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Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what responsibilities the Children's Workforce Development Council has for (a) childcare training and (b) accreditation of childcare training schemes. [287307]
Dawn Primarolo: The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is a key organisation in delivery of the 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy and this includes responsibility for developing the Early Years workforce.
The CWDC's work includes developing the Early Years Professionals Status and ensuring that training and assessment is high quality, that enough candidates are recruited to meet the Government's aims for Early Years Professionals(1) and that the rest of the workforce are qualified to at least level 3. The CWDC has also developed a new process for the sector endorsement of Early Years Foundation Degrees which is a bridge for practitioners from Level 3 to Early Years Professional Status.
CWDC is not responsible for the accreditation of training but has a role in the approval of qualifications.
The accreditation of qualifications for those in the early years workforce is the responsibility of the relevant awarding organisations offering these qualifications.
However, in order for qualifications to sit on the regulated framework they must receive approval from the relevant Sector Skills Council. CWDC is part of the Sector Skills Council, Skills for Care and Development and responds to qualification approval requests on behalf on the early years workforce in England. The CWDC reviews qualifications to ensure they reflect current policy and the available National Occupational Standards (NOS).
(1) The Government aim to have an EYP in every children's centre by 2010 and in every full daycare setting by 2015.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what functions have been transferred from his Department to the Children's Workforce Development Council. [287308]
Dawn Primarolo:
Since its establishment in 2005, a small number of functions have been transferred to the
Children's Workforce Development Council from the Department for Children, Schools and Families. These include:
the maintenance of the Early Years and Playwork qualifications database, and providing a helpline for employers and individuals with queries about it;
the endorsement of Foundation Degrees in early years, and in Working with Young People;
ownership of National Occupational Standards in Learning, Development and Support Services;
maintaining and updating managers' and practitioners' guidance and training materials on the Common Assessment Framework, Lead Professional, and updating the Common Assessment Form itself.
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what representations he has received in respect of the cancellation of school excursions arising from the proposed scheduling of Key Stage 2 standard assessment tests in June. [287147]
Mr. Coaker: Key Stage 2 tests in 2010 will be administered between 10 and 14 May as planned; schools will not need to cancel school excursions in 2010 as a result of the scheduling of Key Stage 2 tests.
The Government have accepted the Expert Group on Assessment's recommendation that National Curriculum Key Stage 2 tests should be administered in the middle of June, rather than in May. Having taken account of QCA and Ofqual's advice, we will seek to implement the Expert Group's recommendation on moving the test to mid June in 2011.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools in which (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15 and (d) 20 per cent. of pupils received three or more fixed term exclusions had less than 30 per cent. of pupils gain five GCSEs, including English and mathematics at grades A* to C in each year since 2005. [282728]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to paragraph 5.13, page 74, of his Department's publication, "Your child, your schools, our future", what funding his Department has allocated to the Implementation Review Unit in 2009-10. [286890]
Mr. Coaker: The Implementation Review Unit (IRU) was established in 2003 with a specific remit to advise the Department on reducing bureaucracy in schools. The Department has allocated £250,000 to the IRU for 2009-10. This will cover the costs of the review of barriers to delivery in schools as outlined in "Your child, your schools, our future: building the 21(st) century schools system" as well as all expenditure related to IRU meetings and other research relating to burdens and bureaucracy in schools.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent on the National Strategies advertisements, "Ensuring progression in primary mathematics", in June and July 2009; and if he will make a statement. [286562]
Mr. Coaker: The cost was £3,358. The guidance identified in the advert is designed to help teachers understand key learning that children need to secure to attain level 4 in mathematics. Alerting teachers to valuable free resources in this manner has generated strong demand at relatively little cost and represents value for money.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been spent on average per child on (a) (i) pre-school, (ii) primary school and (iii) 11 to 16 year-old secondary school pupils in schools in York and (b) sixth form students in (A) schools in York and (B) York College in (1) cash and (2) real terms in each year since 1996-97. [285781]
Mr. Coaker: The information on school based expenditure per pupil and combined local authority and school based expenditure per pupil from 1996-97 to 2007-08 is contained within the following tables.
The Learning and Skills Council is responsible for funding schools sixth forms and FE and sixth form colleges. I will ask the LSC's chief executive, Geoff Russell, to write to my hon. Friend with the information requested for sixth form students in schools in York and York College.
£ cash terms | ||||
Primary school based expenditure per pupil | Pre-primary and primary school based expenditure per pupil | Secondary school based expenditure per pupil | Combined LA and school based expenditure per pupil | |
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