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Mr. Damian Green
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many enhanced checks (a) have been carried out and (b) remain to be carried out in the academic year 2002–03 by the Criminal Records Bureau on (i) teaching staff, (ii) non-teaching
Support staff in maintained nursery, primary, middle and secondary schools special schools1 and pupil referral units in England— Full-time equivalents January of each year | |||||||
Thousands | |||||||
1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 20032 | |
Teaching assistants3 | |||||||
Teaching assistants | 35.5 | 38.8 | 39.3 | 45.3 | 55.6 | 57.3 | 73.1 |
Special needs support staff | 24.5 | 26.0 | 29.5 | 32.4 | 37.7 | 46.7 | 46.8 |
Minority ethnic pupil support staff | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
Total | 61.3 | 66.3 | 70.3 | 79.8 | 95.8 | 106.4 | 122.3 |
Administrative staff | |||||||
Secretaries | 27.6 | 28.5 | 29.1 | 30.2 | 30.6 | 25.6 | 24.7 |
Bursars | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
Other admin/clerical staff | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 10.7 | 19.3 | 20.8 |
Total | 39.2 | 40.1 | 41.2 | 43.2 | 46.3 | 49.8 | 50.6 |
Technicians | |||||||
Total | 12.7 | 13.1 | 13.5 | 14.2 | 15.0 | 16.6 | 18.0 |
Other support staff | |||||||
Matrons/nurses/medical staff4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
Child care staff (boarding schools)5 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 0.4 |
Other6 | 18.7 | 19.7 | 22.1 | 23.1 | 27.4 | 39.3 | 32.3 |
Total | 23.3 | 24.4 | 26.5 | 27.5 | 31.8 | 44.2 | 34.4 |
Total support staff | 136.5 | 143.8 | 151.5 | 164.7 | 189.0 | 217.0 | 225.3 |
(Total excluding nursery schools) | 134.1 | 141.5 | 149.0 | 162.1 | 186.3 | 214.2 | 222.4 |
1 Includes non-maintained special (and special and general hospital schools). | |||||||
2 Provisional. | |||||||
3 Includes nursery assistants in nursery schools. | |||||||
4 Included with 'other' in nursery schools. |
school staff, (iii) governors and (iv) parent volunteers; and how many checks will be carried out on each category; [119426]
(2) how many school-related local authority staff (a) have been checked and (b) remain in need of checking by the Criminal Records Bureau in the academic year 2002–03. [119437]
Mr. Miliband
My Department does not hold this information.