Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children designated as in need achieved (a) five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics and (b) no A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, in each local authority area in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on how many and what proportion of children designated as in need achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics, excluding equivalents, for the most recent year for which figures are available is published in table L5 in the additional tables, online at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014
Information on how many and what proportion of children designated as in need achieved no A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, is not held in the requested format.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) all pupils, (b) white British boys receiving free school meals and (c) children in care achieved no A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information is not held in the required format.
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in care were recorded as having gone missing (a) once, (b) twice, (c) three times, (d) four times, (e) five times, (f) six times, (g) seven times, (h) eight times, (i) nine times, (j) 10 times and (k) more than 10 times in the last five years.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education does not hold the requested information in the correct format. However, the department has published data on the percentage of children going missing from foster homes and regulated children’s homes in the year ending 31 March 2013, once, twice, three times, and four or more times. This is available on slide 17 of the Children’s homes data pack published at:
Additionally, information on the numbers of children who were missing from care for the latest 5 years are available in table B1 of the Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England, year ending 31 March 2014’, however, this does not provide information on the number of times each child went missing. This can be found online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/outcomes-for-children-looked-after-by-local-authorities
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of white British pupils eligible for free school meals achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE, including English and mathematics, (a) in each local authority area and (b) at each school in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information is not held in the format requested.
The Department for Education publishes information at regional and local authority level on the proportion of white boys eligible for free school meals. This information, along with information on the proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals, can be found in tables 3 and 5 of the “GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics: 2014”, available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014
Asked by: Andrew Griffiths (Conservative - Burton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 23 of the Ofsted report, Children looked after placements by English authorities, published on 14 July 2015, how many of the 33 children were missing from (a) foster care, (b) children's homes, (c) independent living, (d) secure units, young offenders' institutions or prisons and (e) residential schools.
Answered by Edward Timpson
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply 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, with reference to page 23 of the Ofsted report, Children looked after placements by English authorities, published on 14 July 2015, how many of the 29 Chinese children who were missing from care on 31 March 2014 had been missing for (a) less than six months, (b) between six months and one year and (c) more than one year.
Answered by Edward Timpson
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply 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, with reference to page 23 of the Ofsted report, Children looked after placements by English authorities, published on 14 July 2015, how many of the 33 children missing for six months or longer on 31 March 2014 were (a) male and (b) female; and how many such children were (i) under 10, (ii) aged between 10 and 12, (iii) aged between 13 and 15 and (iv) aged between 16 and 18 years old when they went missing.
Answered by Edward Timpson
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply 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, with reference to page 23 of the Ofsted report, Children looked after placements by English authorities, published on 14 July 2015, in the care of which local authorities were the 33 children missing for six months or longer on 31 March 2014.
Answered by Edward Timpson
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply 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, with reference to page 23 of the Ofsted report, Children looked after placements by English authorities, published on 14 July 2015, how many of the 29 Chinese children who were missing from care on 31 March 2014 had gone missing from (a) foster care, (b) children's homes, (c) independent living, (d) secure units, young offenders' institutions or prisons and (e) residential schools.
Answered by Edward Timpson
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply 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, how many children who left care in the most recent year for which figures are available had more than (a) three, (b) five, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 30, (f) 40 and (g) 50 placements while they were in care.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Information on the numbers of placements in the care history of children ceasing to be looked after in the year ending 31 March 2014 is published in Table D5 of the ‘Children looked after, including adoption’ statistical first release. This table sets out the total number of children who had between one and nine, or ten or more placements in their care history[1].
[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2