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Secondary School Places
Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils of secondary school age on 1 January 2006 were without a school place; and what estimate she has made of the average length of time for these pupils to be allocated a place. [41566]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally. Local authorities have responsibility for ensuring that there is a school place for every child in their area that needs one. They should ensure that the admission arrangements operating in their areas enable children to be admitted to school as quickly as possible.
Special Educational Needs
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what representations she has received on ring-fencing funding for special educational needs. [42476]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 17 January 2006]: We have received occasional representations, normally about the possibility of ring-fencing for particular purposes, e.g. specialist support and training.
Under the New Relationship with Schools we are committed to giving greater freedom and flexibility in relation to how schools manage their own resources. Similarly, we are committed to minimising ring-fencing
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for local government to allow authorities greater freedom to manage their resources according to their assessment of needs and priorities.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of pupils permanently excluded from school had special educational needs in the last year for which figures are available. [42478]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 17 January 2006]: The information requested is shown in the table.
(92) Includes middle schools as deemed.
(93) Includes both maintained and non-maintained special schools.
(94) Figures relating to permanent exclusions are estimates based on incomplete pupil-level data.
(95) The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the total number of permanent exclusions.
(96) The number of excluded pupils by SEN stage expressed as a percentage of all pupils with the same SEN stage in primary, secondary and all special schools (excludes dually registered pupils) in January.
(97) There was one permanent exclusion for which stage of SEN was not known—this is included in total for 'all pupils' only.
Note:
Totals may not appear to equal the sum of component parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent as a proportion of total budget by each local education authority in Greater London on special needs education in each of the last seven years. [43453]
Jacqui Smith: The available information is contained within the following table. Similar data are not available before 2000–01.
Notes:
1. 2000–01 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RA form collected by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to the section 52 form from the DfES. Therefore data are only available in a comparable format from 2000–01 onwards.
2. The ISB for special schools will include some general education costs for pupils with SEN in addition to those costs specifically for SEN while the figures recorded against notional SEN" are only indicative of the amount that might by spent by schools on SEN and, from 2004–05 onwards, notional SEN" delegated to nursery schools was reported on section 52 for the first time and this accounts for £2.7 million and £3.3 million of the 2004–05 and 2005–06 London totals respectively. In 2005–06, local authorities in London also budgeted £90 million for SEN transport expenditure but this is not included in the above table as figures are not available prior to 2005–06.
3. Includes planned expenditure on the provision for pupils with statements and the provision for non-statemented pupils with SEN, support for inclusion, inter authority recoupment, fees for pupils at independent special schools and abroad, educational psychology service, local authority functions in relation to child protection, therapies and other health related services, parent partnership, guidance and information, the monitoring of SEN provision and inclusion administration, assessment and co-ordination. Also included is the funding delegated to primary and secondary schools identified as notional SEN" and the individual schools budget (ISB) for special schools.
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Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost was of funding places in non-maintained special schools in each local authority in the last year for which figures are available. [42477]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 17 January 2006]: The Department does not collect the information in the way it has been asked for. However, the following table gives a breakdown of the available data on local authorities planned expenditure for fees for pupils at independent special schools and abroad in 2005–06:
Notes:
1. Fees for pupils at independent special schools and abroad covers planned expenditure by the local authority on the payment of fees in respect of pupils with special educational needs at independent schools or non-maintained special schools. Consequently this covers budgeted cost to each local authority of sending children with special educational needs to independent or non-maintained special schools rather than the full cost to schools of educating these pupils.
2. The data are drawn from the 2005–06 Section 52 Budget Statement (Table 1 line 1.2.7) which local authorities submitted to the DfES.
3. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 13 January 2006.
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