Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students in (a) Ashfield, (b) Rushcliffe, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d) England who are (i) eligible and (ii) not eligible for free school meals achieved grades 4 to 9 in GCSE (A) English and (B) maths in 2017 and 2018.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Key Stage 4 pupil attainment (including grade 9-4 in English and in mathematics, 5 or more GCSE grades 9-4/A*-C and average Attainment 8 score per pupil) for England, Nottinghamshire, Ashfield and Rushcliffe, split by eligibility for free school meals in 2017/18 and 2016/17 is provided in the attached tables.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students in (a) Ashfield, (b) Rushcliffe, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d) England who are (i) eligible and (ii) not eligible for free school meals achieved five or more GCSEs at grades 4 to 9 in (A) 2017 and (B) 2018.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Key Stage 4 pupil attainment (including grade 9-4 in English and in mathematics, 5 or more GCSE grades 9-4/A*-C and average Attainment 8 score per pupil) for England, Nottinghamshire, Ashfield and Rushcliffe, split by eligibility for free school meals in 2017/18 and 2016/17 is provided in the attached tables.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average Attainment 8 score per pupil who is (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals was in 2017 and 2018 for (i) Ashfield, (ii) Rushcliffe, (iii) Nottinghamshire and (iv) England.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Key Stage 4 pupil attainment (including grade 9-4 in English and in mathematics, 5 or more GCSE grades 9-4/A*-C and average Attainment 8 score per pupil) for England, Nottinghamshire, Ashfield and Rushcliffe, split by eligibility for free school meals in 2017/18 and 2016/17 is provided in the attached tables.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England that were (i) eligible and (ii) not eligible for free school meals attended a primary school rated as (A) good and (B) outstanding in the academic year ending August 2018.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The attached table shows the number of children with or without eligibility for free school meals that attended primary schools rated as good or outstanding, in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire and England.
As at 31 August 2018, 87% of children are now in primary schools in England rated as ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England who were (i) eligible and (ii) not eligible for free school meals attended a secondary school rated (A) good and (B) outstanding in the academic year ending August 2018.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The attached table shows the proportion of children with or without eligibility for free school meals (FSM) that attended secondary schools rated as good or outstanding, in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire and England.
As at August 2018, 80% of children are in secondary schools in England rated as good or outstanding.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which schools in Ashfield constituency meet all eight Gatsby benchmarks for careers education.
Answered by Anne Milton
The information requested is not held centrally.
The Careers & Enterprise Company and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation developed Compass, a free online tool that helps schools to evaluate and monitor improvements in their careers provision against the Gatsby benchmarks, which is now used by over 3,000 schools and colleges.
The Careers & Enterprise Company collects this information, which is published annually at a national level. The 2018 ‘State of the Nation’ report provides an updated assessment of progress, based on the Compass results of 3,092 schools and colleges. It shows that benchmark engagement and performance have both improved:
The report is available to view at: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/stateofthenation.
A good way to highlight the importance of the Gatsby Benchmarks is for individual MPs to contact the schools in their constituency.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to encourage schools in (a) Ashfield and (b) Nottinghamshire to become part of a Careers Hub.
Answered by Anne Milton
The government’s careers strategy committed to testing “Careers Hubs” in 20 areas. Careers Hubs comprise of up to 40 local schools and colleges working together with universities, training providers, employers and careers professionals to improve careers education.
In October 2018 the Secretary of State announced the government would test Careers Hubs in a further 20 areas. This will bring the total amount of government investment in Careers Hubs to £7.5 million. Applications are being accepted for the second wave of Careers Hubs until 22 February 2019. The standard model is for Local Enterprise Partnerships and Combined Authorities to coordinate bids in partnership with named schools and colleges. However, in any places where the Local Enterprise Partnership or Combined Authority does not wish to bid, we will welcome bids from other groups of 20-40 schools and colleges who wish to come together.
To support all interested groups in applying for the second wave of Careers Hubs, The Careers & Enterprise Company produced a ‘Careers Hub Prospectus’. This can be found on The Careers & Enterprise Company website at: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/bid-become-hub. Regional Leads from The Careers & Enterprise Company have also been in touch with potential bidders to offer guidance on how to interpret the prospectus.
Successful applications for the second wave of Hubs will be notified by mid-April and will be operational from September 2019.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost is for an adult to re-sit a GCSE in (a) maths and (b) English language; and whether (i) funding for re-sitting is available to providers or (ii) the cost of re-sitting has to be paid by learners.
Answered by Anne Milton
We provide full funding up to and including Level 2 English and maths for adults aged 19 and above, including those who are employed, who do not have a GCSE grade 4, grade C, or higher. This is a legal entitlement as set out in the Apprenticeships, Skills and Children’s Learning Act 2009. Funding for these qualifications is provided through the Adult Education Budget (AEB), paragraphs 171 to 177 of the AEB funding rules for 2018 to 2019 gives further information on eligibility and entitlements, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rules-2018-to-2019.
If a learner wants to ‘retake’ their GCSE English and maths qualification because they did not achieve a grade 4 or higher (C or higher), then we will not fund the learner to re-sit the exam only. We will, however, fully fund the learner if they complete the learning programme again before retaking the exam.
Learners wishing to ‘retake’ their English and maths qualification only, will need to approach their provider who can check with the relevant awarding organisation that private candidates are accepted and what fee will be charged.
Providers, in receipt of an AEB allocation, will receive £811 if they deliver English and maths GCSEs to adults aged 19 and above. Further information can be found via the AEB: Funding rates and formula 2018 to 2019, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rates-and-formula-2018-to-2019.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many providers have run courses for adults to resit GCSE maths and English language in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
The attached table contains the number of providers where adult (19+) learners are participating in GCSE English or maths courses in the Ashfield constituency and Nottinghamshire.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) initial and (b) additional allocated budgets for special needs provision in Nottinghamshire schools have been in each of the past three years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Local authorities are legally required to provide schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities, up to £6,000. Local authorities must set a notional SEN budget for every school in their area as part of their local schools formula, funded from the overall schools budget, although this funding is not ring-fenced and it remains the responsibility of each school to manage its overall budget, and ensure that the needs of all its pupils are being met.
When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEN exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This funding comes from the local authority’s high needs budget. On 17 December 2018, we announced an addition of £250 million in high needs funding across the current financial year and the next, on top of the additional funding we had already promised. As a result, Nottinghamshire will receive an additional £1.7 million of this funding in each year, bringing their high needs funding total to £66.5 million in 2019-20.
The figures for the last three years are illustrated below.
Year | Schools Funding Amount | High Needs Funding Amount |
2016-17 | £447.8 million | £57.3 million |
2017-18 | £459.4 million | £59.8 million |
2018-19 | £469.1 million | £64.0 million |