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Re-offenders

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the re-offending rates in the 12 months following release were of inmates from (a) Oakhill, (b) Medway, (c) Rainsbrook and (d) Hassockfield secure training centre in the latest period for which information is available. [256470]

Mr. Hanson: Data are not available for the re-offending rates of young offenders released from individual secure training centres. Individual establishment names are not included in the datasets used to produce the re-offending statistics.

However, information on the rate of re-offending for all young offenders released from custody (either from Young Offender Institutions, Secure Training Centres
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or Secure Children’s Homes) is available, covering the period 2000 to 2006. These data are shown in the following table.

Quarter 1 each year : Number of offenders Proportion of offenders re-offending (one year) Number of offences per 100 offenders (one year)

2000

912

75.7

482.1

2002

959

72.9

465.9

2003

786

73.8

442.5

2004

815

76.4

414.8

2005

844

73.1

409.5

2006

817

77.0

404.0


The latest re-offending statistics for juveniles, ‘Re-offending of juveniles: results from the 2006 cohort’, were published in September 2008 and can be obtained from:

Secure Training Centres: Young People

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons under 16 years old were released from secure training centres in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many of those returned to full-time education upon release in each such year. [256503]

Mr. Hanson: The following table shows the numbers of sentenced young people aged under 16 who have
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been released from secure training centres in the last three years. These statistics have been provided by the YJB.

Sentenced young people under 16 released from STCs

Number

2006

309

2007

293

2008

321


Data on the number of young people aged under 16 who return to full-time education on release from secure training centres are not available.

Youth Custody

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons aged 16 to 21 were released from custody other than from secure training centres and secure children's homes in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what percentage of those (a) entered employment and (b) returned to education or training upon release in each such year. [256505]

Mr. Hanson: Data of this nature are only available by entire establishment type and it is not possible to separate out specific age groups.

The National Offender Management Service did not start recording employment and education/training data separately until April 2007. The following table shows data for 2007-08 and for April 2008 to December 2008 (latest available figures(1)).

Number of prisoners discharged( 1) Percentage of prisoners discharged with employment Percentage of prisoners discharged with education or training

April 2007 to March 2008 April 2008 to December 2008 April 2007 to March 2008 April 2008 to December 2008 April 2007 to March 2008 April 2008 to December 2008

Prisons holding 15 to 17-year-olds

3,028

2,185

5.2

5.4

54.9

53.1

Prisons holding 18 to 20-year-olds

5,372

4,590

26.3

26.9

14.2

14.5

Prisons holding both 15 to 17-year-olds and 18 to 20-year-olds

4,040

3,220

17.8

17.8

26.4

30.3

(1) Exclude temporary releases or prisoners that are deported upon release.

Children, Schools and Families

Building Schools for the Future Programme

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much capital spending has been brought forward by his Department to (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 for (i) Building Schools for the Future and (ii) all other capital spending; and if he will make a statement. [255266]

Jim Knight: The Department is bringing forward capital allocations from 2010-11 to 2009-10 as part of its contribution to the £3 billion government-wide stimulus programme described in the pre-Budget report.

BSF typically involves the design and build of entire new schools which are less suitable for bringing forward quickly for construction in a 12 month period. The pipeline of business for BSF, however, continues to increase as planned. The Department is already committed to ensure build takes place as rapidly as possible, and it has not been practicable to accelerate this further.

It is planned to bring forward other capital allocations amounting to approximately £800 million from 2010-11 to 2009-10. The mix of programmes making this up will be determined by replies received from local authorities.

Children: Databases

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 29 January, Official Report, columns 833-34W, on children: databases, how much of such spending was incurred in each local authority area in each year. [255625]


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Beverley Hughes [holding answer 9 February 2009]: I will make available a document which sets out grants provided to local authorities covering the period 2005/06 to 2009/10. Grants have yet to be decided for the financial years 2010/11 and 2011/12. This document will placed be in the Libraries.

Children: Day Care

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of staff in child care settings have achieved GCSE English grade C or above. [249699]

Beverley Hughes: The Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects information about the qualifications held by all paid staff working for child care and early years providers. The questionnaire is designed to pick up only qualifications that were relevant to working with young people and children. Qualifications are grouped together in the levels that they have been accredited with by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Level 2 (intermediate level) refers to GCSE A*-C, Intermediate GNVQ, and Level 2 NVQ. Separate data for GCSE English A*-C is not available.

Tables 1 and 2 show the proportion of all paid staff qualified to at least Level 2, by type of provision, for 2007.

Table 1: Staff qualified to at least Level 2 for all paid staff

Percentage

Full day care

88

Full day care in children's centres

92

Sessional

79

After school clubs

75

Holiday clubs

75

Childminders

49

Base: All paid childcare staff 2007. All childminders 2007.

Table 2: Staff qualified to at least Level 2 for all paid staff

Percentage

Nursery schools

91

Primary schools with nursery and reception classes

85

Primary schools with reception but no nursery classes

82

Base: All paid early years staff 2007.

Children: Protection

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of (a) child protection and (b) looked-after children reviews were held within the required timescales in the last 12 months. [247386]

Beverley Hughes: In the year ending 31 March 2008, 99 per cent. of child protection cases were reviewed within required timescales. This figure has been taken from the statistical first release “Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People who are the subject of a Child Protection Plan, England—year ending 31 March 2008”, which can be found at the following link:

In the year ending 31 March 2007, 85.3 per cent. of looked-after children reviews were held within the required
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time scales. This figure have been taken from the statistical first release “Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2007”, which can be found at the following link:

This figure for the year ending March 2008 is not yet available and will be published as soon as possible in the following location on the DCSF website:

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 29 January 2009, Official Report, column 837W, on children: protection, if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter. [255636]

Beverley Hughes [holding answer 9 February 2009]: The letter has been placed in the Libraries.

Letter from Beverley Hughes, dated 29 January 2009:


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