§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he has any plans to increase the funding available to enable local education authorities to second teachers for specialist training in the teaching of hearing-impaired children in 1987–88.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsUnder the new in-service teacher training arrangements to be introduced from April 1987 £202,000 has been earmarked for special needs training for school teachers in 1987–88. This money will be available for local education authorities to spend on special needs training, including training in the teaching of hearing-impaired children, which has been identified as a national priority. The Welsh Office will provide 70 per cent. of the £202,000 by means of specific grant and the local education authorities will fund the remaining 30 per cent. from their own resources. It will be open to authorities to apply further resources from their locally determined priority categories for this purpose. Expenditure on locally determined in-service teacher training priorities will attract specific grant of 50 per cent. from the Department.