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Sure Start Programme
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people have used Sure Start services in the last 12 months. [238197]
Beverley Hughes: The Department does not hold information centrally on how many people have used Sure Start services in the last 12 months.
There are currently over 2,900 children's centres offering access to services for over 2.3 million children under five and their families. Further centres are planned so that by 2010 all families with young children will have easy access to the wide range of early childhood services on offer.
Sure Start Programme: York
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) children and (b) families in (i) City of York constituency and (ii) the City of York local authority area have participated in the Sure Start York local programme. [237268]
Beverley Hughes:
The Department does not hold information centrally on how many children and families
in the City of York constituency or the City of York local authority have participated in Sure Start Children’s Centres services.
Sure Start Children’s Centres offer a wide range of services to children aged under five years and their families including health and family support services, advice and information for parents on employment and training, and integrated early learning and child care services. York currently has eight children’s centres up and running offering services to over 6,000 children under five and their families. One further centre is planned by 2010 to ensure all families with young children in York will have easy access to the wide range of early childhood services on offer.
Teachers
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time equivalent (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff there were in local education authority schools in (i) Hemel Hempstead, (ii) Hertfordshire and (iii) England in (A) 1997 and (B) the latest period for which figures are available. [238187]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teachers, teaching assistants and support staff employed in local authority maintained schools in Hemel Hempstead constituency, Hertfordshire local authority and England, January 1997 and 2008.
| Full-time equivalent teachers,( 1) teaching assistants( 2) and support staff( 3) in local authority maintained schools; years 1997 and 2008—coverage: Hemel Hempstead constituency, Hertfordshire local authority and England | |||||||||
| Hemel Hempstead | Hertfordshire | England | |||||||
| January | Teachers( 4) | Teaching assistants( 4) | Support s taff( 4) | Teachers( 5) | Teaching assistants( 4) | Support s taff( 4) | Teachers( 5) | Teaching assistants( 4) | Support s taff( 4) |
| (1) Includes qualified and unqualified teachers. (2) ‘Teaching assistants’ include teaching assistants, special needs support staff and minority ethnic pupil support staff. (3) Includes teaching assistants. (4) Source: School Census. (5) Source: Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618g. Notes: 1. Excludes academies and city technology colleges. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. | |||||||||
Teachers: East Midlands
Mr. Skinner: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants were employed in the East Midlands in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) each of the preceding five years. [237903]
Jim Knight: The number of teachers and teaching assistants employed in the local authority maintained sector in the east midlands in 2007, and each of the preceding five years are shown in the following Statistical First Release: School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2007 (Revised)
Table 18 Full-time equivalent regular teachers (excluding occasionals) in the local authority maintained sector by local authority and Government office region.
Table 24 Full-time equivalent teaching assistants in local authority maintained schools by local authorities and Government office regions.
Also more recent information has been published and can be found at:
Teachers: Enfield
Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants were working in Enfield North constituency in each year since 1997; and how many of each have worked there in total since 1997. [235417]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the number of full-time equivalent teachers and teaching assistants employed in local authority maintained schools in Enfield, North constituency and England in each January since 1997 to 2008.
| Full-time equivalent teachers( 1) and teaching assistants( 2) in local authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and pupil referral units. Years: 1997 to 2008. Coverage: Enfield, North constituency and England | ||||
| Enfield, North constituency | England | |||
| January of each year | Teachers( 3) | Teaching assistants( 3) | Teachers( 4,5) | assistants( 3) |
| (1) Includes qualified and unqualified teachers. (2) ‘Teaching assistants’ include teaching assistants, special needs support staff and minority ethnic pupil support staff. (3) Source: School Census (4) Source: Annual Survey of Teacher in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618g. (5) England teacher figures in this answer are derived from the Department’s preferred data source, the Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618g. Figures in a previous answer (PQ233896) were derived from the Census and therefore differ. Notes: 1. Excludes academies and city technology colleges. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. | ||||
Teachers: Pay
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether national challenge schools may pay higher salaries to teaching staff than other maintained schools; and if he will make a statement. [238342]
Jim Knight: The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document provides National Challenge as well as all maintained schools with a range of pay flexibilities and incentives to support the recruitment and retention of high quality teachers. An extra £400 million has been made available to support National Challenge schools over the next three years, in tailored packages of support, which in some cases include funding to help schools with recruitment incentives.
Teachers: Qualifications
Dr. Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many overseas trained teachers lost their jobs from state schools because they had not attained qualified teacher status within four years by September 2008, broken down by subject taught. [238129]
Jim Knight: The requested data are not available centrally.
Teachers: Sick Leave
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of full-time teachers in Yorkshire and the Humber took sick leave in each of the last five years; what the average annual rate was; and if he will make a statement. [237653]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not available. However, the available information on full-time teacher sickness absence has been published in the following Statistical First Releases:
School Workforce in England (including Local Authority level figures), January 2008 (Revised)—(2007 figures can be found in table 24)
School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2007 (Revised)—(2006 figures can be found in table 14)
School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2006 (Revised)—(2005 figures can be found in table 16)
School Workforce in England: Provisional Teacher Sickness Absence in 2004 and Teacher Ethnicity 2005—(2004 figures can be found in table 3)
School Workforce in England: Provisional Teacher Sickness Absence in 2003 and Teacher Ethnicity 2004—(2003 figures can be found in table 3)
Teachers: Training
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of those who enrolled as teacher trainees in each year since 1997 were teachers three years after enrolment. [238343]
Jim Knight: Information tracking those who enrol as teacher trainees through to them starting teaching is not held centrally.
The following table shows the number of final year initial teacher training (ITT) trainees for each academic year between 1998/99 and 2006/07 who gained qualified teacher status (QTS) in their final year of training and of these the number who were known to be in a teaching post six months after gaining QTS for mainstream initial teacher training (ITT) trainees. Information is not available for 1997/98 in a consistent format.
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