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Children in Care

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

All children looked after at 31 March 2007

60,000

11,800

8,300

8,800

19,300

11,800

(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.

Children: Counselling

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 Department’s Peer Mentoring programme has been placed in the Library. This programme is managed on behalf of the Department by the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.


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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:

The pilots are being evaluated against these outcomes.


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Children: Day Care

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

England

68,200

9,600

11,600

8,000

1,900

99,300

72,400

11,000

11,300

9,200

2,200

East of England

8,100

900

1,700

800

100

11,500

8,700

1,000

1,700

900

300

East Midlands

5,700

800

1,100

600

200

8,300

6,000

900

1,100

700

200

London

10,200

1,500

1,200

1,100

300

14,300

11,700

1,700

1,200

1,300

300

Inner London

Outer London

North East and Yorkshire

9,600

1,200

1,300

1,100

400

13,600

10,100

1,400

1,200

1,200

500

North East

Yorkshire and the Humber

North West England

8,200

1,300

1,300

1,300

200

12,400

8,700

1,500

1,300

1,600

300

South East England

12,900

1,700

2,300

1,200

300

18,400

13,700

2,000

2,300

1,300

300

South West England

6,900

1,100

1,700

800

200

10,600

6,800

1,300

1,600

900

200

West Midlands

6,600

1,200

1,100

1,100

200

10,200

6,800

1,300

1,000

1,300

200



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200 5 200 6
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

England

70,200

12,100

10,200

9,700

2,500

104,700

71,600

13,100

9,700

10,500

2,700

East of England

8,400

1,100

1,600

900

300

12,300

8,500

1,200

1,500

1,000

400

East Midlands

5,800

900

1,000

700

200

8,600

5,900

1,000

1,000

700

200

London

11,400

1,800

1,100

1,400

300

16,100

Inner London

3,600

900

300

700

200

Outer London

8,200

1,000

700

900

200

North East and Yorkshire

10,100

1,600

1,100

1,200

500

14,500

North East

3,600

500

300

400

300

Yorkshire and the Humber

6,800

1,200

700

1,000

300

North West England

8,200

1,600

1,100

1,700

400

13,000

8,300

1,800

1,000

1,800

400

South East England

13,400

2,100

2,200

1,400

400

19,500

13,800

2,300

2,000

1,600

400

South West England

6,500

1,400

1,400

1,000

200

10,500

6,700

1,500

1,300

1,100

200

West Midlands

6,400

1,500

900

1,200

200

10,200

6,200

1,600

800

1,300

300


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