§ Dr. WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many appeals, by local education authority areas, have been made by parents to date about failures to deliver the national curriculum in schools. [32045]
§ Mr. PaiceTo date, the Department has collected information on formal complaints about failure to comply with the national curriculum for the school years 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92 in the case of local education authority-maintained schools, and 1993–94 in the case of both LEA-maintained and grant-maintained schools. The numbers, where supplied, are as follows. There were nil returns for 75 LEAs across all years. The data do not distinguish parents from other complainants.
1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1993–94 Avon — — — 6 Bedfordshire — — 1 — Berkshire — — 2 2 Birmingham 1— — 1— 1 Bradford — — — 10 Bromley — — — 1 Buckinghamshire 1— — — 1 Camden — — — 1 Cheshire — — 1 — Derbyshire — — 1 — Devon — — 1 — Dudley — — — 1 East Sussex — — 2 1 Essex — — — 3 Greenwich — 2 — 1 Hereford and Worcester — — — 3 Kensington and Chelsea 1— — — 1 Kent — — — 3 Lancashire — 1— 1 — Leicestershire — — — 1 Lewisham — — — 1 Northamptonshire — — — 1 North Tyneside — — — 1 North Yorkshire 2 — — 1 Nottinghamshire — — — 1 St. Helens — 1 — — Sheffield — — 1 — Shropshire — — — 1 Somerset — — — 1 Staffordshire 1 — — — Surrey — — — 2 Walsall — — — 1 Warwickshire 3 — — — Wiltshire — 2 — — 1 No response received from the LEA that year.