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Serious Case Review Panel
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the minimum qualifications required for professionals to sit on a Serious Case Review Panel are. [252945]
Beverley Hughes: Paragraph 8.10 of “Working Together To Safeguard Children 2006” states that
‘Local Safeguarding Children Boards should establish a Serious Case Review Panel, involving at least LA children’s social care, health, education and the police, to consider questions such as whether a serious case review should take place’.
Minimum qualifications are not prescribed for any particular individual. It is the responsibility of LSCBs to ensure that panels have the membership they need to perform their functions effectively.
Special Educational Needs
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils attended special schools in each local authority area in each year since 1997. [258729]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Information for the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 has been placed in the Libraries.
Information for years 2000 to 2008 is available through the following links.
(table 3)
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(table 12)
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(table B2).
Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils with special educational needs were given a fixed-period exclusion from secondary schools in each local authority area in 2007-08, broken down by reason for exclusion. [258192]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Information on exclusions for the 2007/08 school year is expected to be published in the summer.
Special Educational Needs: Standards
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which maintained special schools in each local authority area were assessed as outstanding by Ofsted in the last five years. [256345]
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.
Teachers: Conditions of Employment
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent steps his Department has taken on the conditions of employment for peripatetic teachers. [258454]
Jim Knight: Peripatetic teachers who are employed under a contract of employment by local authorities are covered by the School Teacher’s Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) in the same way as teachers who are employed wholly in specific schools. The STPCD is revised each year to take account of any changes in the pay and conditions of teachers in the light of recommendations from the School Teachers Review Body.
Teachers: Qualifications
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many graduates who began secondary school teaching careers had a (a) first class, (b) upper second class, (c) lower second class and (d) third class degree in each of the last 15 years; and if he will make a statement. [254507]
Jim Knight: The class of degree held is not recorded in the case of all teachers and therefore the numbers requested are not available.
Teachers: South West
Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of teachers employed in (a) the South West Region, (b) Devon and (c) Plymouth are recorded as being disabled; and what percentage of the total workforce each figure represents. [259013]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Teachers: Vacancies
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teacher vacancies there are in schools, broken down by decile of deprivation based on school location. [259152]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Work Experience: Accidents
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many school children were injured whilst at work in England in each of the last four years. [259217]
Beverley Hughes: The information requested is in the table.
Written Questions: Government Responses
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to answer (a) Question 240758, on reviews of child deaths, (b) Question 240761, on serious case reviews and (c) Question 240755, tabled on 4 and 5 December, on membership of a serious case review panel. [250182]
Beverley Hughes: Questions 240758 and 240761 were answered on 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 442-43W. Question 240755 was answered on 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1054W.
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