Anne Milton: I am the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families. My responsibilities will be confirmed in due course. The noble Lord Agnew of Oulton is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System. His responsibilities currently are: providing a robust school system (including free schools, academies, multi-academy trusts, university technical colleges, studio...
The average cost per child during the year ended 31st March, 1921, of schools for mentally-defective children and of open-air schools maintained by local education authorities and voluntary bodies, and certified by the Board, was as follows: Schools for mentally-defective children. £ Local Education Authority Residential Schools 95 Local Education Authority Day Schools 27 Non-Local...
Baroness Barran: The department’s priority is for schools to deliver face-to-face, high-quality education to all pupils. The evidence is clear that being out of education causes significant harm to educational attainment, life chances, mental and physical health. School attendance is mandatory for all pupils of compulsory school age and it is the department’s priority to ensure that as many children as...
Stephen Timms: The table shows allocations for the standards fund for Stoke-on-Trent local education authority in 1999–2000, 2000–01 and 2001–02. The figures include both Government and local authority contributions. Standards fund allocations for city of Stoke-on-Trent council £ 1999–2000 Administrative Support in Small Schools 57,084 Applications for Education Action Zones...
Vernon Coaker: The Department allocates education funding to local authorities so the requested information for Castle Point constituency is not available. In addition it is for local authorities to determine how they spend their funds locally. The per pupil revenue funding figures for schools in England and Essex local authority since 1997 is shown in the following table: School based expenditure per...
David Miliband: The following table shows allocations for the Standards Fund for Stoke-on-Trent local education authority in 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03. The figures include both Government grant and local authority contributions. 1999–2000 Standards fund allocations for city of Stoke-on-Trent council £ Administrative support in small schools 57,084 Applications for...
Vernon Coaker: Figures are not available for the parliamentary constituency of Feltham and Heston as data is collected at a local authority level. The available information on how much has been spent per pupil in Hounslow local authority is shown in the following table: School based expenditure per pupil from 1997-98 to 2008-09 England Hounslow 1997-98 Pre-Primary and Primary Education...
Education: The Role of Regional Schools Commissioners.
Witnesses: Dr Tim Coulson, Regional Schools Commissioner (East of England & North East London), Department for Education Dominic Herrington, Regional Schools Commissioner (South East and South London), Department for Education Martin Post, Regional Schools Commissioner (South Central & North West London), Department for Education Munira Mirza, Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture, Greater London...
Angela Smith: The requested information (2004–05) is as follows: Percentages of pupils with special educational needs and eligible for free school meals: all schools -- Percentage Primary schools Post primary schools Pupils with special educational needs 18 10 Pupils eligible for free school meals 20 20 Percentages of pupils with special educational needs and eligible for free school...
David Miliband: ...received verbal responses from four meetings with LEA officers, headteachers and others—some 400 people attended. LEAs (94) Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Bath and North East Somerset Bedfordshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Bradford Brent Brighton and Hove Bromley Buckinghamshire Calderdale Cambridgeshire Camden Cheshire Cornwall Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The requested information is provided in the table. Maintained primary and secondary schools: Number of pupils( 1,2) —position in January each year 2004-08—England 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Maintained primary schools( 3) Number of pupils who were eligible for free school meals and have statemented special educational needs 18,180 17,120 15,600 14,730...
'In EA 1996, for section 316 substitute:— "316 Education of children with special educational needs in mainstream schools (1) This section applies to a child with special educational needs who should be educated in a mainstream school. (2) If no statement is maintained under section 324 for the child, he should ordinarily be educated in a mainstream school. (3) If a statement is maintained...
Nicol Stephen: Guidance to education authorities and schools and the framework of national qualifications provide ample opportunities for teaching Sustainable Development at every level of the school curriculum. Under the School Improvement Framework, which monitors the delivery of the National Priorities in Education, a performance measure has been included for education authorities on the percentage of...
Nick Gibb: The Department published expectations on remote education for schools on 2 July as part of our guidance for the full opening of schools, and for further education (FE) providers in the autumn term guidance published in August. On 1 October, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, made a temporary continuity direction to clarify that schools have a duty to provide remote...
Maria Eagle: holding answer 27 April 2006 Planned expenditure by local authorities in England on the provision of education for children with special educational needs and the funding available for delegation to special schools after provision has been made for retained items is included in the attached table. Forecast future allocations for special schools or for children with special educational needs...
Nick Gibb: Tables 1 and 2 shows estimates for the number and percentage of 16 to 18-year-olds who were entitled to free school meals (FSM) in year 11 who studied in (a) further education colleges, (b) a school sixth form and (c) a sixth-form college in Warrington local authority and Warrington North constituency in the 2010/11 academic year. Table 1: 16 to 18-year-olds who studied in school sixth...
Vernon Coaker: Figures are not available for the parliamentary constituency of Preston as data are collected at a local authority level. The available information on how much has been spent per pupil in Lancashire local authority is shown in the following table: School based expenditure per pupil in Lancashire local authority( 1) from 1997-98 to 2008-09 England Pre LGR Lancashire Lancashire...
Tim Loughton: In the period 1 March 2011 to 31 May 2011, the Department for Education made two revoking statutory instruments. These are as follows: Title Made Laid In force The Education (School Performance Targets) (England) (Revocation) Regulations 2011 24 March 2011 31 March 2011 1 September 2011 The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Independent...
Nicol Stephen: Under the Standards in Scotland’s Schools Act 2000, every child of school age has a right to be provided with school education by an education authority. This includes children of asylum seekers within their area. Education authorities have a duty to provide adequate and efficient school education for their area. In relation to pre-school education, the children of asylum seekers have the...
Rt Hon Jack McConnell: The consultations initiated by the Minister and Deputy Minister for Children and Education from July 1999 till October 2000: The Review of the General Teaching Council for Scotland; Improving our Schools – Consultation on the Improvement in Scottish Education Bill; Response to Riddell Advisory Committee Report into the Education of Children with Severe Low Incidence Disabilities; Young...