HC Deb 11 December 1985 vol 88 cc628-33W
Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the implications for his policy on the education of those with special educational needs of the recent judgment of Mr. Justice Taylor on the education of a dyslexic child from Southampton; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Dunn

My right hon. Friend is awaiting the transcript of the judgment in this case.

Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has about the proportion of schools which have been modified since 1981 with aids to assist handicapped pupils; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Dunn

This information is not available centrally. However, the Department's building bulletin 61 "Designing for Children with Special Educational Needs—Ordinary Schools", published last year, included guidance on how existing school buildings could be used or adapted for the purpose.

Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has about the proportion of children assessed as to their special educational needs and the proportion of children in special schools on whom statements have been prepared, under the terms of the Education Act 1981.

Mr. Dunn

According to returns submitted to the Department by all LEAs in January 1985 as part of the annual statistical exercise, a total of 127,889 children have statements of special educational needs under the 1981 Act. Overall, this represents 1.6 per cent. of all the school population. It is not possible to identify from the returns the proportion of children in special schools with statements.

The figures for individual LEAs are as follows:

Proportion of children with statements of special educational needs England—(as at 17 January 1985)
Number of children with statements Percentage of school population
Avon 617 0.4
Barking 384 1.5
Barnet 644 1.3
Barnsley 443 1.1
Bedfordshire 1,529 1.6
Berkshire 2,121 1.6
Bexley 713 2.1
Birmingham 3,478 1.9
Bolton 675 1.4
Bradford 1,391 1.6
Brent Nil —
Bromley 766 1.7
Buckinghamshire 2,859 2.7
Bury 507 1.7
Calderdale 338 1.0
Cambridgeshire 1,252 1.2
Cheshire 3,468 2.1
Cleveland 2,290 2.1
Cornwall 965 1.3
Coventry 1,232 2.2
Croydon 791 1.5
Cumbria 1,353 1.6
Derbyshire 2,698 1.7
Devon 2,807 1.9
Doncaster 14 0.0
Dorset 1,590 1.7
Dudley 908 2.0
Durham 1,569 1.5
Ealing 513 1.0
East Sussex 1,766 1.8
Enfield 779 1.9
Essex 4,555 1.8
Gateshead 598 1.8
Gloucestershire 483 0.6
Hampshire 5,252 2.1
Haringey 556 1.8
Harrow 596 1.9
Havering 626 1.6
Hereford and Worcester 14 0.0
Hertfordshire 3,472 1.9
Hillingdon 698 1.8
Hounslow 12 0.0
Humberside 2,417 1.6
Inner London Education Authority 7,349 2.2
Isle of Wight 317 1.7
Isles of Scilly Nil —
Kent 5,137 2.0
Number of children with statements Percentage of school population
Kingston upon Thames 340 1.7
Kirklees 929 1.3
Knowsley 348 1.1
Lancashire 4,708 2.0
Leeds 1,038 0.9
Leicestershire 1,797 1.2
Lincolnshire 2,001 2.2
Liverpool 1,663 1.9
Manchester 345 0.4
Merton 160 0.6
Newcastle upon Tyne 882 1.9
Newham 755 2.0
Norfolk 1,494 1.3
North Tyneside 604 1.8
North Yorkshire 1,723 1.6
Northamptonshire 1,858 1.8
Northumberland 806 1.6
Nottinghamshire 2,617 1.5
Oldham 661 1.6
Oxfordshire 1,046 1.2
Redbridge 724 2.1
Richmond upon Thames 305 1.3
Rochdale 618 1.6
Rotherham 844 1.8
St. Helens 647 1.9
Salford 815 1.9
Sandwell 1,103 2.0
Sefton 581 1.1
Sheffield 1,383 1.6
Shropshire 780 1.1
Solihull 84 0.2
Somerset 1,320 1.8
South Tyneside 467 1.8
Staffordshire 2,671 1.5
Stockport 862 1.7
Suffolk 1,532 1.4
Sunderland 1,000 1.8
Surrey 3,384 2.0
Sutton 190 0.8
Tameside 669 1.8
Trafford 278 0.8
Wakefield 981 1.7
Walsall 777 1.5
Waltham Forest 716 2.0
Warwickshire 1,547 1.8
West Sussex 1,394 1.3
Wigan 108 0.2
Wiltshire 1,795 2.0
Wirral 1,277 1.1
Wolverhampton 720 1.5
Total: England 127,889 1.6

Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report, for each local education authority in England, at the latest available date, the number and proportion of children of compulsory school age in (i) mainstream, maintained schools and (ii) special schools whose education is governed by a statement under the provisions of the Education Act 1981.

Mr. Dunn

[pursuant to his reply, 3 December 1985 c. 158]The number and proportion of children with statements of special educational needs in maintained primary, middle and secondary schools and in maintained and non-maintained special schools in each LEA in January 1985 were as follows:

Number of pupils with statements in special schools Number of pupils with statements in primary, middle and secondary schools All pupils with statements Percentage of pupils with statements in special schools Percentage of pupils with statements in primary middle and secondary schools
Barking 279 32 311 89.7 10.3
Barnet 426 75 501 85.0 15.0
Bexley 355 94 449 79.1 20.9
Brent 537 60 597 89.9 10.1
Bromley 533 187 720 74.0 26.0
Croydon 613 91 704 87.1 12.9
Ealing 584 141 725 80.6 19.4
Enfield 494 34 528 93.6 6.4
Haringey 424 88 512 82.8 17.2
Harrow 269 100 369 72.9 27.1
Havering 450 74 524 85.9 14.1
Hillingdon 531 53 584 90.9 9.1
Hounslow 610 — 610 100 —
Kingston-upon-Thames 255 54 309 82.5 17.5
Merton 313 54 367 85.3 14.7
Newham 611 65 676 90.4 9.6
Redbridge 465 33 498 93.4 6.6
Richmond-upon-Thames 186 23 209 89.0 11.0
Sutton 293 34 327 89.6 10.4
Waltham Forest 851 146 997 85.4 14.6
Inner London 7,338 1,195 8,533 86.0 14.0
Birmingham 3,138 416 3,554 88.3 11.7
Coventry 966 86 1,052 91.8 8.2
Dudley 645 143 788 81.9 18.1
Sandwell 877 169 1,046 83.8 16.2
Solihull 419 40 459 91.3 8.7
Walsall 696 95 791 88.0 12.0
Wolverhampton 581 129 710 81.8 18.2
Knowsley 622 35 657 94.7 5.3
Liverpool 1,904 171 2,075 91.8 8.2
St. Helens 502 67 569 88.2 11.8
Sefton 672 37 709 94.8 5.2
Wirral 887 202 1,089 81.5 18.5
Bolton 580 14 594 97.6 2.4
Bury 303 71 374 81.0 19.0
Manchester 1,819 57 1,876 97.0 3.0
Oldham 722 94 816 88.5 11.5
Rochdale 570 69 639 89.2 10.8
Salford 947 28 975 97.1 2.9
Stockport 817 156 973 84.0 16.0
Tameside 381 152 533 71.5 28.5
Trafford 437 181 618 70.7 29.3
Wigan 782 110 892 87.7 12.3
Barnsley 365 51 416 87.7 12.3
Doncaster 944 2 946 99.8 0.2
Rotherharn 611 156 767 79.7 20.3
Sheffield 1,440 248 1,688 85.3 14.7
Bradford 1,287 118 1,405 91.6 8.4
Calderdale 381 23 404 94.3 5.7
Kirklees 680 131 811 83.8 16.2
Leeds 2,136 435 2,571 83.1 16.9
Wakefield 846 11 857 98.7 1.3
Gateshead 556 89 645 86.2 13.8
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,001 68 1,069 93.6 6.4
North Tyneside 575 61 636 90.4 9.6
South Tyneside 331 56 387 85.5 14.5
Sunderland 777 272 1,049 74.1 25.9
Isles of Scilly — — — — —
Avon 2,316 3,289 5,605 41.3 58.7
Bedfordshire 1,161 370 1,531 75.8 24.2
Berkshire 1,906 859 2,765 68.9 31.1
Buckinghamshire 1,803 534 2,337 77.2 22.8
Cambridgeshire 1,460 494 1,954 74.7 25.3
Cheshire 1,913 1,426 3,339 57.3 42.7
Cleveland 1,934 385 2,319 83.4 16.6
Cornwall 292 575 867 33.7 66.3
Cumbria 632 509 1,141 55.4 44.6
Derbyshire 1,970 693 2,663 74.0 26.0
Devon 2,199 507 2,706 81.3 18.7
Number of pupils with statements in special schools Number of pupils with statements in primary, middle and secondary schools All pupils with statements Percentage of pupils with statements in special schools Percentage of pupils with statements in primary middle and secondary schools
Dorset 1,260 211 1,471 85.7 14.3
Durham 1,154 201 1,355 85.2 14.8
East Sussex 1,791 139 1,930 92.8 7.2
Essex 3,485 505 3,990 87.3 12.7
Gloucestershire 1,380 169 1,549 89.1 10.9
Hampshire 4,204 472 4,676 89.9 10.1
Hereford and Worcester 1,512 76 1,588 95.2 4.8
Hertfordshire 2,543 750 3,293 77.2 22.8
Humberside 1,649 665 2,314 71.3 28.7
Isle of Wight 311 54 365 85.2 14.8
Kent 3,852 941 4,793 80.4 19.6
Lancashire 3,893 348 4,241 91.8 8.2
Leicestershire 1,341 509 1,850 72.5 27.5
Lincolnshire 1,296 552 1,848 70.1 29.9
Norfolk 999 496 1,495 66.8 33.2
North Yorkshire 1,398 242 1,640 85.2 14.8
Northamptonshire 1,607 428 2,035 79.0 21.0
Northumberland 636 76 712 89.3 10.7
Nottinghamshire 2,349 129 2,478 94.8 52
Oxfordshire 1,116 65 1,181 94.5 5.5
Shropshire 800 424 1,224 65.4 34.6
Somerset 881 373 1,254 70.3 29.7
Staffordshire 2,272 511 2,783 81.6 18.4
Suffolk 835 613 1,448 57.7 42.3
Surrey 3,003 285 3,288 91.3 8.7
Warwickshire 1,528 69 1,597 95.7 4.3
West Sussex 1,258 148 1,406 89.5 10.5
Wiltshire 842 819 1,661 50.7 49.3
England 114,344 26,787 141,131 81.0 19.0