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Excepting Shelley and Windmill Schools which are kept solely for Lambeth
children, the rest of the schools have a proportion of children from other local
authority areas.
The number of places in Shelley and Windmill schools in the lower age range
is not sufficient to cover the needs of mentally handicapped children even though
the numbers have fallen. Mentally retarded children discharged from day nurseries
are put on the waiting list for one of these schools and often the period of
waiting is as long as twelve months. A very few individual children are placed in
neighbouring schools for ESN children (severe! but the waiting list is still long,
especially for severely subnormal children with multiple handicaps.
On the other hand, if because of the shortage of places at school mentally
handicapped children over the age of five were kept in the Special Care Unit in
the Day Nursery, they would completely block the waiting list for this Unit.
Fourteen under-fives still await admission at the time of writing this report. A
kind of "halfway houses" for which Social Services would supply premises, the
Inner London Education Authority would provide teaching, and the Handicapped Child