The Warnock Report (1978)
Special Educational Needs
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.
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APPENDIX 1
LIST OF ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO GAVE EVIDENCE TO THE MAIN COMMITTEE, ITS SUB-COMMITTEES OR SUB-GROUPS
I LOCAL AUTHORITY ASSOCIATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL AUTHORITIES
a. Local authority associations
Association of County Councils
Association of Education Committees
Association of Metropolitan Authorities
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
Welsh Joint Education Committee
b. Regional groups of local authorities (including regional conferences on special education)
East Midland Regional Advisory Committee on Special Education
Northern Council of Education Committees (jointly with the North Regional Society of Education Officers)
North West Associated Education Authorities
Regional Conference of Assistant Education Officers (Special Education) for London and the Home Counties
Southern Region Standing Conference on Special Education
South West Regional Conference on Special Education
West Midlands Advisory Council for Special Education
Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Conference on Special Education
c. Individual local authorities
Coventry Local Education Authority
Gwent County Council Education Department
Inner London Education Authority
London Borough of Havering School Psychological Service
Manchester Metropolitan District Education Committee
Nottinghamshire County Council Education Committee
Sheffield Education Department, Psychological Service
II TEACHERS' AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OR ORGANISATIONS
a. National associations
Assistant Masters' Association
Association for Therapeutic Education
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Association of Assistant Mistresses
Association of Blind and Partially Sighted Teachers and Students (jointly with the National Federation of the Blind)
Association of Career Teachers
Association of Community Home Schools
Association of Directors of Education in Scotland
Association of Head Mistresses (now the Secondary Heads Association)
Association of Principals of Colleges (formerly the Association of Principals of Technical Institutions)
Association of Tutors to Courses for Staff Working with the Handicapped (Disabled)
British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (formerly the National College of Teachers of the Deaf and the Society of Teachers of the Deaf)
British Association for Early Childhood Education
Catholic Education Council
College of Teachers of the Blind
Committee of Directors of Polytechnics
Committee of Principals of Colleges of Education in Scotland
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom
Confederation for the Advancement of State Education
Council for Educational Advance
Council for Educational Technology
Council for National Academic Awards
Educational Institute of Scotland
Headmasters' Association (now the Secondary Heads Association)
Headteachers' Association of Scotland
National Association for the Education of the Partially Sighted
National Association for Remedial Education
National Association of Careers and Guidance Teachers
National Association of Governors and Managers
National Association of Head Teachers
National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers
National Association of the Teachers of Wales (Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru)
National Association of Teachers of the Mentally Handicapped
National Association of Welsh Medium Nursery Schools and Playgroups (Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin)
National College of Teachers of the Deaf (now the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf)
National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations
National Council for Special Education (and Scottish Division)
National Union of Students
National Union of Teachers
Physical Education Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Working Party on Physical Education for Handicapped Children)
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Pre-School Playgroups Association
Professional Association of Teachers
School Broadcasting Council for the United Kingdom
Schools Council
Scottish Central Committee on Physical Education
Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association
Society of Education Officers
Society of Teachers of the Deaf (now the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf)
University Grants Committee
b. Regional or local associations or groups
East Anglia, East Midlands and Essex: Group of teachers of the deaf representative of services for hearing impaired children in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
Gloucestershire Education Authority: Heads of Special Schools (Mr Bladon, Miss Burling, Mr Eggleston, Mr Maltby, Mr Spiers, Mr Tunstall)
Greater London Maladjusted Schools' Action Committee
Inner London Education Authority:
Consultative Sub-Committee of Head Teachers of Schools for the Delicate
Head Teachers of ILEA Schools for Physically Handicapped Children (Miss Arden, Mrs Battersby, Mr Bond, Miss Cowing, Mrs Dawson, Mr Down, Miss Hubbard, Mr J P Hughes, Mr T A Hughes, Mr Irons, Miss Land,
Miss Maxwell, Miss Schulen, Mrs Sprague, Miss Suckling)
Head Teachers of ILEA Schools for Visually Handicapped Children (Mr Bignell, Miss Horne, Mr Matthews, Mr Pope and Mr Wood)
London Head Teachers Association
Leeds:
Heads of Leeds Special Schools for the ESN(M)
Heads of Leeds Special Schools for the ESN(S)
Heads of Schools for Maladjusted Children in the Leeds area (Mr Benson, Mr Patterson and Mr Rigby together with Mrs Valley, Teacher in charge, Allverton Assessment and Observation Unit, Leeds)
North Regional Society of Education Officers (jointly with the Northern Council of Education Committees)
North West Regional Association for Heads of Physically Handicapped and Hospital Schools (Section of the National Council for Special Education)
Oxfordshire teachers and headteachers (Mr Brodie, Mr Davidson, Mr Finch, Miss Hall, Mr Jarman, Mrs Spening and Mrs Warren)
Wakefield District Special School Heads Association
III OTHER PROFESSIONAL BODIES
a. National bodies
Association of British Paediatric Nurses
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Association of Child Psychotherapists
Association of Educational Psychologists
Association of Nurse Administrators (formerly the Association of Hospital Matrons)
Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped
Association of Workers for Maladjusted Children (and Scottish Division)
British Association of Art Therapists
British Association of Occupational Therapists
British Association of Otolaryngologists
British Association of Social Workers (NE Scotland Branch)
British Medical Association
British Orthopaedic Association
British Paediatric Association
British Psychological Society
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (and Scottish Board)
College of Speech Therapists
Faculty of Ophthalmologists
Health Visitors' Association
Institute of Careers Officers
Joint Council for the Education of Handicapped Children
Medical Defence Union
Medical Protection Society
National Association of Nursery Matrons
National Association of Youth and Community Education Officers
National Council of Social Workers with the Deaf
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Physicians of London
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of Psychiatrists (Child Psychiatry and Mental Deficiency Sections), Scottish Division
Scottish Occupational Centres Association
Scottish Otolaryngological Society
Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists
Society of Community Medicine (formerly The Society of Medical Officers of Health)
b. Local groups
Avon: group of educational psychologists based on the County of Avon Child Guidance Clinic
London group of careers officers for the handicapped
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IV VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
a. National
Association for All Speech Impaired Children
Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
Association of Disabled Professionals
Breakthrough Trust, Deaf-Hearing Group
British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled
British Deaf Association
British Dyslexia Association
British Red Cross Society (Scottish Branch)
Camphill Village Trust
Church of England Children's Society
Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust
Deaf Education Action Forum
Disabled Living Foundation
Dr Barnardo's
Down's Babies' Association
Institute for Research into Mental and Multiple Handicap
Invalid Children's Aid Association
KIDS National Centre for Cued Speech
Kith and Kids
MIND (National Association for Mental Health)
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain (Welfare Committee)
National Association for Deaf/Blind and Rubella Handicapped
National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital
National Children's Home
National Deaf Children's Society
National Deaf Children's Society, Scottish Regions, in association with the Scottish Association for the Deaf and the Scottish Centre for the Education of the Deaf Advisory Committee
National Elfrida Rathbone Society
National Federation of Gateway Clubs
National Federation of the Blind (jointly with the Association of Blind and Partially-Sighted Teachers and Students)
National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
Non-Maintained Schools Association for Deaf Children
Partially Sighted Society
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled
Riding for the Disabled Association
Royal National Institute for the Blind
Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Scottish Association for the Deaf (in association with the Scottish Regions of the
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National Deaf Children's Society and the Scottish Centre for the Education of the Deaf Advisory Committee)
Scottish Centre for the Education of the Deaf Advisory Committee (in association with the Scottish Regions of the NDCS and the Scottish Association for the Deaf)
Scottish Committee for the Welfare of the Disabled
Scottish Paraplegic (Spinal Injury) Association
Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped
Shaftesbury Society
Society for the Aid of Thalidomide Children
Society of Friends of Camphill (Southern Link)
Spastics Society
Wales Council for the Disabled
Wingfield Trust
b. Local
Aberystwyth Remedial Unit Parent-Teachers' Association
Bath Association for the Study of Dyslexia
Birmingham Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
City of Westminster Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
Derby Dyslexia Association
Elfrida Rathbone Committee (Islington and Camden)
Enfield Association for Education (Special Education Study Group)
Hackney and Islington Association for Parents of ESN Children
Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City Society for the Welfare of the Mentally Handicapped
Lakeside School Parent-Teacher Association, Welwyn Garden City
Leicestershire Standing Conference of Voluntary Organisations for the Physically Handicapped
Lincolnshire Society for the Physically Handicapped
Linkage Community Trust
London Borough of Bromley Parents and Friends of the Educationally Sub Normal
National Deaf Children's Society, Northamptonshire Region
North London Dyslexia Association (now London Dyslexia Association)
Nottingham and District Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults
Oxford and District Dyslexia Association
Slough Council for Voluntary Service
Staffordshire Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
Stevenage Opportunity Class
Tavistock and District Mentally Handicapped Society
Tayside Dyslexia Association
Tower Hamlets Elfrida Rathbone Association
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West Surrey Dyslexic Aid Association
Yorkshire Branch of the Partially Sighted Society
V OTHER ORGANISATIONS
Arts Research Society
Confederation of British Industry (Education and Training Committee)
Department of Employment Group (Department of Employment, Office of the Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Agency, Training Services Agency, Health and Safety Executive)
Fabian Society
Family Fund Research Project
Girl Guides Association
Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester (Professor P Mittler, Dr P Berry, Mr M Beveridge, Mr P Conn, Miss D M Jeffree, Dr R McConkey, Mr D Mitchell, Miss E Tomlinson, Dr E Whelan)
Independent Broadcasting Authority (Education Staff and Advisers)
Inner London Juvenile Court Panel
Liberal Party Education Panel
National Bureau for Handicapped Students
National Drama Conference
National Youth Bureau
Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Chigwell Convent)
Scottish Sports Council
Scottish Trades Union Congress/CBI Joint Committee on the Employment of the Disabled
Standing Conference for Amateur Music
Trades Union Congress
VI EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS
Bexley Tutorial Unit, London Borough of Bexley
Cambridge Institute of Education
Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools
Castle Priory College, Wallingford
Chorleywood College for Girls with Little or No Sight
City of Birmingham College of Education (Members of College staff and members of advanced courses for teachers of handicapped children)
City of Leeds and Carnegie College
Culham College, Abingdon
Dunfermline College of Physical Education
Dyslexia Institute
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Elizabeth Gaskell College of Education, Manchester
Glamorgan Polytechnic/National Association of the Teachers of Wales
Highfield School
Ida Darwin Hospital School, Governors Working Party
King Alfred's College, Winchester
Lingfield Hospital School
Lord Mayor Treloar Trust
Matlock College of Education (tutors to courses in special education at the College)
Mayfield School, Birmingham
Middle Park School, Havant
National Star Centre for Disabled Youth
Oxford College of Further Education
Rochelle Primary School, London E2
Royal Eastern Counties Schools
Royal Normal College for the Blind
St Christopher's School, Bristol
St John's School for the Deaf, Boston Spa
St Loye's College for Training the Disabled for Commerce and Industry, Exeter
St Vincent's School for Blind and Partially Sighted Children, Liverpool
Sheffield City College of Education
Trinity and All Saints Colleges, Leeds
University College of Swansea, Department of Education
University of Birmingham School of Education
University of Leeds, Institute of Education
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Education (Sub-Department of Speech)
University of Sussex
Westhill College of Education, Birmingham
Whitebrook School for the Deaf, Manchester
Worcester College for the Blind
VII HOSPITALS
Social Work Department, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street (Camden Social Services)
Whittingham Hospital, Preston, Department of Psychiatry for the Deaf
VIII INDIVIDUALS
(Positions shown are those held at the time when evidence was submitted)
Mrs A Gilvray Adamson (Consultant Sociologist)
Dr M Agerholm (Consultant in Rehabilitation, Inner London Education Authority)
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Dr JM Aitkenhead (Headmaster, Kilquhanity House, Castle-Douglas)
Mr FD Alderman (Parent of a handicapped son)
Dr EM Anderson (Research Officer, Thomas Coram Research Unit, University of London Institute of Education)
Mr J Ballantyne (Handicapped young person)
Professor PJ Barber (Post Experience Unit, Open University)
Mr A Bates (Teacher of hearing impaired children)
Mr B Benjamin (Headmaster of a special school)
Dr GA Bland (Headmaster, Brockhall Hospital School, Blackburn)
Mrs HJ Block (Education Welfare Officer)
Mr ET Briggs (Headmaster, Yewcroft School, Birmingham)
Professor R Brown (Parent of a handicapped son)
Mr CJ Buxton (Senior Schools Adviser, Metropolitan District of Sefton)
Mrs M Caltieri (Teacher in a Senior ESN(M) School, Leeds)
Mr M W C Campbell (Headmaster, Drummond School, Inverness)
Mrs M Carr (Handicapped young person)
Dr V Carver (Chairman, Coordinating Committee for Disabled Students, The Open University)
Mr G Chilvers (Research Fellow, Westhill College of Education, Birmingham)
Mr NC Clegg (Principal, North Nottinghamshire College of Further Education)
Dr JM Cockburn (Regional Principal Educational Psychologist, Tayside Region)
Mr D Cohen (Rushworth Primary School, London SE1)
Miss CS Collins (Head of the Remedial Department at George Watson's College, Edinburgh and Adviser to the Scottish Association for the Study of Dyslexia)
Mrs CL Cooper (Parent of a handicapped young person)
Miss GC Cotterell (Remedial advisory teacher, Suffolk Psychological Service)
Mr PM Cummings (Senior Educational Psychologist, Pre-School and Handicapped Children, City of Birmingham Psychological Service)
Dr DMC Dale (Senior Lecturer in Education of the Deaf, University of London Institute of Education)
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Dr K Dalzell and Miss V Reeves (Senior Medical Officer, Clwyd Area Health Authority; Audiologist, Clwyd AHA)
Mr J Norman Davies (Education Officer, Special Services, Gwynedd)
Mr E Daynes (Head of the Department of Special Education, West London Institute of Higher Education)
Dr W B Dockrell (Director of the Scottish Council for Research in Education)
Mrs J Dodds (Audiologist, Hants Area Health Authority)
Mr JR Douthwaite (Headmaster, Moston School, Chester)
Mr T Doyle (Principal Educational Psychologist, Mid-Glamorgan LEA)
Mr PE Dunn (Teacher-in-Charge, Horsham Remedial Unit, Sussex)
Mr P East (Adviser in Special Education, Coventry)
Mr JA Edwards (Assistant Director, Social Science, Leicester Polytechnic)
Mrs J Edwards (Parent of a handicapped son)
Mr GR Eustance (Education Guidance Officer, City of Liverpool)
Mrs A Feldman (Parent of a handicapped son and founder of the Hackney and Islington Association for Parents of ESN Children)
Mr BC Fraser
Dr WI Fraser (Physician Superintendent, Lynebank Hospital, Dunfermline)
Miss CA Goodwin (Educational Psychologist, City of Sheffield)
Mr and Mrs AD Goff (Parents of a handicapped daughter)
Miss B Gray (Teacher)
Mr EJ Griffiths (Staff Inspector, Special Education, Birmingham)
Mr DH Grossman (County Adviser for Special Education, Hertfordshire)
Mr S Hamer (Headmaster, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital School)
Dr MI Heatley (Psychiatrist, Oxfordshire: Child Guidance Clinic)
Mrs MC Hockenhull (Matron, Yorkshire Residential School for the Deaf, Doncaster)
Mr FP Holden (Special Education Department, King Alfred's College, Winchester)
Mrs B Hornsby (Head of Dyslexia Clinic, Department of Psychological Medicine, St Bartholomew's Hospital)
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Mr LA Ives (Educational Psychologist, The Royal Schools for the Deaf (Manchester))
Dr ADM Jackson (Consultant Paediatrician, The London Hospital) in association with Mrs M Ellis and Miss S Eden (Occupational Therapy Department, The London Hospital)
Dr BS Jackson (Parent of a handicapped son)
Dr R Jackson (Lecturer in Education, Aberdeen College of Education)
Mrs S Jones (Headteacher, Ysgol Delyn, Mold, Clwyd)
Mr L Juliac (Handicapped young person)
Mr and Mrs IL Keiller (Parents of two handicapped children)
Mr GC Lambert (Tutor and Organiser, Course for Physically Handicapped Young Adults, Airedale and Wharfedale College of Further Education)
Miss L Lawson (Handicapped young person)
Mr R Leach (Headmaster, Torfield School, Hastings)
Mrs A Loring (Secretary, International Cerebral Palsy Society)
Miss AE McCormack (Gogarburn Hospital School, Edinburgh)
Dr DF Macgregor (Consultant Psychiatrist, Prudhoe Hospital, Northumberland)
Mr GF MacKay (Senior Educational Psychologist, Metropolitan Borough of Bury)
Mr K Mackenzie (Principal Officer, Children's Day Care, Lambeth Social Services Department)
Dr MI Mair (School Health Department, Argyll and Clyde Health Board (Renfrew District))
Mr WD Major (Special Education Department, Westhill College of Education, Birmingham)
Dr A Martin (Chairman of Governors of two hospital schools for handicapped children in Plumstead)
Mr J McAdam (Handicapped young person)
Mr and Mrs R Meldon Smith (Parents of a handicapped daughter)
Professor TR Miles and Mrs E Miles (Professor of Psychology, University College of North Wales, Bangor; Tutor and Organiser, Bangor Dyslexia Unit)
Mr PKC Millins (Director, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk)
Professor P Mittler (Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester)
Rev G Monteith (Handicapped person)
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Mr GWC Montgomery (Research Unit, Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh)
Mrs KE Myers (Parent of a handicapped son)
Dr M Newton (Senior Lecturer in Developmental and Applied Psychology, University of Aston in Birmingham)
Mr RH Nicholls (Headmaster, Tesdale and Bennett House Schools, Abingdon)
Professor J Nisbet and Mrs J Welsh (The Head of the Department of Education, and a member of the Department, University of Aberdeen)
Mr and Mrs J Oliver (Foster parents of a handicapped child)
Dr M O'Moore (Lecturer in Educational Psychology, University of Dublin)
Mr CL Parkin (Adviser in Special Education, Humberside)
Miss BZ Perman (Researcher into the role of management in the education of hearing impaired children)
Councillor D Pettitt (Counsellor, Nottinghamshire)
Mrs M Polack (Parent of a handicapped daughter)
Miss J Powell (Adviser in Special Education, Warwickshire)
Mr PD Pumfrey (Department of Education, University of Manchester)
Mr RA Radley (Headteacher, Sedgwick House School, Kendal)
Mrs R Ray (Parent of a handicapped daughter)
Dr B Rigby (Committee for use or science of creative intelligence in special education)
Mr L Rigley (Department of Child Development and Educational Psychology, University of London Institute of Education)
Dr DPW Roberts (Specialist in Community Medicine, Gwynedd Health Authority)
Mr D Robertson (Handicapped young person)
Mrs S Sandow (Research Assistant, University of Hull)
Mr C R Senneck (Parent of a handicapped son)
Mrs M Skeffington (Lecturer in the Education of Handicapped Children, University of Manchester)
Mr and Mrs AHK Slater (Parents of a handicapped son)
Miss B Somerset (Examiner of the English Speaking Board)
Mr AWE Speed (Headmaster and parent of a handicapped child)
Mr DE Spinks (Handicapped young person)
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Mrs M Stevens (Special Lecturer (part-time), Department of Education, University of Manchester, and Peripatetic Lecturer in Special Education)
Mrs J Taylor (Parent of a handicapped son)
Mr and Mrs A Thomas (Parents of a handicapped son)
Mrs M Turton (Parent of a handicapped son)
Dr JH Walker (Head of Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Mr PD Waters (Psychologist; Director of Possum Controls Ltd)
Mrs TM Watson (Parent of a handicapped son)
Miss T Watts (Coordinator of Special Services, Lambeth Social Services Department)
Mr A Wellings (Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Extramural Studies, University of Sheffield) on behalf of a group of six parents of handicapped children in Sheffield
Mr T Wells (Handicapped young person)
Dr R Wigglesworth (Senior Consultant Paediatrician, Kettering District General Hospital)
Mr P Wildblood (Headmaster, The Calthorpe School, Birmingham)
Mrs CA Williams (Parent of two handicapped children and a remedial teacher)
Dr CE Williams (Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Borocourt Hospital, Berkshire)
Mr DC Williamson (Lecturer in Physical Education on The Handicapped, Trent Polytechnic)
Mr N Winter (Handicapped young person)
Miss D Wright (Handicapped young person)
Mr A Zimmer (Adviser in Special Education, Strathclyde)
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