E/SE4/3/2

File including information as follows:

1985 - 1988

From: 1985 To: 1988

- detailed report observing integration of pupils with hearing impairment at Stopsley High School, Luton [1985]; - correspondence regarding problems arising from Social Services Department’s loss of two staff members providing services for the deaf [1985-1986]; - letter from Head of Hearing Impaired Service (HIS) praising provision at Barnfield College, Luton [1986]; - Chief Education Officer's (CEO’s) report to Bedfordshire region National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) annual report [1986]; - report of proceedings of conference on the assessment of hearing impaired children including the following papers: audiological assessment of pre-school children (Luton Senior Medical Officer); audiological assessment of school-aged child (Head of HIS); assessment of pupils’ use of hearing with and without hearing aids (Head of HIS); social work assessment of the hearing impaired (Bedfordshire senior social worker for the deaf); psychological assessment of hearing impaired children (lecturer in education of the deaf in Manchester) [1985]; - letter from headteacher of Stopsley High School, Luton, expressing concern about, inter alia, a proposed reduction in staffing of profoundly hearing impaired unit, with Local Education Authority (LEA) response [1985]; - minutes of HIS senior teacher meetings [1985-1987]; - HIS policy on signing for profoundly deaf children [1985]; - minutes of HIS Southern Area Meeting [1986]; - HIS policy on communication through speech and sign language [1986]; - minutes of HIS County Staff Meeting [1986]; - figures for ethnic backgrounds of hearing impaired pupils in Bedfordshire [1986]; - letters of protest by parents and Bedfordshire region NDCS at proposed closure of Harlington Upper School partially hearing unit, with LEA response [1987]; - Certificate of Secondary Education results for hearing impaired pupils at Harlington Upper School and Icknield High School, Luton [1985-1986]; - notes of consultative meeting with parents at Harlington Upper School [1987]; - letters from John Carlisle MP (Conservative, Luton North), Nicholas Lyell (Conservative, Bedfordshire Mid) and Sir Trevor Skeet (Conservative, Bedfordshire North) regarding proposed closure of Harlington Upper School partially hearing unit, with LEA response [1987]; - note of explanation originally attached to 56 signature petition against closure of partially hearing unit at Harlington Upper School [1987]; - letters to parents explaining proposed closure of Harlington Upper School partially hearing unit and re-opening of unit at Stopsley High School, Luton, or expansion of unit at Icknield High School, Luton, to cater for children currently at Harlington [1987]; - CEO’s report to governing bodies of Harlington Upper School, Stopsley High School, Luton, and Icknield High School, Luton [1987]; - copy newspaper cutting from Mid Bedfordshire Herald critical of Harlington Upper School partially hearing unit closure (headline “The Innocent Victims”), with photograph of three named pupils and head of unit [1987]; - Bedfordshire region NDCS press release - “Concern Grows for Deaf Education in Bedfordshire” [1987]; - joint report by CEO and County Treasurer to Education Committee on provision for hearing impaired pupils [1987]; - proposed course programme on educational interpreting for HIS staff [1987]; - Bedfordshire region NDCS newsletter, including notice of reprieve for Harlington Upper School hearing impaired unit [1987]; - points for LEA (an officer of which maintained it was a national front runner in providing services to hearing impaired children) to pick up from a British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) report [1987]; - Gallaudet University, Washington D C [USA] newsletter including piece on visit by English education administrators "from the northern counties in that country”, including Head of Bedfordshire HIS! [1987]; - correspondence regarding disagreement between LEA and teacher in charge of the partially deaf unit at Parkfields Middle School, Dunstable regarding teacher’s desire to transfer a pupil to Mary Hare Grammar School, Newbury [Berkshire] [1987]; - LEA responses to NDCS and Manchester University questionnaires on provision of radio aids for use in the home and in mainstream schools [1987]; - LEA response to Open University questionnaire on relationship between social workers for the deaf and other professional groups [1987]; - agenda for meeting between HIS and NDCS [1987]; - purchase of a projector and trolley for Icknield High School, Luton, by Rotaract Club of Luton [1988]; - LEA response to BATOD questionnaire on provision for hearing impaired children [1987]; - LEA response to question on use of total communication in written examinations, in which it is stated that Bedfordshire had little experience of deaf children sitting General Certificate of Secondary Education examinations [1988]; - consideration being given by LEA to upgrading General Assistants working with deaf children [1988]; - brief letter to national Working Party on Access to Communication stating provision for deaf children in Bedfordshire [1988]; - job description of post of Senior Hearing Impaired Teacher [1988]; - correspondence involving head of Bedfordshire region NDCS, Sir Nicholas Lyell QC MP (Conservative, Bedfordshire Mid) and LEA regarding NDCS complaints about provision for hearing impaired children [1988]; - job description of post of Educational Communicator, HIS [1988]; - report to Personnel Sub-Committee by Head of Manpower Services, CEO and County Treasurer on HIS classroom assistants [1988]; - complaint by NDCS that those attending classes in sign language had to pay an Adult Education fee [1988]; - press enquiry from Bedfordshire on Sunday, with LEA response regarding: allegations that Head of HIS wrote an inaccurate report on Mary Hare Grammar School [see above]; closure of Harlington Upper School hearing impaired unit; possibility of lack of promotion opportunities for Mid Bedfordshire staff; alleged forcing by Head of HIS of signing as a blanket policy across Bedfordshire; Head of HIS allegedly ignoring pleas from teachers wishing to specialise their units, thus extending her own control [1988].

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Chief Education Officer,
National Deaf Children’s Society,
Carlisle, John,
Lyell, Nicholas,
Skeet, Trevor,
County Treasurer,
British Association of Teachers of the Deaf,
Luton Rotary Club,
Bedfordshire on Sunday

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