HC Deb 09 May 1984 vol 59 cc398-9W
Mr.Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what avenues for communications and co-operation have been established between employees in and institutions of special education and mainstream education.

Mr.Dunn

As my right hon. Friend said in his speech to the National Council for Special Education at Bristol last year, contact and co-operation of this kind can most effectively be organised by the institutions themselves and the local education authorities. The Department does not require local education authorities to report on what steps they are taking, and does not collect information centrally about developments of this sort.