School Psychological Service

HC Deb 09 July 1990 vol 176 cc33-4W

Mrs. Wise

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether costs related to the school psychological service will be passed to individual schools to be met under their local management of schools budgets.

Mr. Alan Howarth

Under local management of schools it is for individual local education authorities to decide whether to delegate the costs of the school psychological

Net institutional expenditure per pupil1 1988–89 cash terms
Local education authority2	Maintained nursery and primary schools	Maintained secondary schools	Maintained special schools4
	£	£	£
Barking	1,255	1,970	7,680
Barnet	1,250	1,820	7,070
Bexley	1,100	1,685	5,845

service to individual schools or to retain those costs centrally. All LEAs have chosen to retain some of the costs centrally, and most are retaining all the costs.