§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information is available to his Department on the numbers of teachers in each local education authority with special qualifications relevant to the teaching of pupils with statements under the Education Act 1981, other than teachers employed full-time in special schools; if he will publish what information is available for the last year; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 2 April 1987, c. 579–82]: The printed table gave incorrect figures for Somerset and omitted the authorities of Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
Pursuant to my reply of 23 March, column 32, individual teachers' records held by this Department for pension purposes include information on some special qualifications for teaching children with handicaps. Not all of the qualifications covered carry a salary benefit so there may be some under-recording. The latest available information is for 31 March 1985 and is given for each local education authority in England.
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Full-time teachers with special qualifications for leaching children with handicaps England: maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools 31 March 1985 (provisional) Teaching in Special classes Other classes Total Barking 4 3 7 Barnet 5 9 14 Bexley 8 3 11 Brent 4 5 9 Bromley 10 3 13 Croydon 5 6 11 Ealing 6 5 11 Enfield 2 3 5 Haringey 2 8 10 Harrow 7 4 11 Havering 3 6 9 Hillingdon 2 9 11 Hounslow 4 4 8 Kingston 3 0 3 Merton 1 1 2 Newham 2 2 4 Redbridge 3 4 7 Richmond 0 3 3 Sutton 1 3 4 Waltham Forest 0 4 4 ILEA 18 96 114 Birmingham 13 33 46 Coventry 7 16 23
Teaching in Special classes Other classes Total Dudley 6 5 11 Sandwell 7 11 18 Solihull 7 7 14 Walsall 6 8 14 Wolverhampton 16 13 29 Knowsley 3 5 8 Liverpool 3 33 36 St. Helens 4 12 16 Sefton 3 11 14 Wirral 2 10 12 Bolton 0 5 5 Bury 4 7 11 Manchester 0 6 6 Oldham 0 5 5 Rochdale 7 8 15 Salford 5 5 10 Stockport 7 4 11 Tameside 3 4 7 Trafford 5 2 7 Wigan 2 5 7 Barnsley 5 7 12 Doncaster 4 9 13 Rotherham 7 4 11 Sheffield 13 21 34 Bradford 6 9 15 Calderdale 0 8 8 Kirklees 9 8 17 Leeds 0 20 20 Wakefield 0 3 3 Gateshead 2 11 13 Newcastle 6 24 30 North Tyneside 4 6 10 South Tyneside 4 9 13 Sunderland 7 4 11 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 Avon 6 59 65 Bedfordshire 3 23 26 Berkshire 13 22 35 Buckinghamshire 1 24 25 Cambridgeshire 3 36 39 Cheshire 33 16 49 Cleveland 1 27 28 Cornwall 16 13 29 Cumbria 14 5 19 Derbyshire 27 35 62 Devon 5 35 40 Dorset 9 9 18 Durham 4 19 23 East Sussex 10 25 35 Essex 26 25 51 Gloucestershire 4 29 33 Hampshire 16 36 52 Hereford and Worcester 18 23 41 Hertfordshire 10 11 21 Humberside 27 37 64 Isle of Wight 3 3 6 Kent 12 39 51 Lancashire 24 27 51 Leicestershire 31 37 68 Lincolnshire 16 16 32 Norfolk 12 13 25 North Yorkshire 9 23 32 Northamptonshire 20 16 36 Northumberland 8 10 18 Nottinghamshire 15 23 38 Oxfordshire 9 13 22 Shropshire 5 9 14 Somerset 15 17 32 Staffordshire 18 17 35 Suffolk 10 19 29 Surrey 25 19 44 Warwickshire 10 13 23 West Sussex 7 16 23 Wiltshire 4 14 18