Teachers: Hearing Impairment

(asked on 13th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has been made of the vacancy rate of Qualified Teachers of the Deaf in England.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 21st July 2021

Information on the number of qualified teachers of the deaf is not collected centrally.

The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special education needs and disabilities (SEND), including hearing impairments, receive the support they need to achieve in their early years, at school and college. High needs funding, which is specifically for supporting children with more complex SEND, will be increasing by £780 million in the financial year 2022-23. This comes on top of the over £1.5 billion increase over the previous two years and will bring the overall total of funding for high needs to £8.9 billion. Within that total, the provisional allocation to the London Borough of Barnet is £65.3 million, an 8% per head increase on the £60.5 million of high needs funding that council is receiving this financial year. Decisions about how that funding is used, including for the employment of specialist teachers for deaf children, are made by local authorities.

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