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| Mainstream maintained schools in which no pupil achieved a grade G or above in GCSE history | ||||
| All schools | ||||
| Number of schools with more than 10 pupils attempting GCSE history | Number of schools with 10 or fewer pupils attempting GCSE history | Number | Percentage | |
| Note: 1.These figures are derived from the Achievement and Attainment Tables data. 2. Figures for 2006 and 2008 relate to the achievements of pupils at the end of KS4. Figures for 1997, 2000 and 2003 relate to 15 year-olds (age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August). 3. Only open schools published in the Achievement and Attainment Tables have been included. | ||||
Grammar Schools
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children attended grammar schools in each year since 2007; what proportion of the secondary school population this figure represented in each year; and if he will make a statement. [280333]
Mr. Coaker: The requested information is shown in the table:
Pre-school Education: Per Capita Costs
Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many nursery school places there are per head of population in each local authority area. [281501]
Dawn Primarolo: All local authorities in England have a duty to secure sufficient childcare places to meet the requirements of parents in their area in order to enable them to work or undertake education or training leading to work. They must also secure free early years provision for pre-school children of a prescribed age.
The Department publishes information on the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four year-olds. This is derived by counting children taking up 12 and a half hours per week as one place, 10 hours per week as 0.8 places, seven and a half hours per week as 0.6 places, five hours per week as 0.4 places and two and a half hours per week as 0.2 places.
The latest information on the number of free early education places filled by three and four year-olds can be found in Table 5 of the Statistical First Release Provision for Children Under Five Years of Age in England: January 2009. The latest figures can be found at the following link:
Information on nursery school places per head of population has not been included. This is because children can access their free entitlement across different local authority areas and therefore part time equivalent places are not on an equivalent basis with the local authority population figures. Population figures at this level of disaggregation are also not as reliable as at the national level.
Pre-school Education: Standards
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) maintained and (b) independent nurseries in each local authority area were placed in special measures in each year since 2001. [276655]
Dawn Primarolo: These are matters for Ofsted. The Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, has written to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply has been placed in the House Libraries.
Pupils: Obesity
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what training and professional development is provided for teachers of physical education to ensure that children classified as overweight and obese receive appropriate assistance to participate in physical activity at school. [278301]
Mr. Iain Wright: The PE and sport professional development programme is raising the quality of teaching and learning in PE and sport in schools. As part of the programme, schools are supported in carrying out an audit of their professional development needs in PE and sport. Schools can then choose, free of charge, from a menu of professional development resources designed to address these needs. The programme includes resources aimed specifically at getting young people more active, whatever their circumstances. The recent Ofsted report - Physical Education in Schools, 2005/08 praised the Professional Development programme for the way it was improving the quality of teaching and learning in PE and sport in schools.
As announced in Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: One Year On, the Government are currently exploring the development of a further focus within the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People which specifically helps overweight and obese children to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the funding allocation per secondary school pupil is in (a) Northamptonshire and (b) England in 2009-10. [279324]
Mr. Coaker: The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (GUF) for 2009-10 for Northamptonshire local authority and England are shown in the following table. There is funding from the Learning and Skills Council and other grants that support the schools budget whose allocations have not yet been finalised for 2009-10. Separate figures are not available for secondary schools as funding is not allocated by phase. The figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 15 and are in cash terms.
| 2009-10 DSG GUF | |
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the funding allocation per secondary school pupil is in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in 2009-10. [281853]
Mr. Coaker: The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (GUF) for 2009-10 for Essex local authority is £4,067. This is for all funded pupils aged three to 15 and is in cash terms. There is funding from the Learning and Skills Council and other grants that support the schools budget whose allocations have not yet been finalised for 2009-10. Separate figures are not available for secondary schools as funding is not allocated by phase.
Schools: Buildings
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many maintained (a) primary and (b) secondary schools operate entirely from (i) temporary and (ii) pre-1919 buildings; and if he will make a statement. [281181]
Mr. Coaker: Asset management data were supplied to the Department by local education authorities, most recently in 2005. The data showed 18 per cent. and 8 per cent. of floor area in pre-1919 buildings for primary schools and secondary schools respectively. With the unprecedented levels of central Government capital support for investment in schools, updated information could be expected to show lower percentages.
The data included information on the amount of accommodation in temporary buildings. However, checks indicated that the completeness and quality of this information was not good enough for accurate analysis.
Temporary accommodation is appropriate where there is too little time to construct permanent accommodation, or where the need is likely to be short term. In such circumstances, modern, high-quality temporary buildings provide a good environment for teaching and learning. Where they are new or relocated, they are required to meet building environmental standards similar to those which apply to permanent buildings.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children attend (a) primary and (b) secondary schools housed in temporary buildings; and if he will make a statement. [281182]
Mr. Coaker: Data on school temporary buildings were supplied to the Department by local education authorities, most recently in 2005. However, the data did not show numbers of pupils taught in those buildings. Furthermore, checks indicated that the completeness and quality of the data was not good enough for accurate analysis.
Temporary accommodation is appropriate where there is too little time to construct permanent accommodation, or where the need is likely to be short term. In such circumstances, modern, high-quality temporary buildings provide a good environment for teaching and learning. Where they are new or relocated, they are required to meet building environmental standards similar to those which apply to permanent buildings.
Schools: Knives
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children have been (a) temporarily and (b) permanently excluded from schools for (i) violent behaviour and (ii) carrying a knife in each of the last five years. [272968]
Mr. Coaker: Reasons for exclusion were collected for the first time in 2003-04. There is no category specifically on ‘carrying a knife'. There are categories for verbal abuse/threatening behaviour and for physical assault.
The latest data available are for 2006-07; information on exclusions for 2007-08 is scheduled to be published in the summer.
Information on reasons for exclusions is published as follows:
2006-07
Tables 9 and 10
Schools: Standards
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 2 June 2009, Official Report, column 442W, on schools: standards, what the name is of each adviser; and how much each has cost in 2008-09. [279911]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 15 June 2009]: We do not have information on each individual adviser, or their cost, and to collect this information would involve disproportionate cost and contravene data protection rules.
The figure of around £90 million, given in the answer of 2 June, is an estimate of the total cost of field forces which provide support and challenge to local authorities and children's trusts across the full range of children's outcomes. The largest field force supporting school standards is the national strategies and the cost of their national and regional field force in 2008-09 was around £30 million. However, this includes work on other areas such as early years and school behaviour.
Science: GCSE
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of pupils educated in maintained mainstream schools achieved a GCSE in core science and no other science qualification in 2008. [278958]
Mr. Coaker: Of the pupils at the end of Key Stage 4, educated in maintained mainstream schools, 79443 (13.5 per cent.) achieved a GCSE in core science and no other(1) science qualification in 2008.
(1) The other sciences that were considered were Double Award Science and Applied Science, Applied Science, Additional Applied Science, Additional Science, Environmental Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
Special Educational Needs
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many maintained mainstream secondary schools (a) had between one and nine pupils and (b) 10 or more pupils with a statement of special educational needs at the end of Key Stage 4 in the latest period for which figures are available. [282025]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The information requested is as follows:
(a) There were 2,542 maintained mainstream schools at which between one and nine pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 had statements of special educational needs in 2008.
(b) There were 234 maintained mainstream schools at which 10 or more pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 had statements of special educational needs in 2008.
The source of this data is the National Pupil Database.
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