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Surveillance: Local Authorities
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on whether local authorities should use directed surveillance powers to monitor dog fouling; and if she will make a statement. [225632]
Mr. Coaker: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (‘RIPA’) requires that the use of any covert investigatory techniques must be necessary and proportionate to what the relevant public authority seeks to achieve. It is a matter for each authority to determine what is proportionate in the circumstances. All authorisations must on request be made available for scrutiny to the independent Commissioners established under RIPA. In the case of local authorities’ use of directed surveillance, oversight is undertaken by the Office of Surveillance Commissioners.
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will instruct the Office of Surveillance Commissioners to assess whether surveillance powers have been used by local authorities to generate income from fines. [225633]
Mr. Coaker: The Office of Surveillance Commissioners was established by statute to provide independent oversight of public authorities using covert investigatory powers. It is not appropriate for Ministers to issue instructions to the Office of Surveillance Commissioners. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 local authorities may use directed surveillance for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime or disorder providing it is necessary and proportionate for them to do so.
Surveillance: Telecommunications
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests by law enforcement agencies were made to telephone and internet companies for details of calls or internet use in each year since 2001. [225871]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 13 October 2008]: The information is not held centrally.
Children, Schools and Families
Child Minding
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2008, Official Report, column 949W, on children: day care, (1) how many and what proportion of daycare settings in the (a) 10 per cent. most deprived, (b) 10 per cent. least deprived, (c) five per cent. most deprived and (d) five per cent. least deprived local authority area were awarded ratings of inadequate following an Ofsted inspection in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08; [223712]
(2) how many and what proportion of childminders were deemed inadequate by Ofsted in the (a) 10 per cent. most deprived and (b) 10 per cent. least deprived local authority areas in each year since such inspections began; [223745]
(3) how many and what proportion of childminders were deemed inadequate by Ofsted in each region in each year since such inspections began; [223746]
(4) how many registered childminders there were in the (a) 10 per cent. most deprived and (b) 10 per cent. least deprived local authority areas in each quarter of the last three years. [223748]
Beverley Hughes: These are matters for Ofsted. The Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, will write to the hon. Member and copies of her replies will be placed in the Library.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 23 September 2008:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, for a response.
Our source for identifying the 5% and 10% most and least deprived local authorities is the Government’s “Indices of Deprivation 2007” (an index published once every three years), as taken from the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government (www.communities.gov.uk)
I should alert you to some potential confusion with the figures. In order to capture all inadequate ratings following an Ofsted inspection, the data provided give the number and proportion of providers that were inadequate at any time during that period. Since a provider may receive a re-inspection and no longer be inadequate by the end of the year, these figures do not reflect our other publications which only capture the most recent inspection of a provider. This information is presented in Table A.
A copy of this reply has been sent to Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
| Table A: Inspection data for day care providers between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2008 | ||||
| Inspections between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2006 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total day care at 1 April 2006 | Total inspected 2005/06 | Total inspected 2005/06 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2005/06 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2006 and 31 March 2007 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total day care at 1 April 2007 | Total inspected 2006/07 | Total inspected 2006/07 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2006/07 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total day care at 1 April 2008 | Total inspected 2007/08 | Total inspected 2007/08 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2007/08 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2006 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total day care at 1 April 2004/06 | Total inspected 2005/06 | Total inspected 2005/06 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2005/06 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2006 and 31 March 2007 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total day care at 1 April 2007 | Total inspected 2006/07 | Total inspected 2006/07 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2006/07 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008. | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total day care at 1 April 2008 | Total inspected 2007/08 | Total inspected 2007/08 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2007/08 (%) |
| Notes: 1. All inspection data taken from the Regulatory Support Application (RSA) database as it was at 1 April 2008. Active provider data taken from the RSA database as it was at 6 April 2006, 30 March 2007 and 1 April 2008 respectively. LA deprivation level based on Indices of Deprivation 2007 on the government communities website (www.communities.gov.uk).The majority of the data underpinning the Indices of Deprivation 2007 represents 2005 although some data covers a number of years, for example an average of 2003-05. 2. In order to capture all inadequate ratings following an Ofsted inspection, the data provided give the number and proportion of providers that were inadequate at any time during the time period. Since a provider may receive a re-inspection and no longer be inadequate by the end of the year, these figures do not reflect our other publications which only capture the most recent inspection of a provider. | ||||
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 23 September 2008:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, for a response.
Our source for identifying both the 10% most and least deprived local authorities is the Government's “Indices of Deprivation 2007” (an index published once every three years), as taken from the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government (www.communities.gov.uk).
Ofsted has been responsible for the inspection of childminders since September 2001. However during the first 18 months we carried out transition inspections where we made an assessment of whether registration should continue and did not give quality grades. We started to judge quality and grade this from April 2003. There are, however, issues relating to the structure of the database used to store inspection outcomes during the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2005. These issues make it difficult to present accurate and comprehensive data relating to this period. Furthermore, the inspection framework changed in April 2005 with the result that it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons with the period 2003-05. The inspection data in this response, therefore, relate to the current inspection framework and covers the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2008.
I should alert you to some potential confusion with the figures. In order to capture all inadequate ratings following an Ofsted inspection, the data provided give the number and proportion of providers that were inadequate at any time during that period. Since a provider may receive a re-inspection and no longer be inadequate by the end of the year, these figures do not reflect our other publications which only capture the most recent inspection of a provider. This information is presented in Table A.
A copy of this reply has been sent to Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
| Table A: Inspection data for c hildminders between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2008 | ||||
| Inspections between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2006 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total childminders at 1 April 2004/06 | Total inspected 2005/06 | Total inspected 2005/06 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2005/06 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2006 and 31 March 2007 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total childminders at 1 April 07 | Total inspected 2006/07 | Total inspected 2006/07 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 2006/07 (%) |
| Inspections between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008 | ||||
| LA deprivation level | Total childminders at 1 April 2008 | Total inspected 2007/08 | Total inspected 2007/08 inadequate | Proportion inadequate 07/08 (%) |
| Notes: 1. All inspection data taken from the Regulatory Support Application (RSA) database as it was at 1 April 2008. Active provider data taken from the RSA database as it was at 6 April 2006, 30 March 2007 and 1 April 2008 respectively. LA deprivation level based on Indices of Deprivation 2007 on the government communities website (www.communities.gov.uk).The majority of the data underpinning the Indices of Deprivation 2007 represents 2005 although some data covers a number of years, for example an average of 2003-05. 2. In order to capture all inadequate ratings following an Ofsted inspection, the data provided give the number and proportion of providers that were inadequate at any time during the time period. Since a provider may receive a re-inspection and no longer be inadequate by the end of the year, these figures do not reflect our other publications which only capture the most recent inspection of a provider. | ||||
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 23 September 2008:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, for a response.
Ofsted has been responsible for the inspection of childminders since September 2001. However, during the first 18 months we carried out transition inspections where we made an assessment of whether registration should continue and did not give quality grades. We started to judge quality and grade this from April 2003. There are, however, issues relating to the structure of the database used to store inspection outcomes during the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2005. These issues make it difficult to present accurate and comprehensive data relating to this period. Furthermore, the inspection framework changed in April 2005 with the result that it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons with the period 2003-05. The inspection data in this response, therefore, relate to the current inspection framework and covers the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2008.
I should alert you to some potential confusion with the figures. In order to capture all inadequate ratings following an Ofsted inspection, the data provided give the number and proportion of providers that were inadequate at any time during that period. Since a provider may receive a re-inspection and no longer be inadequate by the end of the year, these figures do not reflect our other publications which only capture the most recent inspection of a provider. This information is presented in Table A.
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