HC Deb 08 December 2003 vol 415 cc288-9W
Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the local education authorities where police officers are based in schools; and for each local education authority what funding from his Department is made available in support. [141522]

Mr. Miliband

My Department and the Home Office have encouraged schools and the police to set up Safer School Partnerships (police in schools). To fund administrative staff and equipment for SSP officers, those partnerships in Behaviour Improvement Programme (BIP) areas are able to negotiate locally for a share of the area's BIP fund. We are paying over £1 million this year in BIP funds for all eligible activities including SSPs in each of the local education authorities listed as follows. We have many reports of good work achieved by BIP-funded SSPs in their first year. Some areas have also taken the initiative to start SSPs in non-BIP areas, using their own local funds.

  • Birmingham
  • Bolton
  • Bradford Brent
  • Bristol
  • Camden
  • Ealing
  • Greenwich
  • Hackney
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Hartlepool
  • Hounslow
  • Hull
  • Islington
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Lambeth
  • Leeds
  • Lewisham
  • Liverpool
  • Manchester
  • Middlesbrough
  • Newham
  • Nottingham
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oldham
  • Reading
  • Rochdale
  • Salford
  • Sandwell
  • Sheffield
  • Slough
  • Solihull
  • Southwark
  • Stoke on Trent
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Waltham Forest
  • Wandsworth
  • Westminster
  • Wolverhampton.