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Women and Equality
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Philip Davies: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality with reference to the answer of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 1175W, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, what the pay gaps were on the latest date for which figures are available. [296805]
Maria Eagle: As at 30 October 2009, pay gap figures for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are as follows:
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The figures take into account significant changes at the EHRC since November 2008 including the transfer of individuals under TUPE from SITEL into the commission, harmonisation of pay and grading structures and the reorganisation of its helpline.
Children, Schools and Families
Children in Care
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many former relevant children as defined in his Department's guidance on Children (Leaving Care) there are in each local authority in England and Wales. [295832]
Dawn Primarolo: A "former relevant child" is a young person aged 18+ (i.e. legally adult) who was either a looked after child before reaching legal adulthood or a child who had left care after the age of 16 but before the age of 18, who would be entitled to continuing leaving care support from their responsible local authority.
Information on the number of former relevant care leavers for England only can be found in the statistical first release titled "Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2008":
Table LAG1 shows the number of looked after children now aged 19 years old and who were looked after on 1 April 2005 then aged 17 years old (in their 17(th) year) by local authority. This table can be found in the excel link titled (3(rd) set of additional tables).
Statistics on Children Looked After in Wales are produced annually by the Local Government Data Unit and the Welsh Assembly Government. Data for the period up to the end of March 2009 were released on 26 August 2009 and can be found at the following link:
Table 7 shows a time series for the number of care leavers on their 19(th) birthday.
The following link is to the Statistical First Release "Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2009":
Table LAG1 for the year ending 31 March 2009 will be available by the end of this year.
Children: Social Services
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 20 October 2009, Official Report, columns 1404-05W, on children: social services, when Ofsted expects to have received the remaining serious case reviews. [295505]
Dawn Primarolo: 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.
Letter from Christine Gilbert:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for response.
Ofsted has now received 21 serious case reviews relating to child deaths cited in the report "Learning Lessons, taking action: Year 2", which covered the period April 2008 to April 2009, These relate to 27 children.
Ofsted is awaiting three serious case reviews relating to child deaths cited in the report and two of these are likely to be submitted to Ofsted imminently. The third is due to be completed by 31 December 2009 and is therefore expected in January 2010. Each of these relates to one child.
Seven Local Safeguarding Children Boards informed Ofsted that a decision had been made not to conduct a serious case review in relation to child deaths cited in the report. Each of these related to one child. One further Local Safeguarding Children Board is still awaiting the final results of the post mortem in order to consider whether the criteria for instigating a serious case review are met. This case also relates to one child.
A copy of this reply has been sent to Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
Education Maintenance Allowance: Peterborough
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many students in post-16 education in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) Peterborough City Council area are in receipt of education maintenance allowance. [297788]
Mr. Iain Wright: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) who operate the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Geoffrey Russell the LSC's Acting Chief Executive, will write to the hon. Member for Peterborough with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Libraries.
Faith Schools: Islam
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether it is his policy to encourage the establishment of Muslim (a) day and (b) boarding schools; and if he will make a statement. [297873]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Government are committed to a diverse system of schools driven by, and responsive to, parental needs and aspirations but decisions on the establishment of individual maintained schools are taken locally under established decision making arrangements with no direct role for Ministers in individual cases.
Similarly, local demand will dictate whether there is a need for an independent school and provided it can meet the regulatory standards required for entry on to the register of independent schools, an independent school can be established to meet parental needs.
We highly value the contribution that all maintained faith schools make to education in the maintained sector but do not distinguish between different faiths. The Government will accordingly continue to support the establishment of new schools including faith schools in the maintained sector where the local decision making process shows that is what parents and the local community want and where the school is willing and able to comply with the requirements on all maintained schools. However, we do not have any centrally driven targets for the establishment of new faith schools of any type.
Schools: Playing Fields
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools do not have playing fields of an area of over 0.4 hectares on their premises. [297909]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Department does not hold estimates of the numbers of schools that do not have their own playing fields, this is a matter for local authorities.
Schools are required to have access to team game playing fields proportionate to their pupil numbers and type.
School playing fields are protected by Section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
Sure Start Programme
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent representations he has received on increasing the number of Sure Start children's centres. [297950]
Dawn Primarolo: There have been no recent representations about increasing the number of Sure Start Children's Centres.
Local authorities are responsible for rolling out Sure Start Children's Centre programmes in their areas so that by March 2010 there are at least 3,500 centres, one for every community. We are on track to achieve this target.
Local authorities determine changes in their portfolio of Sure Start Children's Centres in discussion with Together for Children (TfC), the Government's delivery partner supporting the rollout of children's centres.
Young People: Social Services
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what the average (a) pay and (b) pay-related costs of employing a detached youth social worker were in the latest period for which figures are available; [297841]
(2) what estimate he has made of the average cost of training a detached youth social worker in the latest 12-month period for which figures are available; [297842]
(3) what the average cost of recruiting a detached youth social worker was in the latest 12-month period for which figures are available; [297843]
(4) what the average (a) starting salary and (b) salary of a detached youth social worker was in the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. [297844]
Dawn Primarolo: The Department does not collect any specific information on the pay and pay-related costs, training costs, recruitment and salary levels of "detached youth social workers".
However, the 2008 Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers, Pay and Workforce Survey shows that youth support workers with NVQs and VRQs at Levels 2 and 3 will normally work in posts with a starting salary of around £15,000, whilst professional youth worker posts command a starting salary of around £22,000. Posts with more responsibility have salaries ranging from £27,000 to £34,000. The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) shows that in 2008, the gross annual pay of all full-time youth workers averaged £24,219 p.a.
Cabinet Office
Death
Mr. Arbuthnot: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many deaths attributed to (a) horse riding and (b) ecstasy were recorded in the last 10 years. [297922]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Jil Matheson, dated November 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths attributed to (a) horse riding and (b) ecstasy were recorded in the last 10 years. (297922)
Table 1 below provides (a) the number of deaths where the underlying cause was an accident to a rider of an animal or an occupant of an animal-drawn vehicle, in England and Wales, for the years 1999 to 2008 (the latest year available).
Information on the cause of death recorded at death registration by a medical practitioner or coroner is coded using the World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases (Ninth Revision for the years 1999 to 2000, and Tenth Revision from 2001 onwards). Although there are ICD codes to identify deaths where the underlying cause was an accident to a rider of an animal or an occupant of an animal-drawn vehicle, these codes are not specific to the type of animal involved in the accident. It is therefore not possible to say definitively that all deaths presented in Table 1 were related to horse riding.
Table 2 below provides (b) the number of deaths where the underlying cause was drug poisoning, and ecstasy was mentioned on the death certificate, either alone or together with other substances, in England and Wales, for the years 1999 to 2008.
ONS figures on drug-related deaths identify all substances that were mentioned on the death record. Where more than one substance was mentioned, it is not possible to state which of them was primarily responsible for the death.
| Table 1 : Number of deaths where the underlying cause was an accident to a rider of an animal or an occupant of an animal-drawn vehicle, England and Wales, 1999-2008( 1, 2, 3) | |
| Deaths (persons) | |
| (1) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E827 and E828 for the years 1999 and 2000, and Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code V80 for the years 2001-2008. (2) Figures for England and Wales include deaths of non-residents. (3 )Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year. | |
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