HC Deb 13 June 1985 vol 80 cc506-9W
Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list in the Official Report the number and proportion of children with special needs who

(a) are awaiting the completion of their statement and

(b) have had a statement made as to their needs; and what information he has as to the time taken between identification of a child with special educational needs and the completion of the statement process.

Mr. Dunn

No information is collected centrally on the number of children with special needs who are awaiting the completion of their statements or on the average duration of the waiting period. There were 166,000 children in maintained primary and secondary schools and maintained and non-maintained special schools in England in 1984 with statements of special education needs.

Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to (a) the number and proportion of children identified as having special educational needs currently being educated in (i) special and (ii) maintained schools and (b) the variation in these figures between local education authorities.

Mr. Dunn

The number and proportion of children with statements of special educational needs being educated in maintained primary, middle and secondary schools and maintained and non-maintained special schools in each LEA in England in January 1984, the latest date for which information is available, are as follows:

LEA Number of pupils with statements in Special school Number of pupils with statements in primary Middle and Secondary schools All pupils with statements Percentage of pupils with state- ments in special schools Percentage of pupils with state-ments in Maintained schools
Richmond upon Thames 224 46 270 83.0 17.0
Sutton 312 38 350 89.1 10.9
Waltham Forest 886 261 1,147 77.2 22.8
Inner London 7,720 3,657 11,377 67.9 32.1
Birmingham 3,402 406 1,808 89.3 10.7
Coventry 1,072 222 1,294 82.8 17.2
Dudley 639 204 843 75.8 24.2
Sandwell 913 215 1,128 80.9 19.1
Solihull 450 96 546 82.4 17.6
Walsall 744 94 838 88.8 11.2
Wolverhampton 640 165 805 79.5 20.5
Knowsley 666 89 755 88.2 11.8
Liverpool 1,929 1,105 3,034 63.6 36.4
St Helens 535 69 604 88.6 11.4
Sefton 708 157 865 81.8 18.2
Wirral 921 232 1,153 79.9 20.1
Bolton 604 115 719 84.0 16.0
Bury 321 56 377 85.1 16.9
Manchester 2,0007 346 2,353 85.3 14.7
Oldham 735 145 880 83.5 16.5
Rochdale 584 56 640 91.3 8.8
Salford 984 56 1,040 94.6 5.4
Stockport 802 139 941 85.2 14.8
Tameside 392 175 567 69.1 30.9
Trafford 421 243 664 63.4 36.6
Wigan 796 36 832 95.7 4.3
Barnsley 399 19 418 95.5 4.5
Doncaster 875 73 948 92.3 7.7
Rotherham, 627 445 1,072 58.5 41.5
Sheffield 1,548 294 1,842 84.0 16.0
Bradford 1,456 358 1,814 80.3 19.7
Calderdale 305 46 351 86.9 13.1
Kirklees 749 132 881 85.0 15.0
Leeds 2,322 600 2,922 79.5 20.5
Wakefield 873 8 881 99.1 0.9
Gateshead 557 145 702 79.3 20.7
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,086 56 1,142 95.1 4.9
North Tyneside 579 59 638 90.8 9.2
South Tyneside 332 118 450 73.8 26.2
Sutherland 814 298 1,112 73.2 26.8
Isles of Scilly 2 2 .0 100.0
Avon 2,346 3,863 6,209 37.8 62.2
Bedfordshire 1,184 591 1,775 66.7 33.3
Berkshire 1,971 1,180 3,151 62.6 37.4
Buckinghamshire 1,877 825 2,702 69.5 30.5
Cambridgeshire 1,430 1,487 2,917 49.0 51.0
Cheshire 1,952 1,745 3,697 52.8 47.2
Cleveland 2,031 546 2,577 78.8 21.2
Cornwall 288 807 1,095 26.3 73.7
Cumbria 679 611 1,290 52.6 47.4
Derbyshire 2,044 1,083 3,127 65.4 34.6
Devon 2,215 987 3,202 69.2 30.8
Dorset 1,281 179 1,460 87.7 12.3
Durham 1,219 294 1,513 80.6 19.4
East Sussex 1,851 285 2,136 86.7 13.3
Essex 3,525 309 3,834 91.9 8.1
Gloucestershire 1,404 379 1,783 78.7 21.3
Hampshire 4,241 967 5,208 81.4 18.6
Hereford and Worcester 1,475 1,832 3,307 44.6 55.4
Hertfordshire 2,754 1,037 3,791 72.6 27.4
Humberside 1,724 1,340 3,064 56.3 43.7
Isle of Wight 311 169 480 64.8 35.2
Kent 3,885 1,120 5,005 77.6 22.4
Lancashire 4,021 1,117 5,138 78.3 21.7
Leicestershire 1,337 1,871 3,208 41.7 58.3

LEA Number of pupils with statements in Special school Number of pupils with statements in primary Middle and Secondary schools All pupils with statements Percentage of pupils with state- ments in special schools Percentage of pupils with state-ments in Maintained schools
Lincolnshire 1,262 891 2,153 58.6 41.4
Norfolk 1,020 791 1,811 56.3 43.7
North Yorkshire 1,394 252 1,646 84.7 15.3
Northamptonshire 1,509 512 2,021 74.7 25.3
Northumberland 731 285 1,016 71.9 28.1
Nottinghamshire 2,491 157 2,648 94.1 5.9
Oxfordshire 1,151 2,611 3,762 30.6 69.4
Shropshire 813 520 1,333 61.0 39.0
Somerset 925 511 1,436 64.4 35.6
Staffordshire 2,359 880 3,239 72.8 27.2
Suffolk 850 794 1,644 51.7 48.3
Surrey 3,079 370 3,449 89.3 10.7
Warwickshire 1,536 227 1,763 87.1 12.9
Sest Sussex 1,284 245 1,529 84.0 16.0
Wiltshire 821 1,262 2,083 39.4 60.6
ENGLAND 118,206 48,107 166,313 71.1 28.9