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SSA (Stoke)
Mr. Stevenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list (a) formats, (b) value and (c) specific purpose of grants additional to the education standard spending assessment in Stoke-on-Trent local education authority for each year since 1997. [139516]
Ms Estelle Morris: Listed are the Department's funding allocations for education in Stoke-on-Trent local education authority for each year since 1997. Details of the individual grants within the Standards Fund and Capital grants have been placed in the Library.
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| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schools Capital | 1,661,000 | 5,090,000 | 98,606,000 | 9,122,000 |
| Standards Fund | 1,077,689 | 1,373,399 | 4,438,776 | 9,050,649 |
| Schools Standards Grant | -- | -- | -- | 1,500,000 |
| School Budget Support Grant | -- | -- | -- | 282,000 |
| Former GM Schools Transitional Funding | -- | -- | -- | 71,418 |
| Former GM Schools Insurance Grant | -- | -- | 6,186 | -- |
| Four Year Old Nursery Education Grant | 3,229,878 | 67,906 | 172,897 | (21)-- |
| Three Year Old Nursery Education Grant | 209,282 | (21)-- | ||
| Leadership and Management Programme for New Headteachers (HEADLAMP) | 7,791 | 7,194 | 16,009 | 23,857 |
| Playing for Success: Study Support Centres at Football Clubs | 0 | 127,000 | 67,500 | (22)-- |
| The Mitchell High School (100 per cent. project grant, out of school hours learning activities pilot) | -- | 15,000 | -- | -- |
| Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (100 per cent. project grant, Partners for Study Support scheme) | -- | -- | -- | 4,805 |
(21) Grants for three and four Years Nursery Education Grant are determined by the number of nursery places provided termly in the LEA. Final figures for 2000-01 are not therefore available.
(22) Claims in respect of Playing for Success are mainly settled retrospectively and the outturn for the financial year 2000-01 will not be known until April 2001
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In addition, one Specialist School (an Arts College) was designated in September 2000 and will receive a capital grant of £100,000 this year. The grant must be used to undertake building work and/or to purchase equipment to enhance the school's facilities for the teaching of the specialist arts. Also, while not paid to Stoke-on-Trent LEA, £241,607 was paid to "Stoke-on-Trent Rainbow Zone" Education Action Zone in 1999-2000 which was passed on to schools in Stoke. For 2000-01, £395,000 has been paid to date to "Stoke-on-Trent Rainbow Zone".
Since 1997-98 spending per pupil in England has increased by £300 in real terms.
Exclusions
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many pupils were excluded from schools in each of the London boroughs during the last 12 months. [139773]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is shown in the following table.
| Number of permanent exclusions(23) | |
|---|---|
| England | 10,438 |
| London | 1,782 |
| Inner London | 639 |
| Camden | 32 |
| City of London | 0 |
| Hackney | 36 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 48 |
| Haringey | 43 |
| Islington | 36 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 29 |
| Lambeth | 40 |
| Lewisham | 65 |
| Newham | 54 |
| Southwark | 108 |
| Tower Hamlets | 32 |
| Wandsworth | 76 |
| Westminster | 40 |
| Outer London | 1,143 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 39 |
| Barnet | 42 |
| Bexley | 61 |
| Brent | 77 |
| Bromley | 87 |
| Croydon | 131 |
| Ealing | 74 |
| Enfield | 76 |
| Greenwich | 79 |
| Harrow | 42 |
| Havering | 41 |
| Hillingdon | 66 |
| Hounslow | 67 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 25 |
| Merton | 24 |
| Redbridge | 42 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 45 |
| Sutton | 39 |
| Waltham Forest | 86 |
(23) Includes maintained primary, maintained secondary, maintained special and non-maintained special schools
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Further information on permanent exclusions will be published at the end of November 2000 in a Statistical Bulletin, a copy of which will be placed in the Library.
We are providing £174 million next year to help schools and LEAs tackle exclusion--a third more than in 1999-2000 and 10 times more than in 1996-97. This is helping to pay for more than 1,000 on-site Learning Support Units which take disruptive pupils out of the classroom quickly, improve their behaviour and reduce the need for exclusion. Where an exclusion is necessary, provision for excluded pupils is being greatly increased. There are now 1,000 more places and 250 more teachers in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) than in 1997. The quality of PRUs is improving and by 2002 all local education authorities will be required to provide a full timetable for excluded pupils.
Special Needs Schools
Ms Ward: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much money special needs schools will receive from the Chancellor's pre-Budget statement. [140069]
Jacqui Smith: Special schools in England will receive over £6 million for repair and renewal of school buildings in the current financial year, their share of the £167 million extra funding announced in the pre-Budget statement. To reduce red tape and prevent delay the money will be devolved direct to schools and will be available to them in the next few weeks. Each special school will get an allocation in proportion to its existing allocation of formula capital for this year, equating to about £3,500, plus £26 per pupil. This means that, in total, a special school with 100 pupils will now get around £13,000 this year for repairs and improvement.
Impartial Teaching
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the material on European Union issues it supplies to schools does not breach the requirements for impartial teaching of politically controversial matters. [140149]
Jacqui Smith: The Department has a commitment to reducing the bureaucratic burden on schools and closely monitors all information which it sends out. We do not regularly supply material on the European Union, or any other political topic, to schools. Any information it was deemed necessary to distribute would be balanced and impartial.
Arts Student Award Funding
Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the current evaluation programme for arts student award funding. [139529]
Mr. Wicks [holding answer 23 November 2000]: A three year evaluation programme of the dance and drama awards scheme for performing arts students, which was introduced in September 1999, will be completed by the end of 2002. We expect the report to be published early in 2003 and available through the internet and other sources. We have successfully replaced the lottery which
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existed in the past, putting talent before postcodes. Instead of paying fees of up to £8,000, award-winners only pay at most £1,050, in line with university students.
Special Educational Needs
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority the number of cases taken to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal each year since its inception, indicating in how many cases the tribunal ruled that additional support should be provided for children with special needs. [140526]
Jacqui Smith: The information showing the number of appeals registered with the SEN Tribunal since 1994-95 when it was established is contained in a number of tables, copies of which have been placed in the Library. The figures show appeals by local education authority and the number upheld by the Tribunal. A case is listed as "upheld" when any of the points at issue are decided in the parent's favour. Appeal figures only are given for the academic year ending July 2000, as finalised decisions have not yet been made in all cases for that year.
Data on the number of cases since 1994 that involve additional support being provided by local education authorities are not available. Appeals can cover a range of issues and not all are to do with additional provision by the LEA; they can also include appeals on the identification of a child's special educational needs, and this may not include how these will be met.
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if all local education authorities recognise dyslexia as a special educational need; and how many local education authorities have been taken to Tribunal for Special Educational Needs appeals in disputes over children with dyslexia since its establishment. [140527]
Jacqui Smith: We would expect all local education authorities (LEAs) to recognise dyslexia as a special educational need.
In 1998-99, 818 of the 2,412 cases (33.9 per cent.) referred to the SEN Tribunal in England and Wales concerned children with literacy difficulties, including specific learning difficulties (dyslexia). Of cases, which were actually heard, 439 of 1,220 (36 per cent.) concerned such children. However, the Tribunal records do not enable the LEAs concerned to be identified.
We are committed as a Government to helping all children with special educational needs and are taking a number of steps to raise the awareness of dyslexia and help teachers to improve the identification and assessment of children who have or may have dyslexia, including through baseline assessment. The National Literacy Strategy has raised standards for all children, including those with dyslexia.
We are also taking work forward in partnership with some of the voluntary organisations that support children with dyslexia, including the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Institute.
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