§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the numbers of educational advisers and educational psychologists employed by each local education authority.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonInformation about the numbers of educational advisers employed by local education authorities is not available in my Department. In January 1975 the numbers of educational psychologists employed by English local education authorities, expressed in terms of full-time equivalents, were as indicated in the table below. Numbers of educational psychologists216W employed by Scottish and Welsh authorities are matters for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Barking 8.0 Barnet 5.0 Bexley 2.5 Brent 6.0 Bromley 4.0 Croydon 6.0 Ealing 4.4 Enfield 3.2 Haringey 6.2 Harrow 4.0 Havering 2.6 Hillingdon 4.0 Hounslow 4.2 Kingston upon Thames 3.0 Merton 6.0 Newham 4.0 Redbridge 4.0 Richmond-upon-Thames 2.5 Sutton 3.0 Waltham Forest 5.0 Inner London 46.0 Bolton 4.0 Bury 3.0 Manchester 10.5 Oldham 2.2 Rochdale 1.0 Salford 3.0 Stockport 5.0 Tameside 3.3 Trafford 5.0 Wigan 2.0 Knowsley 4.0 Liverpool 14.0 St. Helens 3.0 Sefton 4.0 Wirral 4.0 Birmingham 19.2 Coventry 5.0 Dudley 4.0 Sandwell 3.0 Solihull 6.0 Walsall 4.4 Wolverhampton 4.0 Gateshead 2.0 Newcastle upon Tyne 10.0 North Tyneside 2.9 South Tyneside 2.0 Sunderland 6.0 Barnsley 3.0 Doncaster 4.0 Rotherham 5.0 Sheffield 13.0 Bradford 9.6 Calderdale 4.0 Kirklees 10.0 Leeds 6.0 Wakefield 10.2 Avon 16.1 Bedfordshire 10.3 Berkshire 13.3 Buckinghamshire 9.4 Cambridgeshire 6.5 Cheshire 24.0 Cleveland 13.0 Cornwall 7.0 Cumbria 6.0 Derbyshire 21.0
Devon 18.0 Dorset 6.0 Durham 20.0 East Sussex 11.3 Essex 24.0 Gloucestershire 7.0 Hampshire 25.7 Hereford and Worcester 8.5 Hertfordshire 18.5 Humberside 8.0 Isle of Wight 2.0 Kent 17.3 Lancashire 12.8 Leicestershire 13.0 Lincolnshire 7.0 Norfolk 10.3 North Yorkshire 8.2 Northamptonshire 9.0 Northumberland 6.0 Nottinghamshire 5.0 Oxfordshire 9.5 Salop 5.0 Scilly Isles — Somerset 6.0 Staffordshire 9.6 Suffolk 7.5 Surrey 22.5 Warwickshire 4.5 West Sussex 5.4 Wiltshire 6.5
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report the average increase in salary recently approved for educational advisers and educational psychologists.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonUnder an arbitration award of 12th December 1975, educational advisers and educational psychologists received average increases of £30 and £18 per week respectively backdated to 18th February 1975. These were in addition to average increases of £18 and £16 per week respectively received on 1st April 1975 under an interim award.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the new salary scales of senior education advisers and education advisers and educational psychologists, giving the former salary, date of implementation of the new award and details of any lump sum arrangements.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonWith regard to the salary scale for senior education advisers and education advisers, I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my right hon. Friend to a Question by the hon. Member for Conway (Mr. Roberts) on Friday 20th February 1976.—[Vol. 905, c. 867–8.] For educational218W psychologists the former salary scales, including the interim award from 1st April 1975, were within the following ranges:
£ Assistant Scale 3,225–4,059 Main Scale 3,225–5,670 Senior Range 5,331–6,570 Principal Range 6,030,290 The new scales recommended by the Soulbury Committee for educational psychologists, following the arbitration award, are in the ranges:
wef 18 Feb. 1975* £ Assistant Educational Psychologists 3,204–3,927 Educational Psychologists 3,204–5,607 Senior Educational Psychologists 5,463–6,423 Principal Educational Psychologists 5,883–7,275 wef 1 April 1975† £ Assistant Educational Psychologists 3,900–4,734 Educational Psychologists 3,900–6,600 Senior Educational Psychologists 6,489–7,593 Principal Educational Psychologists 6,969–8,568 * Threshold payments amount are payable in addition to £229.68 are payable in addition. † These scales subsume threshold payments.