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In addition, there are twelve children who have more than one defect and are
placed in schools suitable for their greater disability.
Hazelbury Open Air School
This school is maintained by the Education Committee for the accommodation
of children who are considered unable to manage the regime of an ordinary school
because of their medical condition and who would benefit from the open air
condition. A large proportion of these children suffer from chest complaints.
Some have a minor physical handicap which does not warrant admission to the
school for physically handicapped children. All the children are provided with
three meals a day and have a definite rest period. They are medically examined
every term and are supervised in remedial exercises, and some attend the swimming
bath under the supervision of the physiotherapist.
Durants and Oaktree Schools
These are two schools for educationally sub-normal children maintained by
the Education Committee. Oaktree was opened in May, 1965. Durants admits
educationally sub-normal children who also have a second handicap.
Speech therapy and physiotherapy are provided at both schools. Children
are medically examined annually by a medical officer, who visits each school once
a fortnight.
Wavendon Residential School for Educationally Sub-normal Children
This school, maintained by the Education Committee, is situated in the country,
near Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire, with accommodation for sixty girls from
eleven to sixteen years of age. It is proposed to enlarge the school to accommodate
ninety senior and junior educationally sub-normal girls. The children are medically
examined annually during the school holidays.
(Statistical Table 61—see page 144)
HOME AND HOSPITAL TUITION
Under Section 56 of the Education Act, 1944, a local education authority has
power to provide primary and secondary education otherwise than at school, and
home and hospital tuition was provided for a number of children because of special
circumstances.
CHILDREN UNSUITABLE FOR EDUCATION AT SCHOOL
Under Section 57 (amended) of the Education Act, 1944, it is the duty of the
local education authority to ascertain what children in their area are suffering from
a disability of mind of such a nature or to such an extent as to make them unsuitable
for education at school and cause the decision to be recorded and to furnish to the
local health authority a report of the decision. Five such cases were notified
during the year.
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