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Maintained secondary schools | |||||
Number on roll | Number of pupils taking free school meals( 3) | Percentage taking free school meals | Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals | Percentage known to be eligible for free school meals | |
(1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Includes boarders and dually registered pupils. (3) Number of pupils who took a free school meal oh the day of the census in January. Note: National totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and totals as shown. Source: School Census |
Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will have discussions with colleagues in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to consider what steps can be taken to prevent use of the internet as a vehicle for bullying. [160224]
Kevin Brennan: The Government are committed to finding further actions which can improve the situation. The Department has launched an awareness campaign and issued guidance to schools, and we are in dialogue with industry to find the best way forward. In relation to all matters concerning the internet, we work closely with colleagues in other Departments, including the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what education is given to pupils about road safety; and if he will make a statement. [159263]
Jim Knight: The Department's Safety Education: Guidance for schools advises how schools can deliver safety education, which would include road safety education, within the framework of personal, social and health education. It also highlights how other parts of the national curriculum can be used to develop children's ability to assess and control risks to themselves and others.
The secondary school curriculum has been reviewed this year by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. The revised curriculum, to be phased in from September 2008, includes new programmes of study for personal social health and economic education. There is scope to cover road safety through the key concept of risk where pupils are taught that the
ability to recognise, assess and manage risk is essential to physical safety.
It is for schools to determine how road safety education is provided to their pupils.
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) competition managers and (b) sports co-ordinators for schools have been appointed; and what proportion of schools are in a school sport partnership. [159455]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 19 October 2007 ]: 71 competition managers have been appointed. There are 3,602 sports co-ordinators in place. All maintained schools in England are part of a school sport partnership.
Mr. Lancaster:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what factors affected the decision (a) to include pupils who have been
relocated through managed moves to new schools in the new schools performance statistics and (b) not to include in those statistics those pupils permanently excluded. [160080]
Jim Knight [holding answer 22 October 2007]: The excluded pupils' policy, in the achievement and attainment tables, was put in place to ensure schools that admitted pupils excluded from a maintained school were not penalised for doing so.
Under this policy, the admitting school can request to have excluded pupils removed from the school's number on roll. Results for the excluded pupil will still count in the school's performance figures provided the pupil was permanently excluded from another maintained school. This ensures that the admitting school's performance results are not adversely affected by taking on an excluded pupil.
Managed moves can be a good way of dealing with pupils who are at risk of exclusion, and offering them a fresh start, without going through the formal exclusion process. As they have not been formally excluded no special consideration is given to the counting of these pupils in a school's results. Pupils who move schools as a result of managed moves are attributed to the school where they were on roll at the time of the January School Census.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding was allocated to special needs provision in each county in the East of England in each year since 1997. [159214]
Kevin Brennan: The requested information is contained in the following table.
Budgeted net expenditure on the provision of education for children with special educational needs( 1,2) in the East of England Government office region (GOR): 2000-01 to 2007-08( 3) | ||||
£ | ||||
Budgeted net expenditure on the education of children with special educational needs( 1,)( )( 2) | ||||
Local authority name | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
£ | ||||
Budgeted net expenditure on the education of children with special educational needs( 1,)( )( 2) | ||||
Local authority name | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08( 3) |
(1) Includes planned expenditure on the provision for pupils with statements and the provision for non-statemented pupils with SEN, support for inclusion, inter authority recoupment, fees for pupils at independent special schools and abroad, educational psychology service, local authority functions in relation to child protection, therapies and other health related services, parent partnership, guidance and information, the monitoring of SEN provision and inclusion administration, assessment and co-ordination. Also included is the funding delegated to nursery, primary and secondary schools identified as notional SEN and the individual schools budget (ISB) for special schools. (2) The ISB for special schools will include some general education costs for pupils with SEN in addition to those costs specifically for SEN while the figures recorded against notional SEN are only indicative of the amount that might by spent by schools on SEN and, from 2004-05 onwards, notional SEN delegated to nursery schools was reported on section 52 for the first time (nursery schools notional SEN accounts for £687,000, £885,000, £1,018,000 and £1,045,000 of the respective 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 East of England totals). In 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 local authorities in the East of England also budgeted £55.8 million, £58.4 million and £60.1 million for SEN transport expenditure but this is not included in the above table as figures are not available prior to 2005-06. (3) 2007-08 data are subject to change by the local authority. Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand pounds and may not sum due to rounding. 2. Cash terms figures (see note 1) as reported by local authorities as at 16 October 2007. 3. The data are drawn from local authorities Section 52 Budget Statements (tables 1 and 2) submitted to the DFES. Data are not available prior to 2000-01. |
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many youth projects in each London constituency received central Government funding in each of the last five years; and how much was allocated to youth projects in London in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency. [158843]
Kevin Brennan: The Department for Children, Schools and Families does not hold information relating to volumes of projects or financial information relating to constituencies. The following tables show London borough allocations from 2003-04 for centrally managed programmes which fund youth projects in the local areas. These are Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) holiday provision, the Neighbourhood Support Fund allocations from 2006-07 (prior to this NSF was administered by managing agents and the LA breakdown is not known), and from 2006-07 the new Youth Opportunity and Youth Capital Funds (YOF/YCF).
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