HC Deb 25 February 2003 vol 400 cc471-2W
Mrs. Brooke

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many youth action groups have been established with funding through partnerships of study support schemes.[98184]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The Partners for Study Support grant scheme, which finished in March 2002, encouraged schools to work with voluntary, private and public sector organisations to develop innovative and sustainable study support partnerships. One of the 134 projects funded through the scheme enabled Crime Concern to work with St Helen's Crime and Disorder Reduction Task group and other local organisations to develop a youth action group at local schools in the St Helen's area. Outside the study support scheme, my Department is also funding other school-based projects to prevent crime. For example, we have set up 100 Safer School Partnerships where a police officer works in a school to reduce crime locally, make the school a safer place for learning, help keep young people in education, and re-engage them with their community.

January each year
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Teachers in post1
Secondary 2,600 2,630 2,670 2,730 2,810
Nursery/primary 2,520 2,600 2,670 2,690 2,700
Vacancies2
Secondary 13 13 11 19 21
Nursery/primary 25 11 25 24 13
Teaching Assistants3
Secondary 150 170 230 280 320
Nursery/primary 660 690 790 1,030 1,180
1Full-time equivalent teachers in post in the maintained schools sector.
2 Advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term's duration) in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. Includes vacancies being filled on a temporary basis.
3 Includes full-time equivalent nursery assistants, special needs support staff, minority ethnic pupil support staff and non-teaching assistants.

Source:

DfES annual 618G survey and Annual School Census.

Diana Organ

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools made errors on form TPP-S concerning the number of teachers who had gone through Round 1 on Teachers Performance Pay; and how many errors related to teachers in Gloucestershire. [98117]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 24 February 2003]: LEAs checked the accuracy of school returns in the autumn. The DfES further challenged apparently inaccurate survey returns in early January in 1,000 cases. 12 of these inaccuracies related to returns made by schools in Gloucestershire.