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Common Assessment Framework

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) which children's services authorities have not yet been inspected under the Common Assessment Framework; [304658]

(2) which children's services authorities will be inspected under the Common Assessment Framework in the next six months. [304659]

Mr. Coaker: These are matters for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, has written to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply has been placed in the House Libraries.

Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 9 December 2009:

Your recent parliamentary questions have been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, for response.

The Common Assessment Framework is a standardised approach, used at local level, to conducting individual assessments of children's additional needs and deciding how these should be met. The new system for assessing local authority children's services is the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA), which came into place from 1 April 2009.1 have assumed your questions relate to the latter.

Under the arrangements for CAA, all local authority children's services have been assessed by Ofsted and received an annual rating for 2009. The ratings, based on a four-point scale, have been published in a letter for each of the 152 local authorities, which is available to view on the Ofsted website. This annual rating of children's services will also form part of the joint inspectorate CAA area and organisational assessments for each of the 152 local authorities, which have now been published on the 'oneplace' website.

Ofsted also introduced unannounced visits to front-line social care services for children and young people from 1 June 2009. As of 7 December 2009, 29 reports have been published and the list can be found in full in Table A at the end of this letter. By the end of June 2010 all local authority children's services will have been subject to such an inspection.

In addition, a three-year programme of full inspections of local authority services for safeguarding and looked after children began in June 2009. As of 7 December 2009, nine local authorities have been inspected. The local authorities are listed in Table B at the end of this letter and the reports have been published on the Ofsted website. Local authorities are given no more than two weeks' notice of an inspection and it would therefore be inappropriate to list the authorities due for inspection in the next six months.

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.

The 29 local authorities already inspected under the unannounced visits to front-line social care services for children and young people since June 2009.

Bradford

Bristol

Camden

Derbyshire

Essex

Hammersmith and Fulham

Hampshire

Hertfordshire

Kirklees

Knowsley

Lambeth

Lancashire

Leicester City

Lincolnshire

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Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Peterborough

Plymouth

Reading

Rotherham

Salford

Sefton

Sheffield

Slough

Surrey

Thurrock

Trafford

West Sussex

Wokingham

The nine local authorities already inspected as part of the three-year programme of full inspections of local authority services for safeguarding and looked after children since June 2009.

Blackpool

Cambridgeshire

Cornwall

Devon

Hillingdon

Hounslow

N. Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Warrington

Co-operative Schools

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will list for each local authority those Co-operative Schools registered with his Department; and if he will indicate what steps his Department has taken to encourage local authorities to expand this number. [307657]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 16 December 2009]: Schools are required to notify the Department's School Organisation Unit if they have changed their status and/or acquired a Trust, but the Department plays no role in decisions on individual cases. According to our records the following schools in the listed local authorities have become co-operative Trust schools.

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Local authority	School
Central Bedfordshire	Samuel Whitbread Community College
	Derwent Lower School
	Etonbury Middle School
	Gothic Mede Lower School
	Hitchmead Special School
	Langford Lower School
	Robert Bloomfield Middle School
Thurrock	St. Clere's School
Suffolk	Orwell High School
	Deben High School
Southampton	Upper Shirley High School
Plymouth	Lipson Community College
Dorset	Wey Valley School, The
	Wyvern Special School
Telford and Wrekin	The Sutherland School
Kingston Upon Hull	Andrew Marvell Business and Enterprise College
Doncaster	Campsmount Technology College
Bradford	Nab Wood School
Stockport	Reddish Vale Technology College
Wirral	Bebington High Sports College
Blackburn with Darwen	Blakewater College
Bolton	Lever Park School
Cheshire East	Alsager School
	Alsager Highfields Primary School
	Excalibur Primary School
	Pikemere Primary School
Oldham	Hathershaw College of Technology and Sport, The
	Broadfield Primary School

It is for the Governing Body of a school-not the local authority-to determine whether or not to acquire a Trust, and to decide which partners it wishes to work with.

However, to access the support funding and advice and guidance on the technical processes around acquiring a trust, schools can submit an Expression of Interest to the Trust Schools Programme.

The Co-operative is also sponsoring academies in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent that are due to open in September 2010.

Education: Assessments

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many 16 year olds completed a BTEC First Diploma in each subject in each of the last five years. [303303]

Mr. Iain Wright: The following table shows the number of 16-year-olds in England who completed a BTEC First Diploma in each subject in each of the last five years for which information is available.

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BTEC First Diploma awards achieved by those with an academic age of 16 in England, 2003/04 to 2007/08
	Year in which qualification was achieved
Qualification Title: EDEXCEL Level 2 BTEC First Diploma	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
For ICT Practitioners	0	0	0	2,847	3,456
For IT Practitioners (General)	598	1,169	1,465	7	0
For IT Practitioners (ICT Systems Support)	107	207	332	0	0
For IT Practitioners (Software Development)	188	224	297	*	0
In Agriculture	75	72	102	98	103
In Animal Care	795	906	951	1,079	1,176
In Applied Science	87	208	346	658	782
In Art and Design	0	521	1,743	2,906	3,274
In Business	307	949	1,992	3,515	4,790
In Caring	561	1,018	385	*	0
In Children's Care, Learning and Development	0	0	0	803	991
In Construction	50	130	338	523	532
In Countryside and Environment	79	92	152	148	162
In Design	587	790	561	3	0
In Early Years	439	628	936	7	0
In Electronics	130	156	240	0	0
In Engineering	0	0	0	1,020	1,205
In Fish Husbandry	27	47	42	42	50
In Floristry	6	8	14	18	23
In Front Line Services	0	0	0	0	0
In Health and Social Care	0	0	1,524	3,296	4,058
In Horse Care	245	284	258	279	289
In Horticulture	138	108	156	172	182
In Hospitality	0	16	88	143	169
In Land-based Technology	0	0	0	33	34
In Logistics	0	0	4	0	20
In Manufacturing Engineering	479	556	690	7	11
In Media	232	868	1,182	1,501	1,718
In Music	0	0	0	822	1,001
In Operations and Maintenance Engineering	71	89	113	0	*
In Performing Arts	1,644	2,048	2,425	1,735	1,737
In Public Services	1,674	2,176	2,563	2,892	3,310
In Retail	*	27	111	139	241
In Sport	1,489	2,248	2,827	4,147	4,246
In Sport and Exercise Sciences	630	604	601	7	10
In Travel and Tourism	231	933	1,361	1,595	1,981
In Vehicle Service and Technology	216	196	205	245	290
Total	11,086	17,278	24,004	30,689	35,843
Note: Figures few than three and more than zero have been suppressed and replaced by *. Source: National Information System for Vocational Qualifications.

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