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Primary Education: Curriculum
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the interim report of the Rose Review of the primary curriculum. [253620]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Government welcome Sir Jim Rose's interim report and the broad direction of travel it sets out. Ministers will give careful consideration to his final report and recommendations, which are expected in the spring.
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools are taking part in the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority pilot studies on the implementation of the independent review of the primary curriculum. [248594]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Following the publication of the final report in the spring, we will consider whether elements of the new primary curriculum should be piloted to inform the package of support for schools prior to the introduction of the new curriculum from September 2011. No pilots related to the independent review of the primary curriculum are currently taking place or planned prior to publication of the final report.
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the draft programmes of learning being consulted on by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority as part of the independent review of the primary curriculum. [248595]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Sir Jim Rose is scheduled to submit the final report of the independent review of the primary curriculum in the spring. The final report will include recommended draft programmes of learning, which if accepted, would be subject to statutory consultation and placed in the Libraries.
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the (a) dates and (b) locations are of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority regional conferences on the independent review of the primary curriculum being held between January and April 2009. [248597]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The dates and locations of the regional conferences QCA are holding on behalf of the independent primary curriculum review regional events are:
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Pupil Referral Units
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) maintained and (b) non-maintained pupil referral units there were in each local authority in 2008. [256424]
Jim Knight: The available information on pupil referral units in each local authority in England in January 2008 is given in table B1 of the pupil characteristics and class sizes in maintained schools in England: January 2008 (Provisional) statistical first release, accessible via the following link in the penultimate set of additional information:
This information only refers to maintained pupil referral units as there is no legal basis for non-maintained pupil referral units.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many pupils attended pupil referral units in each year since 1997 in each local authority area; [256425]
(2) how many pupils in each local authority area attended pupil referral units in each year since 1997. [257661]
Jim Knight: Information for the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 has been placed in the Library.
Information for years 2000 to 2008 is available through the following links.
(table 3)
(table 3)
(table 3)
(table 3)
(table 3)
(table 12)
(table 12)
(table 12)
(table B2).
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1725-6W, on pupil referral units, how many responses to the survey were received; who collated the shortlist; and what other names were considered. [256862]
Jim Knight: The Department received over 100 suggestions for a new name for pupil referral units, in response to our consultation on the White Paper “Back on Track”, published in May 2008. Officials suggested a shortlist to Ministers but Ministers also considered other possible names.
A survey was also conducted by the national organisation for pupil referral units on their website. 205 votes were cast in total, and the following names were suggested (in order of popularity):
Alternative Centre for Excellence
Spectrum school
Intensive Support school
Back on Track school
Integration school
Prism school
Prospect school
Link school
Inclusion school
These names were considered by Ministers, as were the following (which were not included in the survey):
Short Stay school
Progress school
Affirmative school
Development school
Vision school
Outlook school
Opportunity school
Renewal school
Advancement school
Schools
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which of his Department’s initiatives are delivered in partnership with schools; and what the cost of each was in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. [241635]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Children’s Plan set out our ambition to make England the best place in the world for children to grow up. In preparing the Children’s Plan, we listened to children, young people, parents, professionals and schools about the things that mattered to them. Our “One Year On” document describes the work undertaken in schools to achieve our ambition in the 12 month period following publication of the Children’s Plan.
Schools: Children in Care
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 28 January, Official Report, columns 672-4W, on special educational needs, in which schools children in care represented more than six per cent. of pupils. [255626]
Beverley Hughes: The requested information has been placed in the Libraries.
The Department's main source of information on children in care is the Children Looked After Survey, but this does not record which schools pupils attend. However, information on whether a pupil is in care is also collected via the School Census. The most recent census data relates to January 2008.
This census shows that there were 34,390 pupils aged five to 19 attending primary, secondary and special schools classed as being in care as at January 2008. Data published by the Department as SFR 23/2008: Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2008, shows 47,600 children aged between five and 19 as being looked after as at 31 March 2008. However the School Census does not cover all looked after children; information is not collected for pupils in alternative provision, including pupil referral units, FE colleges, voluntary provision and those not in education or training. These differences in coverage will explain the different counts to an extent, but it is possible that the School Census undercounts the number of looked after children in primary, secondary and special schools.
Special Educational Needs
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils with statemented or non-statemented special educational needs of behavioural, emotional or social difficulties were given (a) fixed-period and (b) permanent exclusions from (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by reason for exclusion. [253353]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The information provided shows the number of fixed period exclusions (and not the number of pupils) where the pupils’ special educational need is behavioural, emotional or social difficulties. Information on the type of special educational need is collected for those pupils classed as being school action plus or who have a statement of special educational needs.
Information is only available for the school years 2005/06 and 2006/07 and is shown in the tables. For the 2005/06 school year, information on fixed period exclusions was collected via the School Census for the first time for secondary schools only.
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