Results 61–80 of 1000 for in the 'Written Answers' speaker:Lord Adonis

Written Answers — House of Lords: Special Educational Needs (10 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The national audit of low-incidence special educational needs (SEN) support, services and provision commenced on 1 February 2005. Information about the audit was made available from that time. The audit is due to report back to the department in early January 2006. The audit will take into account the views of education, social care, health and the voluntary and private sectors. The aims of...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Special Needs Teachers (10 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The information requested on the numbers of teachers trained and the numbers in service is not collected centrally. No estimate of the numbers of teachers needed has been made.

Written Answers — House of Lords: University Access Courses (10 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The available figures on registrations on the access to HE courses recognised by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) are as follows: 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 31,778 32,734 36,132 37,729 38,684 40,484 40,218 45,877 These QAA figures are based on ones collected from its authorised validating agencies and so do not include access to HE...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Child Poverty (17 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: Following her speech on social mobility of 26 July 2005 the Secretary of State has received two pieces of correspondence from Reverend Paul Nicolson of the Zacchaeus Trust 2000. These representations highlighted the effects of child poverty, stated the reverend's support for the Government's commitment to tackling poverty and emphasised the need for work to take place across government. In...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Truancy (17 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: Information about the number of truancy prosecutions is not collected centrally but we know that prosecutions do take place and understand that all local authorities exercise this power from time to time. The power to prosecute a parent under the truancy legislation is given to local authorities whose officers are best placed to assess the family's circumstances and decide upon the most...

Written Answers — House of Lords: National Curriculum (18 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The national curriculum is intended to be suitable for all young people, whatever their academic ability. In 2004 we made changes to the 14-19 curriculum which give schools greater flexibility in catering to the needs of less academic pupils. We have also asked the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to undertake a review of the key stage 3 curriculum to allow schools more flexibility to...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Schools: Healthy Eating (18 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: Government would like to encourage all those associated with food production and provision to promote healthy eating, and are engaged in an ambitious three-year programme to effect no less than a transformation in the health content of school meals. The School Meals Review Panel has published its report containing recommendations for new nutritional standards for school lunches; the new...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Skills Shortages (18 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The main skills shortages reported by employers are: Technical/Practical skills Team Working Communication IT skills Literacy Management Numeracy Customer Handling Problem Solving Foreign Languages These skills shortages are addressed in many courses already available in schools, including GCSEs and A-Levels, Vocational Qualifications and Key Skills Qualifications. My right honourable friend...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Foster Carers (25 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: At 31 March 2004 there were an estimated 41,600 children in foster care placements in England, representing 68 per cent. of all looked-after children. The department itself does not currently hold information centrally about the number of foster carers. However, we are funding a project aimed at developing a national data collection on foster carers, which will result in future collection...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Foster Carers (25 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: It is not possible readily to compare the remuneration of foster carers with that of other caring professionals, in particular because there is no national framework for the remuneration of foster carers; each local authority determines its own allowances and fee structure. The national minimum standards for fostering services require that each carer receives an allowance which covers the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Foster Carers (25 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The level of remuneration which foster carers receive varies widely. Early next year, we will be consulting on proposals to establish a national minimum allowance for foster carers. With regard specifically to foster carers' pension provision, on 17 March 2003, the then Work and Pensions Secretary, Andrew Smith, announced that home responsibilities protection would be extended to include...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Foster Carers (25 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The Government have commissioned work to assess the current provision of training available to foster carers across the country, looking in particular at the content of training; how it is managed and delivered; its impact on foster carers and looked-after children; the accessibility of training; good practice and gaps in the provision. Our intention is that the findings of this study, as...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Foster Carers (25 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The Cost of Foster Care report identifies the key elements of an effective fostering service and costs these, but it does not consider whether existing resources are used to best effect. Nor does it consider the impact on fostering budgets of spending in other areas of children's social services. It is essential that local authorities ensure they have effective strategies in place for...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Safeguarding Children: Chief Inspectors' Report (25 Oct 2005)

Lord Adonis: The Government are giving careful consideration to the findings and recommendations in the joint chief inspectors' second report on arrangements to safeguard children. We will publish the response by the end of the year. It will include, as I explained to the noble Lords on 13 October, a specific action plan which will be incorporated into the forward work programmes of the relevant...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Universities: Korean Studies ( 1 Nov 2005)

Lord Adonis: Higher education institutions are autonomous organisations responsible for their own academic direction and provision of courses in the light of student demand. Within that framework, we asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England for advice on how to secure and strengthen subjects of strategic national importance. After considering the views of the higher education sector and...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Skills Shortages ( 7 Nov 2005)

Lord Adonis: The National Employers Skills Survey 2004, published by the Learning and Skills Council, showed that a number of sectors have difficulties finding skilled recruits. The number of skill shortage vacancies was particularly high among employers falling within the following sector skills councils: Lantra (environmental and land-based industries); Automotive (retail motor industry); Construction...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Adoption: Looked-after Children ( 9 Nov 2005)

Lord Adonis: The Government have set targets for local authorities to increase the numbers of children who are adopted from care. The current target is to increase by 40 per cent the number of looked-after children who are adopted by 2005 and to exceed this by achieving, if possible, a 50 per cent increase by 2005–06, from 1999–2000. The Government have also set a target to increase to 95 per cent by...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Education White Paper (15 Nov 2005)

Lord Adonis: Five thousand copies of the White Paper were reprinted the day before publication. This was to address minor drafting errors. We estimate that the additional costs incurred because of the reprint are just under £23,000. The total cost of printing the White Paper was around £90,000.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Schools: Performance Comparisons (15 Nov 2005)

Lord Adonis: The figures showing A-level and GCSE and equivalent achievement in Northern Ireland, England and Wales between 2001–02 and 2003–04, the latest comparable year available, are as follows. GCE A-level, GCSE and equivalents achievement—time series 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Proportions achieving Two or more A-Levels1,2 Northern Ireland 43.4% 92.4% 92.0% ...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Education System (16 Nov 2005)

Lord Adonis: The education system in England is widely recognised as a success. In 1997, a third of children left primary school without the skills to make proper progress to secondary school; in 2005, 79 per cent of pupils at key stage 2 are now achieving at least level 4 in English and 75 per cent are doing so in maths. This summer, 56 per cent of 15 year-olds achieved five or more good GCSEs, compared...


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