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(1) Not all audits have been received from the local authorities for 2007/08 and 2006/07. For those programmes with outstanding audits spend figures have been taken from unaudited returns. Where these are unavailable an average spend rate has been applied to their allocation to produce a likely spend. In 2005/06 seven local authorities were in local area agreements, 26 in 2006/07 and 24 in 2007/08. No spend for these authorities is available as they were not required to submit statements of spend to the Department.
| Workforce development spend (£) | |
Schools: Standards
Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of small schools Ofsted judged to be (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) satisfactory and (d) inadequate in each of the last 10 years. [258284]
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 Library.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 2 March 2009:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for reply.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) defines a small primary school as one with 100 pupils or fewer, while a small secondary school has 600 pupils or fewer, and these definitions are used in this response. Data identifying the total number of pupils on a school's roll in each academic year are derived from the DCSF Annual School Census. Schools for which the number of pupils on roll is not available have been excluded from this analysis.
Ofsted introduced a judgement of schools’ overall effectiveness in January 2000, and this response covers data since that point. Under the school inspection frameworks used between January 2000 and August 2005 (commonly known as Section 10), the school’s overall effectiveness judgement was made using a seven point scale: excellent, very good, good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory, poor and very poor. Since September 2005, the overall effectiveness judgement has been made under the current school inspection framework (commonly known as Section 5) using a four point scale: outstanding, good, satisfactory and inadequate. Tables A to D show the percentages of schools by grade for each academic year since January 2000.
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, which are available on the Ofsted website at:
A copy of this reply has been sent to Rt Hon Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
| Table A—Overall effectiveness in primary schools with 1-100 pupils inspected between January 2000 and 2004 / 05 | ||||||||
| Overall effectiveness: percentage of schools inspected | ||||||||
| Number of inspections | Excellent | Very good | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | Poor | Very poor | |
| Note: Percentages are rounded and do not always add exactly to 100 | ||||||||
| Table B — Overall effectiveness in primary schools with 1-100 pupils inspected i n each academic year since 2005/ 06 | |||||
| Overall effectiveness: percentage of schools inspected | |||||
| Number of inspections | Outstanding | Good | Satisfactory | Inadequate | |
| Table C—Overall effectiveness in secondary schools with 1-600 pupils inspected in each academic year between January 2000 and 2004 / 05 | ||||||||
| Overall effectiveness: percentage of schools inspected | ||||||||
| Number of inspections | Excellent | Very good | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | Poor | Very poor | |
| Table D—Overall effectiveness in secondary schools with 1-600 pupils inspected in each academic year since 2005 / 06 | |||||
| Overall effectiveness: percentage of schools inspected | |||||
| Number of school inspections | Outstanding | Good | Satisfactory | Inadequate | |
| Note: Percentages are rounded and do not always add exactly to 100 | |||||
Youth Services: Finance
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many myplace projects his Department has funded in (a) cities and (b) coalfield communities. [260669]
Beverley Hughes [holding answer 4 March 2009]: To date, myplace funding of £240 million has been awarded to 62 projects. A total number of 31 projects worth £122.4 million are in cities and three projects worth £13.1 million are in coalfield areas.
Innovation, Universities and Skills
Adult Education
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many additional full-time equivalent places he has made available in further education colleges for post-19 adult education and training in each year from 2009-10 to 2011-12. [261656]
Mr. Simon: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) grant letter 2009-10 (18 November 2009) set out planned investment in adults and associated learner numbers for 2008/09 and 2009/10.
Investment through the LSC is expected to support around 3.4 million adult learners in 2008/09 and 3.3 million learners in 2009/10 across all funding routes. These are not expressed as full-time equivalents as this method of calculating the volume of learning is not applicable for all funding routes.
We are committed to ensuring that public investment supports adults to gain skills necessary to enter and progress into sustainable employment and further learning. This strategy has seen record numbers of learners participate and achieve qualifications that provide these skills. Reprioritisation of funding towards these priorities and away from high numbers of shorter courses will affect the total number of LSC-funded adult learners.
Learner number figures are based on national assumptions of what our investment could deliver in each of the funding routes. The volume and level of courses delivered will follow demand. It is therefore not possible to say how many of these places will be delivered in further education colleges over these years.
Planned budgets for 2010-11 with associated learner numbers will be confirmed towards the end of the year in the normal way. Budgets for 2011-12 and beyond will be agreed as part of the next spending review.
Apprentices
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many (a) private and (b) local authority-sponsored apprenticeships have started in (i) England and (ii) each English region in each year since 2005; and how many of each are projected to start in (A) England and (B) each English region in 2009-10. [260107]
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