Support for deaf children falls to ‘lowest level on record’, charity warns

Specialist support for deaf children and their families it at its lowest level on record, according to the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS). The charity said that the number of teachers of the deaf working in schools in England has fallen for the eighth time in the last decade and is now at an all-time low. As of 2022, there were just 860 specialist teachers to support more than 45,000 deaf children in England. In contrast, in 2012 there were 1,063 of these roles to support pupils. More posts are expected to be lost, warns the charity. It says that one in five posts have disappeared since 2012 and could be down by almost a third by 2030. Read more.