 47 South Shields 60 61 Stockport 90 65 Stoke-on-Trent 234 89
Local Authority Number of Adult Training Centre Place available at 31st March 1973 Number of places per 100,000 population Sunderland 130 60 St. Helens 62 59 Teesside 205 52 Torbay 119 112 Tynemouth 46 68 Wakefield 60 100 Wallasey 55 57 Walsall 157 85 Warrington 56 84 West Bromwich 125 76 Hartlepools 70 72 Wigan 94 115 Wolverhampton 190 71 Worcester 50 67 York 93 89 London Boroughs Barking 155 98 Barnet 254 83 Bexley 101 47 Brent 132 48 Bromley 132 43 Camden 150 76 Croydon 233 70 Ealing 155 52 Enfield 147 55 Greenwich 147 68 Hackney 214 99 Hammersmith 59 32 Haringey 115 49 Harrow 121 59 Havering 201 81 Hillingdon 188 80 Hounslow 121 59 Islington 100 51 Royal Borough of Kensington-Chelsea 28 15 Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames 90 65 Lambeth 159 53 Lewisham 163 62 Merton 123 70 Newham 218 94 Redbridge 96 40 Richmond-upon-Thames 74 43 Southward 179 71 Sutton 80 47 Tower Hamlets 120 75 Waltham Forest 173 74 Wandsworth 160 54 City of Westminster 46 20 City of London — —