§ 54. Mr. Huntasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to ensure that, following the dissolution of the area training organisations and the general reduction in teacher education, there is an adequate supply of properly trained teachers in specialist subjects, particularly for the handicapped.
§ Miss Joan LestorThe Department has recently asked institutions, providing bodies, and other interests concerned with initial teacher training to bear the need for an adequate supply of the teachers mentioned fully in mind in making their future plans, and for individual plans to be co-ordinated within anad hoc regional framework and forwarded to the Department by the end of June.