Special Needs Pupils

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many pupils in each local education authority are recorded on form SEN 2 as having statements of special educational need and attending maintained special schools;(2) how many pupils in each local education authority are recorded on form SEN 2 as having special educational needs and are attending maintained primary, middle and secondary schools;(3) how many pupils in each local education authority are recorded on form SEN 2 as having special educational needs and are attending non-maintained and independent special schools under arrangements made by the local education authority.

Form SEN2 for 1991 asked LEAs to record information on the placements arranged for children for whom statements of special educational needs were newly made in 1990. Details as submitted by LEAs in respect of the placements made for these children at maintained special schools, ordinary schools, non-maintained special schools and independent schools are given in the table.

Placements made for children with statements newly made in 1990
	Maintained		Non-maintained
	ordinary schools	special schools	special schools	independent schools
Inner London Boroughs
City	0	0	0	0
Camden	47	56	10	0
Greenwich	103	111	3	0
Hackney	49	83	11	0
Hammersmith	19	30	0	2
Islington	27	61	0	0
Kensington	16	27	4	1
Lambeth	112	133	0	5
Lewisham	13	28	2	0
Southwark	56	69	2	0
Tower Hamlets	17	31	2	0
Wandsworth	34	23	1	12
Westminster	42	52	0	12
Outer London Boroughs
Barking	49	14	1	1
Barnet	29	48	5	1
Bexley	115	66	2	19
Brent	15	20	0	2
Bromley	81	35	2	7
Croydon	46	55	1	17
Ealing	17	59	13	25
Enfield	9	6	1	3
Haringey	34	28	2	8
Harrow	59	11	0	4
Havering	81	18	4	3
Hillingdon	30	28	4	11
Hounslow	175	56	0	4
Kingston-upon-Thames	40	25	0	3
Merton	49	37	0	2
Newham	55	43	0	1
Redbridge	28	46	5	3
Richmond-upon-Thames	53	14	0	1
Sutton	62	28	1	2
Waltham Forest	47	49	0	1
West Midlands
Birmingham	34	259	0	11
Coventry	15	133	0	1
Dudley	42	8	1	4
Sandwell	6	45	0	0
Solihull	26	93	0	0
Walsall	89	59	1	3
Wolverhampton	78	33	0	0
Merseyside
Knowsley	57	124	4	6
Liverpool	68	501	17	4
St. Helens	75	48	11	2
Sefton	70	74	2	20
Wirral	47	76	3	7
Greater Manchester
Bolton	43	60	5	0
Bury	105	29	7	0
Manchester	14	84	8	6
Oldham	158	47	0	4
Rochdale	68	87	0	2
Salford	40	19	1	1
Stockport	199	44	0	1
Tameside	62	43	0	1
Trafford	65	56	2	1
Wigan	47	253	3	0
South Yorkshire
Barnsley	83	9	3	0
Doncaster	55	90	11	6
Rotherham	120	113	31	0
Sheffield	3	122	0	0
West Yorkshire
Bradford	38	36	1	0
Calderdale	43	1	1	0
Kirklees	171	63	1	0

	Maintained		Non-maintained
	ordinary schools	special schools	special schools	independent schools
Leeds	249	65	0	3
Wakefield	23	47	2	6
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead	48	34	0	2
Newcastle upon Tyne	38	58	4	2
North Tyneside	97	54	1	13
South Tyneside	39	31	2	2
Sunderland	62	74	3	0
English counties
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0
Avon	77	241	3	12
Bedfordshire	117	135	5	7
Berkshire	246	245	4	2
Buckinghamshire	403	202	23	16
Cambridgeshire	62	48	1	0
Cheshire	428	112	5	6
Cleveland	156	173	2	6
Cornwall	241	2	0	2
Cumbria	292	21	1	1
Derbyshire	646	78	0	8
Devon	569	188	12	19
Dorset	111	134	20	9
Durham	67	66	12	2
East Sussex	48	149	21	19
Essex	263	263	8	20
Gloucestershire	141	125	3	8
Hampshire	589	379	41	13
Hereford and Worcester	149	194	7	11
Hertfordshire	181	341	8	44
Humberside	89	97	5	5
Isle of Wight	25	19	2	0
Kent	413	440	27	46
Lancashire	640	305	39	66
Leicestershire	271	175	4	4
Lincolnshire	417	216	16	16
Norfolk	400	83	5	11
North Yorkshire	221	75	8	6
Northamptonshire	91	121	0	4
Northumberland	153	3	3	2
Nottinghamshire	45	157	0	6
Oxfordshire	47	83	4	3
Shropshire	366	59	1	1
Somerset	89	52	12	16
Staffordshire	196	326	2	5
Suffolk	344	58	5	4
Surrey	203	189	29	5
Warwickshire	85	145	6	9
West Sussex	63	159	25	18
Wiltshire	536	63	7	37

Note. Figures are provisional.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many pupils in each local education authority attend non-maintained and independent schools for the purposes of special educational treatment.

The table sets out the number of pupils in each authority who were attending non-maintained and independent schools in Janaury 1991 for the purposes of special educational treatment.

	Number¹of pupils²at non-maintained special schools	Number¹of pupils²at independent schools receiving special educational treatment
City	0	0
Camden	31	2
Greenwich	2	33

	Number ¹ of pupils ² at non-maintained special schools	Number ¹ of pupils ² at independent schools receiving special educational treatment
Hackney	10	29
Hammersmith	20	11
Islington	9	17
Kensington	10	6
Lambeth	37	0
Lewisham	15	22
Southwark	4	28
Tower Hamlets	0	0
Wandsworth	13	43
Westminster	4	31
Barking	16	9
Barnet	45	59
Bexley	44	63
Brent	32	47
Bromley	46	44

	Number ¹ of pupils ² at non-maintained special schools	Number ¹ of pupils ² at independent schools receiving special educational treatment
Croydon	37	139
Ealing	81	104
Enfield	22	47
Haringey	19	49
Harrow	61	6
Havering	36	26
Hillingdon	34	71
Hounslow	25	43
Kingston-upon-Thames	15	66
Merton	12	32
Newham	22	16
Redbridge	68	35
Richmond-upon-Thames	4	22
Sutton	14	51
Waltham Forest	14	8
Birmingham	25	70
Coventry	14	13
Dudley	12	29
Sandwell	19	10
Solihull	2	30
Walsall	9	10
Wolverhampton	6	25
Knowsley	17	12
Liverpool	77	12
St. Helens	66	19
Sefton	46	73
Wirral	59	63
Bolton	50	8
Bury	46	1
Manchester	91	19
Oldham	39	0
Rochdale	17	23
Salford	8	8
Stockport	51	58
Tameside	17	0
Trafford	33	16
Wigan	115	35
Barnsley	18	0
Doncaster	46	17
Rotherham	121	0
Sheffield	2	8
Bradford	42	0
Calderdale	9	19
Kirklees	47	14
Leeds	3	11
Wakefield	49	39
Gateshead	33	14
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	37	15
North Tyneside	24	40
South Tyneside	26	18
Sunderland	48	8
Isles of Scilly	1	18
Avon	18	190
Bedfordshire	61	85
Berkshire	152	96
Buckinghamshire	67	123
Cambridge	0	64

All full-time pupils in maintained primary, middle and secondary schools in each local education authority in England—January 1991
	Primary	Middle	Secondary
201 City	202	—	—
202 Camden	9,482	—	9,891
203 Greenwich	18,322	—	13,470
204 Hackney	14,732	—	7,592
205 Hammersmith and Fulham	8,154	—	6,050
206 Islington	13,421	—	7,223
207 Kensington and Chelsea	5,922	—	3,539
208 Lambeth	17,283	—	5,955
209 Lewisham	17,725	—	11,428
210 Southwark	18,315	—	9,487
211 Tower Hamlets	18,134	—	10,751
212 Wandsworth	14,916	—	9,724

	Number ¹ of pupils ² at non-maintained special schools	Number ¹ of pupils ² at independent schools receiving special educational treatment
Cheshire	188	91
Cleveland	40	36
Cornwall	19	66
Cumbria	38	49
Derbyshire	79	47
Devon	178	155
Dorset	175	44
Durham	30	73
East Sussex	0	0
Essex	175	286
Gloucestershire	90	33
Hampshire	276	283
Hereford and Worcester	50	67
Hertfordshire	47	253
Humbersidc	68	41
Isle of Wight	34	3
Kent	279	347
Lancashire	233	220
Leicestershire	25	46
Lincolnshire	32	135
Norfolk	41	85
North Yorkshire	83	54
Northamptonshire	34	61
Northumberland	37	13
Nottinghamshire	53	90
Oxfordshire	52	33
Shropshire	23	24
Somerset	70	76
Staffordshire	8	39
Suffolk	68	105
Surrey	198	83
Warwickshire	63	50
West Sussex	195	109
Wiltshire	106	211
Total for England	5,512	5,780
¹ As recorded in returns to the Department of Education and Science.
² Pupils aged five and over (as at 31 August 1990) for whom the local education authority was paying full tuition fees.

Volume 204: debated on Wednesday 19 February 1992