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Handicapped pupils
Form 5 H.P.—Ministry of Education administrative memorandum 9/60 introduced a
new form, 5 H.P., for use in connection with handicapped pupils who have parents serving
in the armed forces. The object of the form is to endeavour to ensure that the special needs
of handicapped children of service personnel are not overlooked if the family is to be
posted overseas. By means of the form, at the 'ascertainment' stage, the service department
is notified, subject to the agreement of the parents, of the child's handicap, so that this
factor can be taken into account when overseas postings are under consideration.
New ascertainments—During 1960 the numbers of new ascertainments of pupils fo
special educational treatment were as follow:
Day Boarding
Blind - 9
Partially sighted 36 2
Deaf and partially deaf 49 5
Delicate 313 441*
E.S.N 699 81
Epileptic - 4
Maladjusted 295 295
Physically handicapped 175 11
Speech defect l,309† 42†
Dual defect - 60
* Including diabetic and E.S.N./delicate.
† Including pupils attending special schools for other defects.

* Includes 89 pupils in partially deaf units.
t A number of epileptic children (apart from those in ordinary school) are placed in schools for the delicate,
physically handicapped or educationally sub-normal.
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