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Children's Workforce Development Council

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).

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
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Children's Workforce Development Council from the Department for Children, Schools and Families. These include:

Educational Visits: National Curriculum Tests

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.

GCSE

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.

Implementation Review Unit

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.


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Mathematics: Primary Education

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.

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

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

1996-97

(4)-

1,540

2,210

2,500

1997-98(1)

(4)-

1,600

2,350

2,590

1998-99(1)

(4)-

1,730

2,460

2,690

1999-2000(2,3)

1,760

1,800

2,430

2,710

2000-01

1,860

1,870

2,640

2,850

2001-02

2,180

2,260

2,830

3,130

2002-03

2,390

(4)-

3,080

3,270

2003-04

2,560

(4)-

3,330

3,740

2004-05

2,680

(4)-

3,660

3,900

2005-06

2,930

(4)-

3,860

4,180

2006-07

3,140

(4)-

3,970

4,400

2007-08

3,290

(4)-

4,190

4,810



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£ real terms (2008-09 prices)

 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

1996-97

(4)-

2,050

2,940

3,320

1997-98(1)

(4)-

2,070

3,050

3,350

1998-99(1)

(4)-

2,190

3,130

3,420

1999-2000(2,3)

2,190

2,240

3,030

3,370

2000-01

2,280

2,300

3,250

3,500

2001-02

2,620

2,710

3,400

3,760

2002-03

2,780

(4)-

3,590

3,810

2003-04

2,890

(4)-

3,770

4,230

2004-05

2,960

(4)-

4,030

4,300

2005-06

3,170

(4)-

4,170

4,520

2006-07

3,290

(4)-

4,170

4,620

2007-08

3,360

(4)-

4,280

4,910

(1) Combined local authority and school based expenditure includes all expenditure on the education of children in local authority maintained establishments and pupils educated by the authority other than in maintained establishments. This includes both school based expenditure and all elements of central LA expenditure except youth and community and capital expenditure from revenue (CERA). Pupil figures include all pre-primary pupils, including those under 5s funded by the authority and being educated in private settings (only available from 1999-2000), pupils educated in maintained mainstream schools and any other local authority maintained pupils. All pupil numbers are adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
(2) Spending in 1997-98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central Government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998-99.
(3) Figures prior to 1999-00 exclude any expenditure on service, strategy and regulation.
(4) Denotes figures are not available or have not been scored on a consistent basis.
Notes:
1. The expenditure data to 1998-99 are drawn from the annual 'R01' spending returns which local authorities submitted to the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) (now CLG). Figures for 1999-2000 to 2001-02 are drawn from Section 52 (Table 3) Outturn statements which local authorities submitted to the then DFES (now DCSF). Figures for 2002-03 onwards are taken from Section 52 (Table A) Outturn statements. The change in sources is marked by an empty row.
2. School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by local authority maintained schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. The pupil data are drawn from the DCSF Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
3. From 2002-03 onwards the school based expenditure calculation is broadly similar to the calculation in previous years. However, 2001-02 and earlier years includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses, while from 2002-03 only the schools element of these categories is included. In 2001-02 this accounted for approximately £70 per pupil of the England total, while the schools element of these categories accounted for approximately £50 per pupil of the England total in 2002-03. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002-03 and would therefore be excluded from the school based expenditure calculation, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.
4. Expenditure was distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sector until the inception of Section 52 for the 1999-00 financial year. Consequently we have provided a combined figure for pre-primary and primary schools for 1996-97 to 2001-02 financial years.
5. 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the R01 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DCSF. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) to schools and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables.
6. Secondary school based expenditure includes all expenditure incurred directly by local authority maintained secondary schools. It is not possible from existing sources to distinguish this expenditure between expenditure on 11 to 16-year-olds and expenditure on 6th form pupils attending maintained secondary schools.
7. The expenditure data for 1999-2000 onwards reflect the return of grant maintained schools to local authority maintenance.
8. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. As reported by York local authority as at 10 July 2009.
9. Cash figures are converted to 2008-09 prices using the 30 June 2009 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflators.
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