HC Deb 08 April 1998 vol 310 cc331-3W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many schools have been designated as failing schools in the last(a) four and (b) five years, in each LEA area. [37680]

Mr. Byers

The following table lists the number of schools found to be failing by LEA area over the past 4 and 5 years to 31 March 1998. The table also shows the number of schools which have been closed or which no longer require special measures within the LEA area.

LEA Number of schools failing in 4 years to 31 March 1998 Number of Schools in 5 years 31 March 1998 Schools removed from special measures or closed
Barking & Dagenham 0 0 0
Barnet 0 0 0
Barnsley 2 2 0
Bath & NE Somerset 0 0 0
Bedfordshire 4 4 1
Berkshire 4 4 2
Bexley 0 0 0
Birmingham 12 12 1
Bolton 2 2 1
Bournemouth 0 0 0
Bradford 8 8 3
Brent 6 6 2
Brighton & Hove 3 3 0
Bristol 7 7 0
Bromley 4 4 1
Buckinghamshire 2 2 0
Bury 1 1 1
Calderdale 4 4 0
Cambridgeshire 4 4 0
Camden 3 3 0
Cheshire 3 3 1
Cornwall 1 1 0

LEA Number of schools failing in 4 years to 31 March 1998 Number of schools in 5 years to 31 March 1998 Schools removed from special measures or closed
Corporation of London 0 0 0
Coventry 4 4 0
Croydon 7 7 2
Cumbria 8 8 2
Darlington 0 0 0
Derby City 0 0 0
Derbyshire 9 10 2
Devon 10 10 3
Doncaster 0 0 0
Dorset 5 5 1
Dudley 2 2 0
Durham 0 1 1
East Riding of Yorks 1 1 0
Ealing 1 1 0
East Sussex 4 4 1
Enfield 2 2 0
Essex 19 19 0
Gateshead 2 3 1
Gloucestershire 6 6 2
Greenwich 7 7 2
Hackney 9 9 3
Hammersmith & Fulham 3 3 2
Hampshire 7 7 1
Haringey 8 8 2
Harrow 0 0 0
Hartlepool 0 0 0
Havering 2 2 0
Hereford & Worcester 4 4 0
Hertfordshire 7 7 0
Hillingdon 3 3 0
Hounslow 2 2 0
Isle of Wight 2 2 0
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0
Islington 6 6 0
Kensington & Chelsea 0 0 0
Kent 17 17 0
Kingston Upon Hull 7 7 2
Kingston Upon Thames 1 1 0
Kirklees 4 4 1
Knowsley 2 2 0
Lambeth 14 14 6
Lancashire 22 22 2
Leeds 11 11 4
Leicester City 9 9 1
Leicestershire 3 3 1
Lewisham 6 6 1
Lincolnshire 7 7 3
Liverpool 15 15 4
Luton 2 2 0
Manchester 10 10 1
Merton 1 1 0
Middlesbrough 2 2 0
Milton Keynes 4 4 1
N Lincolnshire 1 1 0
NE Lincolnshire 0 0 0
Newcastle 3 3 1
Newham 8 9 2
Norfolk 16 16 7
North Somerset 2 2 0
North Tyneside 0 0 0
North Yorkshire 4 4 0
Northamptonshire 5 5 1
Northumberland 3 3 0
Nottingham 13 13 3
Oldham 4 4 2
Oxfordshire 9 9 1

LEA Number of schools failing in 4 years to 31 March 1998 Number of schools failing in 5 years to 31 Mach 1998 Schools removed from special measures or closed
Poole 0 0 0
Portsmouth 1 1 0
Redbridge 1 1 1
Redcar & Cleveland 0 0 0
Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0
Rochdale 2 2 1
Rotherham 1 1 0
Rutland 1 1 0
Salford 5 5 0
Sandwell 10 10 1
Sefton 0 0 0
Sheffield 11 11 2
Shropshire 4 4 1
Solihull 3 3 1
Somerset 5 5 2
South Gloucestershire 0 0 0
South Tyneside 3 3 0
Southampton 2 2 0
Southwark 6 6 2
St. Helens 1 1 0
Staffordshire 7 7 2
Stockport 3 3 0
Stockton-on-Tees 2 2 0
Stoke-on-Trent 6 6 1
Suffolk 2 2 0
Sunderland 3 3 0
Surrey 9 9 2
Sutton 3 3 1
Swindon 0 0 0
Tameside 2 2 1
Tower Hamlets 5 5 1
Trafford 1 1 0
Wakefield 0 0 0
Walsall 4 4 0

Accepted applicants to full-time and sandwich undergraduate courses in the UK, by social class (home domiciled, all ages)
1985 1990 1991 1995
for entry in autumn: Admissions service 1 UCCA PCAS UCCA PCAS UCCA PCAS UCAS
Social class2
I Professional (A) 14,644 n/a 17,475 n/a 18,567 7,950 38,719
II Intermediate (B) 33,588 n/a 44,718 n/a 48,114 30,813 103,404
IIIn Skilled non-manual (C1) 7,285 n/a 9,838 n/a 10,945 8,710 30,271
IIIm Skilled manual (C2) 8,889 n/a 10,651 n/a 11,463 11,883 42,541
IV Partly skilled (D) 4,628 n/a 5,685 n/a 6,166 6,529 19,780
V Unskilled (E) 808 n/a 866 n/a 919 1,187 5,039
Unknown 6,339 n/a 10,144 n/a 10,543 27,393 25,782
Total 76,181 n/a 99,377 77,539 106,717 94,465 265,536
1Universities & Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS) in operation since 1994. Universities Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) existed 1961 to 1993.Polytechnics and Colleges Admissions Services (PCAS) existed 1986 to 1993.
2 The classification system to assign social class to applicants is that used in the National Census—the Standard Occupational Classification published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. (A), (B), (C1), (C2), (D), (E) are the institute of practitioners in advertising (IPA) equivalent definition of social class.

Note:

n/a = indicates information not collected by the admissions service in that year.