HC Deb 09 March 1978 vol 945 cc771-2W
Mr. Gordon Wilson

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what requirement he makes of local authority education departments to return statistics on the number of remedial teachers employed, the number of remedial ses- sions actually taught and the number of sessions in which remedial teachers are used as supply teachers.

Mr. McElhone

In the September 1978 school census information will be collected, for each primary school, about the number of teachers principally engaged on remedial education and the amount of time spent by all teachers on remedial education; and, for each secondary school, about the number of timetabled periods devoted to remedial education by each teacher. It is not proposed to collect information specifically about the time spent by remedial teachers on supply teaching during the census week.

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