§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many children are currently receiving the benefit of nursery education provided 403W by Cheshire County Council; and what are the locations of the schools;
(2) how many fully maintained nursery schools are operated by Cheshire County Council; and what applications from Cheshire for additional nursery provision are currently being considered by her Department.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonAt January 1977, Cheshire County Council was maintaining eight nursery schools and 63 primary schools with nursery classes. These were providing nursery education for a total of 3,731 children.
The nursery schools were located:
No. of schools Chester 2 Crewe 1 Padgate 1 Runcorn 1 Widnes 3 The primary schools with nursery classes were located:
No. of schools Alsager 1 Chester 7 Church Lawton 1 Congleton 1 Crewe 6 Ellesmere Port 4 Frodsham 2 Knutsford 1 Macclesfield 4 Marton 1 404W
JANUARY 1977 Local education authority Maintained nursery schools Maintained primary schools with nursery classes Total nursery places* Total teaching staff† Total adult staff‡ Barking … … — 11 447 16 37 Barnet … … 3 23 799.5 33 75 Bexley … … 1 5 240 13 27 Brent … … 3 22 677.5 36 71 Bromley … … — 3 64.5 3 7 Croydon … … 4 3 315.5 14 33 Ealing … … 5 16 766.5 39 76 Enfield … … — 14 392.5 16 30 Haringey … … 3 27 966.5 51 100 Harrow … … 3 7 313 16 32 Havering … … — 3 110.5 3 9 Hillingdon … … 2 21 683 33 67 Hounslow … … — 19 583.5 26 55 Kingston-upon-Thames … … 2 11 491.5 28 52 Merton … … 2 15 585 27 56 Newham … … 6 28 1,200.5 51 143 Redbridge … … — 6 235 10 20 Richmond-upon-Thames … … 1 5 195.5 13 23 Sutton … … 2 5 318 14 37 Waltham Forest … … 3 14 570.5 30 62 Inner London … … 42 295 10,770.5 472 1,034 Birmingham … … 30 64 4,421.5 212 461 Coventry … … 2 18 882.5 29 90 Dudley … … 6 15 1,054 26 85 Sandwell … … 3 34 1,226.5 47 132
Nantwich 2 Northwich 5 Prestbury 1 Runcorn 3 Warrington 17 Widnes 2 Wilmslow 2 Winsford 3 Cheshire has submitted bids under the urban programme for new nursery units at Warrington and Widnes. It has also bid for a capital allocation under the nursery education building programme 1978–79 for the unit at Warrington; and a provisional allocation has been made to this.
§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list in the Official Report the nursery school provision by each education authority in England and Wales, showing the number of schools, the number of places provided, the teachers employed and expressing the expenditure by each authority as a proportion of (a) the total local authority expenditure, and (b) the total local authority educational expenditure.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe information for each local education authority in England is as follows. Nursery education in Wales is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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JANUARY 1977 Local education authority Maintained nursery schools Maintained primary schools with nursery classes Total nursery places* Total teaching staff† Total adult staff‡ Solihull … … — 15 465.5 22 50 Walsall … … 10 36 1,479.5 28 159 Wolverhampton … … 10 31 1,285.5 44 141 Knowsley … … — 12 312 11 28 Liverpool … … 6 59 2,322 85 219 St. Helens … … 1 13 436.5 20 42 Sefton … … 5 25 915 32 69 Wirral … … 3 24 725 32 65 Bolton … … 6 29 1,442.5 47 114 Bury … … 2 8 298.5 12 33 Manchester … … 6 130 5,074 178 408 Oldham … … 4 18 833 29 68 Rochdale … … 8 11 801.5 35 84 Salford … … 11 36 1,425 53 141 Stockport … … 9 2 523.5 20 59 Tameside … … 4 16 634 22 62 Trafford … … 1 9 291 12 26 Wigan … … 3 16 652.5 27 55 Barnsley … … 4 38 1,208.5 31 118 Doncaster … … — 52 1,326 46 122 Rotherham … … 3 35 1,400 48 112 Sheffield … … 5 42 1,909.5 102 218 Bradford … … 8 55 1,959.5 93 222 Calderdale … … 1 27 913 31 91 Kirklees … … 10 16 894.5 35 97 Leeds … … 3 45 1,613.5 41 164 Wakefield … … 4 38 1,391 38 136 Gateshead … … 2 18 543 22 61 Newcastle-upon-Tyne … … 5 26 1,250.5 64 138 North Tyneside … … 3 20 685.5 28 70 South Tyneside … … 10 7 600 31 60 Sunderland … … 10 13 942 42 83 Isles of Scilly … … — — — — — Avon … … 17 25 1,973.5 82 201 Bedfordshire … … 10 34 1,739 102 218 Berkshire … … 19 28 1,988 91 216 Buckinghamshire … … 5 17 833.5 23 86 Cambridgeshire … … 8 20 1,028.5 50 104 Cheshire … … 8 63 2,050.5 87 196 Cleveland … … 10 72 2,465.5 101 244 Cornwall … … 2 20 503 24 46 Cumbria … … 8 28 1,107.5 56 118 Derbyshire … … 11 52 2,472 108 233 Devon … … 1 25 735.5 28 63 Dorset … … — 9 288 12 25 Durham … … 23 38 2,072.5 102 223 East Sussex … … 2 13 406 18 40 Essex … … 2 34 1,033.5 43 94 Gloucestershire … … — — — — — Hampshire … … 3 25 817 32 77 Hereford and Worcester … … 1 10 304 12 25 Hertfordshire … … 20 78 3,363.5 145 374 Humberside … … 9 58 2,289 100 235 Isle of Wight … … — 3 59.5 3 8 Kent … … 1 21 754.5 32 75 Lancashire … … 38 31 2,672.5 118 258 Leicestershire … … 1 57 3,073.5 128 259 Lincolnshire … … 6 8 507.5 24 55 Norfolk … … 4 8 416 23 43 North Yorkshire … … 5 33 1,168.5 56 125 Northamptonshire … … 9 8 675.5 28 64 Northumberland … … 2 13 404 18 43 Nottinghamshire … … 8 95 3,639.5 147 372 Oxfordshire … … 14 15 986 42 97 Salop … … 3 10 458 20 41 Somerset … … 2 5 188.5 9 17 Staffordshire … … 26 88 3,718 132 355
JANUARY 1977 Local education authority Maintained nursery schools Maintained primary schools with nursery classes Total nursery places* Total teaching staff† Total adult staff‡ Suffolk … … … 2 26 664.5 27 58 Surrey … … … 6 36 1,372.5 72 141 Warwickshire … … … 9 22 959.5 43 97 West Sussex … … … 4 2 239.5 13 23 Wiltshire … … … — 1 42.5 2 4 England … … … 579 2,737 114,333.5 4,772 11,282 Notes: * The total number of places occupied by full-time and part-time pupils, counting each part-time pupil as 0.5. † All full-time and part-time teachers in nursery schools and full-time (excluding head teachers) and part-time teachers in charge of nursery classes in primary schools. ‡ Including nursery assistants and teachers shown in the previous column. My Department does not prepare figures analysing the expenditure of each local education authority, but certain analyses of their estimates and expenditure are contained in the annual publications of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, copies of which are in the Library. "Education Estimates Statistics, 1976–77" gives figures for expenditure on nursery education and for net education expenditure, and "Return of Rates" gives total expenditure.