Campaigners are warning that thousands of deaf children across England are facing an “educational emergency” as the number of specialist teachers has fallen to its lowest level on record.
A report published in January by the Consortium for Research into Deaf Education (CRIDE) shows that one in five qualified teachers of the deaf posts in England have been lost in the last decade.
Over the last year, four in 10 local authorities have seen a decrease in teacher numbers with CRIDE warning that if current trends continue a third of specialist teacher posts will have been lost by the end of the decade.
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