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Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which contract holders for prison education have advised his Department that they do not wish to provide services beyond the lifetime of the current contract. [172422]
Mr. Ivan Lewis:
To date neither HM Prison Service nor DfES has received any communication from existing contractors to advise of their intention not to an accept offer to extend their contract(s).
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Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils have been expelled from (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each year since 1997. [172810]
Mr. Ivan Lewis:
The information requested is given in the table which shows data up to 2001/02, the latest available.
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1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/2000 | 2000/01(42) | 2001/02 | |
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Primary schools(43) | |||||
Number of permanent exclusions | 1,539 | 1,366 | 1,226 | 1,436 | 1,451 |
Percentage of permanent exclusions(44) | 13 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 15 |
Percentage of school population(45) | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Secondary schools(43) | |||||
Number of permanent exclusions | 10,187 | 8,636 | 6,713 | 7,305 | 7,741 |
Percentage of permanent exclusions(44) | 83 | 83 | 81 | 80 | 81 |
Percentage of school population(45) | 0.33 | 0.28 | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.24 |
Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if he will make a statement on the model of inspection proposed by HM Chief Inspector of Schools in his recent letter to all primary schools in England; and what assessment he has made of the accordance of that model with his Department's guidelines on earned autonomy and staged intervention in schools; [173683]
(2) what plans he has to instruct Ofsted to use a range of electronic and other performance indicators to undertake a distance review of a school before deciding on the most appropriate way to carry out inspection; and if he will make a statement; [173684]
(3) what plans he has to instruct Ofsted to send single inspectors to validate (a) schools clearly demonstrating success in a range of existing performance indicators, (b) school self-evaluation systems and (c) the evaluation of other processes; [173685]
(4) what plans he has to introduce the principle of minimum notice to the school inspections process; what assessment he has made of its efficacy in the day-to-day performance of schools; and if he will make a statement; [173687]
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(5) what plans he has to introduce a two-tier system of reporting on schools to provide for professional confidentiality and staff anonymity; and if he will make a statement. [173688]
Mr. Miliband: HM Chief Inspector, David Bell, recently conducted a consultation on proposals for changing the arrangements for school inspections. He has now submitted his proposals for change to the Secretary of State for consideration. We will publish our intentions shortly.
Mr. Borrow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding was spent per pupil in South Ribble in each of the last seven years. [171655]
Mr. Miliband: The information requested is submitted to the Department according to local education authority areas rather than districts within an area. South Ribble is a district of Lancashire Local Education Authority. The information for Lancashire LEA is as follows:
Pre-Primary | Education | Primary | Education | Pre-primary and Primary Secondary Education | |
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199697 | n/a | n/a | 1,800 | 2,590 | 15,990 |
199798 | n/a | n/a | 1,820 | 2,630 | 17,320 |
199899 | n/a | n/a | 2,000 | 2,700 | 17,770 |
19992000 | 7,130 | 2,110 | 2,170 | 2,760 | 18,490 |
200001 | 11,030 | 2,330 | 2,440 | 2,910 | 18,770 |
200102 | 16,390 | 2,630 | 2,800 | 3,230 | 20,600 |
200203 | | 2,900 | | 3,400 | |
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what plans there are to change the number of beds in local authority secure children's homes; and if he will make a statement; [172850]
(2) if he will list the secure children's homes in England; [172851]
(3) if he will make a statement on the future of secure children's homes in England. [172852]
Margaret Hodge [holding answer 13 May 2004]: Officials have been working closely, both with the Youth Justice Board and the Association of Directors of Social Services, to consider the implications for local authority secure children's homes of the results of the Youth Justice Board's re-tendering exercise to determine the extent to which these homes will be used by the Youth Justice Board over the next two to five years for the placement of children through the youth justice system.
We understand that a few secure children's homes will now close on the basis that they will no longer be viable.
Officials are looking very closely at the demand, including any unmet need, for welfare placements in order to ensure that there are sufficient beds across the country for children who need to be placed in secure accommodation for welfare reasons.
Our aim is to achieve the best quality service for vulnerable children who, for whatever reason, need to be placed in secure accommodation.
The secure children's homes in England are as follows:
Stamford House
Orchard Lodge
Beechfield
Lansdowne
Leverton
Thornbury
Atkinson
Vinney Green
Swanwick Lodge
Clare Lodge
St. Johns
Earlswood
Lincolnshire
Sutton Place
Aldine House
Brunei
Watling House
Clayfields
Aycliffe
Kyloe House
Eastmoor
Barton Moss
Dyson Hall
Redbank
Redsands
Dales House
St. Catherines
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