APPENDIX 4
Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Department for Education and Employment (PAC 00-01/172)
QUESTION 160
Periodically the Department for Education have
undertaken Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Surveys. These
sample surveys of maintained secondary schools in England collect
information, not available from other sources, about curriculum
provision in schools, teachers' qualifications and teacher deployment.
The results of the surveys are published in
Statistical Bulletins. The following table has been drawn from
Statistical Bulletins 8/86, 18/91, 24/93, 11/97.
| PE Teachers | Full-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification
in PE
| Part-time
teachers with
post A level
qualfication
in PE
| Full-time
teachers
teaching PE
| Full-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification
teaching PE
| Proportion of PE
taught by
full-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification
|
| 1983-84 | 36,400
| 2,800 | 37,900
| 21,600 | 88%
|
| 1987-88 | 31,600
| 3,900 | 30,300
| 18,500 | 90%
|
| 1991-92 | 30,300
| 5,200 | 24,400
| 16,600 | 91%
|
| 1996-97 | 22,000
| 3,800 | 20,000
| 14,800 | 94%
|
QUESTION 162
The following table has again been constructed from data
in the Statistical Bulletins
Home
Economics
Teachers |
Full-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification in
Home
Economics
| Part-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification in
Home
Economics
| Full-time
teachers
teaching Home
Economics
| Full-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification
teaching Home
Economics
| Proportion of
Home
Economics
taught by
full-time
teachers with
post A level
qualification
|
| 1983-84 | 10,100
| 2,200 | 11,500
| 9,200 | 94%
|
| 1987-88 | 8,800
| 2,800 | 10,400
| 7,900 | 91%
|
| 1991-92 | 9,900
| 3,200 | 10,100
| 7,900 | 93%
|
| 1996-97* | 6,800
| 2,400 | 5,000
| 3,900 | 83%
|
* In 1996-97 in addition to the home economic teachers shown,
there were teachers of food technology who were included with
Design and Technology, but not separately identified.
Design and Technology included food technology, design and
realisation, graphics, graphic communications, craft, metalwork
and woodwork.
Home economics included food and nutrition, dress, textiles
and child development.
QUESTIONS 165 & 166
Prior to October 1998 no data was collected centrally about
the number of playing fields being sold off. Section 77 of the
School Standards and Framework Act 1998 came into effect in October
1998 with the objective of protecting school playing fields. It
requires a local authority or governing body of any maintained
school to obtain the Secretary of State's consent before disposing,
or changing the use, of any school playing field.
Since 1 October 1998 (when the legislation was introduced),
81 applications to dispose of a sports pitch have been approved.
This represents an approval rate of about 3 applications per month.
The Department estimates that, before 1998, disposals were running
at up to about 40 fields a month.
The Department has never collected information on the number
of school playing fields but, for the future, data to be collected
through Asset Management Plans will provide a clearer picture
of the number of school playing fields throughout England.
QUESTION 172
The Education (Nutritional Standards for School Lunches)
(England) Regulations 2000—SI 2000 No 1777—came into
force on 1 April 2001. The regulations introduce nutritional standards
for school lunches for registered pupils in all schools maintained
by local education authorities in England.
They set out compulsory minimum nutritional standards and
local education authorities and schools are free to exceed them
if they choose.
Three booklets have been produced on implementing the nutritional
standards, which are primarily for use by school caterers:
— Healthy school lunches for pupils in nursery schools/units
(DfEE ref: 314/2000)
— Healthy school lunches for pupils in primary schools
(DfEE ref: 315/2000)
— Healthy school lunches for students in nursery
schools (DfEE ref: 316/2000)
The booklets are available from DfEE Publications telephone
0845 6022260 and are also available on the internet at www.dfee.gov.uk/schoollunches
The regulations define five groups of food:
A. Fruit and vegetables covering all forms—fresh,
frozen, canned, dried or in the form of juice.
B. Starchy foods including bread, chapatis, pasta,
noodles, rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, millet and cornmeal.
C. Meat, fish and other non dairy sources of protein
covering meat and fish in all forms (whether fresh, frozen, canned
or dried) including meat or fish products, eggs, nuts, pulses
and beans, other than green beans.
D. Milk and dairy foods including milk, cheese, yoghurt
(including frozen yoghurt and drinking yoghurt), fromage frais,
milkshakes and custard but not butter or cream.
E. Foods containing fat and foods containing sugar
including margarine, butter, other spreading fats, cooking oils
and fats, oil based salad dressings, mayonnaise, salad cream,
cream, chocolate, crisps, biscuits, pastries, cakes, puddings,
ice cream, rich sauces, gravies, jam, sugary soft drinks, sweets,
sugar and jelly but not any foods falling within any other group.
The regulations then define the food that must be made available
in specific categories of schools:
Nutritional requirements for children who attend nursery schools
or nursery units in primary schools
Food from each of the groups A, B, C and D must be available
every day
Nutritional requirements for pupils at primary schools
Food from each of the groups A, B, C and D must be available
every day so that:
Within group A,
— Fresh fruit, fruit tinned in juice, or fruit salad
is available every day;
— A fruit based dessert is available at least twice
in any week;
— A type of vegetable (which does not fall into
group B) is available every day.
Within group B, fat or oil must not be used in the cooking
process on more than three days a week;
Within group C,
— Fish must be available at least one day a week;
— Red meat must be available at least two days a
week;
— Sources of protein can include dairy sources of
protein.
Nutritional requirements for pupils at secondary schools
Two types of food from each of groups A, B, C and D must
be available every day so that:
Within group A, both a fruit and a vegetable is available;
Within group B, on every day that a food cooked in fat or oil
is available, a food not cooked in fat or oil must also be available;
Within group C,
— Fish must be available at least two days a week;
— Red meat must be available at least three days
a week.
Nutritional requirements for pupils at community and foundation
special schools
In these schools either the requirements for primary schools
or secondary schools can be adopted.
Department for Education and Employment
May 2001
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