Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children with Down's syndrome are in mainstream (a) primary and (b) post-primary schools.

The Department for Education does not collect information on the numbers of children diagnosed with Down’s syndrome in England.

Information is collected on the type of special educational need for children in England in the School Census, however, we do not include ‘Downs syndrome’ as a category within the data collection.

The available information on children with special educational needs in England is published in the Statistical First Release ‘Special educational needs in England: January 2014’ [1]

Health and Social Care Information Centre are commencing a new collection in 2015 ‘The Children and Young People’s Dataset’ which will include information on disabled children. Within this data collection there is expected to be a category of ‘downs syndrome’.

[1] Special educational needs in England: January 2014:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2014