HC Deb 22 June 1992 vol 210 cc33-5W
Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the effect of learning support assistance in the classroom on the integration of children with special needs into mainstream schools.

Mr. Forth

Appropriate learning support may be of great benefit in assisting many children with special needs to take up places in mainstream schools. The Department has recently sponsored a comprehensive research project, carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research, into practical aspects of integration of children with special needs. The study is nearing completion, and when the final report is available I shall place a copy in the Library.

Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the number of children with statements of special need in nursery, primary and secondary sectors by local education authority in 1990–91 and 1991–92.

Mr. Forth

The numbers of pupils with statements of special educational needs in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1991 are shown in the table. Information for January 1992 is not available.

Pupils with statements of special educational needs in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in each local educational authority in England January 1991
Nursery Primary Secondary
City 0 2 0
Camden 0 89 94
Greenwich 1 192 171
Hackney 3 170 80
Hammersmith 4 78 54
Islington 2 179 63
Kensington and Chelsea 1 31 20
Lambeth 1 223 95
Lewisham 0 102 129
Southwark 4 197 82
Tower Hamlets 0 94 61
Wandsworth 1 246 149
Westminster 1 53 62
Barking 0 94 50
Barnet 1 111 84
Bexley 2 172 137
Brent 0 59 70
Bromley 0 332 117
Croydon 0 163 169
Ealing 0 151 63
Enfield 0 17 17
Haringey 1 49 23
Harrow 0 164 113
Havering 0 178 83
Hillingdon 0 75 67
Hounslow 0 326 255
Kingston upon Thames 0 67 57
Merton 0 109 62
Newham 8 163 124
Redbridge 0 44 46
Richmond upon Thames 0 105 85
Sutton 2 112 67
Nursery Primary Secondary
Waltham Forest 0 63 94
Birmingham 0 358 362
Coventry 0 77 80
Dudley 0 152 122
Sandwell 0 54 48
Solihull 0 146 163
Walsall 1 186 79
Wolverhampton 0 185 128
Knowsley 0 90 102
Liverpool 0 138 58
St. Helens 0 114 103
Sefton 0 182 168
Wirral 2 303 200
Bolton 3 99 98
Bury 1 251 198
Manchester 0 57 126
Oldham 0 230 194
Rochdale 5 134 119
Salford 0 91 50
Stockport 4 355 251
Tameside 0 272 125
Trafford 0 169 183
Wigan 0 278 168
Barnsley 1 161 -80
Doncaster 0 101 97
Rotherham 1 189 63
Sheffield 1 296 270
Bradford 0 96 247
Calderdale 0 132 66
Kirklees 7 436 234
Leeds 1 585 989
Wakefield 4 127 69
Gateshead 0 40 54
Newcastle upon Tyne 5 142 168
North Tyneside 1 145 143
South Tyneside 0 96 74
Sunderland 1 162 121
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0
Avon 4 541 515
Bedfordshire 4 277 344
Berkshire 4 473 178
Buckinghamshire 0 712 569
Cambridgeshire 7 495 417
Cheshire 3 1,207 1,123
Cleveland 0 481 470
Cornwall 2 850 725
Cumbria 6 606 516
Derbyshire 0 971 1,380
Devon 0 1,230 1,185
Dorset 0 171 413
Durham 43 409 205
East Sussex 5 93 63
Essex 1 791 919
Gloucestershire 0 178 193
Hampshire 1 1,145 961
Hereford and Worcester 0 210 174
Hertfordshire 5 789 680
Humberside 4 449 429
Isle of Wight 0 40 69
Kent 0 850 617
Lancashire 16 1,052 1,200
Leicestershire 0 651 543
Lincolnshire 8 465 577
Norfolk 5 1,001 766
North Yorkshire 3 557 446
Northamptonshire 4 277 304
Northumberland 0 171 188
Nottinghamshire 1 108 103
Oxfordshire 1 92 51
Shropshire 3 468 715
Somerset 0 305 475
Staffordshire 6 528 302
Nursery Primary Secondary
Suffolk 0 592 1,042
Surrey 17 1,250 410
Warwickshire 1 238 136
West Sussex 0 198 184
Wiltshire 0 895 1,107
England 264 32,655 29,337

Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the average number of hours of learning support assistance available to each child with a statement of special need by local education authority in 1990–91 and 1991–92.

Mr. Forth

This information is not available centrally.

Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the weekly number of hours of learning support assistance in the classroom by local education authority in 1990–91 and 1991–92.

Mr. Forth

This information is not available centrally.

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