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Special Educational Needs (Small Programmes Fund)

Jonathan Shaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which organisations received funding from the two new streams under the SEN Small Programmes Fund 2002–03; and what sums each organisation received. [132203]

Mr. Miliband: The SEN Small Programmes Fund is a small pot of money which we use to fund projects taken forward by voluntary bodies working in the field of SEN.

The following organisations received funding from the two streams of the SEN Small Programmes Fund in 2002–03:

Lead organisation name	Project title	Grant bid (£)
Parents and pupils strand
Kids Southeast	The Same Difference	25,000
Autism Initiatives	Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Steps to inclusion for pupils, parents and providers	30,000
AiMP and the North East Regional Partnership	AiMP (Amicus interactive Music Project)	30,000
Carousel	MacKeith Unit After Schools Club	25,997
Contact a Family	Contact a Family, SKILL and network 81 Parent information project	26,686
The Deaf@x Trust	Training deaf pupils and their parents on the use of communications aid technologies	30,000
East Midlands Regional Partnership	Provision of support to parents/carers of pupils with SLD/complex needs who live in geographically/socially isolated locations within the East Midlands	27,100
Harry's Hydro	North Somerset Hydrotherapy and multi-sensory centre	30,000
The Learning Disabilities Federation	Family and supporter for pupils and parents of children with Autism/Autistic Spectrum and SEN/SSEN	19,400
Leonard Cheshire South West	Exeter LIVE—Living with Independence, Vocation and Education	30,000
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts	Crossing the Threshold	18,500
Manchester Council for Community Relations	Parents and Inclusive Education	30,000
The National Children's Bureau	Why listen to me? A Peer Support and Parenting Project	23,900
NSPCC	Attention Difficulties: Developing evidence based practice	23,700
NCH Penhurst School	Development of a pre-verbal communication curriculum for children with profound, multiple learning difficulties	25,000
North Liverpool Parent Support Group	Removing Barriers to Positive Participation	30,000
Pre-School Learning Alliance	Promoting inclusion for pre-school children with SEN	29,925
Orchestra of the Age Enlightenment	Where the Green Grass Grows	9,000
RNIB	Developing social and emotional support strategies for visually impaired children	30,000
Selective Mutism Information and Research Association (SMIRA)	Video on selective mutism in childcare	30,000
Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa	Improving outcomes	25,000
Shaw Trust	East Lincolnshire Curriculum Project	30,000
St. Aidans Trust Sheffield	StAR provision	30,000
South Central Regional Inclusion Partnership	Developing partnerships with the independent and non-maintained sector	30,000
SEN Regional Partnership (SW)	South West Peninsula ASD Project	30,000
Stockton Autism Support Group	Learning for life—the Stockton ASD Learning Partnership	30,000
Dyslexia Institute	Preston Rd Dyslexia Project	30,000
The National Autistic Society	A multi-agency inclusive network	29,700
The Space Project	PROPP	30,000
The Trident Trust	Preparation and support for SEN students on work experience and work related learning	30,000
Workforce Charitable Trust	Achievement Plus	30,0000
Autism Bedfordshire	LOAF Project	15,658
Child Brain Injury Trust	Things can get better	28,650
NW SEN Regional Partnership	Bringing our Children Back Home	29,850
North West Regional SEN Partnership	A model for the implementation of a regional advocacy service for disabled children	29,963
North West Regional SEN Partnership	A model for effective emotional and social inclusion at Key Stages 3 and 4	30,000
Teachers and Training Strand
ACE Centre Advisory Trust	Cornwall Alternative and Augmentative Communication Team	27,300
ACE Centre—North	Communication Aid System Picker and Enabling Resources (CASPER)	27,041
Association for Science Education (ASE)	Developing and Inclusive Science Resource	30,000
Barnados	Darlington inclusion alliance inclusive schools award project	26,958
Barnados	Continuing education of excluded pupils in Sunderland (CEEPS)	30,000
BILD (British Institute for Learning Disabilities)	Supporting transition from school to adulthood for pupils with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)	30,000
BILD (British Institute for Learning Disabilities)	An inclusive whole school approach to challenging behaviour in primary schools	30,000
BILD (British Institute for Learning Disabilities)	Removing barriers to support inclusion in making provision for pupils with SEN within Birmingham's Catholic Partnership	28,000
Chicken Shed Theatre Company	National Inclusive Training and Development Programme—Tower Hamlets Initiative	26,642
CSV for Citizenship	Disseminating Inclusive and innovative approaches to active citizenship and life skills	25,000
Council for Disabled Children	Making it Work	26,900
Down's Syndrome Association	Specialised training pack for teaching staff of pupils with Down's syndrome in special schools	28,130
English Federation of Disability Sport—East Midlands	Breakthrough—Derby and Derbyshire	30,000
Express Link-Up Children's Charity	Digital Brain Education Site Training programme for hospital and home tuition teachers in England	23,000
Fairplay	Inclusion—The Way Forward	29,594
Heads, Teachers in Industry	Removing the Boundaries	30,000
I CAN	Laying the foundations for inclusion of pupils with speech, language and communication difficulties	30,000
Inaura	Managing the transfer of pupils between places of education to maintain a zero exclusion zone in Slough	30,000
INCLUDE	The Model Reintegration Project	30,000
London Sports Forum for Disabled People	Breakthrough	29,175
Mencap	Trans Dynamic	30,000
Merseyside SEN Partnership	Development of a strategic policy and framework for monitoring, review, evaluation, and planning of educational inclusion across Greater Merseyside	30,000
The National Deaf Children's Society	Inclusion Toolkit: Deaf Children in Mainstream schools	22,168
NoRSACA	Combined joint approaches to develop training packages to support the inclusion of children with ASD in maintain settings	21,621
RNIB	The physical and sensory environment for children with visual impairment and additional disabilities. The development of audit and training materials	29,000
RNIB	Development of resources for children who are blind with additional learning difficulties who use Moon	25,540
Swindon Dyslexia Association	Dyslexia Friendly Schools	7,500
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award	Duke of Edinburgh's award SEN Co-ordinator and Materials	30,000
The Dyslexia Institute	Development of effective strategies to meet specific needs of pupils with SpLD/Dyslexia in the classroom	27,200
The Mental Health Foundation	Whole Child, whole school, whole school career	30,000
The Total Learning Challenge	Increasing access for teachers and support staff to training in therapeutic group work	29,877
Youth Sport Trust	Inclusion training in PE and sport	26,000
Within Reach (Sheffield)	Active Futures	18,840
Young Minds	Development and implementation of a training strategy to meet the emotional, behavioural or mental health needs of children in public care	30,000
Wigan and District Dyslexia Association	Development of a Structured Language Programme at Key Stage 3	29,750
Stockton Autism Group	Skills for the development of learning for life	30,000

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Gifted Pupils

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answer of 16 September, Official Report, column 686W, on gifted pupils, how many (a) pupils that took part in the 2003 summer schools and (b) pupils with Academy membership are from schools in the West Sussex area. [131956]

Mr. Miliband: There are currently 23 members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth from schools in the county of West Sussex. Of those, three went to academy summer schools in 2003, another five

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took part in an Academy Outreach Course in 2002–03 and one is participating in an e-learning maths course. A further three members are from schools in Brighton and Hove.

Key Stage Science Assessments

Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of children who attained level 4 in science Key Stage 2 assessment in 1998 achieved level 5 or above in science Key Stage 3 assessment in 2001; and what proportion of children

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who attained level 5 in science Key Stage 2 assessment in 1998 achieved level 6 or above in science Key Stage 3 assessment in 2001. [131225]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested is as follows:

Of those pupils who achieved level 4 or above in the 1998 Key Stage 2 Science tests, the proportion who went on to achieve level 5 or above in the 2001 Key Stage 3 Science tests was 85.3 per cent.

Of these pupils who achieved level 5 or above in the 1998 Key Stage 2 Science tests, the proportion who went on to achieve level 6 or above in the 2001 Key Stage 3 Science tests was 85.1 per cent.

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