House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 24 July 2006 (pt 0030)

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Building Schools for the Future Programme

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he expects schools in Brent to receive funding from the Building Schools for the Future programme. [87782]

Jim Knight: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my predecessor on 9 January 2006, Official Report, column 394W, when she was advised that Brent has been informed that it may expect to start in the programme in waves 7-9.

CAFCASS

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the timetable is for the allocation of cases in (a) private and (b) public law in the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS). [86962]

Mr. Dhanda: This is a matter for CAFCASS. Anthony Douglas, the Chief Executive, has written to the hon. Member with this information and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.

Letter from Lamorna Wooderson, dated 20 July 2006:

In my capacity as Acting Chief Executive, whilst Mr Douglas is on leave, I am responding to the recent parliamentary question that you tabled.

PQ 86962 - what the timetable is for the allocation of cases in (a) private and (b) public law in the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.

CAFCASS aims to allocate all cases at the earliest opportunity. In public law we have a Key Performance Indicator, to allocate at least 70% of cases within 2 days of receipt by March 2007. At the end of May 2006 five of our ten regions are exceeding this target. The national average was 55.3%. In addition, we have a Key Performance Indicator, to allocate 98% of public law cases within 28 days of receipt. At the end of May we achieved this in 92% of cases, with 5 regions exceeding the target.

We have an internal performance indicator that there will be no more than 4% of Private Law cases unallocated. At the end of May 3% of cases were unallocated. All but 4 regions met the target as 97% of requests received had been allocated by the month end.

Child Care

Mr. Wills: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many child care places were available in Swindon in each year since 1997. [86636]

Beverley Hughes: The available information on child care places, for Swindon local authority area, is shown in Tables 1 and 2.

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Table 1: Number^{( 1, 2 )} of day care places for children under eight years of age by type of provider, Swindon local authority area, position at 31 March each year, 1997 to 2002
Type of provider	1997^{( 3)}	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Day nurseries	n/a	n/a	1,100	1,100	1,100	n/a
Playgroups and pre-schools	n/a	n/a	1,600	1,500	1,500	n/a
Child minders	n/a	n/a	2,200	2,200	2,100	n/a
Out of school clubs	n/a	n/a	550	680	840	n/a
Holiday schemes⁽⁴⁾	n/a	n/a	2,700	1,300	1,400	n/a
Family Centres	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾—-	⁽⁵⁾—-	⁽⁵⁾—-	n/a
n/a = Not available. ⁽¹⁾ Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 places. ⁽²⁾ Data Source: Children’s Day Care Facilities Survey. ⁽³⁾ Affected by local government reorganisation on 1 April 1997. ⁽⁴⁾ From 1999, places were counted once for each school holiday. Before 1999, places were counted once each year. ⁽⁵⁾ Under 5.

Table 2: Number^{( 1, 2 )} of registered child care places for children under eight years of age by type of care, Swindon local authority area, position at 31 March each year, 2003 to 2006
Type of care	2003	2004	2005	2006
Full day care	1,200	1,800	2,100	2,200
Sessional day care	1,400	1,400	1,300	1,200
Child minders	1,900	1,800	1,800	2,000
Out of school day care	1,300	1,500	1,500	1,400
Crèche day care	100	100	100	100
⁽¹⁾ Rounded to the nearest 100 places. ⁽²⁾ Data Source: Ofsted.

The figures for child care places for 2003 to 2006 are not directly comparable with the day care figures for 1997 to 2001. The figures for 2003 to 2006 were derived from the Ofsted database of registered child care providers. The figures for 1997 to 2001 were derived from the Children’s Day Care Facilities Survey, which was discontinued in 2001. There are no figures for 2002.

With the introduction of the National Day Care Standards and the transfer of responsibilities for registration and inspection of child care providers from local authority social service departments to Ofsted in September 2001, child care places were classified according to the type of day care provided: full day care, sessional day care, child minder, out of school day care or crèche day care. Ofsted have produced figures based on this classification on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published on 5 May 2006 in their report “Registered Childcare Providers and Places, 31 March 2006”, which is available on their website, www. ofsted.gov.uk/publications

Up until March 2001, child care providers were classified according to the type of provider: day nurseries, playgroups and pre-schools, child minders, out of school clubs and holiday schemes. Figures based on this classification were published in a series of statistical bulletins, which are available from the Department’s website, www.dfes.gov.uk/statistics

Child Deaths

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many Part 8 reviews into child deaths have occurred in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years. [84571]

Mr. Dhanda: The Child Protection Database, maintained by the Commission for Social Care Inspection, provides the data in the table on the numbers of confirmed Serious Case Reviews (SCRs), following the death of a child, in each local authority since 2000. Accurate data prior to 2000 are not available. The following table includes only those authorities where a child death has led to a confirmed SCR and provides an overall total for between 2000-05. In order to maintain the confidentiality of individual children who were the subject of a SCR, (⁽¹⁾—) denotes fewer than three SCRs. The data for 2006 are not yet complete.

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2000-05
Responsible Council	Number
Barking and Dagenham	⁽¹⁾—
Barnsley	4
Bedfordshire	4
Birmingham	12
Blackpool UA	⁽¹⁾—
Bolton	9
Bournemouth UA	3
Bradford	4
Brent	⁽¹⁾—
Bristol UA	⁽¹⁾—
Calderdale	⁽¹⁾—
Cambridgeshire	⁽¹⁾—
Camden	⁽¹⁾—
Cheshire	5
Cornwall	⁽¹⁾—
Coventry	4
Croydon	⁽¹⁾—
Cumbria	3
Derby UA	⁽¹⁾—
Derbyshire	⁽¹⁾—
Devon	4
Doncaster	6
Durham	5
Ealing	⁽¹⁾—
Enfield	—
Essex	5
Gloucestershire	3
Hackney	⁽¹⁾—
Hartlepool UA	4
Havering	4
Hertfordshire	7
Hounslow	⁽¹⁾—
Isle of Wight UA	1
Islington	⁽¹⁾—
Kent	⁽¹⁾—
Kingston-upon-Hull UA	⁽¹⁾—
Kingston-upon-Thames	3
Kirklees	4
Knowsley	⁽¹⁾—
Lambeth	⁽¹⁾—
Lancashire	5
Leeds	4
Leicester UA	⁽¹⁾—
Leicestershire	⁽¹⁾—
Lewisham	3
Lincolnshire	3
Liverpool	⁽¹⁾—
Luton UA	5
Manchester	12
Medway Towns UA	⁽¹⁾—
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	⁽¹⁾—
Newham	8
Norfolk	⁽¹⁾—
North Lincolnshire UA	5
North Somerset UA	⁽¹⁾—
North Yorkshire	⁽¹⁾—
Northamptonshire	11
Northumberland	⁽¹⁾—
Nottingham UA	⁽¹⁾—
Nottinghamshire	7
Oldham	3
Other	⁽¹⁾—
Plymouth UA	3
Rochdale	⁽¹⁾—
Rotherham	⁽¹⁾—
Sandwell	⁽¹⁾—
Sheffield	3
Solihull	⁽¹⁾—
Somerset	⁽¹⁾—
Somerset	⁽¹⁾—
South Gloucestershire UA	⁽¹⁾—
Southend-on-Sea UA	⁽¹⁾—
Southwark	⁽¹⁾—
St. Helens	⁽¹⁾—
Stockport	⁽¹⁾—
Stockton-on-Tees UA	3
Stoke-on-Trent UA	6
Suffolk	6
Sunderland	⁽¹⁾—
Surrey	⁽¹⁾—
Sutton	⁽¹⁾—
Swindon UA	6
Tameside	⁽¹⁾—
Thurrock UA	⁽¹⁾—
Torbay UA	⁽¹⁾—
Trafford	3
Wakefield	6
Waltham Forest	4
Warwickshire	⁽¹⁾—
Westminster	⁽¹⁾—
Wigan	3
Wirral	⁽¹⁾—
Wolverhampton	3
Worcestershire	⁽¹⁾—
^{(1 )}Fewer than three SCRs.

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