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(ii) Total number of schools *** 122, thus:
22 Junior
68 Infant and Primary
32 Secondary
(iii) Total number of special establishments 28 **** thus:
4 Special Day Schools
5 Infant Opportunity Classes
4 Special Infant Units
3 Voluntary Play Groups (S.S.N.)
2 Partially Hearing Units (Nursery & Primary)
9 Tutorial: Remedial and Maladjusted
1 Child Guidance Clinic
* Children and Young Persons Act 1969
Social Services Act 1970
Education (Handicapped) Act 1971
** And Direct Grant Schools
*** Excluding Special Schools dealt with under (iii)
**** This number is to increase to possibly 32 units by 1975 as follows:
1 P.H. School, all ages, at Coopers (? 1973)
1 Day S.S.N. School in the Crays (?1974)
1 Secondary Partially Hearing Unit, Darrick Wood (?1973/74)
1 Day Maladjusted School shared with Bexley (?1975)
lb Private Provisions
(i) Total population not known
(ii) Total number of private schools 24(Infant, Junior & Secondary)
(iii) Boarding and other day schools outside the Borough which
Borough children attend, variable number.
Now all the children are the responsibility of the Education Authority throughout their educational careers.
For some this responsibility may start as early as 2 years of age and for some it may extend well beyond the age of
16 into some form of further education and training. This Service now finds itself required to cover a considerably
extended age range. Its original commitment was to children between the ages of 5 and 15 years.
2. Within the National Health Service (under re-organisation by 1974)
Total number of provisions 7*, thus:
Bromley Hospital Child Guidance Clinic
Farnborough Hospital Paediatric Department
Farnborough Hospital Psychiatric Clinic
Phoenix Centre for Spastic Primary Classes and Nursery Group
Cheyne Hospital Primary School
Nursery Group
S.S.N. Group
Now all children, whether normal or handicapped and whatever the nature, degree and number of handicaps,
are the responsibility of the Education Authority. This Service now finds itself required to apply its resources to
an increasingly varied and complex range of problems attending the handicapped. This has considerably widened
the scope of the Service. Its original brief excluded the handicapped, who were then the responsibility of the
Health Authority.
3. Within the Social Services Department
Total number of special establishments 2**, thus:
Reception/Assessment Hostel (all ages), Reynolds House
Adult Training Centre
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