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Schools: Admissions

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many maintained schools other than grammar schools select a proportion of their pupils on the basis of aptitude in a particular subject; and if he will make a statement. [262326]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Following local consultation, maintained schools may introduce selection of up to 10 per cent. of their intake on the basis of aptitude for prescribed subjects.

As these arrangements are determined locally, we do not hold data centrally on the number of schools who do so.

Schools: Anti-Semitism

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what requests he has received from the Jewish community for additional school security measures in the last three months. [261740]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Secretary of State received one letter on this issue since the beginning of December 2008. This was a letter dated 1 December from the Community Security Trust. That letter followed previous exchanges and expressed the Trust’s hope that the Department’s Targeted Capital Fund might provide additional funding for security at Jewish schools.

Schools: Warnings

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many warning notices have been issued to schools by each local authority in each year from 1997 to 2008; and if he will make a statement. [261645]

Jim Knight: Local authorities are not currently required to inform the Secretary of State if they issue a warning notice but since April 2007 (when the Education and
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Inspections Act 2006 came into force) have been under a duty to copy all warning notices to Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools.

Between April 2007 and August 2008 17 warning notices were issued to schools Between September 2008 and mid February 2009, 24 warning notices have been issued.

Science: GCSE

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in (a) England, (b) Kent and (c) Ashford constituency took one or more science GCSE in the last five year period for which figures are available. [249185]

Jim Knight: The figures available are given in the following table.

Number of children who took one or more science GCSE
	2008	2007	2006	2005
England	592,209	599,687	592,850	583,282
Maintained Schools(1)	549,813	551,401	544,766	536,866
Kent(1)	15,595	15,563	15,263	15,218
Ashford(2)	1,118	986	1,036	1,045
(1) Including academies. (2) Based on school location. Notes: 1. The data for 2004 are not comparable. 2. Data presented on same basis as table 10, 11 and 12 of the 2008 GCSE SFR. Source: Attainment and Achievement Table

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools entered one or more pupils for separate sciences at GCSE in the most recent year for which figures are available. [249886]

Jim Knight: In 2008, 1,474 maintained mainstream schools entered one or more pupils for either physics, chemistry or biology GCSE.

Secondary Education: Chelmsford

Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children were not offered a place at their first preference secondary school in West Chelmsford constituency in each of the last five years. [261764]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: 2008 was the first year that local authorities were required to provide data to the Secretary of State on secondary school offers made to parents on the day that parents are notified of their school places. Data was not collected at a constituency level. Figures for Essex local authority, in which West Chelmsford constituency is situated, showed that 19.2 per cent. (3,087) of children resident in that authority who were eligible to transfer to secondary school in September 2008 were not offered a place at their parents' first choice school. 96 per cent. were offered a preferred school.

The day that parents are notified of their secondary school place is the first part of the process of obtaining a preferred school. These figures are likely to have changed by September as places became available or appeals were successful.

Data on 2009 secondary school applications and offers will be published on 12 March.

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Social Services: Co-operation

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of procedures for co-operation between education and social services at local authority level. [258202]

Beverley Hughes: Since 1 January 2008, the Children Act 2004, which followed the Victoria Climbié inquiry and the “Every Child Matters” Green Paper, has required local authorities to have a single director of children’s services with responsibility for education and children’s social services. This single officer provides a clear line of accountability for, and strong leadership of, all children’s services.

Inspectorates assess the effectiveness of children’s services. Until 2008, Ofsted made an annual performance assessment (APA) of each council’s children’s services. Inspectorates undertook a joint area review (JAR) of children’s services in each local authority area during the period from 2005 to 2008.

From 2009, APAs and JARs will be replaced by a new comprehensive area assessment (CAA), led by the Audit Commission and including Ofsted and other relevant inspectorates. CAAs will report annually on services, including children’s services, in each local authority area. Ofsted will lead a programme to inspect children’s safeguarding and services for looked-after children, in each local authority area every three years. Inspectors may also decide to carry out inspections on other services, should a CAA report indicate that they are poor and not improving.

Special Educational Needs

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent on issuing statements of special educational needs in each local authority area in the most recent year for which figures are available. [256343]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Department does not collect the information on how much was spent on issuing statements of special educational needs. However, the information provided to the Department by local authorities on their total planned net expenditure on the administration, assessment and co-ordination of statements for 2008-09 is contained within the following table.

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Local authority name	Table 1: 2.0.2 SEN administration assessment and co-ordination
England	86,016,000
Barking and Dagenham	277,000
Barnet	1,330,000
Barnsley	297,000
Bath and NE Somerset	188,000
Bedfordshire	716,000
Bexley	290,000
Birmingham	2,180,000
Blackburn and Darwen	294,000
Blackpool	293,000
Bolton	360,000
Bournemouth	300,000
Bracknell Forest	196,000
Bradford	893,000
Brent	990,000
Brighton and Hove	234,000
Bromley	829,000
Buckinghamshire	2,926,000
Bury	0
Calderdale	134,000
Cambridgeshire	815,000
Camden	982,000
Cheshire	1,334,000
City of Bristol	473,000
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	337,000
City of London	8,000
City of Nottingham	68,000
City of Peterborough	357,000
City of Plymouth	241,000
Cornwall	1,232,000
Coventry	497,000
Croydon	670,000
Cumbria	1,028,000
Darlington	219,000
Derby	100,000
Derbyshire	1,202,000
Devon	656,000
Doncaster	365,000
Dorset	569,000
Dudley	961,000
Durham	766,000
Ealing	457,000
East Riding of Yorkshire	127,000
East Sussex	1,370,000
Enfield	555,000
Essex	0
Gateshead	436,000
Gloucestershire	445,000
Greenwich	765,000
Hackney	524,000
Halton	187,000
Hammersmith and Fulham	390,000
Hampshire	2,035,000
Haringey	680,000
Harrow	171,000
Hartlepool	81,000
Havering	339,000
Herefordshire	586,000
Hertfordshire	2,781,000
Hillingdon	507,000
Hounslow	479,000
Isle of Wight	261,000
Isles of Scilly	7,000
Islington	631,000
Kensington and Chelsea	511,000
Kent	3,126,000
Kingston-upon-Thames	298,000
Kirklees	339,000
Knowsley	339,000
Lambeth	129,000
Lancashire	0
Leeds	344,000
Leicester City	501,000
Leicestershire	624,000
Lewisham	608,000
Lincolnshire	2,105,000
Liverpool	97,000
Luton	286,000
Manchester	134,000
Medway	353,000
Merton	545,000
Middlesbrough	286,000
Milton Keynes	1,002,000
Newcastle upon Tyne	28,000
Newham	1,444,000
Norfolk	1,769,000
North East Lincolnshire	599,000
North Lincolnshire	107,000
North Somerset	286,000
North Tyneside	293,000
North Yorkshire	980,000
Northamptonshire	674,000
Northumberland	575,000
Nottinghamshire	657,000
Oldham	247,000
Oxfordshire	1,024,000
Poole	213,000
Portsmouth	203,000
Reading	118,000
Redbridge	0
Redcar and Cleveland	95,000
Richmond-upon-Thames	355,000
Rochdale	367,000
Rotherham	337,000
Rutland	186,000
Salford	392,000
Sandwell	803,000
Sefton	134,000
Sheffield	579,000
Shropshire	92,000
Slough	260,000
Solihull	178,000
Somerset	1,322,000
South Gloucestershire	449,000
South Tyneside	413,000
Southampton	296,000
Southend	305,000
Southwark	635,000
St Helens	250,000
Staffordshire	834,000
Stockport	389,000
Stockton-on-Tees	271,000
Stoke	306,000
Suffolk	469,000
Sunderland	365,000
Surrey	1,866,000
Sutton	562,000
Swindon	281,000
Tameside	385,000
Telford and Wrekin	331,000
Thurrock	383,000
Torbay	161,000
Tower Hamlets	737,000
Trafford	496,000
Wakefield	159,000
Walsall	498,000
Waltham Forest	666,000
Wandsworth	632,000
Warrington	401,000
Warwickshire	1,410,000
West Berkshire	229,000
West Sussex	513,000
Westminster	810,000
Wigan	939,000
Wiltshire	946,000
Windsor and Maidenhead	245,000
Wirral	382,000
Wokingham	616,000
Wolverhampton	353,000
Worcestershire	1,613,000
York	57,000
Notes: Bury, Essex, Lancashire and Redbridge local authorities have recorded zero for line 2.0.2. These LAs have recorded some elements of SEN administration assessment and co-ordination within other SEN lines in the data collection. Lines include 2.0.1 (Educational Psychology Service), 1.2.1 (Provision for pupils with SEN, (including assigned resources), 1.2.2 (Provision for pupils with SEN, provision not included in line 1.2.1) and 1.2.3 (Support for inclusion). Detailed guidance is provided by DCSF on how to complete various lines in the data collection. It is however for each local authority to determine how they eventually record these activities.

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