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Please note that that the selection of provision for inspection each year is not random. We select providers for inspection each year based on a number of factors, including the period since their last inspection and the grade awarded them at that inspection. Therefore, these figures should not be used to make judgments about the standards of national provision.
A copy of this reply has been sent to right hon. Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, and 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: Judgments on the overall quality grades from inspections of registered childcare that have a postcode match with identified sure start c entres, between 1 April 2003 and 31 March 2005 | |||||||
| Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | |||||
| Time Period | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total number of providers |
| Table B: Judgments on the overall quality grades from inspections of registered childcare that have a postcode match with identified sure start centres, between 1 April 2005 and 31 August 2008 | |||||||||
| Outstanding | Good | Satisfactory | Inadequate | ||||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total number of providers | |
| Table C: Judgments on the overall quality grades from inspections of registered childcare that have a postcode match with identified sure start centres, between 1 September 2008 and 31 December 2008 | |||||||||
| Outstanding | Good | Satisfactory | Inadequate | ||||||
| Time period | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total number of providers |
| Table D: Judgments on the overall effectiveness grades from inspections of nursery schools that have a postcode match with identified sure start centres, between 1 September 2003 and 31 August 2005 | ||
| Time p eriod | Number of nursery schools | Inspection outcome |
| Table E: Judgments on the overall effectiveness grades from inspections of nursery schools that have a postcode match with identified sure start centres, between 1 September 2005 and 31 August 2008 | |||||||||
| Outstanding | Good | Satisfactory | Inadequate | ||||||
| Time period | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Total number of providers |
| (1) Includes two inspections carried out in the 2004-05 academic year as pilots for the inspection framework introduced in September 2005. | |||||||||
Departmental Internet
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many young people were involved in the determination of the content of each myplace application. [261838]
Beverley Hughes: All “myplace” projects have demonstrated that young people, particularly disadvantaged young people, have been and will be active participants in the design, development and management of the new facility.
The Big Lottery Fund reports that it would be a disproportionate cost to provide specific information about how many young people were involved in consultations on each of “myplace” projects; the dates the consultations took place; and how many young people are directly involved in the management of each of the projects.
The Big Lottery Fund is able to report that “myplace” projects have engaged thousands of young people across the country through a variety of methods including local Youth Parliaments, councils or neighbourhood forums; through open consultation events, surveys and focus groups; and through their attendance at existing projects.
“myplace” projects have also demonstrated that young people will continue to influence directly the ongoing management of the new facility. Proposed approaches include the use of youth forums, young people sitting directly on management committees, establishing shadow youth boards, appointing a young person as the project’s assistant director, and passing the governance of the whole project over to young people through the creation of a youth-led trust.
English Language: Primary Education
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of children entering primary school for whom English will be a second or other language in each of the next five years. [255721]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Such estimates are not available.
The latest information about the number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English were published as table B10 in a statistical first release at:
Family Planning: Finance
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what grants his Department made to (a) Brook, (b) the Family
Planning Association, (c) Marie Stopes International, (d) the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and (e) Education for Choice in the last year; how much in grant funding is planned for each in the next two years; what the (i) monetary value and (ii) purpose of each such grant is; and if he will make a statement. [261598]
Beverley Hughes: No funding has been allocated to Marie Stopes International, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, or Education for Choice by this Department in the 2008/09 financial year.
Funding was allocated to Brook, and FPA in 2008/09 from the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy budget, as set out in the following table:
Final decisions on the allocation of the teenage pregnancy budget for 2009/10 and 2010/11 have not yet been finalised.
In addition, third sector organisations were invited to submit bids for funding from the Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) Grant programme. Following an open competition, funding was allocated to:
Education for Choice (£75,000 over two years): to provide training to members of the children’s work force, to enable them to provide impartial advice and support to young people facing an unplanned pregnancy, including support to avoid repeat conceptions; and
FPA (£530,000 over two years): to extend delivery of the ‘Speakeasy’ programme that builds the skills and confidence of parents so that they are better able to talk to their children about sex and relationships.
Improving Information Sharing and Management Programme
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the expenditure on the Improving Information Sharing and Management programme (a) has been since its inception and (b) is projected to be over the next five years. [260938]
Beverley Hughes: The Improving Information Sharing and Management (IISaM) Programme was established in January 2008, bringing together, ContactPoint, E-CAF (the online version of the Common Assessment Framework), the Integrated Children’s System (ICS) and the Client Case Information System (CCIS). Since its inception, expenditure on the IISAM Programme to 31 March 2009, is forecast to be £131.5 million.
Expenditure on the IISaM Programme over the next five years, to 2013-14, is projected to be £334.2 million.
Pre-School Education
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 28 January 2009, Official Report, column 657W, on pre-school education: teaching, which programmes are funded by the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant; how much has been spent on the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant in each year for which records are available; and how much is forecast to be spent in each financial year up to the end of the 2010-11 financial year. [260153]
Beverley Hughes: The Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant funding is not provided for specific programmes for the training of childcare staff but is provided in ring-fenced blocks to allow local authorities to respond to their local priorities.
Funding to improve the quality of practice and the capability of the workforce in early years settings is provided to Local Authorities within the outcomes, quality and inclusion strand of the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant.
The funding allocated for outcomes quality and inclusion for the CSR period April 2008 to March 2011 is shown in the following table.
| Outcomes, quality and inclusion allocation (£) | |
While the outcomes, quality and inclusion categorisation of funding was introduced in April 2008 the Department has records of local authority spend under the broadly analogous category of workforce development from April 2004, as shown in the following table(1).
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