Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase funding for schools with a high concentration of students with special educational needs in North Tyneside.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Schools are currently funded through the formula set by their local authority, which often uses factors such as low prior attainment and free school meals to give an estimate of the number of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) a school is likely to have. Where the cost of additional support for a child with SEN in the mainstream schools exceeds £6,000, the local authority also provides top-up funding to the school from its high needs budget. Local authorities can also give additional funding from their high needs budgets to schools that have a high concentration of pupils with SEN.
We are currently consulting on proposals for new national funding formulae for both schools and high needs, which will be introduced in 2018-19. These proposals will not change the flexibility that local authorities have to move funding from their high needs budgets to schools.
As a result of our proposals, North Tyneside Council’s funding for high needs pupils would increase by 1.8% and schools in the area would see, on average, a 0.6% increase in their funding
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the school funding formula on the funding of schools in Tynemouth constituency in real terms in each of the next three years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The current funding system does not support our aspiration that all children reach their full potential and succeed in adult life. Similar local areas and similar schools receive very different levels of funding, with little or no justification. Having consulted on the principles and building blocks earlier in 2016, we are now seeking views on the detail of the formula and the arrangements we propose for the transition towards the formula.
The illustrative effect of the proposed schools national funding formula (NFF) for schools in the Tynemouth constituency, in year 1 of the operation of the formula, and overall, is provided in the table below.
These figures are illustrative only and not actual allocations. The formula is subject to consultation, and the illustrative figures use pupil and school data from 2016-17 to show what would have happened to each school’s funding if the formula had been implemented in full in 2016-17. A school’s actual funding allocations for future years will reflect the latest data about a school and its pupils.
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| Baseline funding | Illustrative NFF funding if formula implemented in full in 2016-17, without transitional protections | Illustrative NFF funding in the first year of transition | ||
School Name | Phase | Funding the school received in 2016-17 or 2016/17 | Illustrative total NFF funding | Percentage change compared to baseline | Illustrative NFF year 1 funding | Percentage change compared to baseline |
Cullercoats Primary School | Primary | £1,408,000 | £1,440,000 | 2.3% | £1,440,000 | 2.3% |
King Edward Primary School | Primary | £1,386,000 | £1,457,000 | 5.1% | £1,424,000 | 2.8% |
Spring Gardens Primary School | Primary | £1,558,000 | £1,687,000 | 8.3% | £1,601,000 | 2.8% |
Riverside Primary School | Primary | £817,000 | £796,000 | -2.5% | £806,000 | -1.3% |
Monkhouse Primary School | Primary | £775,000 | £786,000 | 1.4% | £786,000 | 1.4% |
Whitehouse Primary School | Primary | £741,000 | £752,000 | 1.4% | £752,000 | 1.4% |
Preston Grange Primary School | Primary | £776,000 | £784,000 | 1.0% | £784,000 | 1.0% |
Shiremoor Primary School | Primary | £1,292,000 | £1,395,000 | 8.0% | £1,326,000 | 2.7% |
Backworth Park Primary School | Primary | £543,000 | £554,000 | 1.9% | £554,000 | 1.9% |
Rockcliffe First School | Primary | £820,000 | £827,000 | 0.8% | £827,000 | 0.8% |
Appletree Gardens First School | Primary | £1,010,000 | £1,051,000 | 4.1% | £1,036,000 | 2.7% |
Southridge First School | Primary | £1,009,000 | £1,014,000 | 0.5% | £1,014,000 | 0.5% |
South Wellfield First School | Primary | £1,037,000 | £1,080,000 | 4.2% | £1,064,000 | 2.6% |
Marine Park First School | Primary | £1,684,000 | £1,728,000 | 2.6% | £1,727,000 | 2.5% |
Coquet Park First School | Primary | £672,000 | £667,000 | -0.7% | £667,000 | -0.7% |
Langley First School | Primary | £1,033,000 | £1,042,000 | 0.9% | £1,042,000 | 0.9% |
Whitley Lodge First School | Primary | £822,000 | £816,000 | -0.7% | £816,000 | -0.7% |
Collingwood Primary School | Primary | £1,372,000 | £1,478,000 | 7.7% | £1,409,000 | 2.7% |
New York Primary School | Primary | £990,000 | £1,057,000 | 6.8% | £1,016,000 | 2.6% |
Christ Church CofE Primary School | Primary | £777,000 | £802,000 | 3.2% | £797,000 | 2.6% |
St Cuthberts Roman Catholic Primary School Aided | Primary | £804,000 | £830,000 | 3.2% | £825,000 | 2.6% |
St Josephs Roman Catholic Primary School Aided | Primary | £1,218,000 | £1,323,000 | 8.6% | £1,251,000 | 2.7% |
St Marys Roman Catholic Primary School Aided | Primary | £736,000 | £717,000 | -2.6% | £727,000 | -1.3% |
Star of the Sea RC VA Primary | Primary | £1,352,000 | £1,391,000 | 2.9% | £1,389,000 | 2.8% |
Kings Priory School | All-through | £4,516,000 | £4,383,000 | -2.9% | £4,449,000 | -1.5% |
Marden High School - A Specialist Maths, Science and Media Arts College | Secondary | £3,657,000 | £3,551,000 | -2.9% | £3,604,000 | -1.4% |
Norham High School | Secondary | £2,350,000 | £2,284,000 | -2.8% | £2,317,000 | -1.4% |
Marden Bridge Middle School | Secondary Middle | £1,886,000 | £1,854,000 | -1.7% | £1,859,000 | -1.4% |
Valley Gardens Middle School | Secondary Middle | £2,693,000 | £2,618,000 | -2.8% | £2,655,000 | -1.4% |
Monkseaton Middle School | Secondary Middle | £1,512,000 | £1,512,000 | 0.0% | £1,512,000 | 0.0% |
Whitley Bay High School | Secondary | £5,420,000 | £5,262,000 | -2.9% | £5,341,000 | -1.5% |
Monkseaton High School | Secondary | £1,845,000 | £1,795,000 | -2.7% | £1,820,000 | -1.4% |
John Spence Community High School | Secondary | £4,337,000 | £4,211,000 | -2.9% | £4,274,000 | -1.5% |
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Academy | Secondary | £6,515,000 | £6,323,000 | -2.9% | £6,419,000 | -1.5% |
Wellfield Middle School | Secondary Middle | £1,269,000 | £1,240,000 | -2.3% | £1,252,000 | -1.4% |
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to provide information on how many pupils were excluded from (a) community schools, (b) foundation schools, (c) free schools, (d) academies and (e) grammar schools in each of the last three years.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The department has published information on the numbers of exclusions by detailed school type including maintained schools, academies, and free schools for 2012/13 to 2014/15, but not for community schools and foundation schools. These can be found in the underlying data of ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2014 to 2015’1 and are reproduced in the accompanying table.
Exclusions figures for grammar schools are not published and are also included in the attached table.
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research her Department has commissioned on the increase in the number of pupil exclusions over the last three years.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education has not commissioned any research on the rise in pupil exclusions over the last three years.