§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much his Department is making available in the current financial year in support of the community education development centre's project to assist local education authorities in the training of teachers designated by schools as child protection teachers; and how many teachers are currently covered by the scheme.
§ Mr. FallonUp to £35,000 is being made available for this purpose by the Department in the current financial year. The principal objective of the project is to train the trainers of designated teachers. Thus, for every local education authority that takes up the offer of the courses, the designated teacher in each of their schools will benefit; and other teachers will also benefit from the knowledge and awareness spread through the schools by the designated teachers. About one sixth of local education authorities have so far participated in the scheme, and more courses are scheduled.
§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the budget for grant
1990 11991 Scientific Non-scientific Scientific Non-scientific IACR 449 251 433 246 IAH 292 228 283 227 IAPGR 337 222 321 208 IER 115 194 103 163 IFR 381 171 245 131 IGER 308 224 285 209 IPSR 234 92 234 92 Total 2,116 1,382 1,904 1,276 1 Estimate.
Abbreviations: IACR —Institute of Arable Crops Research. IAH —Institute for Animal Health. IAPGR —Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics. IER —Institute of Engineering Research. IFR —Institute of Food Research. IGER —Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. IPSR —Institute of Plant Science Research. In addition, 295 scientific and 269 non-scientific AFRC staff were seconded to the British Society of Horticultural Research (since renamed Horticulture Research International) on 1 April 1990. The estimated numbers of these staff for 1 April 1991 are 260 and 245 respectively.
The number of staff employed on 1 April 1992 and 1 April 1993 will depend on a number of factors, including the funding available to the AFRC through the science budget and the extent of commissions from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and externally funded research. The present estimate is that the number of scientific staff employed by the AFRC at its institutes and Horticulture Research International will be about 1,960 and the number of non-scientific staff will be about 1,400 on each date. No breakdown of anticipated staffing levels at each AFRC institute is available.