The Department does not hold the requested information for the UK. Information relating to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are available from the Welsh Assembly Government, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Department of Education, respectively.
Special Educational Needs: Disadvantaged
Tim Loughton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils in each local authority area who were eligible for free school meals, had statements of special educational needs and were children in care, attended mainstream schools in 2008. [260506]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry:
The information requested is shown in the table.
The information provided is from the School Census however this is not the usual source of data for information on children in care. Usually we would use the looked after children database but this does not hold all the details requested here.
The School Census shows that there were 34,390 pupils aged 5 to 19 attending primary, secondary and special schools and classed as being in care as at January 2008. Data published by the Department in SFR 23/2008: Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2008 show 47,600 children aged between 5 and 19 as being looked after as at 31 March 2008. However, the School Census does not cover all looked after children; information is not collected for pupils in alternative provision, including pupil referral units, FE colleges, voluntary provision and those not in education or training.
These differences in coverage will explain the different counts to an extent, but it is possible that the School Census undercounts the number of looked after children in primary, secondary and special schools.
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LA maintained primary schools and state-funded secondary schools( 1,2) : Pupils eligible for free school meals, with statements of special educational needs and in care, as at January 2008, England, by local authority
Number of pupils( 3,4)
England
430
North East
20
Darlington
(5)
Durham
10
Gateshead
0
Hartlepool
0
Middlesbrough
10
Newcastle upon Tyne
(5)
North Tyneside
(5)
Northumberland
(5)
Redcar and Cleveland
0
South Tyneside
(5)
Stockton-on-Tees
(5)
Sunderland
(5)
North West
120
Blackburn with Darwen
(5)
Blackpool
(5)
Bolton
10
Bury
(5)
Cheshire
10
Cumbria
10
Halton
(5)
Knowsley
0
Lancashire
20
Liverpool
10
Manchester
20
Oldham
(5)
Rochdale
(5)
Salford
(5)
Sefton
(5)
St. Helens
(5)
Stockport
10
Tameside
(5)
Trafford
10
Warrington
(5)
Wigan
(5)
Wirral
10
Yorkshire and the Humber
50
Barnsley
(5)
Bradford
10
Calderdale
(5)
Doncaster
(5)
East Riding of Yorkshire
(5)
Kingston upon Hull, City of
(5)
Kirklees
(5)
Leeds
10
North East Lincolnshire
0
North Lincolnshire
(5)
North Yorkshire
(5)
Rotherham
(5)
Sheffield
10
Wakefield
(5)
York
(5)
East Midlands
30
Derby
(5)
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Derbyshire
10
Leicester
10
Leicestershire
(5)
Lincolnshire
(5)
Northamptonshire
10
Nottingham
(5)
Nottinghamshire
0
Rutland
0
West Midlands
50
Birmingham
20
Coventry
0
Dudley
10
Herefordshire
0
Sandwell
0
Shropshire
10
Solihull
(5)
Staffordshire
(5)
Stoke-on-Trent
(5)
Telford and Wrekin
(5)
Walsall
(5)
Warwickshire
(5)
Wolverhampton
(5)
Worcestershire
(5)
East of England
30
Bedfordshire
(5)
Cambridgeshire
0
Essex
10
Hertfordshire
(5)
Luton
(5)
Norfolk
(5)
Peterborough
(5)
Southend-on-Sea
(5)
Suffolk
(5)
Thurrock
(5)
London
70
Inner London
30
Camden
(5)
City of London
0
Hackney
10
Hammersmith and Fulham
10
Haringey
0
Islington
(5)
Kensington and Chelsea
(5)
Lambeth
10
Lewisham
(5)
Newham
(5)
Southwark
(5)
Tower Hamlets
10
Wandsworth
(5)
Westminster
(5)
Outer London
30
Barking and Dagenham
0
Barnet
(5)
Bexley
(5)
Brent
(5)
Bromley
0
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Croydon
(5)
Ealing
(5)
Enfield
(5)
Greenwich
10
Harrow
(5)
Havering
(5)
Hillingdon
(5)
Hounslow
(5)
Kingston upon Thames
0
Merton
0
Redbridge
(5)
Richmond upon Thames
(5)
Sutton
(5)
Waltham Forest
(5)
South East
40
Bracknell Forest
0
Brighton and Hove
(5)
Buckinghamshire
(5)
East Sussex
(5)
Hampshire
(5)
Isle of Wight
(5)
Kent
10
Medway
(5)
Milton Keynes
0
Oxfordshire
(5)
Portsmouth
(5)
Reading
(5)
Slough
(5)
Southampton
0
Surrey
10
West Berkshire
0
West Sussex
0
Windsor and Maidenhead
(5)
Wokingham
0
South West
20
Bath and North East Somerset
(5)
Bournemouth
0
Bristol, City of
(5)
Cornwall
0
Devon
(5)
Dorset
(5)
Gloucestershire
(5)
Isles of Scilly
0
North Somerset
0
Plymouth
(5)
Poole
(5)
Somerset
(5)
South Gloucestershire
0
Swindon
(5)
Torbay
(5)
Wiltshire
(5)
(1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Includes city technology colleges and academies. (3) Pupils aged 5-19. (4) Includes dually registered pupils. (5 )Less than 5. Note:
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census.