§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Sectary of State for Education and Science if she will list in the Official Report the non-maintained schools in individual local authorities which provide places paid for by local authorities; and what is the total cost in each authority of day and boarding places in non-maintained schools.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonLocal education authorities have not had to report to my right hon. Friend details of places they are currently paying for in non-maintained schools. Information on the planned expenditure of local education authorities on education in non-maintained schools is published annually by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Its education estimates statistics for 1978–79 are not yet available, but those for 1977–78 and earlier years are in the Library. The CIPFA statistics show that the total estimates for expenditure by local education authorities in England and Wales on agency services in respect of direct grant and independent schools and assistance to pupils at such schools were £38.3 million in 1976–77 and £39.4 million in 1977–78, excluding expenditure on special education.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Sectary of State for Education and Science (1) if she will list in the Official Report 638W those local authorities for which new arrangements have been approved and rejected, respectively, for places at non-maintained schools, the schools in respect of which such arrangements have been approved, and the numbers of day and boarding places, respectively, approved in accordance with circular 12/76;
(2) if she will list in the Official Report the local education authorities which have submitted for her approval arrangements for places at non-maintained schools, the independent schools in respect of which arrangements have been requested, and the numbers of day and boarding places, respectively, requested, in accordance with the terms of circular 12/76;
(3) if she will list in the Official Report the criteria under which she is prepared to sanction expenditure by local education authorities on places for pupils in independent schools which continue to practice selection, and the schools in respect of which she has so far allowed such arrangements to be made.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe criteria under which my right hon. Friend has generally been prepared to approve proposals by local education authorities to support pupils at non-maintained schools were set out in my Department's circular 6/77, and I am sending my hon. Friend a copy.
The following categories of proposals are generally acceptable:
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- (a) proposals to meet the full cost of places at non-maintained schools: where an authority can show, by reference to the places available in its own maintained schools and in those of neighbouring authorities, an overall shortage of suitable maintained places;
- (b) proposals to assist according to parental means with the cost of education in non-maintained schools: either where an authority wishes to widen parental choice on denominational grounds and there is a shortage of suitable maintained denominational provision; or where children are judged in need of boarding education without reference to their ability or aptitude, except ability or aptitude in music—including singing and dancing—and there is a shortage of suitable maintained boarding provision in the locality.
The circular also gave my right hon. Friend's general approval to the support by local education authorities of individual pupils at non-maintained schools on grounds unrelated to ability or aptitude—except in music or dancing. Information about the number of pupils assisted in this way will, however, be collected regularly.
My right hon. Friend has also been prepared to allow some local education authorities to continue for a limited period to meet the full cost of new places at non-maintained Roman Catholic schools pending the completion of the comprehensive reorganisation of Roman Catholic
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Local Education Authority Type of school (see note) School Places Requested Places Approved Barnet … … 1 City of London Boys … … … … … 41 0 2 Haberdashers' Aske's Boys … … … … 1 University College … … … … … 1 City of London Girls … … … … … 2 Haberdashers' Aske's Girls … … … … 2 North London Collegiate … … … … 2 South Hampstead High … … … … … Bexley … … … 4 St. Joseph's Convent … … … … … 50 50 Bromley … … 1 Holy Trinity Convent … … … … … 40 40 Croydon … … 2 Old Place Girls' School … … … … 43 22 2 Croydon High School for Girls … … … … 30 0 1 Dulwich College … … … … … … 1 Trinity School of John Whitgift … … … 1 The Whitgift School … … … … … Harrow … … Various non-maintained schools … … … 70 0 Havering … … 3 Ursuline High School, Ilford … … … … 12 0 3 Ursuline Convent, Brentwood … … … … 15 15 Redbridge … … 3 Ursuline High School, Ilford … … … … 25 25 Sutton … … 1 Dulwich College … … … … … … 2 0 1 Kings School, Wimbledon … … … … 4 0 2 Kingston Grammer School … … … … 5 0 2 Old Palace School … … … … … … 1 0 2 Sutton High School for Girls … … … … 25 0 I.L.E.A. … … 1 St. Pauls Cathedral Choir School … … … 2 2 1 The Arts Educational School … … … … 4 4 1 The Italia Conti School … … … … … 2 2 1 The Nesta Brooking School … … … … 2 2 Knowsley … … 3 St. Edwards College, Liverpool … … … … 50 50 3 St. Francis Xaviers School, Liverpool … … … 3 Notre Dame Collegiate School … … … … 3 Bellerive Girls School … … … … … Liverpool … … 3 St. Edwards College … … … … … 60 60 3 St. Francis Xavier's School … … … … 60 60 3 Notre Dame Collegiate School … … … … 60 60 3 Bellerive Girls' School … … … … … 45 45 3 St. Edmonds College … … … … … 30 30 Sefton … … … 2 St. Mary's College, Crosby … … … … 25 25 Wirral … … … 2 St. Anselm's College … … … … … 60 50 1 Upton Hall Convent … … … … … 52 50 2 Birkenhead School … … … … … 10 0 2 Birkenhead High School for Girls … … … 5 0 secondary schools in the areas concerned. The majority of these places are at direct grant schools which will become maintained as part of local comprehensive system.
There are separate arrangements for the placement by local education authorities of handicapped pupils in independent schools. These are covered in my Department's circular 6/78, and I am sending my hon. Friend a copy.
Following, in respect of each local education authority concerned, are details of the arrangements for which my right hon. Friend's approval has been sought.
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Local Education Authority Type of school (see note) School Places Requested Places Approved Bury … … … 2 Bolton School (Boys) … … … … … 124 124 2 Bolton School (Girls) … … … … … 2 Bury Grammar School … … … … … 2 Bury Grammar School … … … … … 3 Canonslade School, Bolton … … … … 2 Manchester Grammar School … … … … 2 Manchester High School for Girls … … … 2 William Hulme Grammar School … … … 2 Withington High School … … … … … 3 Bury Convent Grammar School … … … … 3 Mount St. Joseph's School, Bolton … … … Rochdale … … 3 Bury Convent Grammar School … … … … 20 20 Stockport … … 1 Stockport Convent … … … … … 120 120 1 Convent of the Nativity, Stockport … … … 20 20 1 Loreto Convent, Altrincham … … … … 1 Mount Carmel Convent, Alderley Edge … … 1 St. Ambrose College, Hale Barn … … … Stockport … … 2 Cheadle Hulme School … … … … … 118 0 2 Manchester Grammar School … … … … 2 Manchester High School for Girls … … … 2 William Hulme's Grammar School … … … 2 Withington Girls School … … … … … 2 Stockport Grammar School … … … … 1 The Kings School, Macclesfield … … … Tameside … … 2 Oldham Hulme Grammar School … … … 100 60 2 Stockport Grammar School … … … … 2 William Hulme's Grammar School … … … 2 Withington Girls School … … … … … 2 Cheadle Hulme School … … … … … 1 Kings School, Macclesfield … … … … 2 Manchester Grammar School … … … … 2 Manchester High School for Girls … … … 1 St. Ambrose College, Hale Barns … … … 45 45 2 St. Bede's College … … … … … 1 Chorlton Convent … … … … … Trafford … … 1 Loreto Convent Grammar School, Altrincham … 132 132 1 St. Ambrose College for Boys, Hale Barns … … 2 Manchester Grammar School … … … … 111 111 2 William Hulme's Grammar School … … … 2 Manchester High School for Girls … … … 2 Withington Girls School … … … … … 2 St. Bede's College … … … … … 1 Convent High School of our Lady of Good Counsel … Wigan … … 3 Bolton, Thornleigh Boys Grammar School … … 5 5 3 Bolton, Mount St. Joseph's Girls Grammar School … 5 5 Kirklees … … 1 Batley Grammar School … … … … 60 60 Avon … … 2 Bristol Cathedral School … … … … 5 5 3 St. Brendan's College, Bristol … … … … 89 89 4 La Retraite High School, Bristol … … … 80 80 1 La sainte Union Convent, Bath … … … 20 20 1 Sacred Heart Convent, Chew Magna … … … 2 2 Bedfordshire … … 1 Bedford School … … … … … … 116 116 1 Bedford High School … … … … … 2 Bedford Modern School … … … … 2 Dame Alice Harpur School, Bedford … … … Berkshire … … 1 St. Joseph's Convent, Reading … … … … 55 55 1 Presentation College, Reading … … … … 55 55 2 Abbey School, Reading … … … … … 15 0 1 King Edward's School, Witley (Boarding) … … 7 7 1 Leighton Park School, Reading (Boarding) … … Cambridgeshire … 2 Perse School, Cambridge … … … … 70 0 2 Perse School for Girls, Cambridge … … … 2 Kimbolton School … … … … … 644W 645W
Local Education Authority Type of school (see note) School Places Requested Places Approved Cheshire … … 1 Kings School, Macclesfield … … … … 125 125 1 Sandbach School … … … … … … 120 120 3 Bellerive Girls School, Liverpool … … … 230 170 1 Mount Carmel Convent, Alderley Edge … … 3 Notre Dame, Collegiate School, Liverpool … … 1 Loreto Convent, Altrincham … … … … 1 Upton Hall Convent, Birkenhead … … … 1 Stockport Convent … … … … … 1 Harrytown Convent, Romiley … … … … 1 St. Ambrose College, Hale Barns … … … 2 St. Anselm's College, Birkenhead … … … 3 St. Edward's College, Liverpool … … … 3 St. Francis Xavier's, Liverpool … … … … 2 Chester, The Queen's School … … … … 248 0 2 Chester, The King's School … … … … 2 Manchester Grammar School … … … … 2 Manchester High School for Girls … … … 2 Manchester William Hulme's Grammar School … 2 Manchester Withington Girls' School … … … 2 Bolton School (Boys) … … … … … 2 Bolton School (Girls) … … … … … 2 The Belvedere School, Liverpool … … … 2 Stockport Grammar School … … … … 2 Cheadle Hulme School … … … … … Devon … … 2 Plymouth College … … … … … 22 0 2 Shebbear College … … … … … 4 0 3 St. Boniface's College, Plymouth … … … 45 45 3 Notre Dame High School, Plymouth … … … 45 45 2 Exeter School … … … … … … 18 0 2 Maynard Girls School, Exeter … … … 14 0 Dorset … … 1 Boscombe Convent, Bournemouth … … 16 16 1 St. Peters School, Bournemouth … … … … 13 13 Essex … … 3 Ursuline High School, Ilford … … … … 6 6 3 Ursuline Convent, Brentwood … … … … 50 50 Gloucestershire … 1 Rendcomb College (Boarding) … … … 5 5 2 Monmouth School … … … … … 8 0 2 Monmouth School for Girls … … … … 3 0 1 Charlton Park Convent, Cheltenham … … … 25 25 1 Whitefriars School, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham … 25 25 Hampshire … … 1 Farnborough Hill Convent … … … … 32 32 1 Salesian College, Farnborough … … … … 26 26 3 St. Anne's Convent School, Southampton … … 201 201 1 Convent of the Cross, Boscombe … … … 3 3 1 St. Peter's School, Southbourne … … … 6 6 1 King Edward's School, Witley (Boarding) … … 4 4 Hertfordshire … 1 St. Edmunds College, Bishops Stortford … … 25 25 Hereford and Worcester … 2 Kings School, Worcester … … … … 27 27 1 St. Mary's Convent, Worcester … … … 6 6 1 Sacred Heart College, Droitwich … … … 6 6 Kent … … … 1 Sevenoaks School … … … … … 60 60 2 Walthamstow Hall … … … … … 30 25 1 Sacred Heart School, Tunbridge Wells … … 6 0 1 Combe Bank, Sundridge … … … … … 12 0 4 St. Joseph's Convent, Abbey Wood, Bexley … … 4 4 1 Ursuline Convent, Westgate-on-Sea … … … 15 15 Lancashire … … 2 Blackpool, Arnold School … … … … 215 215 2 Lytham, King Edward VII School … … … 2 Lytham, Queen Mary School … … … … 1 Elmslie School … … … … … … 1 Bentham Grammar School … … … … 2 2 2 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn … 30 0 3 St. Mary's College, Blackburn … … … … 180 180 3 Notre Dame Grammar School, Blackburn … … 3 Paddock House Convent Grammar School, Oswaldtwistle … … … … … … 3 Mount St. Joseph's School, Bolton … … … 3 Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton … … … 3 Bury Convent Grammar School … … … …
Local Education Authority Type of school (see note) School Places Requested Places Approved Lincolnshire … 2 Stamford School … … … … … … 45 45 2 Stamford High School for Girls … … … 35 35 Norfolk … … 1 Norwich School … … … … … … 15 15 2 Norwich High School … … … … … 15 15 3 Notre Dame High School, Norwich … … … 25 25 North Yorkshire … 3 Bar Convent School, York … … … … 62 62 Somerset … … 1 Bruton Schools for Girls … … … … … 40 40 1 The Hall School, Wincanton … … … … 4 4 1 Downside School, Stratton-on-the-Fosse … … 1 1 1 La Retraite Convent School, Burnham-on-Sea … 10 10 1 La Sainte Union Convent School, Bath … … 2 2 1 St. Anthony's Convent School, Leverton … … 3 3 Suffolk … … … 2 Woodbridge School … … … … … 26 26 3 Notre Dame High School, Norwich … … … 4 4 Surrey … … … 1 The Italia Conti School … … … … … 2 2 Warwickshire … 2 The King's High School for Girls, Warwick … … 15 15 1 Warwick School … … … … … … 15 15 West Sussex … … 1 Christs Hospital School (Boarding) … … … 6 6 1 Lancing College (Boarding) … … … … Wiltshire … … 2 Dauntsey's School, West Lavington … … … 25 25 3 St. Brendan's College, Bristol … … … … 15 15 1 La Sainte Union Convent, Bath … … … 7 7 1 La Retraite Convent School, Salisbury … … 12 12 1 St. Mary's Convent School, Donhead … … … 15 15 1 St. Mary's College, Bitterne, Southampton … … 2 2 TOTAL … … … … … … … 4,517 3,611 School Types: 1. Independent school. 2. Direct grant school expected to become independent on the completion of the phasing out of direct grant. 3. Direct grant school which has opted to join the maintained sector. 4. Direct grant school which will close on the completion of secondary reorganisation. The total number of places approved above compares with a total of 6,000 new places shown in local education authority's responses to my Department's circular 12/76 as having been taken up in 1976–77, the only year for which comparable figures are available.