Children: Disadvantaged
(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children was eligible for free school meals in (a) Barnsley and (b) the UK in each of the last seven years.
Figures on the proportion of children eligible for free school meals are published, for all authorities in England, annually. The most recent figures can be found in the statistical first release available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.
A table of figures for the last seven years has been provided below.
Proportion of children eligible for free school meals, time series: percentages | |||||
| Nursery and primary schools | Secondary schools | |||
| Barnsley | England | Barnsley | England | |
2017 | 19.1 | 14.1 | 17.0 | 12.9 | |
2016 | 20.5 | 14.5 | 18.3 | 13.2 | |
2015 | 19.4 | 15.6 | 18.7 | 13.9 | |
2014 | 21.3 | 17.0 | 20.5 | 14.6 | |
2013 | 21.5 | 18.1 | 19.4 | 15.1 | |
2012 | 22.8 | 18.1 | 20.1 | 14.8 | |
2011 | 21.8 | 18.0 | 19.7 | 14.6 | |
source: school census | |||||
A UK figure is not available. As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations.