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John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children were in care at the latest date for which figures are available in the age groups (a) 0 to five, (b) five to nine, (c) nine to 12 and (d) 12 to 16 years. [174305]
Kevin Brennan: The information is provided in table 1 as follows.
Table 1: children looked after at 31 March 2007 by age at 31 March( 1,2,3) | ||||||
Numbers | ||||||
Age at 31 March 2007 (years) | ||||||
All ages | 0 to 4 | 5 to 8 | 9 to 11 | 12 to 15 | 16 and over | |
(1) Source: SSDA903 return on children looked after. (2) Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. (3) To ensure that no individual can be identified from statistical tables, we use conventions for the rounding and suppression of very small numbers. All numbers which appear in national tables have been rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. Numbers from 1 to 5 inclusive have been suppressed, being replaced in the table by a hyphen (-). It has been necessary to suppress other figures whenever it would be possible to calculate the value of a suppressed number by a means of simple arithmetic. The rule applied in these circumstances has been to suppress the next smallest data item provided its value is strictly less than 20. |
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools are participating in the peer mentoring and befriending scheme; and what criteria are being used to assess the effectiveness of this scheme. [173835]
Kevin Brennan: A list of schools who are participating in the Departments Peer Mentoring programme has been placed in the Library. This programme is managed on behalf of the Department by the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.
Since 2006, the Department has been evaluating the impact of the Peer Mentoring programme through pilot projects in 180 schools. This two-year evaluation has been externally commissioned. Each school taking part in the pilot chose an outcome for their project, from the following list:
Improved academic performance or attainment;
Improved behaviour;
Improved attendance; and
Reductions in bullying.
The pilots are being evaluated against these outcomes.
Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of child care providers were registered with Ofsted in each region in each year since 1997. [174727]
Beverley Hughes: The information is not available in the form requested.
Since 2003 Ofsted has been responsible for the registration and inspection of child care providers. The table shows the number of providers registered with Ofsted each year.
Number ( 1,2) of registered child care providers for children under 8 years of age by type of care Government o ffice r egion in England Position as at 31 March each year: 2003-07 | |||||||||||
2003 | 2004 | ||||||||||
Childminders | Full day care | Sessional day care | Out of school day care | Creche day care | All | Childminders | Full day care | Sessional day care | Out of school day care | Creche day care | |
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