§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what measures he intends to take to encourage people with disabilities to become teachers, nursery nurses or teachers' aides.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe teaching as a career unit, funded by the Welsh Office and the Department for Education (DFE), promotes and publicises teaching. It has not undertaken any special targeting of the disabled.
The DFE is in consultation with disabled teachers' interest groups prior to the revision of its circular 1/88 "Physical and Mental Fitness to Teach of Teachers and of Entrants to Teacher Training". This will continue to stress that disability in itself does not mean that a person is medically unfit to teach, but that the paramount consideration should be the health and welfare of pupils.