HC Deb 28 November 1990 vol 181 cc421-3W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the actual and recommended numbers of educational psychologists in each local education authority.

Mr. Alan Howarth

The employment of educational psychologists and the management of their educational psychology services are the responsibilities of individual local education authorities. The Department does not issue advice to LEAs on numbers of educational psychologists. The number of educational psychologists employed by each LEA on 19 January 1989 is given in the table:

Number of educational psychologists employed at 19 January 1989
Number of educational psychologists (full-time equivalent)
LEA
Barking 7.0
Barnet 15.5
Bexley 6.0
Brent 7.6
Bromley 10.1
Croydon 10.5
Ealing 7.4
Enfield 10.4
Haringey 6.0
Harrow 7.0
Havering 8.0
Hillingdon 7.2
Hounslow 6.3
Kingston 3.0
Merton 5.0
Newham 10.0
Redbridge 8.0
Richmond 5.0
Sutton 5.0
Waltham Forest 9.3
OUTER LONDON 154.3
ILEA 90.3
GREATER LONDON 1244.6
Birmingham 44.1
Coventry 11.0
Dudley 8.5
Sandwell 12.0
Solihull 8.0
Walsall 10.5
Wolverhampton 9.6
Knowsley 7.0
Liverpool 17.5
St. Helens 6.5
Sefton 10.0
Wirral 10.0
Number of educational psychologists (full-time equivalent)
Bolton 7.4
Bury 4.8
Manchester 18.0
Oldham 8.6
Rochdale 9.0
Salford 5.5
Stockport 7.8
Tameside 8.0
Trafford 3.0
Wigan 8.0
Barnsley 4.0
Doncaster 9.0
Rotherham 10.2
Sheffield 16.6
Bradford 20.5
Calderdale 6.0
Kirklees 13.5
Leeds 21.0
Wakefield 10.5
Gateshead 7.5
Newcastle 12.0
North Tyneside 8.0
South Tyneside 7.0
Sunderland 11.5
MET COUNTIES 392.1
Isles of Scilly 0
Avon 28.8
Bedfordshire 15.5
Berkshire 19.8
Buckinghamshire 18.0
Cambridgeshire 12.5
Cheshire 13.5
Cleveland 18.5
Cornwall 11.0
Cumbria 15.0
Derbyshire 32.6
Devon 20.2
Dorset 17.6
Durham 18.0
East Sussex 17.3
Essex 39.3
Gloucestershire 13.0
Hampshire 43.7
Hereford and Worcestershire 11.5
Hertfordshire 28.3
Humberside 22.0
Isle of Wight 3.0
Kent 30.0
Lancashire 38.2
Leicestershire 28.5
Lincolnshire 11.0
Norfolk 160
North Yorkshire 17.2
Northants 16.3

Number of educational psychologists (full-time equivalent)
Northumberland 8.3
Nottinghamshire 28.0
Oxfordshire 15.0
Shropshire 13.5
Somerset 11.0
Staffordshire 26.4
Suffolk 13.0
Surrey 30.0
Warwickshire 13.2
West Sussex 14.2
Wiltshire 14.3
NON MET 763.4
Total England 1,400.1