Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which universities provide specific courses for learning disability nurses, and how many places on such courses were available at each university in each of the last five years.
The information by university is only available for the last three years and is given below:
University | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Northumbria University | 27 | 28 | 28 |
Teesside University | 50 | 52 | 52 |
University of Cumbria | 35 | 35 | 35 |
University of Salford | 26 | 26 | 26 |
University of Chester | 26 | 26 | 26 |
Edge Hill University | 26 | 27 | 27 |
Sheffield Hallam University | 24 | 24 | 24 |
University of Huddersfield | 25 | 28 | 28 |
University of Hull | 11 | 15 | 15 |
University of York | 18 | 24 | 24 |
De Montfort University | 13 | 20 | 20 |
University of Northampton | 20 | 31 | 26 |
University of Nottingham | 29 | 16 | 16 |
Birmingham City University | 35 | 35 | 35 |
Coventry University | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Keele University | 14 | 14 | 14 |
University of Wolverhampton | 23 | 23 | 23 |
University of East Anglia | 21 | 21 | 21 |
University of Hertfordshire | 71 | 75 | 73 |
University of West of England | 30 | 30 | 30 |
London South Bank University | 25 | 27 | 32 |
Kingston & St Georges University | 21 | 18 | 20 |
University of West London | 20 | 20 | 22 |
University of Greenwich | 20 | 34 | 28 |
Sum of above | 597 | 662 | 658 |
Source: HEE Local Education and Training Boards – local reports.