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Special Educational Needs: Inspections
Mr. Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what (a) skills and (b) qualifications are required of a person who is inspecting provision for deaf children as part of an Ofsted inspection. [321194]
Mr. Coaker: This is a matter for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, will write to my hon. Friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Library.
Mr. Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many inspections by Ofsted of schools with provision for deaf children in 2009 included on the inspection team someone with an expertise in deafness. [321195]
Mr. Coaker: This is a matter for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, will write to my hon. Friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Library.
Mr. Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools with provision for deaf children were inspected by Ofsted in 2009. [321196]
Mr. Coaker: This is a matter for Ofsted. HM Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert, will write to my hon. Friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Library.
Truancy
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils were persistent absentees in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency in each of the last 10 years. [324538]
Mr. Coaker: Attendance data was collected at individual pupil level for the first time in 2005/06 from secondary schools only. Information on persistent absentees in secondary schools in 2005/06 at local authority level has been placed in the Library.
Information on persistent absentees in primary, secondary and special schools is available from 2006/07 onwards. Information at local authority level for 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09, and parliamentary constituency level for 2007/08 and 2008/09 has been placed in the Library. To provide further information would incur disproportionate cost.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the (a) rate of unauthorised absence and (b) number of day pupils of compulsory age was in each (i) local authority area and (ii) constituency in each of the last 10 years. [324539]
Mr. Coaker: The available information for the years 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2003/04, 2007/08, and 2008/09 has been placed in the Libraries. To provide further information would incur disproportionate cost.
Vocational Education
Alan Keen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the 20 most popular vocational courses taught in schools are; and what proportion of students passed those courses in the latest period for which figures are available. [313300]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Department does not collect information about the subjects taught in schools but does collect information about exams taken in schools.
The 20 courses with the highest number of exam entries in vocational(1) qualifications by pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2009 are given in the following table. The figures in the final column of the table are expressed as percentages of the whole cohort who were at the end of key stage 4 in 2009 rather than of those pupils who were entered for the qualification.
(1) Qualifications that count in the achievement and attainment tables that are not GCSEs or advanced supplementary GCEs in academic subjects.
Young People: Drugs
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many adolescents who received treatment for addiction to each category of drug were drug-free for (a) their drug of choice and (b) all other intoxicating substances in the latest period for which figures are available. [325782]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available centrally.
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what intervention is used in the treatment of (a) heroin dependency, (b) crack dependency and (c) cocaine dependency amongst the adolescents which the National Treatment Agency has identified as having a Class A drug dependency. [325797]
Dawn Primarolo: Young people's substance misuse is markedly different to that of adults, and so is the combination of treatment and support they receive. Addiction to Class A drugs among young people is rare, and although substitute prescribing for heroin dependency does occur, this represents only 1 per cent. of under-18s in drug treatment.
Instead, interventions for young people tend to centre on psychosocial counselling-based therapies, which attempt to address the underlying causes and the behavioural consequences of the young person's drug and alcohol misuse. Most young people's substance misuse problems are with alcohol and cannabis, but these psychosocial therapies are also used with young people who misuse crack and cocaine.
Specialist substance misuse services work closely with many other children's services and agencies in assessing and addressing every aspect of a vulnerable young person's life.
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