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Children's Services (Integration)

Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many national and regional training (a) sessions, (b) seminars and (c) conferences were held with social care, education and health care providers as part of the integration of children's services in 2006; what Government representatives attended such events; and what the cost to the public purse was of each event. [107543]

Beverley Hughes: In 2006 my Department arranged the following events to support the integration of children’s services

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Event	Government representatives who attended	Cost (£)
10 Every Child Matters Emerging Practice one day regional events	DfES/Government Office officials	493,760
National Sure Start Month—in partnership with the Pre-school Learning Alliance, National Day Nurseries Association, National Childminders Association	DfES, Ministers and officials	330,000
National Conference on Affordable and Sustainable Childcare, Children's Centres and Extended Schools	DfES officials	25,000
Joint DfES, Improvement Development Agency (IDeA), CFBT Education Trust—‘Making a Difference Locally’ national symposium	DfES/Government Office officials	DfES contribution 7,830
Joint DfES/IDeA ‘Better Results Network’ regional events	DfES/Government Office officials	DfES contribution 6,000
9 Integrated Children’s Systems regional events February to March 2006	DfES/Government Office officials	84,000
8 Integrated Children's Systems regional events November to December 2006	DfES Government Office officials	120,000
Integrated Children's Systems national seminar for the Voluntary Sector	DfES officials	15,000

In addition, I, other Ministers and officials attended and supported a range of other events on topics relating to Every Child Matters which were organised by the Department's delivery partners. They included: a conference organised by Children Now on Meeting the Needs of Children in Residential Care; a two-day event organised by four children on Integrated Support for Children and Families; a series of regional consultation events to support the “Care Matters” Green Paper run by Government offices; a conference on National Children and Adult Services organised by the Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Social Services, and Association of Directors of Education and Children's Services; a
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conference on Safeguarding and Child Protection organised by Children Now; and a conference on Commissioning Children's Services by Barnardo's which will be held on 14 December 2006.

Representatives from my Department and Government offices also attended training events co-ordinated by the Training and Development Agency for Schools during 2006 which helped establish targeted youth support arrangements in 14 local authorities. These events involved professionals from Education Welfare, Primary Care Trusts, Police, Children's and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Youth Offending Teams.

Creationism

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what restrictions are placed on individuals who sponsor academies in respect of the promotion of intelligent design or creationism in their schools. [107782]

Jim Knight [holding answer 6 December 2006]: Academies are required by statute to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, and by their funding agreements to teach the core national curriculum subjects and for their pupils to be assessed in those subjects. They cannot therefore teach a limited curriculum or one skewed towards one subject.

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which schools are using the material provided by the organisation Truth in Science in science lessons. [107783]

Jim Knight [holding answer 6 December 2006]: Neither intelligent design nor creationism is a recognised scientific theory and they are not included in the science curriculum. The Truth in Science information pack is not therefore an appropriate resource to support the science curriculum.

The Department does not collect information on the number of schools that are using the Truth in Science materials in science lessons.

Extended Schools

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was allocated to each local education authority to support the development of extended schools (a) up to March 2006 and (b) for 2006 to 2008. [105230]

Beverley Hughes: The funding allocated to each local authority to support the development of extended schools is set out in the following table:

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Annex
	Total funding
LA	2003/04	2004-05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
Barking and Dagenham	120,500	164,000	435,088	737,345	951,069
Barnet	25,000	218,000	542,318	964,178	1,196,661
Barnsley	187,500	119,000	479,655	814,149	1,020,410
Bath and NE Somerset	0	0	482,129	734,038	818,657
Bedfordshire	0	0	726,806	1,118,420	1,424,510
Bexley	0	0	575,094	788,035	906,694
Birmingham	227,000	531,513	1,390,328	3,577,705	5,121,810
Blackburn with Darwen	187,500	416,108	417,108	654,042	838,659
Blackpool	187,500	119,000	391,922	563,887	697,065
Bolton	147,500	194,000	549,005	950,348	1,162,847
Bournemouth	0	0	457,524	662,836	725,805
Bracknell Forest	0	0	415,658	575,002	616,252
Bradford	247,940	745,302	786,236	1,789,116	2,385,752
Brent	145,500	194,000	477,936	893,125	1,178,651
Brighton and Hove	35,500	224,000	648,185	837,951	992,089
Bromley	0	188,000	573,022	1,126,564	1,439,831
Buckinghamshire	0	188,000	737,969	1,055,645	1,220,805
Bury	25,000	218,000	729,463	1,424,580	1,688,227
Calderdale	52,000	248,000	444,058	748,118	856,514
Cambridgeshire	43,500	44,000	657,636	891,595	1,072,837
Camden	120,500	426,007	855,047	1,795,249	2,231,655
Cheshire	0	188,000	382,007	579,459	795,505
City of Bristol	120,500	164,000	1,132,531	2,042,456	2,530,196
City of London	187,500	119,000	39,500	50,000	50,000
Cornwall	25,500	26,000	810,754	1,557,683	2,064,350
Coventry	27,000	218,000	757,149	1,058,563	1,327,700
Croydon	27,000	380,000	695,146	1,124,215	1,412,070
Cumbria	0	188,000	937,352	1,655,847	2,278,173
Darlington	0	188,000	352,618	524,659	620,343
Derby	0	188,000	681,653	868,604	1,071,685
Derbyshire	27,000	30,000	1,264,883	2,294,745	2,900,076
Devon	0	783,412	972,412	2,229,739	2,964,951
Doncaster	187,500	574,290	575,290	1,051,723	1,364,328
Dorset	0	0	686,496	1,239,838	1,531,576
Dudley	0	188,000	778,310	1,193,867	1,408,935
Durham	106,500	304,000	1,132,439	1,674,463	2,239,225
Ealing	212,500	149,000	509,175	968,909	1,273,348
East Riding of Yorkshire	0	461,923	650,923	1,094,792	1,424,486
East Sussex	0	188,000	889,952	1,498,094	1,830,136
Enfield	147,500	194,000	553,665	1,040,550	1,346,451
Essex	0	0	2,055,292	3,797,326	4,667,039
Gateshead	238,000	175,000	436,164	702,247	888,295
Gloucestershire	25,000	30,000	889,903	1,697,428	2,118,412
Greenwich	146,000	571,750	472,642	852,563	1,174,571
Hackney	613,160	557,160	413,160	729,689	1,012,630
Halton	479,204	414,204	385,204	536,088	677,714
Hammersmith	145,500	194,000	352,425	490,653	673,270
Hampshire	0	0	1,547,339	3,414,149	4,116,348
Haringey	233,702	700,234	459,376	857,888	1,194,133
Harrow	25,000	218,000	442,797	816,945	951,329
Hartlepool	421,484	353,484	354,484	462,891	569,451
Havering	0	0	566,232	794,191	910,709
Herefordshire	293,922	294,422	483,422	650,074	859,576
Hertfordshire	25,500	26,000	1,418,158	3,204,991	3,774,002
Hillingdon	52,000	248,000	503,022	888,381	1,084,794
Hounslow	145,500	194,000	465,181	772,498	978,727
Isle of Wight	0	188,000	375,675	555,149	678,230
Isles of Scilly	0	0	303,373	150,000	150,000
Islington	320,500	542,245	398,245	662,536	925,628
Kensington and Chelsea	120,500	164,000	311,921	387,224	494,535
Kent	135,000	338,000	2,396,257	3,995,795	4,967,897
Kingston upon Thames	0	0	524,848	939,885	1,218,110
Kingston-upon-Hull	187,500	523,848	443,406	646,577	697,885
Kirklees	25,000	406,000	790,820	1,372,545	1,738,546
Knowsley	456,863	503,863	429,863	724,828	993,519
Lambeth	347,500	294,000	421,930	790,026	1,089,192
Lancashire	104,500	868,000	1,824,687	3,531,061	4,515,291
Leeds	120,500	264,177	977,855	2,144,841	2,761,511
Leicester	212,500	813,950	560,445	1,079,113	1,407,637
Leicestershire	25,000	291,508	956,150	1,980,150	2,343,795
Lewisham	156,698	573,921	466,791	861,330	1,139,319
Lincolnshire	187,500	206,000	1,361,711	2,112,980	2,766,561
Liverpool	763,705	994,861	738,705	1,527,307	2,164,824
Luton	187,500	119,000	462,928	758,724	959,640
Manchester	684,602	728,602	684,602	1,635,156	2,421,213
Medway Towns	79,500	86,000	612,316	917,640	1,088,495
Merton	0	188,000	388,942	663,578	760,966
Middlesbrough	238,000	430,945	401,945	590,771	756,402
Milton Keynes	0	188,000	476,172	806,933	960,351
Newcastle upon Tyne	213,000	145,000	492,263	868,780	1,173,788
Newham	561,993	605,993	561,993	1,206,549	1,732,501
Norfolk	52,500	244,000	1,381,814	2,448,290	3,283,723
North East Lincolnshire	0	188,000	622,767	779,234	944,604
North Lincolnshire	27,000	30,000	487,872	623,788	787,818
North Somerset	0	0	500,566	648,309	772,058
North Tyneside	213,000	145,000	445,885	693,010	847,350
North Yorkshire	737,071	740,571	899,571	2,021,908	2,738,473
Northamptonshire	27,000	30,000	1,191,199	2,053,639	2,549,150
Northumberland	25,500	214,000	754,897	1,084,773	1,456,415
Nottingham City	174,500	612,293	508,293	956,347	1,290,071
Nottinghamshire	50,500	56,000	1,116,260	2,434,868	3,018,607
Oldham	198,000	250,000	515,398	915,033	1,168,151
Oxfordshire	0	0	879,687	1,657,520	2,057,992
Peterborough	25,000	218,000	436,698	669,867	834,687
Plymouth	52,000	248,000	698,163	953,563	1,128,931
Poole	27,000	30,000	444,203	635,125	667,190
Portsmouth	25,500	214,000	427,812	638,630	763,314
Reading	120,500	164,000	355,884	459,842	535,722
Redbridge	25,000	218,000	509,469	916,124	1,099,720
Redcar and Cleveland	187,500	119,000	413,764	601,252	773,435
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	449,250	682,745	752,169
Rochdale	145,500	608,361	488,231	836,108	1,076,381
Rotherham	187,500	119,000	547,983	971,182	1,212,822
Rutland	148,023	148,023	336,523	398,086	434,511
Salford	120,500	164,000	475,583	845,056	1,106,226
Sandwell	212,500	825,029	578,146	1,127,731	1,455,553
Sefton	213,000	145,000	553,603	959,510	1,184,746
Sheffield	174,500	224,000	751,987	1,555,418	1,977,005
Shropshire	404,890	405,390	594,390	946,177	1,253,388
Slough	172,500	224,000	371,078	491,383	585,843
Solihull	213,000	145,000	495,181	803,339	942,727
Somerset	0	0	805,298	1,495,918	1,932,778
South Gloucestershire	0	0	582,958	1,026,755	1,160,142
South Tyneside	482,366	414,366	415,366	603,531	775,162
Southampton	0	188,000	455,839	795,995	952,952
Southend-on-Sea	0	188,000	608,913	716,094	827,087
Southwark	496,514	644,514	470,514	931,518	1,296,140
St Helens	187,500	119,000	440,366	681,143	838,880
Staffordshire	27,000	30,000	1,178,327	2,537,634	3,121,417
Stockport	0	188,000	539,129	908,857	1,056,525
Stockton-on-Tees	214,500	149,000	456,063	723,166	900,828
Stoke-on-Trent	212,500	149,000	496,125	862,786	1,125,827
Suffolk	27,000	824,279	983,279	2,037,125	2,665,837
Sunderland	214,500	591,651	562,651	993,968	1,250,885
Surrey	0	0	1,238,111	2,732,066	3,142,681
Sutton	0	0	506,835	789,036	881,497
Swindon	0	0	518,554	697,933	815,212
Tameside	104,500	304,000	500,135	821,066	1,006,162
Telford and Wrekin	0	188,000	614,834	774,994	937,800
Thurrock	25,000	218,000	399,824	577,380	678,537
Torbay	0	188,000	371,535	583,668	676,349
Tower Hamlets	500,498	549,398	475,398	993,708	1,554,467
Trafford	0	188,000	667,984	886,097	1,012,145
Wakefield	0	188,000	786,716	1,203,051	1,453,835
Walsall	0	188,000	554,276	993,804	1,221,933
Waltham Forest	120,500	164,000	480,947	808,949	1,063,201
Wandsworth	187,500	119,000	419,089	705,640	927,109
Warrington	0	0	531,944	870,072	967,729
Warwickshire	25,500	26,000	827,442	1,687,088	2,052,631
West Berkshire	0	0	475,117	731,194	845,252
West Sussex	0	0	1,035,369	2,146,316	2,489,787
Westminster	120,500	164,000	362,076	537,907	736,506
Wigan	25,000	218,000	778,186	1,064,623	1,286,810
Wiltshire	0	0	750,839	1,557,099	1,959,285
Windsor and Maidenhead	0	0	440,403	604,940	660,990
Wirral	0	119,000	599,656	1,141,393	1,529,894
Wokingham	187,500	0	473,406	699,731	752,602
Wolverhampton	0	164,000	507,550	895,516	1,138,045
Worcestershire	120,500	0	852,837	1,658,211	2,002,709
York	0	0	478,553	747,225	835,751
Total	18,031,135	35,408,597	97,057,687	170,058,664	213,769,331

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