§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services in which areas courses specially for the mentally handicapped have been set up in colleges of further education; and what others are planned.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerI have been asked to reply.
Comprehensive information of this kind is not collected by my Department but an increasing number of colleges is providing these courses.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services which local education authorities have plans to pro- 340W vide adolescent units for the mentally handicapped.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerI have been asked to reply.
Complete information about plans for adolescent units is not available, but the following local education authorities in England have submitted to my Department since 1975–76 building proposals which envisage provision for educationally sub-normal (severe) pupils over 16 years of age:
- Avon
- Bedfordshire
- Bolton
- Cheshire
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Doncaster
- Hereford and Worcester
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Newcastle
- Oldham
- Oxfordshire
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Surrey
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- West Sussex
- Wirral
- Wigan