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Building Schools for the Future
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what the timetable is for the latest round of bids under Building Schools for the Future; when the round was announced; and what the closing date is; [24713]
(2) when the next round of bids under Building Schools for the Future is planned to take place. [24714]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 3 November 2005]: Building Schools for the Future is our long-term strategic programme to transform facilities for secondary pupils over 15 years, subject to future public spending decisions. We have grouped investment in annual waves. Wave 1 projects were announced in 2003 and aim to sign contracts in the financial year 2005–06. Wave 2 and 3 projects were announced in 2004 and aim to sign contracts in 2006–07 and 2007–08 respectively. As the projects are large and involve many schools, building work can take several years after contract signature.
We plan to announce the next waves of investment after the coming comprehensive spending review, probably late in 2007. In the meantime, we have told each local authority when their schools may begin in the 15-year programme. On current plans, the Stroud and Cotswold area of Gloucestershire is not due to begin in the programme until waves 13 to 15, i.e. 2017 at the earliest.
This indicative planning information allows local authorities to look ahead strategically, discuss options with schools and communities and agree long-term education visions for schools and their buildings. By doing this, local areas will be well placed to make good use of other investment, as it becomes available, and to use the local flexibilities of the Single Capital Pot and prudential system. In this way, authorities should find that they will be able to achieve much on their critical paths to starting Building Schools for the Future.
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We have just announced that, given Gloucestershire's position in Building Schools for the Future, it will receive around £20 million investment between 2006 to 2008 to rebuild one of its worst condition secondary buildings as a school of the future. My officials will be writing to the authority about this shortly.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding she plans to make available under Building Schools for the Future for the refurbishment and re-building of school kitchens. [25277]
Jacqui Smith: Investment provided through Building Schools for the Future will allow school kitchens to be rebuilt or refurbished, where this is needed. Total investment amounts to £6.5 billion (including £3.75 billion PFI credits) over the three financial years 2005–06 to 2007–08. We do not break down our funding to projects for particular parts of schools, such as kitchens, but we are making clear that kitchens are essential.
Challenging Pupils
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures (a) secondary schools and (b) local education authorities will be required to have in place to deal with hard to place pupils to ensure that no single school takes a disproportionate number of pupils with challenging behaviour. [24510]
Jacqui Smith: We are proposing to change the school admissions code of practice to recommend that all schools and local authorities agree protocols for the admission of hard to place pupils. These protocols should ensure that no school is asked to admit a disproportionate number of pupils with challenging behaviour. All schools and local authorities will have to have regard to this element of the code as to other elements. We want schools and local authorities to enter into these agreements voluntarily and we will be monitoring progress on this. Where agreement on protocols cannot be reached we will consider legislating to impose them.
Child Abuse
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many cases of child (a) physical and (b) sexual abuse there have been in each year since 1997. [25265]
Maria Eagle:
Information reported by councils with social services responsibilities on the number of registrations to child protection registers by category of abuse during the years ending 31 March 2002 to 2004 is shown in the following table. Information prior to this period was collected differently and may be found in Table 1.6 of Children and Young People on Child Protection Registers, Year Ending 31 March 2001—England". This is available from the Department's website at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000517/CPR2001.PDF
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(36) Where a child was registered more than once in the year, each registration has been counted. Registrations include unborn children.
Citizenship Education
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers have been trained as specialists in citizenship education in each year since it was introduced as a statutory part of the national curriculum. [24386]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 3 November 2005]: In the three academic years between 2001/02 and 2003/04, a total of 534 trainees gained qualified teacher status (QTS) from initial teacher training (ITT) courses, broken down as follows. The first year of recruitment was 2001/02.
| Trainees gaining QTS | |
|---|---|
| 2001/02 | 127 |
| 2002/03 | 187 |
| 2003/04 | 220 |
Source:
TDA Performance Profiles.
City Academy Students
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in each city academy are children with special educational needs (a) with statements and (b) without statements. [25027]
Maria Eagle: The answer to your question is detailed in the table below. We only have data for the 17 academies which opened in or before September 2004. All data are from the academic year 2004/05. The data on pupils with SEN in the 10 academies which opened in September 2005 will not be available until after the annual school census in January 2006.
(37) Numbers under 5 have been deleted to remove the possibility of identifying individual pupils.
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Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in schools from which each new academy was created were children with special educational needs (a) with statements and (b) without statements, in the last year for which figures are available. [25028]
Maria Eagle: The answer to the question is detailed in the following table. The pupil data for each school come from the academic year before the school closed.
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