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Advisory Committee: Report into the Education of Children with Severe Low Incidence Disabilities

Table 5a Integration of pupils with Special Educational Needs

Nature of attendance	Primary			Secondary
Nature of attendance	Total	With a Record of Needs	Without a Record of Needs	Total	With a Record of Needs	Without a Record of Needs
Pupils spending some or all the time in a special unit
Total	2,395	1,294	1,101	3,053	1,546	1,507
Up to 1/3 of the time	1,023	293	730	2,061	752	1,309
Between 1/3 and 2/3 of the time	525	338	187	399	267	132
More than 2/3 of the time,	472	385	87	301	256	45
but not full time
All the time in Special Unit	375	278	97	292	271	21
Pupils with RoN spending all the time in mainstream classes
Total	2,619	2,619	N/A	2,757	2,757	N/A

An analysis of all Special Educational Needs pupils integrated in mainstream schools at September 1997. There were 2,395 pupils attending special units attached to primary schools for some proportion of their education, of these pupils, 1,294 (54 per cent) had a Record of Needs. There were also 3,053 pupils attending special units attached to secondary schools for some proportion of their education, of these pupils, 1,546 (51 per cent) had a Record of Needs.

In primary school the majority of pupils with Record of Needs spent at least two thirds of their time in the special unit. Of those in secondary school, the majority of pupils with a Record of Needs spent up to one third of their time in the special unit.

In addition to those attending special units, nearly 5,400 pupils in full time attendance at mainstream schools had a Record of Needs.

Table 5b Breakdown of RoN pupils spending all their time in mainstream schools, by Funding Local Authority

Funding Local Authority	Pupils with RoN spending all the time in mainstream				Total Pupils with RoN1
Funding Local Authority	Primary	Secondary	Total	As a % of total pupils with RoN (%)	Total Pupils with RoN1
Scotland	2,619	2,757	5,376	36.1	14,912
Aberdeen City	64	78	142	20.9	679
Aberdeenshire	93	73	166	24.2	687
Angus	89	74	163	48.2	338
Argyll & Bute	29	41	70	42.7	164
Clackmannanshire	16	59	75	37.5	200
Dumfries & Galloway	168	99	267	53.1	503
Dundee City	112	58	170	31.7	536
East Ayrshire	113	110	223	49.3	452
East Dunbartonshire	26	26	52	30.2	172
East Lothian	30	25	55	29.4	187
East Renfrewshire	67	91	158	60.1	263
Edinburgh, City of	174	109	283	32.4	874
Eilean Siar	39	18	57	53.8	106
Falkirk	31	100	131	27.1	484
Fife	40	20	60	10.1	595
Glasgow City	224	243	467	21.4	2,187
Highland	241	122	363	49.8	729
Inverclyde	74	115	189	54.6	346
Midlothian	42	16	58	33.7	172
Moray	87	34	121	40.1	302
North Ayrshire	95	184	279	55.9	499
North Lanarkshire	126	209	335	37.7	888
Orkney Islands	15	0	15	57.7	26
Perth & Kinross	99	49	148	41.5	357
Renfrewshire	139	238	377	52.4	719
Scottish Borders	52	29	81	27.3	297
Shetland Islands	14	7	21	38.2	55
South Ayrshire	99	104	203	56.5	359
South Lanarkshire	150	297	447	44.1	1,014
Stirling	15	98	113	40.8	277
West Dunbartonshire	20	20	40	27.8	144
West Lothian	36	11	47	15.6	301

¹ Excluding 45 pupils not funded by a Local Authority and 31 pupils funded outwith Scotland

This table is a breakdown of the 5,400 pupils spending all their time in mainstream classes by funding Local Authority. The figures are expressed as a percentage of all pupils with a Record of Needs. In Scotland, 36.1 percent of pupils with a Record of Needs spends all their time in mainstream classes. The lowest proportion of pupils with Record of Needs spending all their time in mainstream is 10.1 percent funded by Fife. This compared with 60.1 percent of pupils funded by East Renfrewshire.

SOEID - Education Statistics, Schools Branch. May 1999