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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent by his Department on newspapers and magazines in the last 12 months. [153258]
Kevin Brennan: Newspaper and magazine purchase is recorded under the general heading of Books and Newspapers.
Details of expenditure on books, newspapers and magazines incurred by the Department over the last financial year are as follows;
2006-07: £166,000
Departments: Public Transport
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what incentives he has considered to encourage staff in his Department to use public transport. [148794]
Kevin Brennan:
The main incentive the Department offers are interest-free loans for season tickets for travel to work. Use of public transport is encouraged by departmental policies including limited car parking, free cycle parking with showers available for staff to
use before starting work, flexible working, using public transport during the course of travel and making use of travel websites and information services, such as Transport Direct. Staff are also informed about local transport initiatives and promotions. Where the location or nature of the work makes public transport use impractical for staff, car sharing and the use of low emission vehicles is encouraged.
Departments: Redundancy Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent by his Department on redundancy payments in the last 12 months. [153253]
Kevin Brennan: There have been no compulsory redundancies in the period.
Departments: Training
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent by his Department on staff away days in the last 12 months. [153254]
Kevin Brennan: The information is not held centrally in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The Department is committed to develop staff to reach their full potential and believe that staff away days and team building exercises are beneficial in helping them achieve that.
Departments: Tribunals
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent by his Department on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months. [153256]
Kevin Brennan: In the 2006-07 financial year my Department spent £46,691 on legal fees in defending employment tribunal cases.
Education: Hearing Impaired
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what estimate he has made of the amount spent on the education of deaf children in Norfolk in each of the last five years; [150867]
(2) if he will assess the effectiveness of the process for (a) the education of deaf children and (b) the appeal process against allocation decisions. [150868]
Jim Knight: The Department does not collect information on the amount spent on the education of particular groups of pupils with special educational needs (SEN). However, the following table shows information relating to budgeted expenditure on the education of children with special educational needs in Norfolk since 2003-04:
| £ | |
| 1 Provisional Source: Section 52 statements | |
We do not make a separate assessment of the effectiveness of the education of deaf children. All pupils both with and without SEN are assessed at the end of key stages of learning and pupils with a statement of SEN have their needs reviewed annually. The statutory framework and the SEN code of practice should ensure that all children with special needs have those needs identified and assessed and receive appropriate support. We are currently in discussion with deaf and hearing impairment organisations about school attainment data for this group of pupils.
We have no plans to review the effectiveness of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST), which provides an independent and impartial appeal process against local authority decisions about the education of children with hearing impairments and other special educational needs. In the tribunal year 2005-06 the tribunal decided 31 cases in which hearing impairment was identified as the children's primary difficulty. The tribunal upheld 20 of 26 cases relating to school placement.
Under part 4 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), schools must not discriminate against prospective disabled pupils in their admissions arrangements and should make reasonable adjustments to their admissions policies and procedures so that prospective disabled pupils are not disadvantaged by the school's admission arrangements. If a child is refused entry for other reasons, such as the school being full, then they have the same right to appeal as other children.
Local education appeals panels consider claims of discrimination in relation to admissions to, and permanent exclusions from, local authority maintained schools. SENDIST hears other claims about schools under the DDA.
Education: Voucher Schemes
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether he has made an analysis of the potential use of school vouchers in the primary and secondary school system; and if he will make a statement. [154613]
Jim Knight: The Government have not made any analysis of the potential use of school vouchers in the primary and secondary school system.
European Indicators Project
Ms Gisela Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations; [154220]
(2) what steps the Government are taking to ensure that the work under way in the UK in relation to language and social inclusion through the Asset languages programme and UK Languages Ladder initiative (a) is better known across the European Union and (b) is taken into consideration as arrangements are made to operationalise the European Indicators Project as agreed by the Council of Ministers in Barcelona (2002). [154196]
Jim Knight: The European Indicators Project is going through a competitive tender process, and any official body or UK assessment organisation could have submitted a bid on their own or as part of a consortium. We would expect that whoever wins the tender would work with appropriate organisations with relevant expertise as they develop the project.
The Languages Ladder/Asset languages scheme offers assessment in 25 languages, including a wide range of community languages. The Languages Ladder levels have been mapped against the Common European Framework.
The National Director for Languages and the Project Director for the Languages Ladder have made presentations at both Council of Europe and European Union events, promoting the Languages Ladder/Asset languages scheme, and will continue to do so. Cambridge ESOL—who have developed Asset languages qualifications with OCR as part of Cambridge Assessment—are members of the Association of Languages Testers in Europe and have made formal presentations on Asset languages at international conferences. The Languages Ladder and Asset languages also featured as an example of good practice in the VALEUR (Valuing All Languages in Europe) project which looked at language diversity in Europe and opportunities to gain qualifications in community languages.
Free School Meals
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of pupils were entitled to free school meals in each local education authority in 2006-07, ranked from highest to lowest; and if he will make a statement. [152142]
Jim Knight: Information on percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals in each local authority, ranked highest to lowest, in 2006-07 is shown in the following tables.
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