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Music: Education
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of his Department’s progress towards achieving the five aims of the music manifesto. [196195]
Jim Knight:
The 2007 survey of music services estimated that 50 per cent. of Key Stage 2 pupils will be given an opportunity to learn a musical instrument, compared to 22 per cent. in 2006/07. To support the development of a world class workforce we contracted Open University and Trinity College to develop a training programme for classroom teachers and other
professionals involved in music education. Over 1,000 people have so far enrolled in that training.
The Music Manifesto published a report “Making Every Child’s Music Matter” in October 2006. This report took stock of how music education in England had progressed since the launch of the Manifesto and made recommendations for further action by the Government and others involved in music education. In response to the recommendations in January 2007 we announced £10 million for a National Singing Programme. In November 2007 we confirmed a major new package of activity continuing funding for Sing Up (£10 million in each of the next three years) and a total investment in music education of £332 million over the next three years. Details of this can be found in the department’s press release at:
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much each local authority has spent on educational music services in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [196428]
Jim Knight: The available information on music services funding has been placed in the House Library.
Pupil Referral Units
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils aged under 11 years were in pupil referral units in each year since 1997. [197613]
Jim Knight: The requested information is shown in the following table:
| Pupil referral units: Number (headcount) of pupils aged less than 11, position in January each year1997 to 2007, England | ||
| Solely registered pupils and pupils registered with other providers | Pupils registered in more than one school | |
| Source: School Census. | ||
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average public expenditure per pupil on education for each age of pupil was in each (a) region and (b) London borough in each of the last 10 years. [196655]
Jim Knight: The Department is unable to answer the question in the way it has been asked. However, the available information on school based expenditure per pupil by local authority maintained primary and secondary schools in England from 1997-98 to 2006-07 has been placed in the House Library.
Pupils: Personal Records
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many individuals have been allocated a unique pupil number (UPN); and whether data held on each pupil via the UPN record are deleted from the database when the child leaves education. [193860]
Jim Knight: The number of pupils who have been allocated a unique pupil number (UPN) to date since their inception is not available. The UPN number itself bares no resemblance to the number of UPNs issued. They are based on the local authority number, the school establishment number and a set of randomly generated numbers. UPNs were first introduced in the autumn term of 1999 and cover the maintained schools sector in England.
It was agreed with the Data protection Registrar when the UPN was designed that it would lapse when pupils completed their statutory phase of education. With this in mind, the current policy is that the national pupil database holds the UPN and associated pupil details until that point. After the pupil leaves maintained education the record is retained to enable lifelong learning analyses, but the UPN is removed.
Reading: Teaching Methods
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local education authorities participated in the (a) initial and (b) subsequent pilot using synthetic phonics to teach children to read. [197679]
Jim Knight: The Early Reading Development pilot (ERDp) ran in 18 local authorities during 2005/06.
The local authorities involved in this pilot were:
Barnsley
Cheshire
Coventry
Hertfordshire
Islington
Leeds
Liverpool
Luton
Manchester
Medway
Nottingham City
Peterborough
Redcar and Cleveland
Stoke-on-Trent
Tameside
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wiltshire.
In 2006/07, the Communication, Language and Literacy Development (CLLD) programme was developed, implementing the recommendations from the Rose Review. 32 further local authorities participated in the programme (in addition to the 18 local authorities who had been involved in the ERDp):
Bath and North East Somerset
Birmingham
Blackburn with Darwen
Bury
Dorset
Ealing
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Hartlepool
Kent
Kingston-upon-Hull
Knowsley
Lambeth
Lewisham
Middlesbrough
North Tyneside
Oldham
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Shropshire
Southampton
Southwark
Surrey
Swindon
Thurrock
Torbay.
From April 2008, a further 50 local authorities will join the CLLD programme:
Barking and Dagenham
Bolton
Bradford
Brent
Bristol, City of
Calderdale
Camden
Cornwall
Croydon
Cumbria
Derby
Derbyshire
Doncaster
Dudley
Durham
Enfield
Gateshead
Halton
Hampshire
Hounslow
Kirklees
Lancashire
Leicester
Lincolnshire
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newham
Norfolk
North East Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Plymouth
Rochdale
Rotherham
Salford
South Tyneside
St. Helens
Staffordshire
Stockport
Stockton-on-Tees
Suffolk
Sunderland
Wakefield
Walsall
Wandsworth
Westminster
Wigan
Wirrall
Wolverhampton
Worcestershire.
School Improvement Partners
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) who is responsible for (a) employing and (b) setting the salary of school improvement partners; [197089]
(2) what advice he has given to (a) schools and (b) local education authorities on the starting salaries for school improvement partners; [197090]
(3) what estimate he has made of the number of hours worked by school improvement partners in each local education authority in the last 12 months; [197091]
(4) what advice he has given to schools on the employment, recruitment and retention of school improvement partners; [197092]
(5) what the total cost was to each local education authority of school improvement partners in the last 12 months; [197093]
(6) how many school improvement partners were employed in each local education authority at the latest date for which figures are available; and what the cost was in the latest period for which figures are available; [197094]
(7) what estimate he has made of the average salaries of school improvement partners in each local education authority in the latest period for which figures are available. [197145]
Jim Knight: The information is as follows.
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