Question reference: S6W-14080
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 18 January 2023
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 January 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many school pupils have been assessed and/or declared themselves as having a disability in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021, and, of those, how many were assessed and/or declared themselves as being (i) deaf or having a hearing impairment, (ii) blind or having a visual impairment and (iii) deafblind.
Answer
Statistics on the number of school pupils assessed and/or declared disabled and the number of pupils reported as having additional support needs for hearing impairment, visual impairment and deafblind are published in the pupil census supplementary statistics, available on the Scottish government website in the Pupil Census supplementary statistics tables 1.7 and 1.8.