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Children: Day Care
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the effects of being on an Ofsted register are for child care settings. [260035]
Beverley Hughes: Registered providers on the Early Years Register and the General Childcare Register are required to meet the requirements of those registers, for example, in relation to ratio requirements, staff qualifications and CRB checks and are inspected by Ofsted against the requirements. Full details of the registration requirements can be found at:
Registered providers are able to access training, support and advice from local authorities.
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of men working in childcare settings; and what steps he is taking to increase that number. [260186]
Beverley Hughes: The 2007 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey indicates that, in the majority of setting types, between 1 and 2 per cent. of staff are male.
The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is taking the lead in a national recruitment campaign that focuses on encouraging more men into the children’s work force. Activity at the end of January secured substantial coverage in the national press and media. This campaign is being aligned with Early Years Professional Status recruitment activity, which will also include a focus on underrepresented groups including men.
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of children in each decile of income deprivation were excluded from child care settings in each of the last 10 years. [260187]
Beverley Hughes: The information is not collected centrally.
Departmental Data protection
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether his Department uses WPA2 encryption protocol on all its wireless networks. [259784]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: I can confirm that the Department uses the WPA2 protocol to protect its corporate wireless network, which has been fully accredited by CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance.
The Department also provides a completely discrete wireless network for visitors to the Department to access the internet. This has no connection to the DCSF corporate network and does not utilise WPA2.
Departmental Public Expenditure
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009, Official Report, column 1322W, on departmental public expenditure, how much of the £800 million capital spending to be brought forward will be spent in each local authority area; what projects the money will be spent on; and if he will make a statement. [256433]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Applications from local authorities are currently being considered, and we will make an announcement shortly.
Pupil Referral Units: Standards
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which pupil referral units were assessed as inadequate by Ofsted in each year since 1997. [256423]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: This is a matter for Ofsted. HMCI Christine Gilbert has written to the hon. Member and a copy of the reply has been placed in the Libraries.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 20 February 2009:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for reply.
Tables A-K show all pupil referral units which have been placed in special measures in each academic year since 1997. Special measures is an Ofsted category, defined at present in the Education Act 2005, meaning that a school is failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education and the persons responsible for leading, managing or governing the school are not demonstrating the capacity to secure the necessary improvement.
Please be aware that the framework for inspecting pupil referral units changed in January 2000, September 2003 and September 2005. As a result, there has been no consistent “inadequate” category over this period. These tables are therefore limited to those pupil referral units placed in special measures, as this category has been in place throughout the period in question.
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 A: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2007/08 (8 p upil r eferral u nits) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
| Table B: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2006/07 (7 pupil referral units) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
| Table C: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2005/06 (13 pupil referral units) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
| Table D: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2004/05 (2 pupil referral units) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
| Table E: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2003/04 (9 pupil referral units) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
| Table F: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2002/03 (8 pupil referral units) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
| Table G: Pupil referral units placed in special measures in 2001/02 (6 pupil referral units) | ||
| URN | School name | LA name |
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