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Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress has been made towards meeting the target of each full daycare setting being led by a graduate and all childcare staff being qualified to level 3 by 2015. [289802]

Mr. Coaker: The Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects information on staff qualifications that are relevant to working with children and young people. The qualifications are grouped together in the levels that they have been accredited with by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; qualifications at level 6 or above are at degree level. The 2007 survey found that 16 per cent. of full day care settings employ at least one member of staff with qualifications at level 6 or above. The survey also found that 64 per cent. of all staff (child care staff, early years staff and childminders) held at least a level 3 qualification.

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many and what proportion of (a) day care settings and (b) childminders in Basingstoke have been awarded a rating of (i) outstanding, (ii) good, (iii) satisfactory and (iv) inadequate following an inspection by Ofsted in each year since 2003; [289804]

(2) how many and what proportion of childminders were deemed inadequate by Ofsted in the 10 per cent. (a) most and (b) least deprived local authority areas in 2008-09; [290195]

(3) how many and what proportion of childminders were deemed inadequate by Ofsted in each year since inspections began; [290196]

(4) how many and what proportion of day care settings in the 10 per cent. (a) most and (b) least deprived local authority areas were awarded ratings of inadequate following an Ofsted inspection in 2008-09; [290197]

(5) how many and what proportion of day care settings were awarded ratings of inadequate following an Ofsted inspection in each year for which records are available. [290198]

Dawn Primarolo: These are matters for Ofsted. The Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, will write to the hon. Member and copies of her replies will be placed in the Libraries.

Letter from Miriam Rosen, dated 10 August 2009:

Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to Ofsted for response. As Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills, Christine Gilbert, is currently on leave, I am responding on her behalf.

Tables A to F below show the inspection grades of day care settings and childminders in Basingstoke since 2003.

The figures for each period are taken from a snapshot of data at the end of each financial year. These data only include providers that were active at this point. Additionally, the figures only count the most recent inspection outcome for each provision at the time of the snapshot, provided their inspection reports had been published or quality assured and not withdrawn from publication.

Please note that the inspection judgements requested cover three inspection cycles. Those inspections carried out in the inspection cycle from April 2003 to end-March 2005 inspected the quality of provision against the National Standards for under-eights and were graded on a three point scale. Those from April 2005 to end-August 2008 were also inspected against the National Standards, but graded on the four point scale outlined in the question. It is not possible to operate a simple read-across approach from a three-to a four-point scale. Care should be taken when interpreting data for 'childcare on domestic premises' as the numbers are so small.

There was a further change of inspection framework following the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in September 2008. At this point, Ofsted also changed the way in which we record day-care provision, categorising providers as childcare on domestic and non-domestic premises. These categories broadly relate to the previous category of group day-care provision. The data for September 2008 to March 2009 are presented separately and, as above, it is not possible to operate a simple read-across between inspection frameworks.

Please note that the selection of provision for inspection each year is not random, so care needs to be taken when using the data.

A copy of this reply has been sent to right hon. Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, and will be placed in the Library of both Houses.

Table A: Inspection grades from inspections of childminders in Basingstoke, financial years 2003-05
	Good	Percentage	Satisfactory	Percentage	Unsatisfactory	Percentage	Total
2003-04	22	33	45	67	0	0	67
2004-05	93	64	52	36	0	0	145

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Table B: Inspection grades from inspections of childminders in Basingstoke, 2005-06 to end-August 2008
	Outstanding	Percentage	Good	Percentage	Satisfactory	Percentage	Inadequate	Percentage	Total
2005-06	2	3	40	69	15	26	1	2	58
2006-07	0	0	26	55	16	34	5	11	47
2007-08	8	8	51	50	34	33	10	10	103
1 April 2008-31 August 2008	2	10	7	35	9	45	2	10	20

Table C: Inspection grades from inspections of childminders in Basingstoke, September 2008 to end-March 2009
	Outstanding	Percentage	Good	Percentage	Satisfactory	Percentage	Inadequate	Percentage	Total
1 Sept. 2008-31 March 2009	7	17	17	40	14	33	4	10	42

Table D: Inspection grades from inspections of day care providers in Basingstoke, financial years 2003-05
	Good	Percentage	Satisfactory	Percentage	Unsatisfactory	Percentage	Total
2003-04	12	39	19	61	0	0	31
2004-05	26	67	13	33	0	0	39

Table E: Inspection grades from inspections of day care providers in Basingstoke, 2005-06 to end-August 2008
	Outstanding	Percentage	Good	Percentage	Satisfactory	Percentage	Inadequate	Percentage	Total
2005-06	0	0	12	48	11	44	2	8	25
2006-07	2	8	12	46	10	38	2	8	26
2007-08	2	6	21	62	9	26	2	6	34
1 April 2008-31 August 2008	0	0	5	63	3	38	0	0	8

Table F: Inspection grades from inspections of childcare on domestic and non-domestic premises in Basingstoke, September 2008 to end-March 2009
	Outstanding	Percentage	Good	Percentage	Satisfactory	Percentage	Inadequate	Percentage	Total
Non-domestic	3	17	9	50	4	22	2	11	18
Domestic	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0

Please note that percentages are rounded so may not add up to 100 per cent.

Data refer to financial years but is also split for 2008-09 due to the change of inspection framework provision types on the 1 September 2008.

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average number of staff vacancies in (a) maintained nurseries, (b) private, voluntary and independent nurseries and (c) Sure Start children's centres was in each year since 2006. [290202]

Mr. Coaker: The Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects information on recruitment and staff vacancies in child care and early year's providers. Table 1 shows the proportion of full day care providers that were trying to recruit for vacancies in 2007, by type of staff and ownership of the provision. 2007 is the most recent year for which this information is available.

Table 1: Number of vacancies full day care providers are trying to recruit for, by staff type and type of ownership, 2007
Percentage
	Private	Voluntary	Local authority	School/college	Other
Senior managers
None	89	87	74	91	100
1 vacancy	9	13	15	9	-
2 vacancies	1	-	4	-	-
3 or more vacancies	1	-	-	-	-
Supervisory staff
None	45	58	24	42	76
1 vacancy	41	39	40	39	24
2 vacancies	12	2	11	14	-
3 or more vacancies	2	-	26	5	-
Other paid staff
None	45	38	63	42	-
1 vacancy	36	37	6	29	24
2 vacancies	14	19	20	30	57
3 or more vacancies	3	2	10	-	19
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100 per cent. due to 'don't know' responses or rounding.

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