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Pre-school Education

Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the Government's policy is on implementing the recommendations of the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education project; and if he will make a statement. [187366]

Margaret Hodge: The Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) project was commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills in 1997 to provide evidence on which the Government could base their development of good quality early years services.
 
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The project has already produced a number of significant findings which have informed or supported policy. These include:

early education produces better effects in small bursts over a long period. This confirms the benefits of our offer of a free part-time early education place for all three and four-year-olds;

the effects of early years provision are greatest and most sustained for disadvantaged children, hence our focus on targeted improvement of services through Sure Start Local Programmes, Children's Centres and other initiatives. Children's Centres will cover all the 20 per cent. most deprived wards by 2008;

an early start at pre-school (under three years) was linked with better intellectual attainment and children having better relationships with other children (peer sociability) at age three years. We have also recently announced that we will pilot early education for 12,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds;

integrated services produce better cognitive outcomes for children, and we are now building on the lessons of Early Excellence Centres and Sure Start Local Programmes, in our multi agency Children's Centres, and in extended schools;

qualified teacher involvement is important to improved outcomes, and we now require teacher input as part of the Children's Centre core offer, and

the home environment and parents have a major impact on children's development, and early years services are more effective when working closely with parents. There is a strong emphasis on parental involvement in Sure Start programmes.

Protection of Children Act

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many names are on the Protection of Children Act list; and how many names have been added in each month since its inception. [187110]

Margaret Hodge: As of 22 September 2004, there are a total of 1,072 individuals confirmed on the Protection of Children Act List. Under the Protection of Children Act 1999 an individual can be provisionally included on the list until sufficient information has been gathered which enables a final decision. A breakdown of the number of individuals added to the List, following their period of provisional inclusion, in each of the last 12 months is shown in the following table. This information was not routinely collected before July 2003.

Month	Number of cases
July 2003	8
August 2003	5
September 2003	0
October 2003	0
November 2003	5
December 2003	4
January 2004	5
February 2004	24
March 2004	9
April 2004	0
May 2004	8
June 2004	15
July 2004	17
Aug 2004	6
Sept 2004	2

 
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Pupil Exclusions

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils on average were (i) permanently excluded from school and (ii) unable to access a place in
 
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school in each of the last five years in (A) Greater London, (B) each London local education authority and (C) England. [189476]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: Requested information on the number and percentage of excluded pupils is given in the tables.

We do not hold information centrally on the numbers of excluded pupils unable to access a place in school. However, from September 2002 all local education authorities (LEAs) have been committed to providing suitable full-time education for permanently excluded pupils from the sixteenth day of their exclusion. Since then all but a handful of LEAs have met this commitment. Currently only two LEAs are not meeting it and the Department is working with them to help them achieve it.
Maintained primary schools⁽¹¹⁾: Number and percentage of permanently excluded pupils by Local Education Authority area 1998/99 to 2002/03 (provisional)⁽¹²⁾

		1998/99		1999/2000		2000/01		2001/02		2002/03(p)
		Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)
	England	1,370	0.03	1,230	0.03	1,440	0.03	1,450	0.03	1,300	0.03
	London	250	0.04	170	0.03	200	0.03	210	0.03	180	0.03
	Inner London	110	0.05	80	0.03	80	0.04	80	0.03	60	0.03
202	Camden	*	0.03	*	0.02	10	0.09	*	0.02	10	0.07
201	City of London	0	0.00	*	0.45	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
204	Hackney	10	0.07	10	0.03	10	0.05	10	0.05	10	0.03
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	*	0.04	*	0.04	10	0.07	*	0.02	0	0.00
309	Haringey	10	0.05	10	0.03	*	0.01	10	0.02	*	0.01
206	Islington	10	0.05	*	0.01	0	0.00	0	0.00	*	0.01
207	Kensington and Chelsea	10	0.10	10	0.07	*	0.04	*	0.04	0	0.00
208	Lambeth	10	0.05	10	0.06	10	0.05	10	0.05	10	0.05
209	Lewisham	10	0.06	20	0.07	10	0.05	10	0.06	10	0.04
316	Newham	10	0.05	10	0.03	10	0.03	10	0.04	10	0.02
210	Southwark	10	0.05	10	0.03	20	0.06	10	0.06	10	0.05
211	Tower Hamlets	*	0.00	*	0.00	*	0.00	*	0.00	*	0.00
212	Wandsworth	10	0.06	10	0.03	*	0.02	10	0.05	*	0.01
213	Westminster	*	0.02	*	0.02	*	0.02	*	0.01	10	0.05
	Outer London	140	0.03	90	0.02	120	0.03	130	0.03	120	0.03
301	Barking and Dagenham	10	0.07	10	0.04	10	0.05	10	0.05	*	0.02
302	Barnet	10	0.02	10	0.02	*	0.02	*	0.01	10	0.02
303	Bexley	20	0.08	10	0.02	20	0.07	10	0.05	10	0.06
304	Brent	10	0.03	10	0.04	10	0.02	*	0.01	*	0.02
305	Bromley	10	0.02	*	0.01	10	0.03	10	0.02	10	0.04
306	Croydon	20	0.05	10	0.02	20	0.05	30	0.08	20	0.07
307	Ealing	10	0.02	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.01	10	0.02
308	Enfield	10	0.02	*	0.01	10	0.02	10	0.02	10	0.02
203	Greenwich	20	0.08	10	0.03	10	0.05	20	0.09	10	0.03
310	Harrow	10	0.04	10	0.02	10	0.05	10	0.03	10	0.06
311	Havering	*	0.01	n	0.00	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.01
312	Hillingdon	*	0.02	*	0.02	20	0.06	10	0.03	10	0.03
313	Hounslow	*	0.02	10	0.04	*	0.02	10	0.04	*	0.02
314	Kingston upon Thames	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.01
315	Merton	10	0.03	10	0.04	*	0.03	*	0.02	0	0.00
317	Redbridge	10	0.03	*	0.02	*	0.01	*	0.01	10	0.03
318	Richmond upon Thames	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.01	*	0.02	*	0.02
319	Sutton	10	0.05	0	0.00	*	0.01	*	0.01	0	0.00
320	Waltham Forest	10	0.04	10	0.05	0	0.00	10	0.03	*	0.02

Maintained primary schools⁽¹¹⁾: Number and percentage of permanently excluded pupils by Local Education Authority area 1998/99 to 2002/03 (provisional)⁽¹²⁾

		1998/99		1999/2000		2000/01		2001/02		2002/03(p)
		Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)	Number	% (13)
	England	8,640	0.28	6,710	0.21	7,310	0.23	7,740	0.24	7,690	0.23
	London	1.470	0.38	1,070	0.27	1.200	0.29	1,200	0.29	1,260	0.30
	Inner London	500	0.41	410	0.33	430	0.34	390	0.30	390	0.30
202	Camden	20	0.22	20	0.15	20	0.20	20	0.22	20	0.23
201	City of London	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
204	Hackney	20	0.24	20	0.28	20	0.27	20	0.26	20	0.25
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	40	0.68	20	0.25	30	0.46	30	0.47	30	0.44
309	Haringey	30	0.28	20	0.16	30	0.25	30	0.24	30	0.27
206	Islington	30	0.37	20	0.24	20	0.25	10	0.16	20	0.22
207	Kensington and Chelsea	20	0.57	20	0.53	10	0.35	10	0.25	20	0.42
208	Lambeth	30	0.39	20	0.22	20	0.33	30	0.40	20	0.30
209	Lewisham	50	0.43	50	0.45	70	0.60	50	0.44	30	0.29
316	Newham	40	0.24	30	0.15	30	0.16	40	0.21	60	0.31
210	Southwark	90	0.98	60	0.59	50	0.44	30	0.29	30	0.30
211	Tower Hamlets	30	0.20	30	0.22	40	0.31	40	0.26	40	0.29
212	Wandsworth	60	0.63	80	0.84	60	0.58	50	0.49	40	0.36
213	Westminster	40	0.49	40	0.46	30	0.34	30	0.32	30	0.36
	Outer London	970	0.37	660	0.24	770	0.27	810	0.29	870	0.30
301	Barking and Dagenham	30	0.24	20	0.22	10	0.09	10	0.12	30	0.22
302	Barnet	40	0.18	50	0.24	50	0.24	50	0.24	40	0.20
303	Bexley	40	0.26	20	0.13	60	0.33	50	0.25	60	0.32
304	Brent	70	0.49	50	0.33	40	0.28	30	0.23	50	0.31
305	Bromley	80	0.39	20	0.12	50	0.25	80	0.37	70	0.30
306	Croydon	110	0.67	80	0.45	100	0.58	110	0.62	100	0.54
307	Ealing	70	0.47	20	0.16	30	0.19	60	0.38	50	0.33
308	Enfield	70	0.36	70	0.34	70	0.32	60	0.31	50	0.22
203	Greenwich	60	0.44	40	0.26	30	0.20	30	0.22	40	0.29
310	Harrow	30	0.40	30	0.39	60	0.65	60	0.70	60	0.62
311	Havering	40	0.26	30	0.21	30	0.19	40	0.26	30	0.20
312	Hillingdon	60	0.39	40	0.24	50	0.28	40	0.21	40	0.24
313	Hounslow	60	0.39	40	0.27	40	0.25	50	0.31	70	0.43
314	Kingston upon Thames	20	0.29	20	0.18	10	0.08	*	0.02	*	0.04
315	Merton	20	0.25	20	0.21	30	0.35	20	0.24	40	0.41
317	Redbridge	30	0.19	20	0.12	20	0.12	30	0.16	60	0.30
318	Richmond upon Thames	40	0.57	20	0.32	30	0.40	30	0.34	50	0.64
319	Sutton	30	0.22	20	0.14	20	0.16	30	0.23	10	0.09
320	Waltham Forest	70	0.60	40	0.30	50	0.36	20	0.18	30	0.23

(p) =provisional.
n/a=Not applicable.
*=less than 5.
⁽¹¹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽¹²⁾ Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and the totals as shown.
⁽¹³⁾ The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of pupils, excluding dually registered pupils.
⁽¹⁴⁾ Before local government reorganisation.
⁽¹⁵⁾ After local government reorganisation.
Source:
Annual Schools Census.





 
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