Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children classified as in scope for the 16-18 English progress measure were from (a) disadvantaged and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds in 2017-18 by each prior attainment grade.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of state-funded students in scope for the 16-18 mathematics and English measures and their attainment, split by disadvantage status[1] and prior attainment, are provided in the attached tables. This expands on published data within the Department’s statistical release[2].
[1] Disadvantage status is taken from the census recorded completed for that student’s final year of key stage 4 study.
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised. Main text, page 30-32.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children classified as in scope for the 16-18 maths progress measure from (a) disadvantaged and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds achieved a grade 4 in maths by the end of 16-18 study in 2017-18 by each prior attainment grade.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of state-funded students in scope for the 16-18 mathematics and English measures and their attainment, split by disadvantage status[1] and prior attainment, are provided in the attached tables. This expands on published data within the Department’s statistical release[2].
[1] Disadvantage status is taken from the census recorded completed for that student’s final year of key stage 4 study.
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised. Main text, page 30-32.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for a breakdown of the number of children classified as in scope for the 16-18 maths progress measure from (a) disadvantaged and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds by prior attainment qualification of (i) GCSE grade 3 or D (ii) other level 2 qualification; and whether they (A) did not enter an approved qualification, (B) achieved a grade 4 or above (or equivalent) and (C) made positive progress in 2017-18.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of state-funded students in scope for the 16-18 mathematics and English measures and their attainment, split by disadvantage status[1] and prior attainment, are provided in the attached tables. This expands on published data within the Department’s statistical release[2].
[1] Disadvantage status is taken from the census recorded completed for that student’s final year of key stage 4 study.
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised. Main text, page 30-32.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children classified as in scope for the 16-18 maths progress measure were from (a) disadvantaged and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds in 2017-18 by each prior attainment grade.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of state-funded students in scope for the 16-18 mathematics and English measures and their attainment, split by disadvantage status[1] and prior attainment, are provided in the attached tables. This expands on published data within the Department’s statistical release[2].
[1] Disadvantage status is taken from the census recorded completed for that student’s final year of key stage 4 study.
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised. Main text, page 30-32.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the report of the Serious Case Review into the death of Dylan Tiffin-Brown is due to be published.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Publication and timings of serious case reviews rest with the relevant local safeguarding children board. The department cannot comment on specific serious case reviews until after publication.
The statutory guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2015’ sets out the purpose of serious case reviews and the process to be followed. Decisions on the scope and methodology rest with the relevant local safeguarding children board (LSCB) and I expect Northamptonshire’s LSCB, like all others, to reflect our guidance in any review.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that in compiling its report the Serious Case Review Panel reviewing the death of Dylan Tiffin Brown in Northampton will interview family and community members as set out in the guidance for serious case reviews.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Publication and timings of serious case reviews rest with the relevant local safeguarding children board. The department cannot comment on specific serious case reviews until after publication.
The statutory guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2015’ sets out the purpose of serious case reviews and the process to be followed. Decisions on the scope and methodology rest with the relevant local safeguarding children board (LSCB) and I expect Northamptonshire’s LSCB, like all others, to reflect our guidance in any review.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what reports he has received from the children's services commissioner on progress in improving children's services in Northamptonshire in the last five years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Malcolm Newsam CBE was appointed as Commissioner for Children’s Services in Northamptonshire on 30 November 2018. He has submitted one report to date. This will be published shortly.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of two-year olds eligible for 15 funded hours of early education and care have taken up that entitlement in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The percentage of 2-year-olds benefitting from funded early education by local authority in each of the last 3 years is published in Table 8LA of the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018.
The number of 2-year-olds benefitting from funded early education by local authority is published in Table 1LA of the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical release.
As at January 2018: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018.
As at January 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017.
As at January 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of total funding on the funded early education offer for (a) two, (b) three and (c) four year olds is spent in (i) PVI settings, (ii) maintained settings and (iii) childminder settings in the latest year for which data is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
We plan to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone – more than any other government.
The department publishes data from local authority planned early years budget in the early years funding benchmarking tool.
The tool provides a breakdown of spend by early years provider types, including budget information for private, voluntary and independent (PVI) setting and maintained settings for 2 year olds and 3-4 year olds.
Budget information for childminders are included within the PVI total budget. The data is as reported by the local authorities and the latest data from 2018-19 is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of three and four year old children not accessing the funded early education offer by local authority.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The information requested on 3 and 4 year old children not accessing funded early education is not held centrally.
Tables 2LA and 8LA of the ‘Provision for children under 5’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018, shows the number and take up rates for 3 and 4 year old children.