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The information has been taken from SFR 09/2008: Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in Maintained Schools in England: January 2008 which can be found at:
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the change in his Department's deprivation expenditure relating to schools in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03. [267429]
Jim Knight: Local authorities fund their schools by means of their own formulae to meet the priorities of their schools and pupils. The requirement to have a specific factor in the formula relating to deprivation was not introduced until the financial year 2002-03. Therefore there are no figures for planned changes in deprivation expenditure for the years specified.
The needs assessment for each local authority prior to the introduction of Dedicated Schools Grant in 2006-07 contained indicators related to deprivation but was provided for all defined responsibilities of local authorities and schools. It is not possible to identify actual expenditure on deprivation as schools' expenditure is reported in terms of salaries, resource costs and premises costs for the school covering all pupils including those that are deprived. The returns do not identify expenditure on particular pupils or types of pupil.
Pupils: Health
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the number of children in maintained schools diagnosed with (a) dyslexia, (b) dyscalculia, (c) dyspraxia, (d) dysgraphia, (e) Asperger's syndrome, (f) attention deficit disorder, (g) attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, (h) Meares-Irlen syndrome and (i) epilepsy. [267741]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry:
The Department's most recent data on children identified with special educational needs (SEN) appear in Statistical First Release 15/2008, published on 25 June 2008. Table 9 provides data on types of need for children at the School Action Plus stage of SEN support and for those with statements.
Our data collection categories of specific learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorder and behavioural, emotional and social difficulties include children whose learning difficulties entail (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g). Those identified with Meares-Irlen Syndrome could be included under the specific learning difficulties or sensory impairments categories. Those with epilepsy who have learning difficulties which call for special educational provision to be made would be included in the category relating to their particular learning difficulties. The data include children at non-maintained special schools. Data by type of need are not collected for children at the School Action stage of SEN support.
The Government's child health strategy, Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures, published on 12 February, suggested as a flavour of prevalence that out of a child population of 80,000 there would be over 300 with epilepsy.
Pupils: Languages
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many and what proportion of pupils with English as a second language had (a) statemented and (b) non-statemented special educational needs in each year since 1997; [262350]
(2) how many and what proportion of pupils whose first language was not English had (a) statemented and (b) non-statemented special educational needs in each year since 1997. [265670]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The available information is shown in the table.
Data on pupils with special educational needs, whose first language was not English, is only available from 2002.
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much on average his Department spent per pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary education at the school, excluding special schools, where the average spend per pupil was (i) highest and (ii) lowest in each local education authority in the last year for which figures are available. [267431]
Jim Knight: The England average and local education authorities with the (i) highest and (ii) lowest per pupil revenue funding figures are shown in the table. A split of funding by primary and secondary schools is not available as the main source of funding—the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG)—is a funding distribution mechanism with a single guaranteed unit of funding for each pupil in an LA. The DSG is the per pupil funding from DCSF to an LA but, subject to satisfying the minimum funding guarantee for schools, it is left up to the LA to decide locally how much to fund their individual schools (via their local formula).
The following figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 19 and are provided in cash terms:
| DSG plus grants revenue funding per pupil , 2008-09 | |
| £ | |
| Notes: 1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant, School Standards Grant, School Standards Grant (Personalisation) and Standards Fund as well as funding from the Learning and Skills Council; it excludes grants which are not allocated at LA level. 2. Price Base: cash. 3. These figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 19. 4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10. 5. Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. | |
Schools: Admissions
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools using supplementary information forms in their admissions procedures do not have a Plain English Crystal Mark; and if he will make a statement. [266334]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: We do not hold the information requested.
Schools: Finance
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he takes to monitor the use by local education authorities of funding for schools allocated by local distribution formula; and if he will make a statement. [267430]
Jim Knight: Section 52 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 requires local authorities to prepare a statement containing such information relating to their planned expenditure as may be prescribed before the beginning of each financial year and at the end of each financial year a statement of the expenditure actually incurred in the year in a prescribed form. The prescribed forms are currently set out in the Education (Budget Statements) (England) Regulations 2008 (as amended) and the Education (Outturn Statements) (England) Regulations 2008.
Special Educational Needs
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils with (a) statemented, (b) non-statemented, (c) any and (d) no special educational needs attended schools assessed as inadequate by Ofsted in each of the last five years. [264671]
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 House Libraries.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 30 March 2009:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for reply.
Table A shows how many pupils, with statemented, non-statemented, any and no special educational needs, attended schools which were in special measures at the end of each of the last five academic years. Table B shows these figures as percentages.
Special measures is an Ofsted category, defined 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 maintained schools changed in September 2005. As a result, there has been no consistent ‘inadequate' category over this period. These tables are, therefore, limited to those maintained schools placed in special measures, as this category has been in place throughout the period in question.
Pupil numbers have been calculated using information from the Department for Children, Schools and Families' School Census (pupil level) on pupils registered at one school only, and on pupils registered at two schools, but using their main school as recorded on the census. Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) do not complete the School Census at pupil level and so have been excluded from this analysis.
A copy of this reply has been sent to the right hon. Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners, and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
| Table A: Number of pupils, with statemented, non-statemented, any and no special educational needs, attending schools (excluding pupil referral units) which were in special measures at 31 August 2004 to 2008 | |||||
| Number of pupils in schools placed in special measures | |||||
| Special educational needs | |||||
| With special educational needs with statements | With special educational needs without statements | Any special educational needs | No special educational needs | Total | |
| Note: Pupil referral units do not submit pupil-level data and are, therefore, excluded from this analysis. Source: Figures are based on School Census (pupil level) data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families. | |||||
| Table B: Percentage of pupils, with statemented, non-statemented, any and no special educational needs, attending schools (excluding pupil referral units) which were in special measures at 31 August 2004 to 2008 | |||||
| Percentage of pupils in schools placed in special measures | |||||
| Special educational needs | |||||
| With special educational needs with statements | With special educational needs without statements | Any special educational needs | No special educational needs | Total | |
| Notes: 1. Percentages may not sum to totals due to rounding. 2. Pupil referral units do not submit pupil-level data and are, therefore, excluded from this analysis. Source: Figures are based on School Census (pupil level) data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families. | |||||
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