Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of what ages went missing from care in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The number of children looked after who went missing from their agreed placement for more than 24 hours during the year ending 31 March 2014 by age is shown in the below table. It is known in some cases that younger children who go missing from their agreed placement are the children of mothers who are themselves looked after.
Looked after children who went missing from their agreed placement by age1,2,3,4,5
Year ending 31 March 2014
Coverage: England
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Source: SSDA903
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements.
3. Where a child went missing from his/her placement on more than one occasion during the year, the child has only been counted once during the year.
4. Data on children missing from their agreed placement are known to be under reported for some local authorities. The Department for Education is currently engaged in a process to improve the reporting for this group of vulnerable children.
5. The number of looked after children who have a period where they are classed as being missing from their agreed placement for a period of more than 24 hours which started during the year ending 31 March.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 906346, what live data health services and local authorities are permitted to share with children's centres.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Department for Education’s Sure Start Children’s Centres statutory guidance states that health services and local authorities should share information such as live birth data and data on families with children under five who have recently moved into the area with children’s centres on a regular basis.
Individual data items that this would include are subject to local partnership agreements or protocols, developed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which children's centres there were in the 10 per cent most deprived wards in England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2014.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Department for Education does not hold the information in the form requested and to produce the analysis would incur disproportionate cost.
The Evaluation of Children’s Centres in England (ECCE) published in June 2014 shows that of those centres evaluated in 2013, 17 per cent were situated in the 10 per cent most disadvantaged neighbourhoods nationally. This is only based on a small sample (128 centres) and is unlikely to be generally representative.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children in (a) care and (b) need who have parents who misuse alcohol or drugs.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department collects information on the number of children looked after by local authorities in England via the SSDA903 return. However data on the number of children looked after who have parents who misuse alcohol or drugs is not collected.
Figures are provided in the table below for assessments of children in need:
Number of assessments of children referred to social care where alcohol or drug misuse by the parent or carer was identified as a factor, year ending 31 March 2014
Factor identified1 | At initial assessments2 | At continuous assessments2 | |||
Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||
Total assessments completed at which factors were reported | 206,000 | . | 145,700 | . | |
Of which reported: | |||||
Alcohol misuse: Concerns about alcohol misuse by the parent/carer | 18,800 | 9.1 | 16,100 | 11.1 | |
Drug misuse: Concerns about alcohol misuse by the parent/carer | 15,300 | 7.4 | 13,800 | 9.5 | |
Source: Children in Need census
1. This data was reported for the first time in 2013/14 for initial and continuous assessments completed in the year. A child may have more than one assessment in the year and an assessment may have more than one factor recorded.
2. An initial assessment is a brief assessment and a continuous assessment is a more in depth assessment of a child’s needs where the child has been referred to children’s social care services with a request that services be provided.
This was the first year this data item was collected. Data was provided by around two thirds of local authorities so this information should be treated with caution.
Factor information is published within table A6 of the ‘Characteristics of children in need: 2013 to 2014’ statistical first release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) which children's centres in each local authority area are run by (i) local authorities, (ii) schools, (iii) voluntary sector providers, (iv) community organisations (v) private sector organisations and (vi) other organisations.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Local authorities are responsible for maintaining records of their main children’s centres (and any additional sites that are open to children and families that are providing children's centre services as part of a network) on the Department for Education’s children’s centre database.
Information from the database about the governance of main children’s centres, at 30 November 2014, was listed as follows:
Governance | Number | % |
Local Authority (LA) | 1974 | 70% |
Private, Voluntary or Independent provider (PVI) | 665 | 24% |
Other Community Group | 105 | 4% |
Health | 71 | 3% |
NULL | 1 | 0% |
Total | 2816 | 100% |
Further details about governance and the list of children’s centre names by each governance type (giving the type and/or name of the organisation) have been provided in the attached Excel file.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) voluntary sector providers, (b) community organisations and (c) private sector organisations run children's centres; and which such centres each such organisation runs.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Local authorities are responsible for maintaining records of their main children’s centres (and any additional sites that are open to children and families that are providing children's centre services as part of a network) on the Department for Education’s children’s centre database.
Information from the database about the governance of main children’s centres, at 30 November 2014, was listed as follows:
Governance | Number | % |
Local Authority (LA) | 1974 | 70% |
Private, Voluntary or Independent provider (PVI) | 665 | 24% |
Other Community Group | 105 | 4% |
Health | 71 | 3% |
NULL | 1 | 0% |
Total | 2816 | 100% |
Further details about governance and the list of children’s centre names by each governance type (giving the type and/or name of the organisation) have been provided in the attached Excel file.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which children's centres were judged (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requiring improvement and (d) inadequate at their most recent inspection.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon. Member. Copies of his response will be placed in the House Library.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of hours of education provided per week was for a young offender in young offender institutions in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
Answered by David Laws
As part of the Transforming Youth Custody Programme, the Government will shortly announce the outcome of a competition for new education contracts in under-18 Young Offender Institutions, which will aim to more than double the average number of hours of education provided for young people each week. The Government is taking forward reforms of Young Offender Institutions to support a stronger focus on education and reduce interruptions that impact on the number of hours provided.
The question asked about the average number of hours of education provided per week for a young offender in young offender institutions can only be answered at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools offer all-through provision to pupils from reception to year 13.
Answered by David Laws
Information on the number of pupils in each national curriculum year group in each state-funded school was published on 12 June 2014 in “Schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2014”. It is published online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014
The table below lists the 51 state-funded mainstream schools that had at least one pupil in reception and at least one pupil in year 13 in January 2014.
School name | School type | Local authority area |
The Business Academy Bexley | Sponsored academy | Bexley |
Waverley School | Community school | Birmingham |
Bolton St Catherine's Academy | Sponsored academy | Bolton |
Appleton Academy | Sponsored academy | Bradford |
Bradford Academy | Sponsored academy | Bradford |
Bradford Girls' Grammar School | Free school | Bradford |
Dixons Allerton Academy | Sponsored academy | Bradford |
Preston Manor School | Converter academy | Brent |
Merchants' Academy | Sponsored academy | Bristol City of |
St Michael's Catholic School | Voluntary Aided School | Buckinghamshire |
The Aylesbury Vale Academy | Sponsored academy | Buckinghamshire |
Oasis Academy Shirley Park | Sponsored academy | Croydon |
Dartmouth Academy | Sponsored academy | Devon |
Alec Reed Academy | Sponsored academy | Ealing |
Edmonton County School | Community school | Enfield |
Oasis Academy Hadley | Sponsored academy | Enfield |
Samuel Ryder Academy | Sponsored academy | Hertfordshire |
Guru Nanak Sikh Academy | Converter academy | Hillingdon |
Rosedale College | Converter academy | Hillingdon |
St Mary Magdalene Academy | Sponsored academy | Islington |
Folkestone Academy | Sponsored academy | Kent |
The John Wallis Church of England Academy | Sponsored academy | Kent |
Batley Grammar School | Free school | Kirklees |
Dunraven School | Converter academy | Lambeth |
Carr Manor Community School, Specialist Sports College | Community school | Leeds |
Roundhay School | Community school | Leeds |
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College | Sponsored academy | Lewisham |
Haberdashers' Aske's Knights Academy | Sponsored academy | Lewisham |
Priory Witham Academy | Sponsored academy | Lincolnshire |
Liverpool College | Sponsored academy | Liverpool |
William Hulme's Grammar School | Sponsored academy | Manchester |
Excelsior Academy | Sponsored academy | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Iceni Academy | Sponsored academy | Norfolk |
Kings Priory School | Sponsored academy | North Tyneside |
Caroline Chisholm School | Converter academy | Northamptonshire |
DSLV E-ACT Academy | Sponsored academy | Northamptonshire |
Kettering Buccleuch Academy | Sponsored academy | Northamptonshire |
Kettering Science Academy | Sponsored academy | Northamptonshire |
Bede Academy | Sponsored academy | Northumberland |
Northumberland CofE Academy | Sponsored academy | Northumberland |
Nottingham Academy | Sponsored academy | Nottingham |
Serlby Park Academy | Sponsored academy | Nottinghamshire |
St Gregory the Great Catholic Secondary School | Converter academy | Oxfordshire |
Hampton College | Community school | Peterborough |
Loxford School of Science and Technology | Converter academy | Redbridge |
The Ridings Federation Yate International Academy | Sponsored academy | South Gloucestershire |
Grindon Hall Christian School | Free school | Sunderland |
Swindon Academy | Sponsored academy | Swindon |
The Mirus Academy | Sponsored academy | Walsall |
Birkenhead High School Academy | Sponsored academy | Wirral |
The Piggott School | Converter academy | Wokingham |
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people who entered care at each age and who left care at 16 or older and who did not return to their birth parents had been taken into care because of (a) abuse or neglect, (b) child's disability, (c) parents' illness or disability, (d) family in acute stress, (e) family dysfunction, (f) socially unacceptable behaviour, (g) low income, (h) absent parenting and (i) any other reason in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Children aged 16 years and over who ceased to be looked after during the year ending 31 March 2013 by age on entering care and category of need is shown in the table. Figures exclude children who returned home to live with parents or relatives on ceasing to be looked after.
Children aged 16 and over who ceased to be looked after during the year ending 31 March 2013, who did not return home to live with parents or relatives, by age at the start of their last period of care, and category of need 1,2,3,4,5,6
Coverage: England
Numbers | ||||||||
Abuse or | Child's | Parents' illness | Family in | Family | Socially | Low income | Absent | |
Age on entering | 2,210 | 70 | 130 | 210 | 310 | 50 | x | 60 |
Under 1 | 50 | x | 10 | x | 10 | x | x | 0 |
1 | 70 | x | x | x | x | 0 | 0 | x |
2 | 90 | x | x | x | 10 | 0 | 0 | x |
3 | 120 | x | 10 | x | x | x | 0 | x |
4 | 160 | x | x | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | x |
5 | 170 | x | 10 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | x |
6 | 180 | x | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
7 | 200 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | x | 0 | 10 |
8 | 220 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 30 | x | 0 | x |
9 | 190 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | x | 0 | x |
10 | 190 | x | 10 | 20 | 40 | x | x | x |
11 | 150 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
12 | 120 | x | 10 | 20 | 20 | x | x | x |
13 | 90 | x | 10 | 20 | 30 | x | 0 | x |
14 | 110 | 10 | x | 20 | 20 | 10 | x | x |
15 | 80 | 10 | x | 10 | 20 | 10 | 0 | x |
16 | 20 | x | x | 10 | x | x | 0 | 0 |
17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0 | x |
Source: SSDA903
1. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.
3. Figures only include children who were taken into care, i.e. children who started to be looked after under a care order, police protection, emergency protection order or child assessment order.
4. The most applicable category of the eight “Need Codes” at the time the child started to be looked after rather than necessarily the entire reason they were looked after.
5. Only the last occasion on which a child ceased to be looked after in the year has been counted.
6. Figures exclude children who returned home to live with parents or relatives on ceasing to be looked after.
x Figures not shown in order to protect confidentiality.