John Battle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties there are in (a) Leeds, West constituency, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England. [306624]
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Ms Diana R. Johnson:
The requested information is shown in the table.
Maintained primary( 1) , State-funded secondary( 1, 2) and special schools( 3) : Number of pupils( 4) with behaviour, emotional and social difficulties( 5) -January 2009 in Leeds West parliamentary constituency, West Yorkshire and England
Maintained primary
State-funded secondary
All special
Leeds West
90
60
40
West Yorkshire
2,460
3,840
430
England
59,930
82,270
13,240
(1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Includes City Technology colleges and academies. (3) Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. (4) Headcount of solely registered pupils only. (5) Pupils at School Action Plus and those pupils with a statement of Special Educational Needs provided information on their primary need and, if appropriate, their secondary need. Information on primary need only is given here. Note:
Pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source:
School Census
Specialised Diplomas: Rural Areas
Mr. Laws:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of rural secondary schools (a) are offering new diploma courses, (b) will offer new diploma courses starting in September 2010 and (c) have joined consortia to offer new diploma courses in each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement. [303731]
Mr. Iain Wright:
We do not collect information about 14-19 delivery at an institutional level. However, from the Department's School and College Database, over 95 per cent. of rural schools are involved in consortia approved to deliver Diplomas from 2010.
Consortia have applied to the fourth Gateway to offer Diplomas from September 2011 and we will publish the results of this process in April 2010.
Teachers: Arts
Mr. Don Foster:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (1) places were available in each region for people to train as dance teachers in each of the last 10 years; [305774]
(2) training places were available in each region for (a) music, (b) drama and (c) art teachers in each of the last 10 years. [306032]
Mr. Coaker:
The Department sets national targets for initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment. Table 1 shows the number of ITT places in each of the last 10 years. This information is not available at regional level.
Table 2 shows the number of places allocated to ITT providers (based on the region of the provider) for courses specialising in the requested subjects is shown in the table. This information is only available from 2003/04 onwards. The sum of the allocation targets may not be the same as sector level departmental targets.
Table 1: Initial teacher training, number of places( 1) + , 2000/01 to 2009/10, England
2000/01
2001/02
2002/03
2003/04
2004/05
2005/06
2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
Primary
13,100
12,500
14,000
15,200
16,300
15,800
15,300
14,800
17,460
18,050
Secondary
16,615
17,390
17,790
19,475
19,500
18,500
17,500
16,500
19,385
18,120
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Secondary by subject:
Art
850
850
850
900
880
800
700
600
670
595
Citizenship
-
-
200
250
250
240
230
220
265
265
English (inc. Drama)
2,160
2,160
2,350
2,350
2,350
2,200
2,040
1,920
2,670
2,535
Geography
1,090
1,175
1,100
985
935
925
850
770
770
715
History
900
900
950
950
910
810
700
600
685
620
Mathematics
1,850
1,940
1,940
2,315
2,350
2,350
2,350
2,350
2,735
2,685
Modern foreign languages
2,050
2,050
2,050
2,050
2,050
1,900
1,790
1,670
1,670
1,525
Music
630
705
700
700
725
690
640
600
690
635
Other(2)
330
450
300
300
300
290
240
185
325
295
Physical education
1,200
1,200
1,200
1,500
1,500
1,450
1,310
1,180
1,570
1,380
Religious education
665
650
700
700
730
730
695
665
740
695
Science
2,690
2,810
2,850
3,225
3,225
3,225
3,225
3,225
3,615
3,405
Technology
2,000
2,150
2,500
2,850
2,895
2,890
2,730
2,515
2,980
2,770
of which( 3)
Business Studies
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
760
730
680
600
590
505
Design and Technology
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
1,085
1,060
1,010
930
1,195
1,150
Information and Communications Technology
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
1,050
1,100
1,040
985
1,195
1,115
Vocational subjects(4)
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
400
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Margin of flexibility/Secondary reserve(5)
250
350
100
400
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Primary and Secondary
29,715
29,890
31,790
34,675
35,800
34,300
32,800
31,300
36,845
36,170
(1 )Number of places prior to 2008/09 include school centred ITT but excludes employment based routes ITT (EBITT). Targets for 2008/09 onwards include EBITT, but exclude Teach First. (2 )'Other' includes classics, dance, economics, media, performing arts, social sciences and social studies. For 2008/09 onwards also includes diploma subjects. (3 )Number of places for individual technology subjects is not available before 2004/05. (4 )Places for vocational subjects in 2006/07 onwards are included with the allocation for related academic subject: Science includes places for applied science; design and technology includes both manufacturing and engineering; ICT includes applied ICT; business studies includes applied business; geography includes leisure and tourism; art includes applied art and other includes health and social care. In 2003/04 the margin of flexibility included places for a vocational subjects pilot. In 2004/05 places for vocational subjects were shown separately. (5 )The margin of flexibility/secondary reserve constituted places that the TDA could allocate to any secondary subject, to support providers whose baselines would otherwise be below economic levels; to ensure the appropriate denominational balance and to help providers with a high proportion of places in shortage subjects and who therefore had particular uncertainty of income. Source:
DCSF
