Special Educational Needs: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils who were eligible for free school meals, had statements of special educational needs and were children in care were given (a) fixed-term and (b) permanent exclusions in the most recent school year for which figures are available. (260505)

Currently available sources of data on children in care do not provide sufficiently complete data to answer this question.

The OC2 data collection collects information on a range of outcomes for looked after children from local authorities. This information has been published in the Statistical First Release “Outcome Indicators for Children Looked After, Twelve months to 30 September 2007—England” (SFR 08/2008), which is available on the Department’s website via the following link at:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000785/index.shtml

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils with (a) statemented and (b) non-statemented special educational needs lived in the most deprived percentile of lower layer super output areas as determined by the income deprivation affecting children indices in (i) 2003 and (ii) 2008. (266444)

The information is provided in the following table:

*Number and proportion of pupils*¹ *with a statement of special education needs (SEN) and with SEN but without a statement living in the most deprived percentile of lower layer super output areas as determined by IDACI*²*, 2003 and 2008*
		2003	2008
Pupils with a statement of SEN	Number of pupils living in the most deprived percentile	4,168	3,598
	Percentage of pupils with a statement of SEN living in the most deprived percentile³	1.7	1.7

Pupils with SEN but without a statement	Number of pupils living in the most deprived percentile	24,184	28,556
	Percentage of pupils with SEN but without a statement living in the most deprived percentile3	2.2	2.2
¹ Includes solely registered pupils only. ² Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index 2007 at Super Output Area level. ³ Proportion calculated using the number of pupils with valid postcodes who could be matched to super output areas. Source: School Census

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 1250W, on special educational needs: disadvantaged, what the names of the 117 schools referred to in the table are; and in which local authority area each is located. (266507)

A table listing the 117 special schools in the most deprived decile of lower layer super output area by Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices has been placed in the House Libraries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of children in each decile of area deprivation by (a) pupil residence and (b) school location were recorded as having (i) statemented and (ii) non-statemented special educational needs in (A) 2003 and (B) 2008. (264846)

The information requested is shown in the following tables:

*(i) Percentage of children in schools*^1,2,3 with a statement of special educational needs⁴ *by IDACI decile*⁵ *of pupil residence and school location, 2003 and 2008*
	2003	2008
IDACI decile⁵	By pupil residency	By school location	By pupil residency	By school location
0-10% most deprived areas	3.9	3.2	3.4	2.9
10-20%	4.0	3.7	3.4	3.2
20-30%	3.8	3.2	3.4	2.9
30-40%	3.5	3.5	3.1	3.4
40-50%	3.1	3.0	2.9	2.8
50-60%	2.8	2.9	2.6	2.7
60-70%	2.6	3.0	2.5	2.7
70-80%	2.4	2.8	2.3	2.5
80-90%	2.3	2.9	2.2	2.7
90-100% least deprived areas	2.0	3.0	2.1	2.7
Total	3.1	3.1	2.8	2.8
¹ Includes solely registered pupils only. ² Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. ³ Includes CTCs and academies. ⁴ Excludes pupils whose SEN status is unknown (<0.01 per cent.). ⁵ 2007 Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index. Source: School Census

*(ii) Percentage of children in schools*^1,2,3 with special educational needs⁴ *but without a statement by IDACI decile*⁵ *of pupil residence and school location, 2003 and 2008*
	2003	2008
IDACI decile⁵	By pupil residency	By school location	By pupil residency	By school location
0-10% most deprived areas	21.8	20.5	26.0	24.3
10-20%	19.6	19.1	23.8	22.9
20-30%	17.7	16.7	21.6	20.7
30-40%	15.9	15.8	19.4	19.1
40-50%	13.9	13.9	17.3	17.4
50-60%	12.3	13.1	15.3	16.4
60-70%	11.3	12.5	13.9	15.5
70-80%	10.1	11.7	12.6	14.7
80-90%	9.2	10.9	11.6	13.8
90-100% least deprived areas	7.8	10.5	9.9	12.8
Total	14.5	14.5	17.7	17.7
¹ Includes solely registered pupils only. ² Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. ³ Includes CTCs and academies. ⁴ Excludes pupils whose SEN status is unknown (<0.01 per cent.). ⁵ 2007 Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index. Source: School Census

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009