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Pupils with Learning Difficulties

Answer

The available information is shown in the table.

Maintained primary, secondary and special schools¹: number and percentage of pupils by type of need² as at January 2006, England
	SEN pupils by their primary type of need²,³
	Primary schools4	Secondary schools4
	School Action Plus	Statement of SEN	School Action Plus	Statement of SEN
	No.	%	No.	%5	No.	%5	No.	%5
Specific learning difficulty	31,310	13.4	3,340	5.1	28,340	18.4	13,750	18.6
Total SEN pupils	233,710	100.0	64,860	100.0	153,650	100.0	73,840	100.0
¹ Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools.
² Pupils at School Action Plus and those pupils with a statement of SEN provided information on their primary need and, if appropriate their secondary need. Information on primary need only is given here.
³ Excludes dually registered pupils
4 Includes middle schools as deemed.
5 Number of pupils by their main need expressed as a percentage of all pupils at School Action Plus or with a statement of SEN.
Note:
Totals may not appear to equal the sum of the component parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.

Figures relating to pupils with specific learning difficulties at ““School Action Plus”” and those with a statement of SEN are included in the table. There will be other pupils with SpLD at ““School Action”” where adjustments to the curriculum are made within school. We do not collect data on pupils at ““School Action”” with SpLD.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

454 c1010W;454 c1014W; 105103

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Learning disability

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk