Written Answers to Questions
Monday 1 June 2009
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Children, Schools and Families
Apprentices
We are determined to ensure that as many young people as possible continue their learning beyond the age of 16 to get the qualifications and experience they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive labour market. Many will continue their learning in the workplace through an apprenticeship or work based learning programme.
All 16 and 17-year-olds will be offered a suitable place in education or training under the September Guarantee. We announced in budget 2009 an additional investment to allow 54,400 more young people to take up a place at school, college or with a training provider. This is in addition to plans recently announced to make available an additional 17,500 apprenticeship places for 16 to 18-year-olds across the public and private sectors. Schools, colleges and Connexions services will give young people in Cheshire the advice and support they need to find a suitable opportunity.
Apprenticeships for young people are normally full-time and the hours that each individual spends on their framework each week are a matter for the apprentice and their employer. Some apprentices work part-time. Information about the number of hours that apprentices work and train each week is not collected centrally. We are currently consulting on a specification for apprenticeship standards in England which proposes a minimum number of guided learning hours per year for all apprentices.
The Government are committed to rebuilding apprenticeships. Since 1997 we have witnessed a renaissance in apprenticeships from a low point of 65,000 to a record 225,000 apprenticeship starts in 2007/08.
Cabinet: Glasgow
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families was accompanied by two departmental officials on his visit to Glasgow on 16 April 2009.
The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families travelled by official Government car to and from the Cabinet meeting. He also travelled by official Government car to visit Crookston Early Years Centre in Glasgow.
Children: Databases
A copy of the Business Services Framework Agreement between the Department and Capgemini dated 6 November 2001 has been placed in the House Libraries pursuant to the answer given on 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1116W.
(2) what discussions his Department had with the Information Commissioner on the (a) design and (b) implementation of the National Register of Unaccompanied Children;
(3) whether a privacy impact assessment was carried out on the National Register of Unaccompanied Children;
(4) what data fields there are in each record on the National Register of Unaccompanied Children;
(5) which (a) persons and (b) bodies have authorisation to access the National Register of Unaccompanied Children directly;
(6) what disclosures of data held on the National Register of Unaccompanied Children have been made to (a) agencies, (b) individuals and (c) researchers without direct access to the Register in each month since its inception.
I have been asked to reply.
Although funding is provided by the United Kingdom Border Agency the National Register of Unaccompanied Children (NRUC) is not administered by central Government. The information sought needs to be obtained from NRUC direct at:
www.nruc.gov.uk
Children: Day Care
Information is not available specifically for children aged four years and under. Available information on children under eight years of age is shown in the table.
Local authority area 19972 20083 Inner London Camden 3,100 6,100 City of London 300 500 Hackney 7,400 7,900 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,800 4,800 Haringey 4,900 5,700 Islington 6,600 6,600 Kensington and Chelsea 5,400 4,300 Lambeth 4— 8,200 Lewisham 5,600 7,900 Newham 4,500 6,500 Southwark 8,200 9,600 Tower Hamlets 4— 4,700 Wandsworth 11,600 9,300 Westminster 6,200 4,700 Outer London Barking and Dagenham 3,200 3,700 Barnet 7,900 8,700 Bexley 4,900 6,200 Brent 5,000 6,300 Bromley 8,300 10,800 Croydon 8,300 12,100 Ealing 6,500 7,900 Enfield 6,100 7,400 Greenwich 3,900 8,200 Harrow 4,700 5,200 Havering 5,200 5,500 Hillingdon 5,700 6,600 Hounslow 5,600 5,300 Kingston upon Thames 5,500 5,100 Merton 6,600 5,700 Redbridge 6,200 7,100 Richmond upon Thames 9,400 6,900 Sutton 4,300 5,400 Waltham Forest 3,200 7,500 1 Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. 2 Data Source: Children’s Daycare Facilities Survey—total includes day nurseries, playgroups and pre-schools, child minders, out of school clubs and holiday schemes. 3 Data Source: Ofsted—total includes full daycare, sessional daycare, child minders, out of school clubs and crèche daycare. 4 Data not available.
Children: Mental Health Services
I have been asked to reply.
Section 31(3) of the Mental Health Act 2007, which the Government are committed to commencing in England by April 2010, places a duty on hospital managers to ensure that under 18s are treated in an environment which is suitable having regard to their age (subject to their needs).
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 18 May 2009, Official Report, column 1238W, where figures were provided for the number of bed-days for under 18s on child and adolescent mental health services and adult psychiatric wards, and these showed that in quarter 3 of 2008-09, the latest quarter for which data are available there were no bed-days for under 16-year-olds in adult psychiatric wards and 2,918 bed-days for 16 to 17-year-olds on adult psychiatric wards. This represents less than 7 per cent. of the total bed-days young people spent on psychiatric wards in this period, a significant reduction from 12 per cent. in 2006-07. We are continuing to monitor progress on this issue.
The National Mental Health Development Unit is currently undertaking a programme of awareness raising, self-assessment and support for trusts on this issue.
Note:
A bed-day is a day during which a person is confined to a bed and in which the patient stays overnight in a hospital.
Children: Protection
This is a matter for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, has written to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply has been placed in the House Libraries.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 5 May 2009:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for reply.
As responsibility for the evaluation of serious case reviews transferred from the Commission for Social Care Inspection to Ofsted on 1 April 2007, we are not able to provide information preceding this date. Local safeguarding children boards are required, upon completion of serious case reviews, to send a copy of documents to Ofsted for evaluation.
Since April 2007, Ofsted has received documentation for 234 serious case reviews. One set of documents was lost in December 2007, within one of Ofsted's regional offices, and has not been found. I very much regret this. Due to the highly sensitive content of serious case reviews, the matter was thoroughly investigated and a more secure document handling process was implemented across the whole of Ofsted.
There has been no recurrence. However, there have been four incidents when local safeguarding boards have claimed to have sent documents to Ofsted that were not received. Ofsted has a process for recording receipt of post, which is why we know the Derbyshire documents were received in our Midlands regional office and then lost by us. We have no record of documents from these four incidents reaching any of our four offices and in none of these cases could proof of postage be provided. In each case, documents were subsequently provided to Ofsted and evaluated.
A copy of this reply has been sent to Rt Hon Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners, and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
Citizenship: Education
The information is not available in the format requested.
The number of teachers gaining Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) via secondary Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses in Citizenship for each of the last two years for which data are available is given in the following table.
Mainstream Employment based routes 2005/06 190 40 2006/07 180 40 Notes: 1. Mainstream figures include Universities, other Higher Education Institutions, SCITT and Open University but excludes employment based routes and cases where QTS was granted on assessment-based teacher training. 2. Employment based ITT excludes cases where QTS was granted on assessment-based teacher training. 3. Citizenship includes Citizenship and Business Studies, and Citizenship and History. 4. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: TDA Performance Profiles.
Class Sizes: Primary Education
We take breaches of infant class size legislation very seriously. Officials will be following up with the local authorities and schools concerned to ensure remedial action is being taken. Local authorities and schools have a legal responsibility to limit infant class sizes and, if necessary, the Secretary of State has powers to direct them to comply.
Departmental Air Conditioning
The Department for Children Schools and Families has three headquarter properties in Sheffield, Darlington and London that have environmental control equipment that require inspection under The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007.
Inspections of our three properties are being scheduled and the inspection results will be placed in the House Libraries.
The Department for Children Schools and Families has three headquarter properties in Sheffield, Darlington and London that have environmental control equipment that require inspection under The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007.
The estimated costs for these inspections are:
Sheffield—£1,859 +VAT
London—£2,080 + VAT
Darlington—£1,859 + VAT.
Departmental Marketing
Since January 2004 the Department, and its predecessor (Department for Education and Skills), has spent £1,478,364 on advertising in weekly and regional newspapers.
Departmental Pay
Information on non-consolidated payments is as follows:
All staff bonuses (below senior civil service): £1.070 million
Senior civil service bonuses: £0.78 million
Number of staff awarded bonuses: 1,403
All of these payments were made from and funded within existing pay bill controls. Payments to senior civil servants are based on recommendations of the Senior Salaries Review Body.
European Co-operation
Ministers from this Department represent the UK at the regular meetings of EU Education and Youth Councils, and at informal meetings of EU Education Ministers.
In 2009, the Under-Secretary of State for Children Schools and Families, my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, North (Sarah McCarthy-Fry) attended Youth Council on 16 February. I attended an informal meeting of EU Education Ministers in Prague on 22-23 March, at which we discussed a Czech presidency paper about the role of education for recovery and long term development; and the issue of fostering stronger links between education institutions and employers.
I also attended EU Education and Youth Council in Brussels on 11-12 May which discussed the future EU Youth Co-operation Framework. We also agreed conclusions on improving partnerships between educational institutions and employers; and on a new strategic framework for co-operation between member states in education and training in Europe in the period up to 2020.
Education Maintenance Allowance
The EMA guarantee was introduced in the current academic year of 2008/09 and relates to entitlement in future years. No young person will receive EMA under the guarantee before academic year 2009/10.
Under the terms of the guarantee, a successful assessment of eligibility based on household income will entitle the learner to up to three years of EMA on the same rate, as long as they enrol on valid provision and keep to their learning contract. Since September 2008, all young people receiving income assessed EMA will be clear what financial support they will be entitled to if they continue in post 16 learning and meet the agreed requirements relating to attendance, behaviour, and progress on their course.
First Aid: Education
Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education already provides children and young people with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed choices in a range of contexts related to health and safety. Children learn about basic and emergency first aid, as well as where and how to obtain health information, how to recognise and follow health and safety procedures and ways of reducing risk and minimising harm in risky situations.
GCE A-Level: Bexley
The information available is given in the table:
Number 2008 1,303 2007 1,191 2006 1,104 Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables.
Figures are for the maintained sector only: maintained schools and further education colleges.
Similar reliable data for AS-level figures cannot be provided as the point at which students ‘complete their AS-level’ study is hard to define. The final number of AS-levels recorded will depend on when, or whether, students decide to ‘cash-in’ their AS-levels.
GCSE
The information is as follows:
(a) 128,401 pupils1,2 have no schools3 with more than 30 per cent. of pupils achieving five GCSEs at A*-C including English and mathematics within two miles of their homes. This represents 2.1 per cent. of all pupils1,2 attending maintained mainstream schools.
(b) 52,812 pupils1,2 have no schools3 with more than 30 per cent. of pupils achieving five GCSEs at A*-C including English and mathematics within three miles of their homes. This represents 0.9 per cent. of all pupils1,2 attending maintained mainstream schools.
1 Pupils aged five to 15 years with a valid home postcode attending maintained mainstream schools.
2 Excludes 632,931 pupils who do not have any schools within two miles and 355,329 pupils who do not have any schools within three miles.
3 Excludes schools reported to be closed in 2007/08 Attainment and Achievement Tables.
Source:
School Census 2008 - Attainment and Achievement Tables 2007/08
The National Challenge programme is supporting all schools below the floor with bespoke packages of support to help schools accelerate their improvements. This will help to increase the number of good school places for pupils, delivering a sustainable transformation of secondary education across the country.
The answer is provided in the following table:
Thousand School type 2008 2007 2006 Comprehensive 4,187.0 3,826.6 3,820.6 Selective 227.4 209.0 207.5 Modern 203.3 185.2 185.7 Other maintained 31.0 16.6 15.2 Independent 385.1 384.7 388.0 Source: Attainment and Achievement Tables
The figures relate to pupils who were at the end of Key Stage 4 in the given year and include any GCSE attempts by these pupils in previous academic years. Only full GCSEs have been included.
The answer is provided in the following table:
Number Percentage Non-FSM FSM Non-FSM FSM 2006 33,497 844 6.5 1.1 2007 34,728 872 6.7 1.1 2008 37,766 890 7.2 1.2 Source: National Pupil Database.
The figures are based on pupils at the end of key stage 4 and include results in full and double award GCSEs, vocational/applied GCSEs, short courses and intermediate GNVQs.
(2) how many and what proportion of children in care with statements of special educational needs attended mainstream secondary schools at which fewer than (a) 10 per cent., (b) 20 per cent. and (c) 30 per cent. of pupils obtained fewer than five A* to C grades in GCSEs including English and mathematics in 2007-08;
(3) how many and what proportion of children in care attended mainstream secondary schools at which fewer than (a) 10 per cent., (b) 20 per cent. and (c) 30 per cent. of pupils obtained fewer than five A* to C grades in GCSEs including English and mathematics in 2007-08.
Information on children in care is usually sourced from the Looked-After Children database but this is not currently matched to attainment data.
Data on pupils in care are also collected via the School Census. However, the School Census may undercount the number of looked-after children in secondary and special schools.
However, data on special educational needs, in care and attainment are currently not matched together in one data extract. Producing that could be done only at disproportionate cost.
The available data extract does, however, combine data on children in care with Achievement and Attainment Table data. In care data from that source is given in the table.
Number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 attending maintained mainstream schools at which fewer than: Number Percentage Number Percentage 10% of pupils achieve fewer than five GCSEs at grade A*-C including English and Maths 23,733 4.0 16 0.4 20% of pupils achieve fewer than five GCSEs at grade A*-C including English and Maths 34,305 5.9 52 1.3 30% of pupils achieve fewer than five GCSEs at grade A*-C including English and Maths 62,888 10.7 125 3.1
Only schools with results published in the Achievement and Attainment Tables have been included in this answer.
This information available can be found in the following table:
Number Percentage 20043 19,222 437.3 2005 20,690 40.3 2006 22,714 41.7 2007 24,202 43.5 2008 26,328 45.1 1 Only pupils in maintained schools have been counted. 2 First language is either known or believed to be other than English. 3 For 2004, figures are based on pupils ages 15 rather than at the end of key stage 4. 4 Percentages of pupils at end of key stage 4 whose first language is not believed to be English. Source: National Pupil Database
Figures prior to 2004 cannot be given on a comparable basis as qualifications equivalent to a GCSE were not included in the calculation of the attainment results.
The information is as follows:
In 2008:
123,542 (20.7 per cent.) pupils at the end of KS4 did not gain a GCSE at grade C or above
66,456 (11.1 per cent.) pupils at the end of KS4 did not gain a GCSE at grade D or above
37,180 (6.2 per cent.) of pupils at the end of KS4 did not gain a GCSE at grade E or above
The figures relate to all pupils in maintained schools; and include full GCSEs and vocational GCSEs.
The information requested is provided as follows:
(a) The number of maintained mainstream schools1 where 75 per cent. or more of pupils eligible to receive free school meals did not achieve any GCSEs2 above grade D at the end of key stage 4 in 2008 was 29.
(b) The number of maintained mainstream schools1 where 50 per cent. or more of pupils eligible to receive free school meals did not achieve any GCSEs2 above grade D at the end of key stage 4 in 2008 was 621.
1 Schools published in the Secondary School Achievement and Attainment Tables with more than 10 pupils eligible for free school meals.
2 Includes full GCSEs and vocational GCSEs only. GNVQs and other equivalents are not included.
Source:
National Pupil Database.
This information available can be found in the following table:
Number Percentage 20043 1,350 414.9 2005 1,815 19.5 2006 2,460 23.0 2007 3,333 27.9 2008 4,519 32.9 1 Only pupils in maintained schools have been counted. 2 First language is either known or believed to be other than English. 3 For 2004, figures are based on pupils ages 15 rather than at the end of key stage 4. 4 Percentages of pupils at end of key stage 4 with special educational needs and whose first language is not believed to be English. Source: National Pupil Database
Figures prior to 2004 cannot be given on a comparable basis as qualifications equivalent to a GCSE were not included in the calculation of the attainment results.
Gifted Children
The Department does not collect data on pupils participating in gifted and talented programmes. Through the School Census schools are asked to confirm the gifted and talented pupils they have identified. I have placed in the House Libraries a table showing the number and percentage of identified gifted and talented pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools at January 2008, broken down by local authority and region. This shows that the figures for Darlington are 3.7 per cent. (primary) and 13.6 per cent. (secondary), against national figures of 8.1 per cent. and 13.6 per cent. respectively.
Head Teachers
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Literacy: Primary Education
In 2009-10 we expect to spend in the region of £130 million projects to improve literacy in primary schools in 2009-10. This includes funding for schools and local authorities via the standards fund and central delivery costs of the national strategies (including provision of an education field force and free continuing professional development resources for teachers and practitioners), as follows:
£78 million for literacy and mathematics,
£13 million for our communication, language and literacy development programme implementing the recommendations of the 2006 Rose Review of Early Reading,
£30 million for our Every Child a Reader programme,
£8 million for our Every Child a Writer programme.
(2) what funding has been allocated to the national implementation of the Every Child A Reader programme;
(3) what the estimated cost per child of the Every Child A Reader programme is; and if he will make a statement.
By the end of this school year, just over 8,000 children will have received one-to-one tuition in reading through the Every Child a Reader programme since its national implementation in September 2008. This is at a cost to Government of approximately £17 million over the academic year 2008/09. The implementation of the Every Child a Reader programme is proving to be very successful, with children who access the intensive elements of these programmes making four to five times the normal rate of progress.
A report by KPMG’s Every Child a Chance Trust, published in January 2009, estimates the cost per child to be £2,609. This figure includes the costs incurred by local authorities as well as the national training and infrastructure co-ordinated through the University of London’s Institute of Education.
This Government are committed to ensuring every child learns to read. For most, this will mean good systematic phonics through the early years and beginning of primary school. For others, extra provision will be necessary—primarily through school-based interventions and our Every Child a Reader programme. We continue to fund local authorities and schools to strike the appropriate balance between whole class teaching and catch-up interventions for those children that need it. We remain committed to rolling out this highly effective programme to reach 30,000 children a year by 2010/11.
Members Correspondence: Learning and Skills Council
(2) when the Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Council plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall, North of 7 April 2009 on funding.
A response to the letter to the Secretary of State, signed by the Minister for Schools and Learners, was sent to my hon. Friend on 27 May 2009.
The Learning and Skills Council has been focused on resolving allocations for schools, colleges and independent training providers. Letters with revised allocations for 2009/10, including the letter to my hon. Friend will be issued as soon as possible after the period of sensitivity around elections.
National Curriculum Tests
QCA has now placed correspondence between me and Ken Boston, in his role as chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), on their website at:
http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_15838.aspx
That web page also includes correspondence between QCA and other Government Ministers.
(2) what consideration he has given to the replacement of standard assessment tests with a system of assessment by teachers.
Over the last 10 years, National Curriculum testing and assessment has played a vital role in ensuring that more than 100,000 more pupils leave primary school secure in English and maths. The Key Stage 2 tests provide a robust and objective measure of pupils' performance, and a recent survey confirmed that they are greatly valued by parents.
We announced last year that 14-year-olds would no longer be required to sit national Key Stage 3 tests, but would be assessed by ongoing teacher assessment throughout the key stage. At the same time, we established a new Expert Group on assessment to advise the Government on the future of testing and assessment and its role in school accountability. The group published its report on 7 May 2009. The group reported that the Key Stage 2 tests are valuable, vital for public accountability and a key part of giving parents objective information on their children's levels of attainment and progress. The group also made a number of recommendations for strengthening the quality of teacher assessment in primary and secondary schools.
The report and its recommendations, which the Government have agreed to in full, can be viewed on the DCSF website at:
http://publications.dcsf.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFunction= productdetails&PageMode=publications&Productld=DCSF-00532-2009&
Primary Education
(2) what his most recent estimate is of the number of primary school children who will transfer to state education from abroad in the academic year 2009-10;
(3) how many primary school children have (a) transferred to the state sector from the independent sector and (b) transferred to the state sector from abroad in each of the last 10 years.
[holding answer 8 May 2009]: The Department makes no estimate of the number of primary school children expected to transfer to the state sector from the independent sector, or who will transfer to state education from abroad. Nor does the Department collect data on the number of primary school children who have transferred to the state sector from (a) the independent sector or (b) abroad.
[holding answer 8 May 2009]: The Department makes no such estimates. Local authorities are responsible for planning the supply of school places in their area and for ensuring sufficient places are available to meet local needs. When projecting future demand for places we expect authorities to take account of factors that will have an impact on future pupil numbers, including net migration.
Pupil Exclusions
(2) how many and what proportion of pupils in each local authority area who were eligible for free school meals were excluded for more than (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15, (d) 20, (e) 25, (f) 30, (g) 35, (h) 40, (i) 45 and (j) 50 days in the last school year for which data are available;
(3) how many and what proportion of primary school pupils in each local authority area were excluded for more than (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15, (d) 20, (e) 25, (f) 30, (g) 35, (h) 40, (i) 45 and (j) 50 days in the last school year for which data are available;
(4) how many and what proportion of secondary school pupils in each local authority area were excluded for more than (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15, (d) 20, (e) 25, (f) 30, (g) 35, (h) 40, (i) 45 and (j) 50 days in the last school year for which data are available.
The information available, on pupil enrolments, for 2006/07 has been placed in the House Libraries. A small proportion of pupils have more than one enrolment i.e. if they move school during the year or are registered at more than one school. The analysis is based on the duration of exclusions per enrolment.
Figures are as reported by schools.
It is possible that some permanent exclusions have been miscoded as fixed period exclusions.
I am aware that the statistics show that a number of pupils were excluded for longer than the statutory 45 day limit for fixed period exclusions in any one school year. The Department is concerned that a small number of schools that have not met their legal duties in this regard, and has written to relevant local authorities to remind them of the need to monitor and challenge schools that have acted unlawfully in this respect.
Ofsted published ‘Day six of exclusion: the extent and quality of provision for pupils’ on 13 May 2009. The report is available on Ofsted’s website at:
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Documents-by-type/Thematic-reports/Day-six-of-exclusion-the-extent-and-quality-of-provision-for-pupils
Pupil Exclusions: Disadvantaged
The readily available information relates to the number of fixed period exclusions (not the number of pupils) from schools in each decile of area deprivation, where the reason for exclusion was physical assault on a pupil or physical assault on an adult (including, but not only, teachers), and is shown in the table.
In 2005/06, data on fixed period exclusions were collected from secondary schools only; therefore, the data is not comparable to other years and has not been provided.
In 2004/05 data were collected via the Termly Exclusions Survey. In 2006/07 data were collected via the School Census for 2006/07. Caution is needed when comparing results from the two sources, which have some differences in scope.
The National Challenge programme was launched on 10 June 2008; schools are being supported under the National Challenge to raise pupil attainment—each according to specific local need, including any problems of exclusion. The latest available data on exclusions is for 2006/07; there were no National Challenge schools at that time and therefore data have not been provided.
2004/052,3,4 2006/075,6 IDACI band of school: Physical assault on an adult Physical assault on a pupil Physical assault on an adult Physical assault on a pupil 0-10 2,630 8,220 2,940 8,900 10-20 2,570 9,010 2,440 8,370 20-30 2,440 10,500 2,370 9,920 30-40 2,070 9,200 2,040 8,250 40-50 2,010 8,950 1,970 9,090 50-60 1,360 6,820 1,480 7,240 60-70 1,490 8,200 1,620 7,800 70-80 1,420 7,370 1,420 7,760 80-90 1,290 6,680 1,250 6,500 90-100 1,190 5,720 1,060 5,350 Total7 18,490 80,700 18,590 79,180 1 Number of fixed period exclusions where the reason for exclusion was physical assault on a pupil or physical assault on an adult. 2 Excludes city technology colleges and academies. 3 Includes maintained special schools only. 4 Information on fixed period exclusions has been derived from the Termly Exclusions Survey. 5 Includes both maintained and non-maintained special schools, and city technology colleges and academies. 6 Information on fixed period exclusions has been derived from the School Census. 7 Totals for 2004/05 include 73 exclusions where the IDACI band of the school could not be determined. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Termly Exclusions Survey and School Census.
Pupils: Numbers
[holding answer 7 May 2009]: We do not hold the information requested.
[holding answer 15 May 2009]: The Department collects information on current and projected future pupil numbers annually from local authorities, as part of the surplus places survey. The earliest figures available relate to 2003, and the most recent to 2008.
Tables showing the number of pupils on roll and pupil projections for primary and secondary schools that were provided by each of the authorities listed between 2003 and 2008 have been placed in the House Libraries.
[holding answer 15 May 2009]: National pupil projections take account of several factors, including actual pupil numbers derived from the School Census, expected trends in participation for children outside statutory school ages, and the latest population projections produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The population projections include assumptions about future levels of fertility, mortality and migration. Details of these assumptions are published on the ONS website at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/PT129_Long_term_assumptions.pdf
Pupils: Biometrics
(2) what steps his Department is taking to ensure the secure holding of biometric data gathered by schools;
(3) how many maintained schools in each region use biometric devices.
No expenditure has been incurred by the Department, this is a decision which is made entirely within each school, and each school finds resources from within existing school budgets.
Schools are responsible for the security of personal data under the Data Protection Act. The lead agency for technology in schools, Becta, has provided data security guidance for schools which emphasises their legal responsibilities.
Data on numbers of schools in each region are not collected centrally, the decision to use biometric devices is left to individual schools, and no central funding is provided.
Pupils: Epilepsy
There are two different sets of guidance on the provision and support to children diagnosed with epilepsy available to schools. “Managing Medicines in schools and early years settings” was produced in 2005 by the then Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and Department of Health. This guidance explains what epilepsy is and provides schools with medical support and advice on what to do should a child experience a seizure.
“Including Me” was produced in the same year in conjunction with key stakeholders to accompany “Managing Medicines”. This was published to help schools, early years settings and health providers to develop policies and procedures to ensure that children with complex health needs can access education and childcare. This includes an example of a child experiencing severe episodes of epilepsy having a need identified for a trained learning support assistant at school.
We do not collect data centrally on how many schools actively use both sets of guidance.
Pupils: Languages
The information available, which relates to modern foreign languages only, can be found in the following table:
Number 2003 1,360 2004 1,384 2005 1,571 2006 1,302 2007 1,553 2008 1,651 Source: National Pupil Database
Figures prior to 2003 have not been provided as post-16 attainment matched to pupil characteristics is not available for earlier years.
These figures are for pupils aged 16 to 18 in maintained schools only—pupil characteristics matched to attainment are not available for independent schools or Further Education Colleges.
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
The average spending per pupil in (a) mainstream primary schools, (b) mainstream secondary schools, (c) special schools and (d) pupil referral units since 1997 is shown in a table, which will be placed in the House Libraries.
The average spending per pupil for academies in each local authority in each year since 1997 is not available for individual local authority areas. However, the national funding per pupil for academies, for financial years currently available are shown in the following table.
Financial year Per pupil (£) 2003-04 4,294 2004-05 4,469 2005-06 4,203 2006-07 4,600 2007-08 5,001 2008-09 5,344 Notes: 1. Certain elements of funding such as start-up and VAT grants have been omitted to make the figures better comparable with those for maintained schools. 2. For each academy, the largest element of funding (the school budget share) is calculated by using the relevant local authority formula so that funding is equivalent to that received by a maintained school with identical characteristics.
The per capita spend per child in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools for each local education authority area in England for (i) 1997 and (ii) 2007-08 is shown in the following table.
1997-98 2007-08 LA maintained pre-primary and primary schools LA maintained secondary schools LA maintained primary schools LA maintained secondary schools England 1,740 2,360 3,580 4,620 Barking and Dagenham 1,970 2,650 3,790 5,690 Barnet 1,860 2,640 4,040 5,090 Barnsley 1,560 2,220 3,590 4,440 Bath and NE Somerset 1,720 2,360 3,360 4,150 Bedfordshire 1,750 2,240 3,500 4,090 Berkshire 1,610 2,320 — — Bexley 1,590 2,350 3,440 4,660 Birmingham 1,940 2,590 3,950 5,230 Blackburn with Darwen — — 3,580 4,930 Blackpool — — 3,530 4,420 Bolton 1,750 2,330 3,350 4,660 Bournemouth 1,480 2,210 3,270 4,240 Bracknell Forest — — 3,230 4,430 Bradford 2,140 1,640 3,740 4,830 Brent 2,030 3,850 4,130 5,690 Brighton and Hove 1,550 2,310 3,240 4,620 Bromley 1,720 2,570 3,300 4,610 Buckinghamshire 1,630 2,290 3,280 4,220 Bury 1,490 2,160 3,250 4,290 Calderdale 1,660 2,510 3,550 4,560 Cambridgeshire pre LGR 1,580 2,270 — — Cambridgeshire — — 3,280 4,210 Camden 2,390 3,160 4,960 6,280 Cheshire pre LGR 1,710 2,310 — — Cheshire — — 3,390 4,300 City of Bristol 1,810 2,570 3,460 4,990 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 1,680 2,280 3,590 4,770 City of London 3,810 0 6,240 0 City of Nottingham — — 4,030 5,270 City of Peterborough — — 3,590 4,960 City of Plymouth — — 3,400 4,510 Cornwall 1,670 2,320 3,380 4,410 Coventry 1,800 2,500 3,640 4,850 Croydon 1,910 2,700 3,720 4,870 Cumbria 1,860 2,500 3,590 4,510 Darlington 1,420 2,070 3,440 4,610 Derby 1,670 2,550 3,590 4,590 Derbyshire 1,580 2,300 3,340 4,320 Pre LGR Devon 1,630 2,310 — — Devon — — 3,390 4,240 Doncaster 1,890 2,460 3,520 4,870 Dorset 1,640 2,120 3,340 4,180 Dudley 1,570 2,190 3,540 4,390 Durham 1,690 2,210 3,740 4,730 Ealing 2,020 2,700 4,020 5,470 East Riding of Yorkshire 1,610 2,300 3,320 4,140 East Sussex 1,670 2,350 3,400 4,370 Enfield 1,900 2,630 4,010 5,080 Essex pre LGR 1,740 2,580 — — Essex — — 3,440 4,550 Gateshead 1,700 2,300 3,550 4,590 Gloucestershire 1,640 2,260 3,380 4,270 Greenwich 2,190 2,700 4,440 6,030 Hackney 2,420 3,070 5,230 6,970 Halton — — 3,680 5,030 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,520 3,400 4,690 6,070 Hampshire 1,700 2,330 3,410 4,320 Haringey 2,360 3,170 4,370 5,870 Harrow 2,140 2,860 3,860 5,540 Hartlepool 1,500 2,150 3,810 4,820 Havering 1,750 2,720 3,550 5,000 Hereford and Worcester 1,660 2,200 — — Herefordshire — — 3,470 4,280 Hertfordshire 1,760 2,520 3,310 4,490 Hillingdon 1,730 2,720 3,890 5,250 Hounslow 2,060 2,670 3,910 5,190 Isle of Wight 1,800 2,200 3,830 4,360 Isles of Scilly 2,560 4,570 7,670 0 Islington 2,340 3,170 4,950 6,010 Kensington and Chelsea 2,650 3,410 5,130 6,640 Kent pre LGR 1,700 2,420 — — Kent — — 3,290 4,510 Kingston-upon-Thames 1,830 2,480 3,780 4,830 Kirklees 1,650 2,260 3,800 4,600 Knowsley 1,700 2,260 3,600 5,250 Lambeth 2,810 3,290 5,060 6,480 Lancashire pre LGR 1,670 2,400 — — Lancashire — — 3,640 4,510 Leeds 1,710 2,370 3,610 4,640 Leicester city 1,740 2,320 3,820 4,920 Leicestershire 1,660 2,290 3,220 4,140 Lewisham 2,340 3,050 4,670 6,270 Lincolnshire 1,680 2,510 3,280 4,420 Liverpool 1,660 2,370 4,020 5,190 Luton 1,700 2,190 3,800 4,930 Manchester 1,620 2,450 3,590 5,150 Medway — — 3,570 4,600 Merton 2,060 2,490 3,770 4,670 Middlesbrough 1,580 2,390 3,750 5,430 Milton Keynes 1,610 2,090 3,470 4,660 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1,940 2,480 3,610 4,780 Newham 1,850 2,820 4,500 6,010 Norfolk 1,710 2,450 3,540 4,340 North East Lincolnshire 1,600 2,230 3,600 4,900 North Lincolnshire 1,650 2,260 3,360 4,570 North Somerset 1,690 2,430 3,300 4,260 North Tyneside 1,640 2,270 3,400 4,570 North Yorkshire 1,650 2,340 3,530 4,320 Northamptonshire 1,580 2,250 3,230 4,400 Northumberland 1,620 2,040 3,660 3,970 Nottinghamshire pre LGR 1,720 2,380 — — Nottinghamshire — — 3,430 4,400 Oldham 1,650 2,300 3,420 4,870 Oxfordshire 1,630 2,270 3,220 4,410 Poole 1,510 1,820 3,200 4,420 Portsmouth 1,780 2,320 3,630 4,550 Reading — — 3,450 4,720 Redbridge 1,810 2,610 3,520 4,750 Redcar and Cleveland 1,630 2,270 3,620 4,670 Richmond-upon-Thames 1,940 2,550 3,650 5,160 Rochdale 1,680 2,400 3,660 4,890 Rotherham 1,580 2,180 3,560 4,750 Rutland 1,890 0 3,530 4,370 Salford 1,560 2,330 3,480 5,020 Sandwell 1,850 2,420 3,730 4,830 Sefton 1,590 2,360 3,610 4,690 Sheffield 1,680 2,180 3,440 4,490 Shropshire pre LGR 1,680 2,480 — — Shropshire — — 3,250 4,220 Slough — — 3,560 4,930 Solihull 1,630 2,320 3,210 4,130 Somerset 1,700 2,240 3,410 4,110 South Gloucestershire 1,650 2,440 3,210 4,280 South Tyneside 1,560 2,110 3,600 4,870 Southampton 1,830 2,420 3,640 5,130 Southend — — 3,580 4,610 Southwark 2,330 3,040 5,140 6,730 St. Helens 1,600 2,270 3,470 4,710 Staffordshire 1,580 2,110 3,270 4,220 Stockport 1,570 2,110 3,350 4,250 Stockton-on-Tees 1,450 2,120 3,380 4,520 Stoke 1,600 2,300 3,370 4,790 Suffolk 1,770 2,290 3,510 4,240 Sunderland 1,660 2,220 3,520 4,750 Surrey 1,780 2,310 3,360 4,300 Sutton 1,870 2,540 3,530 4,570 Swindon 1,580 2,180 3,230 4,210 Tameside 1,590 2,190 3,290 4,340 Telford and Wrekin — — 3,260 4,550 Thurrock — — 3,490 4,480 Torbay — — 3,300 4,530 Tower Hamlets 2,600 3,200 5,500 7,510 Trafford 1,580 2,300 3,110 4,290 Wakefield 1,560 2,150 3,590 4,340 Walsall 1,630 2,240 3,610 4,590 Waltham Forest 2,110 2,780 3,940 5,500 Wandsworth 2,210 2,640 4,540 5,690 Warrington — — 3,170 4,450 Warwickshire 1,670 2,250 3,260 4,150 West Berkshire — — 3,390 4,580 West Sussex 1,730 2,360 3,330 4,420 Westminster 2,590 3,050 4,810 6,250 Wigan 1,520 2,310 3,400 4,580 Wiltshire 1,690 2,270 3,260 4,140 Windsor and Maidenhead — — 3,500 4,550 Wirral 1,600 2,360 3,450 4,820 Wokingham — — 3,270 4,320 Wolverhampton 1,750 2,500 3,790 5,150 Worcestershire — — 3,270 4,210 York 1,600 2,350 3,290 4,190 Notes: 1. School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. 2. 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DCSF (formerly DFES). 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) to schools and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. 3. The calculation for 2002-03 onwards is broadly similar to the calculation in previous years. However, 2001-02 and earlier years includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses. In 2001-02 this accounted for approximately £70 per pupil. From 2002-03 onwards only the schools element of these categories is included and this accounted for approximately £50 per pupil of the 2002-03 total. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002-03, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources. 4. Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending maintained establishments within each sector and are drawn from the DCSF School Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis. 5. Local government reorganisation (LGR) took place during the mid to late 1990's and those LAs that did not exist either pre or post LGR are shaded out for those years. 6. Spending in 1997-98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central Government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998-99. 7. Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of Section 52 for financial year 1999-2000. 8. School based expenditure in LA maintained nursery schools was not recorded in 2002-03 and comparable figures are not available for 2003-04 onwards. 9. Figures are as reported by local authorities as at 12 May 2009 and are rounded to the nearest £10. 2007-08 data are subject to change by the local authority. 10. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 12 May 2009.
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority: Finance
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) was established in October 1997. Accounts for the authority during its first six months of operation (1 October 1997 to 31 March 1998) can be provided only at a disproportionate cost and are not included within this response.
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill will seek to evolve QCA into a Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA), and establish Ofqual on a statutory basis as the new independent regulator of qualifications and assessment. Ofqual has been established in interim form under existing legislation since April 2008. Until proposed legislation comes into force, both the remaining parts of QCA and Ofqual, in its interim form, jointly occupy premises in London, Coventry and Belfast.
Annual costs of rent, rates and utilities to QCA (including Ofqual) from the period 1 April 1998 to 31 March 2008 are shown in the following table.
£ million 2007-08 4.6 2006-07 4.1 2005-06 4 2004-05 4 2003-04 3.3 2002-03 2.9 2001-02 1.5 2000-01 2.2 1999-2000 2.5 1998-99 2.7 Source: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA): February 2009
Premises occupied by QCA (including Ofqual) from the period 1 April 1998 to March 2008 are as follows:
Properties occupied by QCA since 1998
83 Piccadilly, London, W1J 8QA
Spring Place, Coventry Business Park, Herald Avenue, Coventry, CV5 6UB
Glendinning House, 6 Murray Street, Belfast, BT1
222 Euston Road, London NW1
Unity House, 205 Euston Road, London NW1
Stephenson House, 158-160 North Gower Street, London NW1
Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London W11
Source: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA): February 2009
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has begun a transformation programme, with the creation within its existing powers of interim Ofqual in April 2008; the restructuring of the rest of the QCA as it evolves into the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA); and relocation of QCA to Coventry by early 2010 in line with commitments following Sir Michael Lyons’ Independent Review of Public Sector Relocation. Approximately £3 million was spent in 2008-09 on establishing interim Ofqual and relocating it to Coventry by June 2009. These costs include the costs of recruitment, relocation, restructuring, additional staff reflecting the new approach to regulation, and communications. Over the same period, QCA spent £150,000 on restructuring and communications as it evolves into the QCDA.
Racial Harassment: Barnsley
(2) how many racist incidents involving pupils have been recorded at Darton secondary school in Barnsley in the academic year (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09;
(3) how many racist incidents involving pupils were recorded at Barnsley secondary schools in the academic year (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09.
We are unable to provide figures for the number of racist bullying incidents in schools as this information is not collected centrally. Our anti-bullying guidance recommends currently that schools record incidents of racist bullying and report these data to their local authority. It advises schools to use the data to monitor their anti-bullying policies, and local authorities to use the data to identify trends and to evaluate area-wide initiatives.
The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 places a general, enforceable duty on all schools (and other public bodies) to: eliminate unlawful racial discrimination; promote equality of opportunity; and promote good relations between people of different racial groups.
We intend to introduce a new statutory duty on schools to record bullying incidents between pupils early next year, and will specifically consult on whether schools should be obliged to record racist bullying incidents and report these incidents to their local authority.
Schools
A table showing the number and proportion of pupils who in 2008 live within (a) two miles and (b) three miles straight line distance of (a) none, (b) one and (c) two or more (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools, broken down by local authority, has been placed in the House Libraries.
Schools: Finance
The dedicated schools grant (DSG) must be used in support of the schools budget, which covers both funding delegated to maintained schools and other provision for pupils. The DSG can be used to fund local authority central functions.
The following table provides details of the schools budget for each local authority in England for the 2008-09 financial year as well as details of the proportion of the schools budget retained centrally by the local authority for spending within the schools budget. Local authority budget data for 2009-10 financial year is currently in the process of being collected and validated by the DCSF.
Total schools budget (net budget adjusted to show grants gross) Delegated to schools Retained centrally by the local authority for spending within the schools budget Local authority name £ £ Percentage of schools budget £ Percentage of schools budget England 35,387,808,000 31,338,078,000 88.6 4,049,729,000 11.4 Barking and Dagenham 167,893,000 151,763,000 90.4 16,130,000 9.6 Barnet 244,574,000 219,816,000 89.9 24,758,000 10.1 Barnsley 148,340,000 135,686,000 91.5 12,655,000 8.5 Bath and NE Somerset 112,972,000 95,983,000 85.0 16,989,000 15.0 Bedfordshire 284,944,000 257,248,000 90.3 27,696,000 9.7 Bexley 187,490,000 167,024,000 89.1 20,466,000 10.9 Birmingham 928,471,000 858,423,000 92.5 70,048,000 7.5 Blackburn and Darwen 124,443,000 110,693,000 89.0 13,750,000 11.0 Blackpool 94,557,000 80,818,000 85.5 13,739,000 14.5 Bolton 207,738,000 186,960,000 90.0 20,777,000 10.0 Bournemouth 91,023,000 80,426,000 88.4 10,598,000 11.6 Bracknell Forest 70,326,000 59,405,000 84.5 10,921,000 15.5 Bradford 414,661,000 378,096,000 91.2 36,565,000 8.8 Brent 237,660,000 214,983,000 90.5 22,676,000 9.5 Brighton and Hove 144,093,000 123,466,000 85.7 20,627,000 14.3 Bromley 224,310,000 193,044,000 86.1 31,267,000 13.9 Buckinghamshire 346,776,000 297,149,000 85.7 49,627,000 14.3 Bury 123,618,000 109,985,000 89.0 13,633,000 11.0 Calderdale 158,813,000 142,789,000 89.9 16,024,000 10.1 Cambridgeshire 347,173,000 303,684,000 87.5 43,489,000 12.5 Camden 157,452,000 132,777,000 84.3 24,675,000 15.7 Cheshire 453,482,000 400,028,000 88.2 53,453,000 11.8 City of Bristol 225,042,000 194,242,000 86.3 30,800,000 13.7 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 174,768,000 151,751,000 86.8 23,018,000 13.2 City of London 2,185,000 1,588,000 72.7 597,000 27.3 City of Nottingham 195,892,000 160,635,000 82.0 35,257,000 18.0 City of Peterborough 133,794,000 117,858,000 88.1 15,936,000 11.9 City of Plymouth 179,164,000 154,726,000 86.4 24,437,000 13.6 Cornwall 333,945,000 282,132,000 84.5 51,813,000 15.5 Coventry 236,634,000 211,873,000 89.5 24,761,000 10.5 Croydon 236,261,000 206,619,000 87.5 29,642,000 12.5 Cumbria 318,049,000 289,135,000 90.9 28,914,000 9.1 Darlington 65,305,000 57,346,000 87.8 7,959,000 12.2 Derby 173,682,000 159,190,000 91.7 14,492,000 8.3 Derbyshire 489,376,000 431,482,000 88.2 57,894,000 11.8 Devon 413,573,000 375,787,000 90.9 37,786,000 9.1 Doncaster 213,048,000 194,088,000 91.1 18,960,000 8.9 Dorset 253,532,000 220,663,000 87.0 32,868,000 13.0 Dudley 216,621,000 196,440,000 90.7 20,181,000 9.3 Durham 343,057,000 318,309,000 92.8 24,748,000 7.2 Ealing 235,678,000 208,413,000 88.4 27,265,000 11.6 East Riding of Yorkshire 212,120,000 188,062,000 88.7 24,058,000 11.3 East Sussex 304,368,000 260,982,000 85.7 43,387,000 14.3 Enfield 264,121,000 235,877,000 89.3 28,245,000 10.7 Essex 919,055,000 817,036,000 88.9 102,019,000 11.1 Gateshead 129,613,000 114,752,000 88.5 14,860,000 11.5 Gloucestershire 379,747,000 330,161,000 86.9 49,586,000 13.1 Greenwich 225,415,000 196,953,000 87.4 28,462,000 12.6 Hackney 179,196,000 147,317,000 82.2 31,879,000 17.8 Halton 91,504,000 82,442,000 90.1 9,062,000 9.9 Hammersmith and Fulham 105,793,000 91,130,000 86.1 14,664,000 13.9 Hampshire 771,188,000 655,707,000 85.0 115,481,000 15.0 Haringey 196,506,000 175,748,000 89.4 20,759,000 10.6 Harrow 148,306,000 133,669,000 90.1 14,636,000 9.9 Hartlepool 72,568,000 65,123,000 89.7 7,446,000 10.3 Havering 173,371,000 154,369,000 89.0 19,003,000 11.0 Herefordshire 101,908,000 89,871,000 88.2 12,037,000 11.8 Hertfordshire 784,762,000 701,626,000 89.4 83,136,000 10.6 Hillingdon 203,900,000 187,392,000 91.9 16,508,000 8.1 Hounslow 191,262,000 169,587,000 88.7 21,675,000 11.3 Isle of Wight 88,712,000 77,915,000 87.8 10,797,000 12.2 Isles of Stilly 2,439,000 2,127,000 87.2 312,000 12.8 Islington 145,909,000 122,412,000 83.9 23,497,000 16.1 Kensington and Chelsea 73,711,000 64,935,000 88.1 8,776,000 11.9 Kent 972,054,000 854,203,000 87.9 117,851,000 12.1 Kingston-upon-Thames 103,715,000 94,431,000 91.0 9,283,000 9.0 Kirklees 298,207,000 263,192,000 88.3 35,015,000 11.7 Knowsley 115,962,000 98,920,000 85.3 17,043,000 14.7 Lambeth 201,652,000 170,248,000 84.4 31,404,000 15.6 Lancashire 771,672,000 692,908,000 89.8 78,765,000 10.2 Leeds 499,525,000 458,167,000 91.7 41,358,000 8.3 Leicester City 226,578,000 194,209,000 85.7 32,368,000 14.3 Leicestershire 417,379,000 365,870,000 87.7 51,509,000 12.3 Lewisham 206,951,000 176,586,000 85.3 30,365,000 14.7 Lincolnshire 459,678,000 409,245,000 89.0 50,433,000 11.0 Liverpool 361,438,000 314,426,000 87.0 47,012,000 13.0 Luton 152,145,000 136,816,000 89.9 15,330,000 10.1 Manchester 341,607,000 297,295,000 87.0 44,311,000 13.0 Medway 199,127,000 179,361,000 90.1 19,766,000 9.9 Merton 108,106,000 91,738,000 84.9 16,368,000 15.1 Middlesbrough 94,913,000 83,672,000 88.2 11,240,000 11.8 Milton Keynes 183,901,000 166,873,000 90.7 17,028,000 9.3 Newcastle upon Tyne 179,033,000 159,920,000 89.3 19,112,000 10.7 Newham 295,363,000 260,611,000 88.2 34,752,000 11.8 Norfolk 503,342,000 453,901,000 90.2 49,441,000 9.8 North East Lincolnshire 102,773,000 90,576,000 88.1 12,197,000 11.9 North Lincolnshire 106,752,000 91,530,000 85.7 15,222,000 14.3 North Somerset 125,073,000 110,657,000 88.5 14,416,000 11.5 North Tyneside 131,289,000 122,713,000 93.5 8,577,000 6.5 North Yorkshire 388,723,000 349,675,000 90.0 39,049,000 10.0 Northamptonshire 458,999,000 386,823,000 84.3 72,176,000 15.7 Northumberland 225,067,000 192,079,000 85.3 32,988,000 14.7 Nottinghamshire 509,791,000 468,675,000 91.9 41,116,000 8.1 Oldham 188,084,000 165,305,000 87.9 22,780,000 12.1 Oxfordshire 375,858,000 326,615,000 86.9 49,243,000 13.1 Poole 83,938,000 75,321,000 89.7 8,618,000 10.3 Portsmouth 113,816,000 103,369,000 90.8 10,447,000 9.2 Reading 81,566,000 68,139,000 83.5 13,427,000 16.5 Redbridge 224,776,000 204,044,000 90.8 20,732,000 9.2 Redcar and Cleveland 103,824,000 91,521,000 88.2 12,303,000 11.8 Richmond-upon-Thames 100,169,000 85,879,000 85.7 14,291,000 14.3 Rochdale 160,867,000 144,289,000 89.7 16,578,000 10.3 Rotherham 211,127,000 187,787,000 88.9 23,340,000 11.1 Rutland 21,799,000 19,315,000 88.6 2,483,000 11.4 Salford 146,929,000 128,409,000 87.4 18,519,000 12.6 Sandwell 221,236,000 200,523,000 90.6 20,713,000 9.4 Sefton 194,401,000 175,655,000 90.4 18,747,000 9.6 Sheffield 354,638,000 293,489,000 82.8 61,150,000 17.2 Shropshire 180,827,000 147,943,000 81.8 32,884,000 18.2 Slough 112,826,000 101,456,000 89.9 11,370,000 10.1 Solihull 142,536,000 127,511,000 89.5 15,024,000 10.5 Somerset 312,300,000 268,107,000 85.8 44,193,000 14.2 South Gloucestershire 168,581,000 148,320,000 88.0 20,261,000 12.0 South Tyneside 107,971,000 99,629,000 92.3 8,342,000 7.7 Southampton 127,519,000 113,262,000 88.8 14,257,000 11.2 Southend 127,799,000 112,468,000 88.0 15,331,000 12.0 Southwark 189,960,000 164,156,000 86.4 25,804,000 13.6 St. Helens 125,228,000 111,191,000 88.8 14,037,000 11.2 Staffordshire 539,822,000 483,675,000 89.6 56,148,000 10.4 Stockport 166,913,000 146,106,000 87.5 20,807,000 12.5 Stockton-on-Tees 132,046,000 121,274,000 91.8 10,771,000 8.2 Stoke 164,827,000 141,135,000 85.6 23,692,000 14.4 Suffolk 427,824,000 384,381,000 89.8 43,443,000 10.2 Sunderland 191,581,000 177,874,000 92.8 13,707,000 7.2 Surrey 648,839,000 567,897,000 87.5 80,942,000 12.5 Sutton 153,426,000 135,500,000 88.3 17,926,000 11.7 Swindon 124,344,000 108,391,000 87.2 15,952,000 12.8 Tameside 157,679,000 137,424,000 87.2 20,254,000 12.8 Telford and Wrekin 111,618,000 100,073,000 89.7 11,545,000 10.3 Thurrock 103,067,000 87,464,000 84.9 15,603,000 15.1 Torbay 86,060,000 74,502,000 86.6 11,559,000 13.4 Tower Hamlets 277,047,000 241,730,000 87.3 35,316,000 12.7 Trafford 160,750,000 144,001,000 89.6 16,749,000 10.4 Wakefield 218,515,000 201,950,000 92.4 16,565,000 7.6 Walsall 218,357,000 197,972,000 90.7 20,385,000 9.3 Waltham Forest 193,876,000 177,230,000 91.4 16,646,000 8.6 Wandsworth 178,802,000 168,674,000 94.3 10,128,000 5.7 Warrington 135,537,000 120,412,000 88.8 15,126,000 11.2 Warwickshire 331,654,000 297,016,000 89.6 34,638,000 10.4 West Berkshire 116,277,000 104,897,000 90.2 11,379,000 9.8 West Sussex 464,413,000 407,730,000 87.8 56,683,000 12.2 Westminster 110,860,000 94,696,000 85.4 16,164,000 14.6 Wigan 211,854,000 196,606,000 92.8 15,248,000 7.2 Wiltshire 290,460,000 255,322,000 87.9 35,138,000 12.1 Windsor and Maidenhead 91,688,000 80,177,000 87.4 11,511,000 12.6 Wirral 235,220,000 211,867,000 90.1 23,353,000 9.9 Wokingham 105,411,000 93,964,000 89.1 11,447,000 10.9 Wolverhampton 194,588,000 179,303,000 92.1 15,285,000 7.9 Worcestershire 345,353,000 311,064,000 90.1 34,289,000 9.9 York 103,824,000 91,032,000 87.7 12,791,000 12.3 Notes: 1. Total schools budget is drawn from local authorities Children, Schools and Families Financial Data Collection Budget Statements (table 1) submitted to the DCSF. This is calculated as the gross elements of any grants plus the net elements of the remainder of the schools budget. 2. The total amount delegated to schools includes the individual schools budget for local authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools as well as any revenue grants and support for schools in financial difficulty delegated to those schools. 3. Cash figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and, therefore, may not sum due to rounding. 4. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 7 May 2009.
Schools: Playing Fields
When considering an application to dispose of school playing fields Ministers take into account any authorised community use of the land in question. Where any authorised community users would be displaced if the application were to be approved, we expect the application to include a full account of the effect on those users, particularly whether their activities can realistically be moved to an alternative site on terms which do not adversely affect the users. They must also be fully consulted about any proposal to dispose of the school playing fields.
Any potential future community use of former school playing fields falls within the remit of the local planning process; Sport England is a statutory consultee in that process.
Schools: Sports
[holding answer 15 May 2009]: Work in connection with the delivery of the PE and sport strategy for young people is carried out by a range of delivery partners on behalf of the Government under grant aid and contractual arrangements. Potential bidders for any contract advertised follow the normal Official Journal of the European Union or UK procurement procedure, whichever is applicable.
Schools: Standards
The following two tables show the information requested. They are based on the most recent data published by Ofsted for 31 December 2008. No schools had been in special measures for three or more years.
School Local authority Date of inspection Number of months in category Monteagle Primary School Barking and Dagenham 5 June 2008 6 Dearne Goldthorpe Primary School Barnsley 22 October 2008 2 Lansdown Tuition Centre Bath & NE Somerset 2 October 2008 2 Barnehurst Junior (Foundation) School Bexley 9 December 2008 0 Pelham Primary School Bexley 13 February 2008 10 Bexleyheath School Bexley 3 October 2007 14 Eastcote Primary School Bexley 14 September 2007 15 Foundry Primary School Birmingham 6 June 2008 6 Jervoise Junior & Infant School Birmingham 21 May 2008 7 Primrose Hill Community School Birmingham 8 February 2008 10 Yorkmead Junior & Infant School Birmingham 18 January 2008 11 Yardley Wood Community Primary School Birmingham 31 January 2008 11 Conway Primary School Birmingham 22 November 2007 13 William Cowper Primary School Birmingham 7 June 2007 18 St. Aiden’s CE Primary School Blackburn 28 September 2007 15 SS Simon and Jude CE Primary School Bolton 4 April 2008 8 Westhoughton Parochial CE Primary Bolton 20 June 2007 18 Buttershaw Primary School Bradford 24 September 2008 3 Queensbury School Bradford 22 May 2008 7 Fearnville Primary School Bradford 8 November 2007 13 Chalkhill Primary School Brent 6 December 2007 12 Braintcroft Primary School Brent 22 November 2007 13 James Dixon Primary School Bromley 30 April 2008 8 Stewart Fleming Primary School Bromley 15 February 2008 10 Burwood School Bromley 19 September 2007 15 Buckingham School Buckinghamshire 5 March 2008 9 Wingrave CE Combined School Buckinghamshire 4 February 2008 10 Mount Pellon Junior & infant School Calderdale 6 December 2007 12 Wistaston Green Primary and Nursery School Cheshire 22 September 2008 3 St. John's CE Primary School Cheshire 24 January 2008 11 Saighton CE Primary School Cheshire 5 December 2007 12 Ecclesbourne Infant School Croydon 26 November 2008 1 Ashburton Infant School Croydon 24 September 2008 3 Castle Hill Primary School Croydon 25 September 2008 3 Oughterside Primary School Cumbria 11 July 2008 5 West Cumbria Learning Centre Cumbria 23 June 2008 6 Millom School Cumbria 28 November 2007 13 The Alfred Barrow School Cumbria 12 October 2007 14 Ulverston Victoria High School Cumbria 31 October 2007 14 Ravensdale Junior School Derby City 16 October 2008 2 Boulton Primary School Derby City 12 December 2006 24 Tupton Primary School Derbyshire 11 December 2008 0 Parkside Junior School Derbyshire 15 May 2008 7 Deincourt Community School Derbyshire 31 January 2008 11 Caen Community Primary School Devon 5 June 2008 6 Willowbrook Primary School Devon 4 March 2008 9 Bridgerule CE Primary School Devon 29 February 2008 10 Colyton Primary School Devon 2 November 2007 13 Highftelds Primary School Doncaster 18 November 2008 1 North Doncaster Technology College Doncaster 21 May 2008 7 Shaftsbury CE Primary School Dorset 12 December 2007 12 Headlands School and Community Science College East Riding 21 February 2008 10 Hillcrest School East Sussex 9 October 2008 2 Bishops Park College Essex 11 October 2007 14 Alderman Blaxill School Essex 24 May 2007 19 Blaydon West Primary School Gateshead 5 October 2007 14 Arthur Dye Primary School Gloucestershire 5 June 2008 6 Cam House School Gloucestershire 5 February 2008 10 Charlotte Turner Primary School Greenwich 18 November 2008 1 Daubeney Primary School Hackney 6 June 2008 6 Grazebrook Primary School Hackney 13 March 2008 9 Weston Primary School Halton 2 October 2008 2 Simms Cross Primary School Halton 25 April 2007 20 Canberra Primary School Hammersmith and Fulham 11 July 2008 5 Winklebury Junior School Hampshire 6 June 2008 6 The Bridge Education Centre Hampshire 21 May 2008 7 Buriesdon Junior School Hampshire 7 February 2008 10 Waite End Primary School Hampshire 2 November 2007 13 Woodcot Primary School Hampshire 28 September 2007 15 Grangeside (formerly Basingstoke School Plus) Hampshire 7 December 2006 24 The Arc PRU Havering 5 December 2007 12 Broadlands Primary School Herefordshire 22 October 2008 2 Clehonger CE Primary School Herefordshire 22 November 2007 13 Francis Bacon School Hertfordshire 15 May 2008 7 Bushey Hall School Hertfordshire 13 March 2008 9 Sheredes School Hertfordshire 15 March 2007 21 Edward Pauling Primary School Hounslow 7 December 2007 12 Hersden Community Primary School Kent 27 November 2008 1 Raynehurst Primary School Kent 12 March 2008 9 Lydd Primary School Kent 27 March 2008 9 Hall Road Primary School Kingston upon Hull 9 December 2008 0 David Lister School Kingston upon Hull 3 July 2008 5 Highfield School Knowsley 4 July 2007 17 North Cliffe School Lancashire 18 March 2008 9 Shuttleworth College Lancashire 28 February 2008 10 Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School Lancashire 23 January 2008 11 Sabden Primary School Lancashire 7 December 2007 12 Kingsfold Primary School Lancashire 25 April 2007 20 City of Preston High School Lancashire 27 March 2007 21 Hameldon Community College Lancashire 22 February 2007 22 Allerton Bywater Primary School Leeds 20 May 2008 7 South Leeds High School Leeds 7 June 2007 18 Elmete Wood Leeds 31 January 2007 23 Fulhurst Community College Leicester City 4 December 2008 0 Braunstone Frith Junior School Leicester City 18 April 2008 8 Fosse Primary School Leicester City 23 April 2008 8 Marriott Primary School Leicester City 30 January 2008 11 Queensmead Community Primary School Leicester City 31 January 2007 23 Student Support Service PRU Leicestershire 13 November 2008 1 Morton Trentside Primary School Lincolnshire 4 July 2008 5 Hartsholme Primary School Lincolnshire 2 November 2007 13 Belton Lane Community Primary School Lincolnshire 25 June 2007 18 The Bardney CE & Methodist Primary School Lincolnshire 24 May 2007 19 Blueberry Park Liverpool 11 June 2008 6 Parklands High School Liverpool 10 April 2008 8 St. John's Catholic Primary School Liverpool 27 September 2007 15 Buglawton Hall School Manchester 7 October 2008 2 Crab Lane Primary School Manchester 17 April 2008 8 Moston Fields Primary School Manchester 31 October 2007 14 Parrs Wood High School Manchester 31 October 2007 14 Medway Community College Medway 6 December 2007 12 Hillcross Primary School Merton 6 February 2008 10 St. Theresa's Catholic Primary School Merton 10 October 2007 14 The Radcliffe School Milton Keynes 31 January 2008 11 Throckley Primary School Newcastle 14 May 2008 7 Westgate Hill Primary School Newcastle 6 December 2006 24 Richard Rose Central Academy (Cumbria) Non maintained 11 December 2008 0 RNIB Sunshine House Northwood (Hillingdon) Non-maintained 12 December 2007 12 Aslacton Primary School Norfolk 26 November 2008 1 Morley CE Primary School Norfolk 5 June 2008 6 Attleborough Junior School Norfolk 9 January 2008 11 Mundford CE Primary School Norfolk 22 November 2007 13 Costessey High School Norfolk 31 October 2007 14 Terrington St. Clement Community School Norfolk 27 June 2007 18 Buxton Primary School Norfolk 28 June 2007 18 Central Area PRU Norfolk 16 May 2007 19 Earlham High School Norfolk 16 May 2007 19 Swaffham Junior School (ex. South Greenhoe VC CE Middle School Norfolk 2 March 2007 21 West Earlham Community Junior School Norfolk 9 March 2007 21 Humberston Comprehensive School North East Lines 10 December 2008 0 Scalby School North Yorkshire 11 November 2008 1 Risedale Sports and Community College North Yorkshire 30 April 2008 8 The Wensleydale School North Yorkshire 17 January 2008 11 Mill Hill Community Primary School North Yorkshire 15 March 2007 21 Rushden Community College Northamptonshire 4 December 2008 0 Warwick Primary School Northamptonshire 2 October 2008 2 Henry Gotch Primary School Northamptonshire 9 July 2008 5 St. Mary's CE Primary Sschool Northamptonshire 15 July 2008 5 Bellinge Primary School Northamptonshire 6 June 2008 6 St. Gregory's Catholic Primary School Northamptonshire 11 March 2008 9 Unity College Northamptonshire 12 February 2008 10 Vernon Terrace Primary School Northamptonshire 3 October 2007 14 Queen Eleanor Primary School Northamptonshire 4 October 2007 14 Abington Vale Primary School Northamptonshire 17 October 2007 14 Sunnyside Primary School Northamptonshire 18 October 2007 14 Avondale Junior School Northamptonshire 26 June 2007 18 Blackthorn Primary School Northamptonshire 25 January 2007 23 Cragside CE Cont Primary School Northumberland 11 November 2008 1 Blyth Horton Grange First School Northumberland 21 November 2007 13 West Sleekburn Middle (Sec) School Northumberland 1 February 2007 22 Newgate Lane Primary School Nottinghamshire 4 December 2008 0 Sutton Road Primary School Nottinghamshire 22 October 2008 2 Magnus C of E School Nottinghamshire 16 May 2008 7 Ethel Wainwright Primary School Nottinghamshire 25 January 2008 11 Oak Tree Primary School Nottinghamshire 5 December 2007 12 Thameside Primary School Oxfordshire 18 January 2008 11 Dashwood School Oxfordshire 29 November 2007 13 St John Fisher RC School Peterborough 30 April 2008 8 Winyates Primary School Peterborough 7 November 2007 13 Canford Heath Middle School Poole 13 March 2008 9 Learning Support Service Poole 31 October 2007 14 Cottage Grove Primary School Portsmouth 19 November 2008 1 Battle Primary School Reading 30 January 2008 11 Pathways Special School Redcar and Cleveland 14 March 2007 21 Hollin Primary School Rochdale 6 November 2008 1 Balderstone Technology College Rochdale 23 November 2007 13 St. Paul's CE Primary School Salford 19 June 2008 6 Marlborough Road Primary School Salford 13 February 2008 10 Deepcar St. John's CE Junior School Sheffield 8 October 2008 2 Handsworth Grange School Sheffield 23 September 2008 3 Newfield Secondary School Sheffield 26 June 2008 6 Bankwood Community Primary School Sheffield 11 March 2008 9 Highley Community Primary School Shropshire 4 December 2008 0 The Grange Junior School Shropshire 27 November 2007 13 Bosworth Wood Primary School Solihull 23 May 2007 19 Knights Templar CE Methodist Community School Somerset 21 November 2008 1 The Priory School Somerset 6 December 2006 24 Newlands Primary School Southampton 15 May 2008 7 Townsend Primary School Southwark 15 October 2008 2 Goose Green Primary School Southwark 4 March 2008 9 Alma Primary School Southwark 7 November 2007 13 Eveline Lowe Primary School Southwark 22 February 2007 22 St. James' CE Primary School St Helens 20 February 2008 10 Merton Bank Primary School St Helens 25 June 2007 18 Burton Learning Centre Staffordshire 11 June 2008 6 Billingham Campus School Stockton on Tees 31 October 2007 14 Sandon Business and Enterprise College Stoke on Trent 22 October 2008 2 Stoke Minster CE Aided Primary School (was Bishop Stamer CE) Stoke on Trent 29 January 2008 11 Castle Hill Junior School Suffolk 19 June 2008 6 Kirkley Middle (Sec) School Suffolk 6 December 2007 12 Elm Tree Middle (Sec) School Suffolk 10 May 2007 19 Hylton Red House Primary School Sunderland 25 June 2008 6 Epsom and Ewell High School Surrey 20 November 2008 1 St John's CE Community Primary Surrey 11 September 2007 15 Egerton Park Arts College Tameside 17 May 2007 19 Southall School Telford and Wrekin 28 February 2008 10 Chadwell St Mary Primary School Thurrock 3 July 2007 17 The Grays School Media Arts College Thurrock 29 June 2007 18 Upton St James CE Primary School Torbay 15 November 2007 13 The Ruiz Centre Walsall 2 December 2008 0 Brownhills West Primary School Walsall 11 March 2008 9 Dariaston Community Science College Walsall 28 November 2007 13 St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Walsall 21 June 2007 18 Ainslie Wood Primary School Waltham Forest 10 October 2008 2 The Beaumont School Waltham Forest 9 January 2007 23 Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit Wandsworth 24 June 2008 6 Hillbrook School Wandsworth 23 January 2008 11 Bewsey Lodge Primary School Warrington 20 November 2008 1 Stockton Heath Primary School Warrington 30 April 2008 8 Bruche Community Primary School Warrington 13 September 2007 15 All Saints CE Primary School & Nursery Warwickshire 24 April 2007 20 John Rankin Junior School West Berkshire 4 December 2008 0 Denefield School West Berkshire 4 December 2008 0 The Winchcombe School West Berkshire 7 February 2008 10 Nyewood C of E Junior School West Sussex 15 October 2008 2 St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Worthing West Sussex 17 September 2008 3 Out of School Learning Service, Area B West Sussex 13 February 2008 10 Landgate School, Bryn Wigan 4 December 2008 0 Beech Hill Community Primary School Wigan 16 April 2008 8 Montrose Wigan 31 January 2008 11 Upavon Primary School Wiltshire 17 January 2008 11 St Michael's CE Aided Primary School Wiltshire 10 July 2007 17 Wingfield CE Primary School Wiltshire 13 June 2007 18 Lickhill Primary School Worcestershire 4 December 2008 0 Evesham, Simon de Montford Middle School Worcestershire 15 November 2007 13 Elgar Technology College Worcestershire 22 February 2007 22
School name LA Area Date of inspection- Number of months in category Horton Grange Primary School Bradford 30 November 2006 25 St. Catherine’s Catholic High School Calderdale 14 September 2006 27 Maidenhill School Gloucestershire 23 November 2006 25 Cherryfield Primary School Knowsley 17 October 2006 26 St. James CE VA Primary School Northamptonshire 30 November 2006 25
Science: GCE A-Level
The information is given in the following table:
2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland 221 205 225 220 241 Tees Valley District 672 667 644 619 701 North East 2,455 2,461 2,308 2,337 2,419 England 56,386 58,167 56,072 56,570 58,976 Notes: 1. Figures relate to 16 to 18-year-olds (age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August) in all maintained schools and colleges. 2. Figures include achievements in Biological, Human Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Single Award Science, Electronics, Environmental Science, Geology and Applied Science. Source: School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables data.
Secondary Education
There are currently 234 maintained secondary schools which are not specialist and which are eligible to apply to join the specialist schools programme.
Special Educational Needs
Information on the four schools referred to in the answer is shown in the following table.
Name of school Local authority Number of pupils with statements of special educational need3 Percentage of pupils with statements of special educational need3 Foresters Primary School Sutton 50 20.6 The Mailing School Kent 90 22.0 The Grange Primary School Sefton 60 22.5 Pinewood Infant School Hampshire 20 23.3 1 Includes middle schools as deemed. 2 Excludes City Technology Colleges and Academies. 3 Excludes dually registered pupils. Pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census.
The available information is provided in the table. Information on pupils with statements of SEN and their main or primary need and, if appropriate, their secondary need was collected for the first time in 2004.
Percentage of pupils with BESD attending: Special schools Mainstream schools 2004 37.3 62.7 2005 37.8 62.2 2006 39.0 61.0 2007 41.3 58.7 2008 42.4 57.6 1 Excludes dually registered pupils. 2 Pupils with a statement of SEN provide information on their primary need and, if appropriate, their secondary need, information on primary need only is given here. 3 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. 4 Includes maintained nursery, primary, and secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies. Source: School Census.
[holding answer 7 May 2009]: The following table shows special schools visited by Ministers at the Department for Children, Schools and Families since June 2007 to date.
Ministers have also visited special schools in their capacity as constituency MPs. In addition some of the mainstream schools they have visited also had excellent specialist units to support children with special educational needs.
Date Schools visited Ed Balls 3 April 2008 Michael Tippett School, London 23 October 2008 Lyndale School, Wirral 11 May 2009 Two Rivers High School, Tamworth Beverley Hughes 12 June 2008 New Woodlands Special School, Bromley Jim Knight 7 May 2008 Wilson Stuart Special School, Birmingham 3 July 2008 Springfield Special School, Oxford 10 September 2008 Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol 23 April 2009 The Orchards School, Greenfold School, Bolton Sarah McCarthy-Fry 22 October 2008 New Bridge School, Oldham 9 February 2009 Treehouse School, London 18 March 2009 Linden Lodge School, London
This is a matter for Ofsted. HM chief inspector, Christine Gilbert, has written to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply has been placed in the House Libraries.
Special Educational Needs: Finance
Details of estimates of amounts to be paid to non-maintained special schools in respect of funding streams for the 2009/10 financial year, together with the formulae and/or calculations used have been placed in the House Libraries. All NMSSs are eligible for a School Travel Plan grant on the condition that an approved travel plan has been submitted and quality assured by their local school travel adviser. In the 2008/09 financial year school travel grant was paid to four NMSSs.
Special Educational Needs: GCSE
(2) pursuant to the answer of 20 April 2009 to question 265674, what the names of the 43 schools are; and in which local authority area each is.
The previous answer explained that there were 43 maintained mainstream schools with 10 or more pupils with statements of SEN at the end of key stage 4, where no pupils with statements of SEN achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C or the equivalent in 2008.
The 43 schools were:
School name Local authority Abbeydale Grange School Sheffield Ashford Christ Church, Church of England Maths and Computing Specialist College Kent Axton Chase School Kent Babington Community Technology College Leicester Bishopsgarth School Stockton-on-Tees Bristnall Hall Technology College Sandwell Corby Community College Northamptonshire Crown Hills Community College Leicester Filton High School South Gloucestershire Grange Technology College Bradford Hampton Community College Richmond upon Thames Hamstead Hall Community Learning Centre Birmingham Heston Community School Hounslow Highgate Wood Secondary School Haringey Holywells High School Suffolk Honiton Community College Devon Houghton Kepier Sports College: A Foundation School Sunderland Kingsford Community School Newham Knutsford High School Cheshire Lincoln Christ's Hospital School Lincolnshire Littlehampton Community School, The West Sussex Longcroft School East Riding of Yorkshire Middlefield School of Technology Lincolnshire New College Leicester Leicester New Line Learning Academy Kent Newsome High School and Sports College Kirklees Oxford School Oxfordshire Parkfield High School Wolverhampton Sandown High School Isle of Wight Sedgehill School Lewisham Stantonbury Campus Milton Keynes Sudbury Upper School and Arts College Suffolk Swanlea School Tower Hamlets The Kingstone School Barnsley The Voyager School Peterborough Thomas Clarkson Community College Cambridgeshire Trinity C of E High School Manchester Ullswater Community College Cumbria Unity City Academy Middlesbrough Vermuyden School East Riding of Yorkshire Weavers School Northamptonshire Westbourne Sports College Suffolk Wreake Valley Community College Leicestershire
There are many more schools with less than 10 pupils with statements of SEN where no pupils with statements of SEN achieved five or more GCSEs A*-C. We have used a standard cut-off of 10 pupils with statement of SEN in relation to attainment data to prevent possible disclosure of personal information.
Specialised Diplomas
The information is available on an academic year basis starting in September 2008 with delivery of the first phase of diplomas. The latest information provided by consortia is that: 1,382 secondary schools, 56 academies, 124 further education colleges and 51 sixth form colleges were involved in the delivery of diplomas from September 2008.
We do not have information centrally on which schools are offering the Diploma to their learners. Information on which consortia in each local authority were approved to offer the diploma from September 2008 is as follows:
Eastern England Local authority Consortium name Cambridgeshire Cambridge 14-19 Area Partnership Cambridgeshire HSEP Hertfordshire Dacorum SAPG Hertfordshire North Herts SAPG Hertfordshire SE Herts SAPG Luton Campus Luton Partnership Norfolk Extended Rural Norfolk Federation Norfolk Norwich city (Open Opportunity) Southend-on-Sea Southend Suffolk North Suffolk 1 Since Gateway 1 a number of consortia have merged or changed names. This list is derived from the original applications.
Local authority Consortium name Derby Derby City 14-19 Partnership Derbyshire Ripley and Heanor Learning Consortia Leicestershire Melton and Belvoir Leicestershire Melton and South Charnwood Leicestershire North West Leics Lincolnshire Boston Lincolnshire Grantham Partnership Lincolnshire Lincs East Partnership Lincolnshire Sleaford Lincolnshire South Holland Lincolnshire Wolds Northamptonshire East Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Kettering Northamptonshire Northampton Town Nottingham City Nottingham City Nottinghamshire Ashfield District Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw Nottinghamshire Mansfield Learning Partnership Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood ASG Rutland Rutland 14-19 Partnership
Local authority Consortium name Barking and Dagenham Barking and Dagenham Bromley The Bromley 14-19 Collaborative Croydon Borough Wide Consortium Ealing West London Consortium Hackney Hackney Diploma 2009 Consortium Hammersmith and Fulham Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Haringey 14-19 Partnership Harrow Harrow Collegiate Hillingdon Hillingdon Consortium Hounslow Hounslow 14-19 Partnership Islington Islington 14-19 Partnership Lambeth (joint Southwark) 7 Schools LCM The Lambeth Consortium Lewisham Lewisham Newham Newham 14-19 Partnership Southwark Southwark 14-19 Partnership Tower Hamlets The Hub Waltham Forest London Borough of Waltham Forest Wandsworth Wandsworth 14-19 Partnership
Local authority Consortium name Durham Derwentside Consortium Gateshead Gateshead 14-19 Partnership Hartlepool Hartlepool 14-19 Partnership Middlesbrough Middlesbrough Learning Partnership Newcastle Upon Tyne Newcastle City Consortium North Tyneside North Tyneside 14-19 Learning Partnership Sunderland Sunderland 14-19 Partnership
Local authority Consortium name Blackburn with Darwen Blackburn with Darwen 14-19 Partnership Bolton Bolton LA Bury Bury Learning Partnership Cheshire Crewe and Nantwich Cheshire East Cheshire 14-19 Diploma Consortium Cheshire Vale Royal Diploma Consortium Cumbria Furness Cumbria Furness 14-19 Partnership Halton Halton 14-19 Strategic Partnership Knowsley Knowsley 14-19 Collegiate Partnership Lancashire Burnley Pendle Lancashire Chorley and South Ribble Lancashire Hyndebum, Rossendale and Ribble Valley Lancashire Lancaster and Morecambe Liverpool Liverpool Manchester Manchester 14-19 Team Oldham OLLP Business Rochdale Rochdale Consortium Salford Salford 14-19 Partnership Sefton North Sefton St. Helens St. Helen's Tameside Tameside 14-19 Trafford Trafford Warrington Warrington 14-19 Partnership
Local authority Consortium name Buckinghamshire Wycombe Consortium East Sussex Eastbourne and Hailsham Federation East Sussex Hastings and Rother Local Area East Sussex Lewes Rural Local Area Partnership Board East Sussex Lewes Rural Local Area Partnership East Sussex Wealden Local Area Partnership Board Medway Medway Milton Keynes Milton Keynes Oxfordshire East Oxon 14-19 Consortium Reading Reading Surrey Elmbridge 14-19 Consortium Surrey Guildford 14-19 Partnership Surrey Spelthorne West Sussex WS Area B Brighton and Hove Brighton and Hove 14-19 Partnership Board East Sussex Lewes Rural Local Area Partnership Board East Sussex Western Coastal Local Area Partnership Board Hampshire Basingstoke 14-19 Consortium Hampshire Eastleigh Consortium Hampshire Rushmoor and Hart Kent Dartford Wilmington Kent Dover Deal and Sandwich Kent Gravesham 14-19 Consortium Kent Thanet 14-19 Consortium Oxfordshire North Oxfordshire 14-19 Partnership Reading Reading Surrey Surrey Heath Surrey Woking Federation West Sussex WS Area A West Sussex WS Area B
Local authority Consortium name Cornwall Cornwall Collegiate Dorset Central Dorset Partnership Dorset Chesil Dorset North Dorset Gloucestershire Cheltenham North Somerset North Somerset Consortium Plymouth City City of Plymouth 14-19 Diploma Partnership Somerset Sedgemoor South Gloucestershire Kingswood Swindon Swindon 14-19 Partnership Torbay Torbay 14-19 Learning Partnership Wiltshire West Wiltshire Federation
Local authority Consortium name Birmingham Birmingham South West Collegiate: Lordswood Girls Birmingham Central Network Birmingham North Area Network Birmingham South Network Coventry North East Federation Coventry North West Federation Dudley The Halesowen Education Trust Shropshire NW Shropshire Solihull Solihull Consortium Staffordshire Chase Collegiate Staffordshire E Staffs 14-19 Collegiate Staffordshire Tamworth Staffordshire Tamworth Partnership Stoke on Trent Stoke on Trent Walsall WALCON Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Worcestershire CONTINU Worcestershire FORWARD Consortium
Local authority Consortium name Barnsley Barnsley Diploma Consortium Bradford Bradford Confederations Calderdale Campus Calderdale Hull (Kingston Upon) Hull 14-19 Partnership Kirklees Kirklees Collegiates Leeds Central Leeds Construction Leeds Leeds Diploma Consortium North East Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire Partnership North Yorkshire Ryedale Area Learning Partnership Rotherham Rotherham Sheffield Sheffield 14-19 Partnership Sheffield Sheffield CYPD Wakefield Wakefield York City City of York Partnership
Teachers: Males
The information cannot be provided for all the years requested on the grounds of disproportionate cost. 1997 and 2008 figures are provided within the following table.
The following table shows how many and what proportion of local authority maintained primary and secondary schools in England employed fewer than 1 per cent., 10 per cent., 20 per cent. and 30 per cent. qualified full-time equivalent male teachers, January 1997 and 2008.
1997 2008 Nursery/Primary Secondary1 Nursery/Primary Secondary1 Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Less than 1 per cent. 5,280 27.9 0 0.0 4,670 26.5 2— 0.1 Less than 10 per cent. 6,760 35.7 2— 0.1 6,800 38.5 10 0.3 Less than 20 per cent. 11,920 63.0 80 2.1 12,390 70.2 70 2.2 Less than 30 per cent. 16,210 85.6 280 7.9 15,930 90.2 360 11.0 1 Excludes academies. 2 Between one and four schools. Note:Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census
Teachers: Redundancy
The information is not collected centrally.
Teachers: Training
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families regularly meets with representatives of teachers' professional bodies and industry to discuss a range of issues. Most recently this has included attending the conferences of ASCL, ATL, NAHT and NASUWT; and meetings with Agony Aunts and Kids in the Middle; Franklin Covey and the Association of Colleges.
The following tables show the number of first year trainees for each academic year between 1998/99 and 2006/07 by the classification of their first degree for:
1. Postgraduate ITT trainees
2. Employment Based Routes (EBR) trainees.
Information relating to the qualifications on entry to mainstream ITT courses is only available from 1998/99 onwards. The same information for trainees on employment based routes was only collected from 2001/02 onwards. Figures relating to 2007/08 will be available in July 2009.
Percentage 1998/99 1999/2000 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 1st 5.4 5.5 5.8 5.7 6.4 7.0 7.7 8.1 8.1 2:1 45.9 45.8 46.4 47.3 48.5 49.0 49.8 50.7 50.7 2:2 36.8 37.4 36.7 36.7 35.7 35.3 33.8 32.7 33.8 3 4.0 4.4 4.3 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.5 3.4 Pass 4.0 3.1 3.4 3.1 3.4 3.1 2.5 2.4 2.0 Total with 2:1 and above 51.3 51.3 52.2 53.0 54.9 56.0 57.5 58.8 58.8 Total with 2:2 and above 88.0 88.7 88.9 89.7 90.6 91.3 91.4 91.5 92.6 Class not known/undefined 4.0 3.9 3.4 3.2 2.3 1.8 2.6 2.6 2.1 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total number of first year trainees on postgraduate ITT courses3 16,680 16,740 18,200 19,790 21,240 23,510 23,580 23,240 22,320 1 Includes universities and other higher education institutions, SCITT and Open University but excludes employment based routes and cases where QTS is granted on assessment without a course of ITT. 2 Those training through the Fast Track programme (which ran between 2001/02 and 2005/06) are included. 3 Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: TDA's Performance Profiles
Percentage 1998/99 1999/2000 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 1st n/a n/a n/a 6.2 8.3 7.2 8.5 8.6 9.3 2:1 n/a n/a n/a 32.8 40.2 40.1 41.0 44.2 47.6 2:2 n/a n/a n/a 28.5 32.0 35.2 34.5 34.0 31.7 3 n/a n/a n/a 5.0 5.5 5.5 5.9 5.7 4.9 Pass n/a n/a n/a 5.9 9.1 8.0 10.1 7.5 6.5 Total with 2:1 and above n/a n/a n/a 39.0 48.5 47.4 49.5 52.8 56.9 Total with 2:2 and above n/a n/a n/a 67.6 80.5 82.5 84.0 86.8 88.6 Class not known/undefined n/a n/a n/a 21.6 4.9 4.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 Total n/a n/a n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Total number of first year trainees on postgraduate ITT courses2 n/a n/a n/a 2,740 3,560 4,940 4,970 5,250 5,230 n/a = not available 1 Excludes universities and other higher education institutions, SCITT and Open University and cases where QTS is granted on assessment without a course of ITT. 2 Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: TDA's Performance Profiles
Teachers: Vacancies
Full-time vacancy rates in local authority maintained schools in each of the last five years can be found in Table 6 of the Statistical First Release “School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2009 (Provisional)”. This can be accessed from the following link:
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000844
Truancy
Information is collected on authorised and unauthorised absence.
Unauthorised absence is absence without leave from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences, such as lateness, holidays during term time not authorised by the school, absence where reason is not yet established and truancy. Information collected by the Department on absence is a more comprehensive measure of children’s missed schooling. Our focus is on reducing all forms of absence, not just a small subset. The issue is not whether the pupil had permission to be absent; it is how much absence the pupil has.
The number of days lost due to absence is shown in the following table.
Number of days Absence rate Authorised absence 50,057,570 5.28 Unauthorised absence 9,627,620 1.01 Overall absence 59,685,190 6.29 Total possible days 948,908,914 — 1 Includes city technology colleges and academies. 2 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. 3 Includes pupils age five to 15 who were on roll for at least one session from the start of the school year up until 23 May 2008, excluding boarders. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census.
The Ministry of Justice collects data for England and Wales on prosecutions brought against parents under the Education Act 1996 for the offence under s444(1) of failing to secure their child’s regular attendance at school; and for prosecutions under s444(1A), the aggravated offence of knowing that their child is failing to attend school regularly. It is possible, because of the way courts record data that some data are collected under the more general heading of various offences under the Education Act 1996.
The information on the number of parents prosecuted by local authorities in England and Lancashire for failing to secure their children’s regular school attendance between 2006 and 2007 (latest available data) is detail in the following table.
Lancashire police force area England Statute Offence description 2006 2007 2006 2007 Education Act 1996 S.444 (1)(8) Failure to secure regular attendance at school. 182 249 4,437 5,903 Education Act 1996 S.444(8)(la)(8a) added by Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 S.72. Parent knows that their child is failing to attend school regularly and fails without reasonable justification to cause him or her to attend school. 46 43 1,559 1,840 1 The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 2 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Evidence and Analysis Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Ministry of Justice
Young People: Voluntary Work
Funding for the Entry to Employment programme will be administered by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). As the information requested is with regard to an operational matter for the LSC, I have asked Geoffrey Russell, the acting LSC chief executive, to write to the hon. Member with the information requested. I will arrange for a copy of his letter to be placed in the House Libraries.
Young People’s Learning Agency
Independent Specialist providers of post-16 education and training play an important role in providing education for learners with learning difficulties and disabilities, often with very specific needs and requirements. We recognise the value of having a diverse mix of high quality providers that ensures that our young people are able to access the right course or provision to help them realise their goals and ambitions. We do not feel it is appropriate to centrally guarantee funding streams for particular institutions. Local authorities will need to work in partnership with each other, providers and young people and their families to assess the level of demand in their area and to commission suitable provision that meets young people’s needs.
Provision has been made in clause 40 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning (ASCL) Bill to require local authorities, when commissioning provision, to take account of the quality of provision being secured and encourage diversity in the range of education and training on offer to support learner choice. In addition, in deciding whether education and training is suitable to meet young people’s reasonable needs, local authorities will be required to have regard to any learning difficulties the persons may have.
We believe that the transfer to local authorities will have significant benefits in terms of a more informed and integrated commissioning of their services leading to better outcomes for learners. Arrangements are being developed, in consultation with stakeholders, that recognise that independent specialist colleges will often work across local authority boundaries and nationally, and consideration is being given to the need to minimise bureaucracy for these and other learning providers. These arrangements will feed into the statutory guidance being developed for local authorities in respect of their commissioning responsibilities which the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) will publish when it comes into being in April 2010, subject to the passage of the ASCL Bill.
We do not expect the YPLA to be involved in the commissioning of learning provision in the vast majority of cases, although there may be some circumstances where it may need to commission provision directly, for instance:
where a local authority is failing or looks likely to fail in fulfilling its duties under clauses 40 and 47 of the Bill to commission suitable education or training;
with a small number of national providers for whom it may be appropriate to commission at a national rather than local level; and
where the sub regional group (SRG) identifies that they are not yet ready to take on the role.
In those cases, the YPLA will need to engage those providers, including specialist colleges, to ensure that they are commissioned effectively in response to the needs of young people.
Written Answers to Questions
Tuesday 2 June 2009
International Development
Departmental Public Expenditure
Detailed information on individual DFID projects is publicly available through two international portals: AiDA—the Development Gateway and the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Each portal can be accessed through the following links:
AiDA:
http://aida.developmentgateway.org/index.do
DAC:
http://stats.oecd.org/qwids/
Further information on DFID funded projects, including spend, will be made available on the DFID website later this year.
Developing Countries: HIV Infection
The Department for International Development (DFID) is aware that some countries supported by the Global Fund are at risk from health facility stores temporarily running out of essential antiretroviral drugs (stock-outs). DFID officials have spoken to the fund's Secretariat about this, including recently at the Global Fund's Executive Board (5-6 May 2009). Formally, the UK supported a resolution made at the board meeting which obliges the fund's Secretariat to address this issue urgently, to report on whether its existing procedures are adequate, and to propose solutions which would minimise the risks of disruptions to treatment both in the short term and on an ongoing basis. In developing countries such as Zimbabwe, DFID is also assisting, where possible, in the provision of drugs while problems in Global Fund supported programmes are being addressed.
Developing Countries: Young People
The Department for International Development (DFID) has recently commissioned analysis of the impacts of the current economic crisis including food, fuel and financial aspects on women, families, young people and the disabled in developing countries. This analysis will help inform the narrative in the forthcoming White Paper.
DFID recognises that children and young people are the majority population in many developing countries and that they have a vital role in helping achieve the millennium development goals. The White Paper will take these issues fully into account.
Overseas Aid: Nutrition
As a result of the findings of the Nutrition Task Team, the Department for International Development (DFID) is strengthening its capacity and setting up permanent capacity, in London and in selected country offices, to help respond to the ongoing global nutrition crisis. We will be publishing a new nutrition strategy in the autumn. Key priorities will be to: build international support, co-ordination and coherence; scale-up programmes in selected partner countries; strengthen DFID capacity to increase and track nutrition impact and spend; and build evidence and demonstrate results.
The nutrition team for 2009-10 is being put in place now. We expect two full-time staff to start work shortly in London, supported by staff from country offices allocating a proportion of their time. We will ensure that the team has the resources it needs to develop a sound strategy. This will help provide the basis for making further resource allocation decisions.
We will work with countries where the burden of malnutrition is most severe, and where the Department for International Development (DFID) has comparative advantage within a division of labour with other donors. Initial work is under way in India and Bangladesh where we have focal advisers in place and leading nutrition agendas.
Nutrition is a foundation for the attainment of all the Millennium Development Goals. We recognise that progress towards the MDG 1c indicator to halve the rates of under-nutrition in children under five years by 2015 remains severely off-track. Our work on nutrition is directly aimed to help focus the Department's efforts on MDG 1c.
Overseas Aid: Water
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) on 12 May 2009, Official Report, column 661W, which highlights our collaboration with the Netherlands. I can confirm that I will be shortly contacting other European Union bilateral agencies to encourage their support for the Global Framework for Action.
Sri Lanka: Overseas Aid
I refer the hon. Member to the written statement made on 21 May 2009, Official Report, column 86WS, regarding the internally displaced in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
Northern Ireland
AccessNI
Since mid-December 2008 AccessNI has continued to meet its service standards. Latest information on service standards is published each week on the “latest news” section of its website:
www.accessni.gov.uk
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Pay
The salary of the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is £183,954 per year with effect from 1 September 2008.
Robbery: Firearms
That is an operational matter for the Chief Constable. I have asked him to reply directly to the hon. Member, and a copy of his letter will be placed in the Library of the House.
Leader of the House
Members: Allowances
By tradition the two Houses of Parliament have made separate financial provisions for their Members. The Government believe that all MPs' and peers’ pay, allowances and pensions should be set, administered, monitored and audited by an independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
House of Commons Commission
Members: Allowances
Members' expenses are a matter for the Members Estimate Committee.
Scotland
Economic and Monetary Union
Euro Ministers are responsible for euro preparations in their Department and attend Euro Ministers Steering Group meetings. Meetings are held only when necessary to discuss practical preparations to ensure a smooth changeover.
Culture, Media and Sport
Advertising: Internet
The Government recognise the increasing importance of online advertising revenues to the UK’s media markets. It represents the fastest growing advertising medium in the UK. While the impact of this growth is principally a matter for the market, the Government, through their Creative Economy Strategy, continues to encourage the development of a strong and competitive advertising sector. The strategy, published in 2008, sets out a range of initiatives, such as encouraging advertisers to recruit from a more diverse range of backgrounds and disciplines, that will help ensure the continued success of the UK’s advertising industries as a whole.
Arts: Apprentices
My Department is working with the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to influence the funding of over £1 billion allocated to delivering apprenticeships across England. Since the publication of Creative Britain, my Department has also worked with the sector skills councils and the Arts Council England to increase apprenticeships across the creative industries with over 150 employers signed up to offer places. My Department is currently developing a programme of activity to help support the creation of apprenticeships for the creative industries.
Employment Tribunals Service
Each of our non-departmental public bodies has their own HR function and have their own procedures and processes in place. The Department does not collect information on actions brought against our non-departmental public bodies.
Olympic Games 2012
[holding answer 1 June 2009]: The 2012 Olympics and Paralympics have an impact on the work of a great many staff working in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and our non-departmental public bodies (NDPB's). We do not collect data centrally on this.
Pay Television
[holding answer 1 June 2009]: The pay-TV market investigation is the responsibility of Ofcom. Ofcom expect to make a statement on their progress and current findings by the end of June.
Pay Television: Sports
[holding answer 1 June 2009]: I have not received any recent representations on this issue.
Royal Parks Agency: Security
The following information has been provided by the Royal Parks Agency.
There have been eight known breaches of security within the past five years, none involving the loss of personal data.
Any loss of personal data would be handled in accordance with Cabinet Office procedures.