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Schools: Finance
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local authorities will receive school capital funding brought forward under arrangements announced in the pre-budget report; and how much each will receive. [259086]
Jim Knight: Applications are in the final stages of consideration. I intend to make an announcement shortly regarding the school capital funding which will be brought forward from 2010-11 to 2009-10.
Schools: Inspections
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether Ofsted inspected all maintained schools and pupil referral units for progress towards his Department’s Public Service Agreement 11, in the latest period for which data is available. [258082]
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.
Schools: Standards
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what methodology is used by his Department for the calculation of contextual value added scores. [259153]
Jim Knight: A detailed explanation of the statistical model and the calculations used to produce the Contextual Value Added measures can be found in the 'Technical Guide to Contextual Value Added 2007/2008 Model" publication at:
I have also placed a copy in the Libraries.
Social Services: Parents
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Parenting Early Intervention pathfinders in meeting their objectives; and if he will make a statement. [247250]
Beverley Hughes: The Department for Children, Schools and Families has funded the Parenting Early Intervention Programme (PEIP) since 2006. Findings from an independent evaluation of the 18 PEIP pilots carried out by Warwick university found that the programme attracted a large number of parents in need of support to manage their children's behavioural difficulties. The evaluation found that the pathfinder was successful in rolling out three evidence-based parenting programmes across 18 local authorities with high levels of positive gains for parents and their children.
The final PEIP evaluation report was published in July 2008 and can be found on the DCSF website at:
We do not believe there is any need for the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families to make a statement on this matter.
Special Educational Needs
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009 to question 256859, what other ways of obtaining information on looked after children are being explored; and when he expects this process to have been completed. [259306]
Beverley Hughes: The Department is working on a project to match looked after children data from the SSDA 903 collection with the National Pupil Database. If successful this would enable us to produce analysis for looked after children on a range of attainment indicators and characteristics, including information on special educational needs.
We are hoping to report on the findings including on the robustness of the matching exercise by the end of 2009.
Specialised Diplomas
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils of each age are studying for each diploma subject. [259090]
Jim Knight: The information held centrally about the number of pupils studying each Diploma subject is broken down into two categories of pre and post-16, as follows:
| Pre-16 | Post-16 | Total | |
Teachers: Equality
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many responses there were to the recent consultation on the General Teaching Council draft code on diversity rules; and how many of them expressed concern about principle 4, bullet point 3. [260193]
Jim Knight:
The General Teaching Council for England's (GTCE) public consultation on its draft Code of Conduct and Practice for registered teachers ran from 28 November 2008 to 27 February 2009. At the close of the consultation, 3,683 responses had been received by the GTCE to their online questionnaire and they are currently being analysed. A breakdown of subject areas that drew a response will be published by the GTCE after 16 March. In addition to the online questionnaire, the GTC received 563 letters from individual respondents specifically on Principle 4, Clause 3; each respondent has received a reply from the
GTCE dealing with any concerns they may have raised about this aspect of the draft Code of Conduct and Practice.
Teachers: Male
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1969-70W on teachers: male, what the equivalent figures were in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years. [257576]
Jim Knight: The table, which is to be placed in the House Library, shows the number of local authority maintained primary and secondary schools in England that employed fewer than 10 per cent. 2 per cent. and 3 per cent. qualified full-time equivalent male teachers in each local authority in England, January 1997 to 2008.
Teachers: Offenders
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2009, Official Report, column 1710W, on teachers: offenders, whether his Department has information on where the requested information is held. [257821]
Jim Knight: Information on any convictions or police warnings that teachers have received may be held by their employers, local authorities or individual schools as appropriate.
The Department for Children Schools and Families does not hold information relating to convictions or any police cautions received by teachers as it does not employ them directly.
Truancy
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of (a) male and (b) female (i) free school meal and (ii) non-free school meal pupils have been classed as persistent absentees in each of the last three years. [240613]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Information enabling analysis of pupil enrolments classed as persistent absentees was collected for the first time for the school year 2005/06. The requested information for 2005/06 and 2006/07 is shown in the following tables:
| Primary, secondary and special schools( 1, 2, 3) , persistent absentees, gender and free school meal eligibility( 4) , 2005/06 and 2006/07, England | ||||||||
| Persistent absentees | ||||||||
| 2006/07 | ||||||||
| Boys | Girls | |||||||
| Eligible for free school meals | Other pupils( 5) | Eligible for free school meals | Other pupils( 5) | |||||
| Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | |
| 2005/06( 7) | ||||||||
| Boys | Girls | |||||||
| Eligible for free school meals | Other pupils( 5) | Eligible for free school meals | Other pupils( 5) | |||||
| Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | Number of enrolments | Percentage of enrolments( 6) | |
| (1 )Includes middle schools as deemed. (2 )Includes CTCs and academies. (3 )Includes both maintained and non-maintained special schools. (4 )Persistent absentees are defined as being absent for 20 per cent. of all sessions of attendance, this relates to being absent for more than 63 half days. (5 )Includes pupil enrolments for whom free school meal eligibility was missing. (6 )The number of persistent absentees expressed as a percentage of pupil enrolments with the same gender and free school meal eligibility. (7) Information for 2005/06 is not available for primary or special schools. (8 )Not applicable. Note: Numbers have been rounded to the neatest 10. Source: School Census | ||||||||
Young People: Leisure
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of young people who live more than one hours' travel time by public transport from at least one of a bowling alley, an ice rink, a theatre, a cinema or a recording studio. [260672]
Beverley Hughes: The Government do not collect these data. Local authorities have a duty to secure access to positive activities for young people. Statutory guidance produced in relation to this duty sets out how local authorities and their partners should consider whether transport is a barrier to young people's access to positive activities, taking into account local circumstances. We also made a commitment in Aiming High for Young People: a 10-year strategy for positive activities (DCSF July 2007) to produce guidance for children's trusts and transport planners to encourage joined up planning and commissioning of local transport for young people. This guidance will be published in the spring and showcases a range of innovative transport solutions to accessing positive activities developed by local authorities and their partners.
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