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Special Educational Needs: Teachers

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of teachers have received teacher training in special educational needs beyond their initial teacher training in each local authority in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [252670]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Special Guardianship Orders

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many special guardianship orders have been made in each local authority area in each of the last five years; [251850]

(2) how many special guardianship arrangements have broken down in each of the last five years. [251851]

Beverley Hughes: Information on the number of looked after children who ceased to be looked after as a result of a special guardianship order, in each local authority in each of the last three years ending 31 March 2006 to 2008,can be found in the following table.

Information on the number of special guardianship orders that have been made is only available for the last three years as they were first introduced on 30 December 2005. The figures for year ending 31 March 2006 only account for the last three months of the data collection year.

Information on the number of special guardianship arrangements that have broken down is not collected centrally by the Department.

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Children who ceased to be looked after during the year ending 31 March by local authority, as a result of a special guardianship order being granted( 1,2,3,4,5, ) years ending 31 March 2006 to 2008—Coverage: England
Number
	2006	2007	2008
England	70	750	1,100
North East	10	50	70
Darlington	0	—	—
Durham	—	5	15
Gateshead	0	0	0
Hartlepool	0	0	10
Middlesbrough	0	—	0
Newcastle upon Tyne	0	5	—
North Tyneside	0	—	—
Northumberland	0	5	15
Redcar and Cleveland	0	—	0
South Tyneside	—	5	—
Stockton-On-Tees	0	5	5
Sunderland	0	5	10
North West	10	130	220
Blackburn with Darwen	0	—	—
Blackpool	0	—	5
Bolton	—	—	15
Bury	—	5	10
Cheshire	0	10	5
Cumbria	—	10	10
Halton	0	0	5
Knowsley	0	—	10
Lancashire	—	10	25
Liverpool	0	15	25
Manchester	0	10	25
Oldham	0	—	10
Rochdale	—	—	—
Salford	0	—	—
Sefton	—	10	—
St Helens	0	—	10
Stockport	0	0	5
Tameside	0	—	—
Trafford	0	0	—
Warrington	0	—	—
Wigan	0	10	10
Wirral	0	15	25
Yorkshire and The Humber	10	50	80
Barnsley	0	0	10
Bradford	0	—	—
Calderdale	—	5	—
Doncaster	0	10	10
East Riding of Yorkshire	0	0	—
Kingston upon Hull, City of	0	—	0
Kirklees	—	—	—
Leeds	—	25	35
North East Lincolnshire	—	0	0
North Lincolnshire	0	—	—
North Yorkshire	0	—	—
Rotherham	0	0	—
Sheffield	0	0	5
Wakefield	—	0	—
York	—	—	—
East Midlands		30	60
Derby	0	—	10
Derbyshire	0	—	5
Leicester	0	—	—
Leicestershire	0	10	10
Lincolnshire	0	—	—
Northamptonshire	0	10	10
Nottingham	0	—	15
Nottinghamshire	0	—	—
Rutland	0	0	—
West Midlands	—	80	80
Birmingham	—	10	25
Coventry	0	10	—
Dudley	0	0	—
Herefordshire	0	—	5
Sandwell	0	20	—
Shropshire	0	0	0
Solihull	0	—	—
Staffordshire	0	20	20
Stoke-on-Trent	—	10	—
Telford and Wrekin	0	0	—
Walsall	0	0	—
Warwickshire	—	—	10
Wolverhampton	0	0	—
Worcestershire	0	0	—
East of England	—	50	90
Bedfordshire	0	5	15
Cambridgeshire	0	—	10
Essex	0	10	20
Hertfordshire	0	15	10
Luton	0	—	5
Norfolk	0	0	—
Peterborough	0	5	10
Southend-on-Sea	0	0	0
Suffolk	—	10	10
Thurrock	0	0	5
London	30	170	270
Inner London	10	100	180
Camden	5	10	20
City of London	0	0	0
Hackney	0	10	25
Hammersmith and Fulham	—	10	25
Haringey	0	5	20
Islington	0	10	5
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0	5
Lambeth	—	—	10
Lewisham	0	10	10
Newham	0	10	10
Southwark	—	10	10
Tower Hamlets	0	15	15
Wandsworth	0	5	10
Westminster	0	—	15
Outer London	10	70	90
Barking and Dagenham	0	—	15
Barnet	—	—	—
Bexley	0	—	—
Brent	—	—	10
Bromley	0	—	—
Croydon	0	5	—
Ealing	0	—	10
Enfield	0	—	0
Greenwich	—	10	10
Harrow	0	0	—
Havering	0	—	—
Hillingdon	0	—	—
Hounslow	—	10	10
Kingston upon Thames	0	—	—
Merton	—	—	—
Redbridge	0	—	0
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	0
Sutton	0	—	10
Waltham Forest	0	—	10
South East	10	130	180
Bracknell Forest	0	—	0
Brighton and Hove	—	5	10
Buckinghamshire	—	—	10
East Sussex	0	—	10
Hampshire	—	20	30
Isle Of Wight	0	—	—
Kent	0	25	30
Medway Towns	0	5	15
Milton Keynes	—	10	—
Oxfordshire	0	5	15
Portsmouth	0	—	0
Reading	0	10	15
Slough	0	5	—
Southampton	0	—	0
Surrey	—	5	35
West Berkshire	0	—	0
West Sussex	—	10	10
Windsor and Maidenhead	0	—	0
Wokingham	0	—	0
South West	—	60	60
Bath and North East Somerset	0	5	—
Bournemouth	—	—	—
Bristol, City of	0	10	10
Cornwall	0	10	10
Devon	—	10	10
Dorset	0	—	0
Gloucestershire	0	5	5
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0
North Somerset	0	—	—
Plymouth	0	10	—
Poole	0	0	—
Somerset	0	—	—
South Gloucestershire	0	0	—
Swindon	0	—	—
Torbay	0	0	0
Wiltshire	0	—	—
(1) Source: SSDA903 return on children looked after. (2) Only the last occasion on which a child ceased to be looked after in the year has been counted. (3) Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. (4) Special Guardianship orders were introduced on 30 December 2005. Consequently figures for year ending 31 March 2006 only account for the last three months of the data collection year. (5) To ensure that no individual can be identified from statistical tables, we use conventions for the rounding and suppression of very small numbers. National figures have been rounded t o the nearest100 if they exceed 1,000 or to the nearest 10 otherwise. Numbers at local authority level have been rounded to the nearest five and numbers at region level have been rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers of five or less have been suppressed and replaced with a hyphen (—) except where the number is zero.

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