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Children: Social Services
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether he has had recent discussions with Gloucestershire county council on its provision of children's services and children's centres. [316054]
Dawn Primarolo: As part of its role to both provide challenge and support the Government Office for the South West meets the local authority regularly to discuss children's services.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families' delivery partner supporting the development of Sure Start Children's Centres, Together for Children, regularly liaises with the local authority regarding its children's centres programme.
The Secretary of State wrote to Gloucestershire local authority on 19 November 2009 regarding the local authority's National Challenge Progress Review.
Children's Centres: Feltham
Alan Keen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in Feltham and Heston constituency attend Sure Start centres. [316668]
Dawn Primarolo:
The eight designated Sure Start Children's Centres in Feltham and Heston constituency have a combined reach area of over 6,000 children under five and their families. Reach area defines those children and families with the opportunity to access
children's centres. Figures for the number of children under five and their families actually attending and using children's centres are not collected centrally.
Classroom Assistants: Lewes
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time equivalent teaching assistants there were in schools in Lewes constituency (a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. [315769]
Mr. Coaker: In January 1997 there were 60 full-time equivalent teaching assistants in service in local authority maintained schools, city technology colleges and academies in Lewes constituency and 210 in January 2009. The data source is the School Census and the figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Departmental Internet
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 10 November 2009, Official Report, column 311W, on Google Adword online advertising keywords, for which Google Adword online advertising keywords his Department has paid in the last 12 months; and at what cost. [315279]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The requested information cannot be supplied without incurring disproportionate cost.
Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many job vacancies in his Department and its agencies were filled through external recruitment in the last year for which figures are available. [315288]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: In the last financial year (2008-09), there were 88 people recruited externally into the DCSF.
The Department has no agencies.
Departmental Sick Leave
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many staff in his Department have had five or more periods of sickness absence of less than five days since its inception. [316469]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: Since the inception of the Department for Children, Schools and Families on 28 June 2007, 176 staff have had five or more periods of sickness absence of less than five days. This applies from the date of establishment of the Department to 31 January 2010 (the latest information available).
Education Maintenance Allowance: Hemsworth
Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people have received the educational maintenance allowance in Hemsworth constituency since its introduction. [316713]
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). Geoff Russell the LSC's acting chief executive, will write to my hon. Friend from Hemsworth with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Families: Government Assistance
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which departments he expects to contribute funds to the Think Family grant in 2010-11; and how much each department will contribute. [315727]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 5 February 2010]: The Think Family Grant for is made up of contributions from DCSF, HO, DH and DCLG. The contributions from individual Departments and associated activity costs in 2010-11 are as follows:
| £ million | |
Contributions are also made at the local level as match funding or in-kind services. Information on this is not held centrally.
Feltham
Alan Keen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Feltham and Heston constituency, the effects on that constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997; [316679]
(2) how many 14 year olds in schools in Feltham and Heston constituency obtained level 5 or above in key stage 3 results in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009; [316680]
(3) how many 11 year olds in schools in Feltham and Heston constituency obtained level 4 or above in key stage 2 results in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009; [316681]
(4) how many pupils in schools in Feltham and Heston constituency gained five A* to C GCSEs or equivalent in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. [316687]
Mr. Coaker: Since 1997 the Government have transformed education and child care with improved outcomes for children and young people. Figures showing the performance at key stage 2, key stage 3 and at GCSE and equivalents in Feltham and Heston are given in the following tables:
| Key s tage 3 results of 14 year old pupils attending schools in the Feltham and Heston constituency | |||
| Percentage of pupils gaining level 5 and above( 1) | 1997 | 2008( 2) | Percentage point improvement 1997 to 2008 |
| (1) Includes pupils attending all maintained schools (including Academies and City Technology Colleges). (2) Key stage 3 tests were discontinued after 2008. Source: School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables and National Pupil Database | |||
| GCSE and equivalents( 1) results for pupils( 2) attending schools( 3) in the Feltham and Heston constituency | |||
| Percentage of pupils gaining | 1997 | 2009( 5) | Percentage point improvement 1997 to 2 009 |
| (1) From 2004 results incorporate GCSEs, GNVQs and a range of other qualifications approved pre-16. Prior to 2004 results are based on GCSEs and GNVQs only. (2) From 2006 figures are for pupils at the end of key stage 4. Prior to 2006 results are based on pupils aged 15. (3) Includes pupils attending all maintained schools (including Academies and City Technology Colleges) and from 2000 does not include pupils recently arrived from overseas. (4) England figures also include independent schools as well as hospital schools and PRUs. (5) Revised data. Source: School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables | |||
Further information by constituency is available on the Department's "In Your Area" website:
The information available at constituency level includes the number of specialist schools, number of operational Academies, number of teaching assistants and other support staff, number of teachers and pupil:teacher ratios. Where information is not available at constituency level it has been provided at local authority level including the number of free early education places taken up by three and four year olds, number full-time and part-time entrants to higher education institutions aged 18 to 20, average A level point score per candidate and per entry
together with percentage of people of working age qualified to at least level 2 and percentage of people of working age qualified to level 4 and above.
Additional information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
GCSE
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of pupils in (a) comprehensive and (b) maintained schools who achieved at least five grades A* to C at GCSE achieved (i) one or more, (ii) more than one, (iii) more than two, (iv) more than three of those grades in the subjects of business studies, music technology, child development, hairdressing, construction, health and social care, sociology, media, travel and tourism, performing arts, and hospitality and catering, in each year since 1997; [314463]
(2) what percentage of pupils from current National Challenge schools who achieved at least five grades A* to C at GCSE achieved (a) one or more, (b) more than one, (c) more than two, (d) more than three of those grades in the subject of business studies, music technology, child development, hairdressing, construction, health and social care, sociology, media, travel and tourism, performing arts, and hospitality and catering, in each of the last five years. [314464]
Mr. Coaker: The information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils in (a) comprehensive and (b) independent schools were entered for GCSEs in (i) English literature, (ii) physics, (iii) chemistry, (iv) biology, (v) history and (vi) a foreign language in 2009. [315622]
Mr. Coaker: The information required is given in the following table:
| Number of pupils entered for GCSEs in selected subjects in comprehensive and independent schools in 2009 | ||
| Selected subject | Comprehensive school | Independent school |
| Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables. | ||
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