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Pre-school Education: Milton Keynes
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many registered childcare places for children under eight years old there are in Milton Keynes. [279719]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is shown in the following table.
| Table 1: Number( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3) of registered child care places for children under eight years of age by type of care—Milton Keynes local authority area , position at 31 March 2009 | |
| Type of care | Number |
| * = Less than 5. n/a = Not available. (1) Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. (2) Data Source: Ofsted. (3) Figures may not add up to total due to rounding. | |
Ofsted have collected information on the number of registered child care places available to children aged eight and under on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published in their report “Registered Childcare Providers and Places, March 2009”, which is available on their website:
Pupil Referral Units
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much contact time pupils of each age in pupil referral units received on average in the latest period for which figures are available. [266830]
Mr. Coaker: Reliable information on contact time is not available.
Work is underway to develop pupil level data collections for pupils in pupil referral units, and this should address the current reliability issues.
Pupils: Disadvantaged
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils eligible to receive free school meals achieved level 4 or above in (a) English and (b) mathematics in Key Stage 2 tests in each year since 2005. [277959]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The number and proportion of pupils eligible to receive free school meals that achieved level 4 or above in (a) English and (b) mathematics in key stage 2 tests in the school year 2007/08 can be found in Tables 6 and 7 of the Statistical First Release ‘Attainment by Pupil Characteristics, in England 2007/08, January 2009 (Provisional)’ at
Information for the school year 2006/07 can be found in tables 5 and 6 of the Statistical First Release ‘National Curriculum Assessment, GCSE and Equivalent Attainment and Post-16 Attainment by Pupil Characteristics, in England 2006/07’ at
Information for the school year 2005/06 can be found in tables 1 and 2 of the Statistical First Release ‘National Curriculum Assessments, GCSE and Equivalent Attainment and Post-16 Attainment by Pupil Characteristics, in England 2005/06’ at
School Meals
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his Department's policy is on participation in the EU School Fruit scheme. [277233]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: No decision has yet been made regarding participation in the EU School Fruit Scheme. In consultation with the Department for Health we are checking implementation regulations to help form our decision.
Schools: Standards
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what results each local authority in England achieved against the criteria included in the National Challenge in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what percentage of children met the criteria in each such year; what percentage of children were entitled to free school meals in each local education authority (LEA) in each such year, ranked from highest to lowest; what rank each authority achieved in each of the criteria included in the National Challenge; and for each local education authority what its rank order number was against the (a) National Challenge and (b) free school meals criterion. [273188]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The current National Challenge set to each maintained mainstream schools is for more than 30 per cent. of their Key Stage 4 cohort to achieve five or more GCSEs at A*-C or the equivalent including the subjects of English and mathematics.
This indicator is available only for 2006 and onwards although data for free school meals eligibility are available for the requested years.
The available data have been placed in the House Libraries.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools which achieved a rating of good or outstanding in their last Ofsted inspection received a rating of satisfactory or inadequate for behaviour. [274586]
Mr. Coaker: 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 Libraries of both Houses.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, 13 May 2009:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for reply.
The 'inadequate' inspection outcome was introduced in September 2005 as part of a four-point scale: outstanding, good, satisfactory, inadequate. Therefore, only schools which have been inspected under the current inspection framework have been included in this analysis.
Since the introduction of the current framework, no schools have been judged to have outstanding or good overall effectiveness and inadequate behaviour. One school was judged to have outstanding overall effectiveness and satisfactory behaviour at its most recent inspection, while 185 schools were judged to have good overall effectiveness and satisfactory behaviour at their most recent inspection.
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.
Sure Start Programme: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point have enrolled in Sure Start in each year since 2003. [280219]
Dawn Primarolo:
Essex county council currently has 60 Sure Start Children’s Centres offering access to services to around 49,722 children under five and their families. In Castle Point borough council there are three centres
offering services to approximately 2,828 children. The Department does not hold information centrally on how many children have enrolled in Sure Start in each year since 2003.
Young People: Databases
Mrs. Laing: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) records and (b) data fields there are in (i) the National Pupil Database, (ii) ContactPoint, (iii) the Common Assessment Framework and eCAF, (iv) the Integrated Children's System, (v) the Wiring Up Youth Justice system, (vi) the Youth Offender Information System, (vii) RAISE, (viii) the Universal Monitoring and Evaluation Information System, (ix) the ASSET Young Offender Assessment Profile and (x) Onset. [265742]
Dawn Primarolo: The Department for Children, Schools and Families is responsible for (i) the National Pupil Database, (ii) ContactPoint, (iii) the Common Assessment Framework and eCAF, and (iv) the Integrated Children's System.
The YJB, DCSF and MOJ jointly sponsor Wiring Up Youth Justice (v), which is a programme, not a system for holding data. The Youth Offender Information System (vi), RAISE (vii), and the Universal Monitoring and Evaluation Information System (viii), are commercially supplied, local authority based systems, which the YJB monitors and has some limited influence on. The Youth Justice Board, an executive agency jointly sponsored by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Ministry of Justice, is responsible for the ASSET Young Offender Assessment Profile (xi) and Onset (x), which are national assessment tools, and not electronic systems for holding data.
I am able to provide the following information.
As an indication of the number of records in The National Pupil Database, there were around 7.3 million full-time equivalent pupils in state funded primary, secondary and special schools in 2008.
The National Pupil Database is a longitudinal database linking pupil and student characteristics to school and college learning aims and attainment information for all children in maintained schools in England since 2002. The National Pupil Database also holds individual-pupil level attainment data for pupils in non-maintained and independent schools who partake in the tests or examinations.
The National Pupil Database holds pupil and school characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, attendance and exclusions (sourced from the School Census) for maintained schools only, matched to pupil-level attainment data (Foundation Stage Profile, Key Stage assessments and external examinations) collected from schools and local authorities by the Department, the National Assessment Agency and awarding bodies. The number of data items included for each pupil will depend on where they are in the education cycle and on which tests and examinations they have taken.
In March 2009 there were 12.4 million records on ContactPoint with a further 445 thousand records in the archive. ContactPoint has a number of data fields
which contain information supplied by each data source. Some fields can hold multiple entries, for example where two addresses are known. Some fields hold information calculated by the system rather than supplied by data sources and some are considered metadata, such as verification levels and the date last updated.
The national eCAF system is currently under development and not yet at the stage where (a) the number of records or (b) the number of data fields that will be held in the system can be defined.
The Integrated Children's System
The Integrated Children's System is a set of requirements that guide local authorities in implementing their local children's social care case management systems. Each local authority is separately responsible for its own IT systems and case records, and information on these is not held centrally.
Wiring Up Youth Justice programme
The Wiring Up Youth Justice programme (WuYJ) is a business change programme of projects that improves the ability of YOTs, the YJB and the secure estate to electronically access and exchange information that is already held in existing case management systems. As such, it is not a system where data is stored. However, WuYJ is developing the Youth Justice Management Information System, which from 2009/10 will store limited data extracted by YOTs from UMIS, YOIS and RAISE. It is replacing the Themis system which previously carried out this function.
The Youth Offending Information System
The Youth Offending Information System (YOIS) is a case management system developed and marketed by CACI (formerly Social Software Ltd), and made available to local authorities to purchase on behalf of their youth offending teams. Over one hundred local authorities have purchased licences to use this system.
The RAISE system (also known as Careworks YOT) is a case management system developed and marketed by Careworks Ltd. and made available to local authorities to purchase on behalf of their youth offending teams. Over 40 local authorities have purchased licences to use this system.
Universal Monitoring and Evaluation Information System (UMIS)
UMIS is an advanced information management system developed and marketed by CACI (formerly Social Software Ltd.) for use by all services involved in the field of prevention. It records the whole intervention process from observations and concerns, through to referral, assessment, panel, intervention and evaluation, providing an overview of the work undertaken with the child, young person or family so this can be evaluated on an ongoing basis and help point to how better outcomes can be achieved in the future.
Research commissioned by the Youth Justice Board has established the main risk factors that lead to youth offending and also the protective factors that can prevent it. Asset provides a common, structured framework for assessment of all young people involved in the criminal justice system. It is a standard national assessment tool
of the factors contributing to a young person's offending. Asset details are recorded on YOIS or RAISE. Asset is a national assessment tool, not a system.
The Onset referral and assessment framework was designed by the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford for the YJB and was piloted by the 13 pilot youth inclusion and support panels.
Onset promotes the Youth Justice Board's prevention strategy by helping to identify risk factors to be reduced and protective factors to be enhanced. It also provides information which might be helpful in selecting appropriate interventions for those identified as needing early intervention.
When collated, the information on Onset can be used for monitoring, as well as targeting specific sub-groups where applicable, or providing progress data to steering groups. The new prevention counting rules require all Youth Justice Board-funded prevention programmes to use Onset as the basis for their referral and assessment mechanisms. Onset details are recorded on UMIS and RAISE. Onset is a national assessment tool, not a system.
More detailed information about these systems is not held centrally and it would far exceed the cost threshold to collect and collate it.
Justice
Civil Service Bill: Draft
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his latest timetable is for a Civil Service Bill. [276391]
Mr. Wills: The draft Constitutional Renewal Bill contained provisions in respect of the civil service. We anticipate that the Bill will be introduced before the summer recess for carry-over into the next parliamentary session.
John Howell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the latest timetable is for the parliamentary stages of a Civil Service Bill. [276403]
Mr. Wills: The draft Constitutional Renewal Bill contained provisions in respect of the civil service. We anticipate that the Bill will be introduced before the summer recess for carry-over into the next parliamentary session.
Coroners: Operating Costs
Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to the public purse was of the operation of coroners’ courts in each of the last five years. [279650]
Bridget Prentice: The Ministry of Justice does not have any operational responsibility for the coroner service. The costs of operating coroners’ courts are shared between coroners’ respective local authorities and police authorities, and no costing information is kept centrally by this Department. Data collected by Communities and Local Government give total revenue spending by local authorities on the coroner service over the last five years as:
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