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Children: Behaviour Disorders

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children were assessed as having behavioural difficulties in each London borough in each of the last five years. (185736)

Information on pupils having behavioural, emotional or social difficulties identified as their primary need in maintained primary and secondary schools and all special schools in London local authorities is given in the following table for 2006 and 2007, the only years for which these data are available at local authority level. This information can be found in two SFRs, available on the Department's website here via the following links:

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000661/index.shtml and

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000732/index.shtml

Number of pupils in all schools1 with statements of SEN or at School Action Plus having behavioural, emotional and social difficulties2,3, January 2006 and 2007, London local authorities

2006

2007

London4

22,320

23,340

Inner London4

8,950

9,150

Camden

672

682

City of London

8

7

Hackney

643

634

Hammersmith and Fulham

348

481

Haringey

529

533

Islington

570

531

Kensington and Chelsea

150

140

Lambeth

1,255

1,301

Lewisham

686

753

Newham

778

828

Southwark

1,248

1,123

Tower Hamlets

698

743

Wandsworth

1,040

996

Westminster

328

404

Outer London4

13,370

14,180

Barking and Dagenham

406

447

Barnet

953

985

Bexley

667

724

Brent

769

769

Bromley

771

877

Croydon

1,125

1,307

Baling

866

907

Enfield

1,111

1,173

Greenwich

1,089

1,061

Harrow

607

675

Havering

361

382

Hillingdon

533

567

Hounslow

819

796

Kingston upon Thames

366

375

Merton

439

426

Redbridge

569

633

Richmond upon Thames

269

293

Sutton

460

566

Waltham Forest

1,192

1,219

1 Includes maintained primary and secondary schools and all special schools. 2 Pupils at School Action Plus and those pupils with a statement of SEN having behavioural, emotional and social difficulties identified as their primary need or, if appropriate, their secondary need. Information on primary need only is given here. 3 Excludes dually registered pupils. 4 Regional totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census.