Criminal Records Checks (Hansard, 19 June 2003)

§ Mr. Damian Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many enhanced checks(a) have been carried out and (b) remain to be carried out in the academic year 2002–03 by the Criminal Records Bureau on (i) teaching staff, (ii) non-teaching

Support staff in maintained nursery, primary, middle and secondary schools special schools¹ and pupil referral units in England— Full-time equivalents January of each year
Thousands
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Teaching assistants³
Teaching assistants	35.5	38.8	39.3	45.3	55.6	57.3	73.1
Special needs support staff	24.5	26.0	29.5	32.4	37.7	46.7	46.8
Minority ethnic pupil support staff	1.2	1.5	1.5	2.1	2.5	2.5	2.5
Total	61.3	66.3	70.3	79.8	95.8	106.4	122.3
Administrative staff
Secretaries	27.6	28.5	29.1	30.2	30.6	25.6	24.7
Bursars	4.1	4.2	4.4	4.7	5.0	4.9	5.1
Other admin/clerical staff	7.5	7.3	7.7	8.3	10.7	19.3	20.8
Total	39.2	40.1	41.2	43.2	46.3	49.8	50.6
Technicians
Total	12.7	13.1	13.5	14.2	15.0	16.6	18.0
Other support staff
Matrons/nurses/medical staff⁴	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.8	1.7
Child care staff (boarding schools)⁵	3.4	3.4	3.1	3.3	3.2	3.2	0.4
Other⁶	18.7	19.7	22.1	23.1	27.4	39.3	32.3
Total	23.3	24.4	26.5	27.5	31.8	44.2	34.4
Total support staff	136.5	143.8	151.5	164.7	189.0	217.0	225.3
(Total excluding nursery schools)	134.1	141.5	149.0	162.1	186.3	214.2	222.4
¹ Includes non-maintained special (and special and general hospital schools).
² Provisional.
³ Includes nursery assistants in nursery schools.
⁴ Included with 'other' in nursery schools.

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school staff, (iii) governors and (iv) parent volunteers; and how many checks will be carried out on each category; [119426]

(2) how many school-related local authority staff (a) have been checked and (b) remain in need of checking by the Criminal Records Bureau in the academic year 2002–03. [119437]