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Cadets: Armed Forces

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what funding his Department has provided to cadet forces in schools in the last three years. [201698]

Jim Knight: The Department does not provide funding for cadet forces in schools. Cadet forces in schools are funded by the Ministry of Defence.

Children in Care: Missing Persons

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in care were reported missing in each of the last 10 years. [201866]

Kevin Brennan: Information on the number of children looked after by English local authorities who were reported as missing in each of the years ending 31 March 2003 to 2007 is shown in the following table 1. Where a child was reported missing from his or her agreed placement on more than one occasion during the same year, he or she has been counted only once.

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Table 1: Children looked after who were reported missing during the years ending 31 March 2003 to 2007( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) —England
Number
	2003( 5)	2004( 6)	2005( 6)	2006( 6)	2007( 6)
Children looked after who were reported as missing from their placement(1, 2, 3, 4)	1,200	830	970	1,000	1,100
(1) Source: SSDA903 return on children looked after. (2) Children looked after at any time during the year ending 31 March. (3) Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. (4) A child is recorded with a missing placement if he/she is absent for more than 24 hours from his/her agreed placement. Children who are missing from care are categorised in three types of missing placements: (a) In Refuge for children at risk, as defined in Section 51 of Children Act 1989, (b) Whereabouts of young people known to social services (but not in refuge) excluding agreed absences from placement such as holidays or planned breaks, (c) Whereabouts unknown. (5) Figures are taken from the SSDA903 one-third sample survey. (6) Figures are taken from the SSDA903 return which since 2004 covered all looked after children. (7) Historical figures may differ from older publications. This is mainly due to the implementation of amendments and corrections sent by some local authorities after the publication date of previous materials. (8) To maintain the confidentiality of each individual child, data at national level are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 or to the nearest 10 otherwise.

Children: Day Care

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of child care (a) places and (b) providers were (i) maintained, (ii) private, (iii) voluntary and (iv) independent in (A) Basingstoke constituency, (B) Hampshire and (C) England at the latest date for which figures are available. [200553]

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 tables show the number of providers and places registered with Ofsted at 31 March 2007 for Hampshire local authority and England.

Table 1: Number of registered child care providers and places in Hampshire, position at 31 March 2007
	Child minders	Full day care	Out of school day care
Providers	2,500	300	200
Places	12,000	14,200	9,600
Notes: 1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. 2. Excludes the number of child care places in sessional day care and creche day care. Source: Ofsted

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Table 2 : Number of registered child care providers and places in England , position at 31 March 2007
	Child minders	Full day care	Out of school day care
Providers	69,900	13,800	10,600
Places	317,700	598,700	365,400
Notes: 1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. 2. Excludes the number of child care places in sessional day care and creche day care. Source: Ofsted

Data from the 2006 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey on the number and proportion of child care places in England by the type of ownership are shown in the following table. Data are not available at a local authority level.

Table 3: Number of Ofsted registered places in England, by ownership, 2006
	Full day care	Full day care in children’s centres	Sessional	After school clubs	Holiday clubs
Private, voluntary and independent (Number)	477,900	14,300	265,700	200,500	181,200
Private	379,400	7,000	83,000	90,100	97,500
Voluntary	99,700	7,400	183,500	110,700	83,600
Maintained	54,300	21,900	12,800	56,300	71,200
Local authority	30,600	18,800	9,600	31,400	56,700
School/college	24,000	3,300	3,200	25,300	14,500
Other	14,500	1,700	700	3,500	12,400
Private, voluntary and independent (Percentage)	88	(1)40	95	77	69
Private	70	19	30	35	37
Voluntary	18	(1)20	66	43	32
Maintained	10	58	5	22	27
Local authority	6	50	3	12	21
School/college	4	(1)9	1	10	5
Other	3	(1)4	<0.5	1	5
(1) Low base size, figures should be treated as an indicative guide only.

The following table shows the number and proportion of child care providers in England by the type of ownership, from the 2006 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey. Data are not available at a local authority level.

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Table 4: Ownership of child care providers in England, 2006
	Full day care	Full day care in children’s centres	Sessional	After school clubs	Holiday clubs
Private, voluntary or independent (Number)	11,300	550	9,300	5,900	4,600
Private	8,300	400	2,700	3,400	2,300
Voluntary	3,000	150	6,600	2,500	2,300
Maintained	1,300	200	400	1,600	1,500
Local authority	700	150	300	800	1,200
School/college	600	50	100	800	300
Other	300	50	(1)—	100	300
Private, voluntary or independent (Percentage)	89	36	96	77	72
Private	65	17	27	33	36
Voluntary	24	20	68	44	36
Maintained	10	57	5	22	25
Local authority	5	50	4	11	19
School/college	5	8	1	11	5
Other	2	6	<0.5	1	4
(1) Fewer than 50 providers; data have not been included due to too small a base size.

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of paid childcare staff in those settings for which his Department has responsibility were dismissed from employment in each year since 1997. [201907]

Beverley Hughes: Information on the dismissal from employment of paid child care staff is not collected or held centrally by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

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