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| Percentage | |||||
| KS3 test level—Science | |||||
| Teacher assessment level—Science | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
The figures work across the table, so for a given teacher assessment level it shows the distribution of test levels achieved. Taking English as an example, of those
pupils who were teacher assessed at level 5, 68 per cent. achieved a level 5 in the test; 13 per cent. achieved one level below and 18 per cent. achieved one level higher.
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the monetary value of his Department’s contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide support to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in procuring the 2009 National Curriculum tests is. [255654]
Jim Knight: The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is responsible for the delivery of national curriculum tests, and any contractual arrangements relating to the procurement of 2009 national test delivery are with the QCA, not with the department. PA Consulting Ltd. provided support for the procurement of the contract for 2009 national curriculum tests and the value of this work amounted to £650,000. In his report on the delivery of national curriculum tests, Lord Sutherland recommended that the QCA should strengthen its corporate oversight of the management and delivery of its contracts. PricewaterhouseCoopers are providing support to the QCA for the operational delivery of the 2009 national curriculum tests. The QCA Board has approved expenditure of up to £2 million including VAT on this contract.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether Key Stage 3 assessment data provided by schools will be subject to external moderation; and if he will make a statement. [256900]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Key Stage 3 (KS3) teacher assessments provided by schools this year will not be subject to external moderation.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on what date he plans to publish the statistics showing the number of requests for the re-marking of Key Stage 2 and 3 Standard Assessment Tests papers for 2008; and if he will make a statement. [257033]
Jim Knight: The Department is not responsible for determining when to publish the statistics showing the number of requests for the re-marking of key stage 2 and 3 national curriculum test papers for 2008. This decision is made by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in line with the code of practice on statistics. Under the code of practice, the QCA is required to provide four weeks notice of its intention to publish. This notification will be made on the QCA website. I understand that the QCA has indicated its intention to publish these data in mid-March.
Offences against Children: Chelmsford
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of children in West Chelmsford constituency abused while subject to a child protection plan in each of the last five years. [254754]
Beverley Hughes: The information requested is not collected centrally.
The available figures cover children who are subject to a Child Protection Plan and include information on category of abuse which led to the plan being put in place and re-referrals. These are available in the annual statistical first release “Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People who are the subject of a Child Protection Plan, England”. The latest figures can be found in Table 10B at the following link:
Partnerships for Schools: Finance
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much Partnerships for Schools has received from the European Investment Bank in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement. [258955]
Jim Knight: Partnerships for Schools (PfS) have been able to secure a commitment in principle from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for £300 million to provide funding for BSF schemes that have PFI investment in 2009/10. EIB provided £53 million of funding in 2007/08 for BSF projects.
Partnerships for Schools does not receive any money from EIB. The funds secured are used to finance local authority PFI projects.
Primary Education: Admissions
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what account (a) his Department and (b) local education authorities took of the effect of projected population increases in their estimates of the number of children entering primary schools in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2005; and what plans there are to take account of population increases in (A) 2010, (B) 2013, (C) 2015, (D) 2017 and (E) 2020. [256006]
Jim Knight: For funding additional school places the Department relied on authorities’ own pupil projections for its estimates of the number of children entering primary schools in each local authority area in 2000-01, 2005-06 and 2010-11. Officials are reviewing emerging pupil number trends to inform the spending review period 2011-12 onwards.
Local authorities use a wide variety of methods for forecasting pupil numbers. The different methods entail a broadly similar approach that involves taking current pupil numbers and adding/subtracting the net totals of
children entering/leaving the school system. We would also expect authorities to also take account of local factors that will have an impact on pupil projections—including rising/falling birth rates, population movements in/out of the area, and proposed new housing developments.
The Department relies on its own national pupil projections to set the national envelope for recurrent funding. These are linked to ONS (Office for National Statistics) data, which take account of projected population increases. The Department’s local authority level projections were used to provide individual indicative allocations and Guaranteed Units of Funding (GUF) at the start of the current CSR period for 2008-11. These indicative allocations become finalised once the latest pupil numbers are known. There are currently no LA level projections formulated for this purpose beyond the current CSR period.
Pupil Referral Units: Standards
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which pupil referral units in each local authority area were assessed as outstanding by Ofsted in the last five years. [256344]
Jim Knight: This is a matter for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, has written to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply has been placed in the Libraries.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 16 February 2008:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for reply.
Since the introduction of the current school inspection framework (commonly known as section 5) in September 2005, the judgement of a school's overall effectiveness has been made using a four point scale: outstanding, good, satisfactory and inadequate. Under the previous school inspection framework (commonly known as Section 10), a school's overall effectiveness judgement was made using a seven point scale: excellent, very good, good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory, poor and very poor.
It is not possible to operate a simple read-across approach from a seven- to a four-point scale. Ofsted's criteria for making inspection judgements about schools are clearly set out in our inspection guidance. Inspectors do not make reference to, or comparisons with, the previous inspection framework. However, for information, Tables A-E list all of the Pupil Referral Units which have been judged outstanding since September 2005 and all those judged excellent or very good between September 2003 and July 2005. These are grouped by academic year and by local authority.
A copy of this reply has been sent to right hon. Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners, and will be placed in the Library of both Houses.
| Table B: Pupil Referral Units judged outstanding in 2006/07 (18 PRUs) | |||||
| URN | School name | LA name | Inspection date | Overall effectiveness | Type of establishment |
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