Warnock (1978)

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Notes on the text

Preliminary pages (i-xiii)
Membership, Contents

Introduction (1-3)
Chapter 1 (4-7)
General approach
Chapter 2 (8-35)
Historical background
Chapter 3 (36-49)
Scope of special education
Chapter 4 (50-72)
Discovery, assessment and recording
Chapter 5 (73-93)
Children under five
Chapter 6 (94-98)
Schoolchildren with special needs: introduction
Chapter 7 (99-120)
Special education in ordinary schools
Chapter 8 (121-149)
Special education in special schools
Chapter 9 (150-161)
Parents as partners
Chapter 10 (162-204)
Transition from school to adult life
Chapter 11 (205-225)
Some curricular considerations
Chapter 12 (226-251)
Teacher education and training
Chapter 13 (252-262)
Advice and support in special education
Chapter 14 (263-276)
Other education service staff
Chapter 15 (277-294)
Health service and social services
Chapter 16 (295-308)
Relations between professionals, confidentiality and co-ordination of services
Chapter 17 (309-317)
Voluntary organisations
Chapter 18 (318-324)
Research and development
Chapter 19 (325-337)
Priorities and resources
Summary of recommendations (338-366)

Appendices

Appendix 1 (367-379)
List of contributors
Appendix 2 (380-381)
Categories of handicapped pupils
Appendix 3 (382-383)
Possible grid as basis for statistical returns
Appendix 4 (384-387)
Organisation of health service
Appendix 5 (388)
Research project on services for parents of under 5s
Appendix 6 (389-390)
Research project on pre-school education
Appendix 7 (391-392)
Research project on employment experiences of handicapped school leavers
Appendix 8 (393-394)
Survey of teachers' views on special education

Index (395-416)

Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1978
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Preliminary pages

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Mrs HM Warnock (Chairman) - Senior Research Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford

Mr GV Cooke CBE (Vice-Chairman) - County Education Officer, Lincolnshire

Mrs JD Bisby - Senior Careers Officer, Sheffield

Sir Edward Britton CBE - Senior Research Fellow in Education, University of Sheffield. General Secretary ofthe National Union of Teachers until 1975

Miss MF Cairley - Assistant Head Teacher, Kirkriggs Special School for the Mentally Handicapped, Glasgow

Dr I Chesham - Specialist in Community Medicine (Child Health), Cheshire Area Health Authority

Mr D Coe - Assistant Director, Middlesex Polytechnic

Mr GH Dalziel - Headmaster, Thorn Park School for the Deaf, Bradford

Mr RA Davis - Headmaster, Pindar Comprehensive School, Scarborough, until December 1976

Dr RM Forrester - Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan

Professor PJ Graham - Consultant Psychiatrist, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London

Mr D Guthrie OBE (resigned May 1975) - Director of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases until November 1976

Mr JE Harding - Member of the Education and Training Committee, Scottish CBI and the Scottish TUC/CBI Joint Committee on the Employment of the Disabled

Mr L Macho - Headmaster, Pen-y-Bryn School for the ESN(M), Swansea

Dr JB Meredith Davies (appointed June 1975) - Director of Social Services, Liverpool

Mr JAD Michie - Director of Education, Grampian Region

Mr G Newton OBE (resigned April 1975) - Director of Social Services, Wiltshire

Mr PH Priestley - Regional Psychologist and Head of Special Educational Services, Lothian Regional Council

Mr EJ Richards - Senior Adviser, Special Education, Clwyd Local Education Authority

Lady Roth JP - Chairman of the Governors, Feversham Non-Maintained School for the Maladjusted, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, untiI July 1977

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Mrs ME Thruston - Community Nurse Training Officer, Croydon Area Health Authority

Mrs W Tumim - Parent of two hearing impaired children and Chairman of the Education Committee of The National Deaf Children's Society

Dr MC Tyson - Professional Adviser/Senior Educational Psychologist for Special Education, London Borough of Hounslow

Professor P Williams - Professor of Educational Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Educational Studies, The Open University

Mr D Winnard - Secretary, Education Department, Trades Union Congress until September 1974

Mr DPT Woodgate - Headmaster, Priory Meadow School for Maladjusted Children, St Osyth

Mr PW Young - Tutor to the course in the education of children with learning difficulties, Cambridge Institute of Education, Chelmsford, until December 1977

Department of Education and Science
Mr MA Walker (to September 1976)
Mr VH Stevens (from October 1976)
Mr JR Fish HMI

Scottish Education Department
Mrs N Munro (to May 1976)
Mr R P C Macnab (from May 1976)
Mr A Milne HMI

Welsh Education Office
Mr M W Stone HMI

Department of Employment
Mr P Tansley (to June 1977)
Mr S Loveman (from June 1977)

Department of Health and Social Security
Dr EE Simpson
Mr GM Bebb
Mr RB Brown

Scottish Home and Health Department
Dr J Ward (to May 1975)
Dr JH Grant (June 1975 to August 1977)
Dr M Hennigan (from September 1977)

Department of Education and Science
Mr JC Hedger (to May 1976)
Miss I Luxton (from May 1976)

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The Rt Hon SHIRLEY WILLIAMS MP
Secretary of State for Education and Science

The Rt Han BRUCE MILLAN MP
Secretary of State for Scotland

The Rt Hon JOHN MORRIS QC, MP
Secretary of State for Wales

March 1978

Dear Secretaries of State

On behalf of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People, I have the honour to submit our report to you.

Our review has been a wide-ranging one, extending well beyond the education service. Our terms of reference required us to take account of the medical aspects of the needs of handicapped children and young people, together with arrangements to prepare them for entry into employment. We have also had regard to the social aspects of their needs, to relations between the different professionals engaged in meeting their needs, to the contribution of their parents and the parents' own needs for support and to the requirements for research and development.

We have been very much aware of the continuing financial constraints on central and local government, and have sought to be realistic in making recommendations which would entail additional expenditure. Some of the improvements which we have proposed could be achieved through a redeployment of existing resources; but in formulating proposals for the development of special education to the end of the century and possibly beyond, we have inevitably made some recommendations which would require substantial additional resources. Our priorities, however, are clearly stated.

We should like to emphasise that, though our Committee was large, and consisted of members from a variety of different professions, we are unanimous in submitting our report. On a very small number of issues, indicated in the text, there was difference of opinion among us. But these issues were minor. On all our main conclusions and recommendations we were in complete agreement.

Throughout our work we have been greatly helped by our assessors from government departments. In particular, we should like to express our gratitude to Mr Michael Walker and his successor Mr Vivian Stevens of the Department of Education and Science and to Dr Esther Simpson and Mr Bob Brown of the Department of Health and Social Security, who have helped us continuously for three and a half years. We are also deeply grateful to Mr John Fish, Mr Alastair Milne and Mr Malcolm Stone of Her Majesty's Inspectorate for their continuous help and advice.

Finally, it is a pleasure to record here the debt of gratitude we owe to the imaginative and thorough work of the Committee's two Secretaries, first Mr John Hedger and then Miss Imogen Luxton, who succeeded him half-way through our review. Their skill and patience are beyond praise.

To all these, as well as to our co-opted members, and others not mentioned by name we are deeply indebted.

Yours sincerely,    
MARY WARNOCK

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