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Jim Knight: Schools and local authorities employ a range of measures to support such pupils. These include pastoral support programmes, learning
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mentors and behaviour support workers in schools, managed moves to another school where appropriate, learning support units in schools and parenting orders or contracts where there is evidence of poor parenting.

Many schools are working together in partnerships, with funding devolved from local authorities, to improve behaviour and tackle persistent truancy. We expect all secondary schools to be working together in this way by September 2007 and evidence from existing partnerships shows that they have made significant reductions in the need to exclude pupils.

The Every Child Matters and Youth Matters reform programmes are refocusing children and young people's services to deliver early intervention and prevention of social exclusion, antisocial behaviour and other entrenched problems. We are putting in place more positive things to do and better places to go for young people in the community, improving the support available to parents and reforming targeted youth support for vulnerable teenagers.

Schools (Science)

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the effect of the designation of a school as a specialist science school on the number of pupils undertaking A-levels in science subjects. [89228]


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Jim Knight: There has been no assessment of the effect of science college status on the number of pupils taking science A-levels. Science colleges are expected to set targets for the percentage of students attaining relevant qualifications post-16, including A-levels. Progress against these targets will be important considerations when schools seek resignation of specialist status.

The recent “Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014: Next Steps” document sets out a range of activities the Government are putting in place to encourage more pupils to study science at A-level and beyond.

Special Educational Needs

Mr. Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school-aged children have had a dual placement in both a special school and a mainstream school in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [90278]

Jim Knight: The available information on the number of pupils of compulsory school age with dual registration status is given in the table.

Pupils who are dually registered at two schools will generally spend more time at one school (dual “main” registration) than at the other (dual “subsidiary” registration). A detailed breakdown of dual registrations is not available from all school types.

Maintained primary, secondary and all special schools, pupil referral units and independent schools number of dually registered pupils. Position in January each year: 2002 to 2006—England
Headcount of pupils aged five to 15( 1)
Maintained primary and secondary schools( 2) Maintained special schools (excluding general hospital) General hospital schools Non-maintained special schools Pupil referral units Independent schools
Dual (Main) Dual (Subsidiary) Dual (Main) Dual (Subsidiary) Dual( 4) Dual (Main) Dual (Subsidiary) Dual( 4) Dual( 4)

2002(3)

(5)

(5)

600

580

870

10

(5)

4,920

(5)

2003

1,050

610

870

570

950

10

n/a

5,370

(5)

2004

3,060

1,130

900

980

870

10

n/a

7,130

(5)

2005

2,390

1,470

850

1,040

890

10

10

7,870

(5)

2006

3,970

1,810

1,010

1,180

930

10

10

8,160

(5)

n/a = Not available.
(1) Age at the start of the school year.
(2) Includes middle schools as deemed.
(3) Due to differences and changes in the underlying data collection, the number of pupils with dual subsidiary registration are not available for non-maintained special schools for 2002, and general hospital schools for all years.
(4) Includes both main and subsidiary dual registrations.
(5) One or two pupils.
Note:
Pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
Schools’ Census

Student Loans

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people owe money to the Student Loans Company, broken down by those who owe (a) £1,000-£3,000, (b) £3,001-£6,000, (c) £6,001-£10,000, (d) £10,001-£15,000 and (e) over £15,001. [92068]

Bill Rammell: The table shows UK borrowers with publicly-owned student loans in March 2006 by bands of amount owed.

£000
Income-contingent loans Mortgage-style loans

Less than £1,000

108.2

147.2

£1,000-£3,000

428.8

225.7

£3,001-£6,000

452.0

173.1

£6,001-£10,000

609.6

44.6

£10,001-£15,000

540.5

2.0

Greater than £15,000

152.0

All borrowers

2,291.1

592.5

Source:
Student Loans Company

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The table shows all borrowers, including those not yet due to repay and those below the relevant income threshold for repayment who entered higher education up to academic year 2005/06. Borrowers are shown by the size of their loan balance in March 2006.

Summer Schools (Disabled People)

Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what consultation there was with the Department for Education and Skills on the closure of Bristol University’s summer schools for disabled people. [92054]

Bill Rammell: There have been no consultations between the Department and the University of Bristol on this issue. Since universities are autonomous and independent bodies, decisions about the type of provision to offer students are a matter for institutions themselves.

Sure Start

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many Sure Start programmes there are; and how many children are covered by such programmes in (a) each constituency and (b) county. [93893]

Beverley Hughes: There were 524 Sure Start local programmes in England covering over 420,000 children under four. Over 400 of these are now designated as Sure Start children’s centres and we expect all Sure Start local programmes to become children’s centres in due course and contribute to our target to create 3,500 children’s centres by 2010. The 1,000(th) children’s centre was awarded recently, seeking out interim milestone ahead of schedule.

We do not hold information on the constituencies or counties covered by each local programme. The following table lists the number of Sure Start local programmes in each local authority and the number of children under four covered.


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Local authority Number of local programmes Children covered

Barking and Dagenham

4

2,585

Barnet

1

722

Barnsley

5

3,065

Bath and NE Somerset

1

842

Bedfordshire

1

762

Bexley

1

802

Birmingham

12

8,893

Blackburn with Darwen

5

3,878

Blackpool

3

1,527

Bolton

4

3,479

Bournemouth

1

640

Bradford

8

7,438

Brent

3

2,684

Brighton and Hove

2

1,022

Bristol

4

3,968

Bromley

1

643

Buckinghamshire

1

1,020

Bury

1

819

Calderdale

3

2,185

Cambridgeshire

2

1,301

Camden

5

4,948

Cheshire

4

3,253

Cornwall

7

4,792

Coventry

4

3,517

Croydon

1

1,339

Cumbria

5

4,035

Darlington

2

1,419

Derby City

4

2,534

Derbyshire

5

3,969

Devon

4

2,795

Doncaster

6

3,898

Dorset

1

794

Dudley

3

2,281

Durham County

12

8,945

Ealing

2

1,914

East Riding of Yorks

1

872

East Sussex

6

3,539

Enfield

1

1,849

Essex

4

2,584

Gateshead

4

2,683

Gloucestershire

2

1,713

Greenwich

5

3,675

Hackney

7

6,925

Halton

5

4,506

Hammersmith and Fulham

3

2,193

Hampshire

2

1,660

Haringey

6

4,871

Hartlepool

3

2,234

Havering

1

902

Herefordshire

1

720

Hillingdon

1

640

Hounslow

1

640

Isle of White

1

1,027

Islington

6

4,973

Kensington and Chelsea

2

1,741

Kent

9

6,719

Kingston Upon Hull

7

6,428

Kirklees

5

3,663

Knowsley

5

3,169

Lambeth

6

5,116

Lancashire

17

1,2342

Leeds

8

6,026

Leicester City

6

4,922

Leicestershire

1

801

Lewisham

5

3,427

Lincolnshire

7

4,987

Liverpool

10

8,081

Luton

1

741

Manchester

11

8,559

Medway Towns

1

1,124

Merton

1

739

Middlesbrough

c

3,320

Milton Keynes

1

798

Newcastle upon Tyne

7

4,887

Newham

8

12,579

Norfolk

8

5,425

North East Lincolnshire

c

3,240

North Lincolnshire

2

1,656

North Somerset

1

1,026

North Tyneside

3

2,262

North Yorkshire

2

1,559

Northamptonshire

4

2,623

Northumberland

c

4,473

Nottingham City

8

5,837

Nottinghamshire

9

6,984

Oldham

5

3,211

Oxford City

1

541

Peterborough

3

2,394

Plymouth

4

3,642

Portsmouth

2

1,747

Reading

1

780

Redbridge

1

904

Redcar and Cleveland

4

2,733

Rochdale

5

4,704

Rotherham

3

2,465

Salford

5

3,236

Sandwell

7

5,842

Sefton

4

2,772

Sheffield

8

6,386

Shropshire

2

1,394

Slough

1

695

Solihull

1

1,059

Somerset

3

2,139

South Tyneside

5

2,554

Southampton

3

2,019

Southend on Sea

1

654

Southwark

7

6,592

St. Helens

5

12,443

Staffordshire

5

4,158

Stockport

1

412

Stockton-on-Tees

5

3,916

Stoke-on-Trent

6

4,946

Suffolk

3

2,540

Sunderland

7

5,463

Sutton

1

865

Swindon

1

804

Tameside

4

2,864

Telford and Wrekin

2

1,465

Thurrock

1

878

Torbay

2

1,458

Tower Hamlets

7

6,505

Trafford

1

429

Wakefield

4

2,953

Walsall

5

3,906

Waltham Forest

4

3,458

Wandsworth

2

1,765

Warrington

2

1,494

Warwickshire

2

1,120

West Sussex

t

1,552

Westminster

3

2,536

Wigan

2

1,471

Wirral

4

3,103

Wolverhampton

5

4,226

Worcestershire

3

2,190

York

1

598

Total

524

420,149


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