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Children, Schools and Families
Academies
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether his Department will publish the 10 Downing Street Delivery Unit report on academies; and if he will make a statement. [166468]
Jim Knight: I refer the hon. Member to my reply to his questions 165167, 165168 and 165169 on 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 624W.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) whether he plans to make a statement on the conclusions of the Delivery Unit Report on academies; [169832]
(2) if he will list the (a) officials, (b) special advisers and (c) Ministers who attended the Academies Seminar on 1 November 2007. [169833]
Jim Knight: I refer the hon. Member to my reply to his questions 165167, 165168 and 165169 on 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 624W. No special advisers attended the seminar referred to.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will publish the outcome of the review of academies which concluded on 4 January 2008. [177827]
Jim Knight: I refer the hon. Member to my reply to his questions 165167, 165168 and 165169 on 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 624W.
Academies: Curriculum
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many academies do not follow national curriculum programmes of study in (a) English, (b) mathematics, (c) science and (d) ICT; and if he will make a statement. [172106]
Jim Knight: The Department does not collect the information requested.
Academies: Finance
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding was contributed to the academy programme by (a) companies and (b) other bodies, including non-profit-making organisations, in each year since the inception of the programme. [178993]
Jim Knight: Information on sponsors’ contributions received to date towards academies’ capital costs is given in the following table. In noting the contributions, which are made to academy trusts, the Department does not differentiate between those made by companies and those made by named individuals or other types of organisations, because evidence received from trusts does not identify the sponsor involved and many academies have more than one sponsor.
There may be some payments that have been made but are not recorded in the table as the relevant trusts have yet to submit evidence to the Department that sponsorship has been paid and used to meet capital costs.
We have now changed the sponsorship model and sponsors will now, in most cases, establish an endowment fund rather than contributing to capital costs. Detailed monitoring of such contributions will commence at the end of February 2008, in respect of contributions made in the first half of the 2007-08 academic year.
Academies may also receive other donations apart from sponsorship. The Department does not collect details of these, but they are recorded in academies’ published accounts.
| Confirmed capital contribution from sponsors (£000) | |
Academies: Fire Extinguishers
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will make it a requirement for academy schools to be fitted with fire sprinkler systems in accordance with the guidance in Building Bulletin 100: Design for Fire Safety in Schools; and if he will make a statement. [179284]
Jim Knight:
It is our expectation that all academies will now be designed to incorporate sprinklers. This is not a compulsory measure, but to demonstrate that sprinklers are not needed, the academy trust will need to be able to demonstrate that its buildings are low risk and that incorporation of sprinklers would not represent good value for money. For academies in the
Building Schools for the Future programme the decision to install sprinklers will be shared between the academy trust and the relevant local authority.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many academy schools have been fitted with fire sprinkler systems in accordance with the guidance in Building Bulletin 100: Design for Fire Safety in Schools. [179285]
Jim Knight: This information is not immediately available to the Department. However, we intend to gather the information and once this exercise is complete, I will write to the hon. Member.
Academies: Free School Meals
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in which academies the proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals is (a) higher and (b) lower than the corresponding proportion in the local school catchment area; and if he will make a statement. [176723]
Jim Knight: The annual School Census for January 2007 shows that of the 46 academies then open, 10—including four former city technology colleges (CTCs)—had a lower proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals than the proportion living in the local authority area:
St Paul's Academy, Greenwich;
Burlington Danes Academy, Hammersmith and Fulham;
Habedashers’ Aske's Hatcham Academy (former CTC);
Sandwell Academy, Sandwell;
Walsall Academy, Walsall;
Salford City Academy, Salford;
Dixons City Academy (former CTC), Bradford;
The Kings Academy, Middlesbrough;
Macmillan Academy (former CTC), Middlesbrough; and
Landau Forte College (former CTC), Derby.
The 36 academies with a higher proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals than the proportion living in the local authority area are
Mossbourne Community Academy, Hackney;
Petchey Academy, Hackney;
Lambeth Academy, Lambeth;
Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights Academy, Lewisham;
City of London Academy, Southwark;
the Academy at Peckham, Southwark;
Harris Academy, Bermondsey, Southwark;
Harris Girls’ Academy, East Dulwich, Southwark;
Paddington Academy, Westminster;
Westminster Academy, Westminster;
London Academy, Barnet;
Business Academy, Bexley;
Capital City Academy, Brent;
West London Academy, Ealing;
Greig City Academy, Haringey;
Stockley Academy, Hillingdon;
Harefield Academy, Hiliingdon;
Harris Academy, Merton;
St Mark's Church of England Academy, Merton;
Walthamstow Academy; Waltham Forest;
Grace Academy, Solihull;
the Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool;
North Liverpool Academy, Liverpool;
Manchester Academy, Manchester;
Barnsley Academy, Barnsley;
Trinity Academy, Doncaster;
Sheffield Park Academy, Sheffield;
Sheffield Springs Academy, Sheffield;
David Young Community Academy, Leeds;
the City Academy Bristol, City of Bristol;
Unity City Academy, Middlesbrough;
John Madejski Academy, Reading;
Gateway Academy, Thurrock;
Marlowe Academy, Kent;
Djanogly City Academy, City of Nottingham; and
Northampton Academy, Northamptonshire.
Details of the number and proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals in each academy and their local authorities are given in the following table.
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