To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) asylum seeker and (b) refugee children there were in schools, broken down by education authority, in each academic year since 1997–98. [102296]
It is not possible to say how many asylum seeker and refugee children there were in schools in each local education authority (LEA), for the period specified, because there is no requirement on LEAs to provide the Department with this information.The most recent information available indicates that there are about 82,000 children from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds in the UK. Nearly 63,000 of them are resident in Greater London where it is estimated that they comprise 6.04 per cent. of the total school population. Over 14,500 are resident in LEAs in the Home Office designated dispersal areas in the north east, north west, Yorkshire and the Humber, east and west Midlands and south west regions of England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been allocated for the education of (a) asylum seeker and (b) refugee children since 1997–98 in each education authority. [102297]
It is not possible to say how much funding has been allocated to Local Education Authorities (LEAs) for the education of children from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds for the period specified as no specific factors are used to take account of these pupils in the formula for calculating education formula spending shares. It is for LEAs to consider whether to include provision by including relevant factors in their funding formulae.
Additional funding has been made available to LEAs supporting the children of asylum seekers dispersed to the Home Office designated cluster areas through the asylum seeker grant. The attached table shows how much funding has been allocated to these LEAs from 2000 to 2003.
From April 2003 this grant will be subsumed into the vulnerable children grant (worth £84 million) which will provide support for a range of vulnerable children including those from asylum seeking backgrounds. Funding to support all children, including those from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds, with English as additional language requirements is available to all LEAs through the ethnic minority achievement grant (worth £155 million).
Asylum Seeker Grant Allocations 2000–03
| |
LEA Name
| Amount of funding(£)
|
| Barnsley | 6,6000 |
| Birmingham | 40,1000 |
| Blackburn | 5,9000 |
| Bolton | 23,2000 |
| Bradford | 20,8000 |
| Brighton | 14,500 |
| Bristol | 75,500 |
| Burnley | 7,000 |
| Bury | 96,500 |
| Calderdale | 35,000 |
| Cheshire | 8,000 |
| Coventry | 182,000 |
| Croydon (LB) | 8,500 |
| Darlington | 2,500 |
| Derby | 146,500 |
| Doncaster | 101,000 |
| Dudley | 131,000 |
| Exeter (Devon) | 1,000 |
| Gateshead | 145,500 |
| Greenwich (LB) | 2,500 |
| Hampshire | 2,000 |
| Hartlepool | 9,000 |
| Hasting/St Leonards | 5,000 |
| Hertfordshire | 500 |
| Ipswich | 500 |
| Kingston Upon Hull | 98,500 |
| Kirklees | 122,500 |
| Knowsley | 4,000 |
| Lancashire (Preston) | 13,500 |
| Leeds | 345,000 |
| Leicester City | 110,500 |
| Leicestershire | 2,500 |
| Lincolnshire | 4,500 |
| Liverpool | 66,3000 |
| Manchester | 91,5000 |
| Middlesbrough | 94,000 |
| Nelson | 2,500 |
| Newcastle | 507,500 |
| Newham (LB) | 3,500 |
| North Somerset | 4,000 |
| North Tyneside | 90,500 |
| Nottingham City | 284,000 |
| Oldham | 42,000 |
| Peterborough | 23,500 |
| Plymouth | 37,000 |
| Portsmouth | 26,000 |
| Redcar | 101,000 |
| Richmond (LB) | 1,000 |
| Rochdale | 107,000 |
| Rotherham | 91,500 |
| Salford | 261,500 |
Asylum Seeker Grant Allocations 2000–03
| |
LEA Name
| Amount of funding(£)
|
| Sandwell | 97,000 |
| Sefton | 56,000 |
| Sheffield | 388,000 |
| Solihull | 2,500 |
| South Gloucestershire | 17,000 |
| South Tyneside | 52,000 |
| Stockport | 42,500 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 65,000 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 61,500 |
| Sunderland | 86,500 |
| Tameside | 56,500 |
| Trafford | 32,500 |
| Wakefield | 79500 |
| Walsall | 68,500 |
| Wigan | 103,000 |
| Wolverhampton | 183,500 |
| Total | 7,287,00009 |