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Table C: Unauthorised absence in academies
Academy Year opened 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

The Business Academy, Bexley

2002

2.0

1.0

0.7

1.1

Greig City Academy, Haringey

2002

5.1

1.9

1.4

0.6

Unity City Academy, Middlesbrough

2002

2.0

2.8

6.2

6.1

The Academy at Peckham

2003

n/a

3.6

2.8

1.9

Capital City Academy, Brent

2003

n/a

5.9

6.5

1.1

The West London Academy, Ealing

2003

n/a

2.6

2.0

0.7

Manchester Academy

2003

n/a

4.2

2.5

1.5

The City Academy, Bristol

2003

n/a

0.2

0.4

1.1

The Kings Academy, Middlesbrough

2003

n/a

8,2

7.3

5.7

The Walsall City Academy

2003

n/a

0.3

0.8

0.7

Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham

2003

n/a

1.4

1.7

1.6

London Academy, Barnet

2004

n/a

n/a

0.5

0.5

City of London Southwark Academy

2004

n/a

n/a

1.2

1.2

Lambeth Academy

2004

n/a

n/a

2.4

1.2

Stockley Academy, Hillingdon

2004

n/a

n/a

3.9

4.3

Northampton Academy

2004

n/a

n/a

3.2

2.8

Mossbourne Community Academy, Hackney

2004

n/a

n/a

0.2

0,2

St Paul's Academy, Greenwich

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

0.8

Haberdashers’ Knights Academy, Lewisham

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

2.3

Harefield Academy, Hillingdon

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

1.4

The Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

3.1

Salford City Academy

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

2.3

Trinity Academy, Doncaster

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

4.3

Marlowe Academy, Kent

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

(1)—

Dixons City Academy, Bradford(2)

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

(3)—

Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Academy, Lewisham(2)

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

0.5

Macmillan Academy, Middlesbrough(2)

2005

n/a

n/a

n/a

(3)—

(1) No information received. (2) Former City Technology Colleges that have converted to Academy status. (3) Percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence is less than 0.1 per cent. Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables.

Care Proceedings

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the proposals contained in the public law outline on (a) the time taken to complete and (b) the costs of cases coming to court. [149701]

Bridget Prentice: I have been asked to reply.

The judiciary are currently seeking views on a revised public law outline, designed to reduce unnecessary delay by providing a more streamlined case management process for public law care cases. The current six case management stages, within the existing case management protocol are reduced to four. The public law outline proposals take forward a key recommendation contained in the “Review of the Child Care Proceedings System in England and Wales”, commissioned jointly by the former Department for Constitutional Affairs and the former Department for Education and Skills and published in May 2006. The review’s recommendations are intended to achieve better outcomes for children, as well as helping to ensure that resources across the family justice system are used to best effect. Reduction in unnecessary delay together with an increased emphasis on pre-proceedings preparation should contribute to a containment of costs.


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Children: Obesity

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children have been placed on child protection registers due to obesity concerns. [150362]

Beverley Hughes: The information is not available in the form requested.

The latest figures on the numbers and percentage of children subject to child protection plans or placed on the child protection register were published in a statistical first release 045/2006 “Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People on Child Protection Registers, England—Year ending 31 March 2006” on 16 November 2006. A copy of this release is available on my Department’s website:

The ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children: Every Child Matters’ guidance published in 2006 by the Government sets out the clear processes to be followed by agencies if there are concerns about a child’s welfare. A copy of this document is available from the Library.

Climate Change: Curriculum

Dan Norris: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what resources have been provided to primary and secondary schools by his Department to ensure improved teaching of issues relating to climate change; and what future such resourcing is planned. [149906]

Jim Knight: In May 2007, DCSF and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs sent a climate change pack to every secondary school in England. The online teacher guidance accompanying the pack provided material to support the teaching of climate change in geography, science and citizenship. DCSF has also funded a carbon detective kit for pupils aged seven to 14 to help them investigate the sustainability performance of their own school www.carbondetectives.org.uk. The pack and detective kit are part of the wider DCSF sustainable schools programme, which aims to embed sustainability in the curriculum, how schools operate (e.g. reducing energy and water usage) and in their work with the local community:

As part of the action plan for geography launched in March 2006, teaching resources are being developed for the new secondary curriculum to be taught in schools from September 2008, and they include modules on climate change. This work will be linked to wider guidance being developed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to support the implementation of the new curriculum.

In addition to work being supported by DCSF, DEFRA has sponsored a number of projects aimed at raising awareness of climate change through the climate challenge fund. Seventeen out of the 83 projects have schools as their main audience or have specifically targeted aspects of their project. These
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projects include a wide variety of resources from online tools, workshops for teachers, DVDs, peer to peer education and touring exhibitions:

In the autumn, DCSF will make a sustainable schools teacher resource pack available that will include materials on climate change.

Departments: Legislation

Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what legislative provisions introduced by his Department’s predecessor since 1997 have not yet been brought into force. [149564]

Jim Knight: The information requested is as follows:

DCSF Acts still to be implemented in England

School Standards and Framework Act 1998

Section 128 (substitutes new section 18 of Education Act 1996 re financial assistance to non-maintained schools)

Education Act 2002
Sections

8-10

Exemptions for schools which meet performance criteria

31

Control of school premises

201

Provisions relating to free school lunches/milk for children in funded nursery education outside the maintained school setting


Childcare Act 2006
Sections

2-5

Improvement of young children's well-being

6-10

Child care

17

Charges

32-38

Child care registers and regulation of early years provision

40, 47-51

Early years foundation stage

52-61

Regulation of later years provision for children under eight

65, 76

Voluntary registrations

80, 81

Reports and information

95

Certain institutions not to be regarded as schools

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