§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) formal, (b) federated and (c) informal collaborations are taking place (i) between secondary schools and (ii) between secondary schools and further education colleges, broken down by local education authority. [150025]
§ Mr. Charles Clarke[holding answer 22 January 2004]70 per cent. of all secondary schools are involved in at least one formal collaborative network with other secondary schools. The numbers of schools involved in formal collaborative networks by LEA are contained in the following table.
The Department does not hold details of collaboration taking place between secondary schools and further education colleges; nor does the Department collect information on collaboration that takes place informally.
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Number of schools involved informal collaborative networks by LEA LEA Number of secondary schools in network Barking and Dagenham 8 Barnet 13 Barnsley 14 Bath and North East Somerset 10 Bedfordshire 20 Bexley 9 Birmingham 76 Blackburn with Darwen 9 Blackpool 8 Bolton 16 Bournemouth 6 Bracknell Forest 4 Bradford 28 Brent 13 Brighton and Hove 9 Bristol City of 18 Bromley 11 Buckinghamshire 21 Bury 5 Calderdale 10 Cambridgeshire 23 Camden 9 Cheshire 32 Cornwall 23 Coventry 14 Croydon 16 Cumbria 27 Darlington 5 Derby 11 Derbyshire 24 Devon 23 Doncaster 17 Dorset 17 Dudley 16 Durham 30 Ealing 12 East Riding of Yorkshire 10 East Sussex 24 148W
Number of schools involved in formal collaborative networks by LEA LEA Number of secondary schools in network Enfield 17 Essex 62 Gateshead 10 Gloucestershire 33 Greenwich 14 Hackney 8 Halton 8 Hammersmith and Fulham 8 Hampshire 37 Haringey 10 Harrow 6 Hartlepool 6 Havering 13 Herefordshire 8 Hertfordshire 51 Hillingdon 12 Hounslow 14 Isle of Wight 4 Isles of Scilly 0 Islington 9 Kensington and Chelsea 4 Kent 70 Kingston upon Hull City of 15 Kingston upon Thames 8 Kirklees 18 Knowsley 11 Lambeth 10 Lancashire 59 Leeds 43 Leicester 16 Leicestershire 14 Lewisham 12 Lincolnshire 54 Liverpool 32 Luton 12 Manchester 22 Medway 11 Merton 5 Middlesbrough 6 Milton Keynes 10 Newcastle upon Tyne 11 Newham 15 Norfolk 31 North East Lincolnshire 8 North Lincolnshire 9 North Somerset 9 North Tyneside 11 North Yorkshire 19 Northamptonshire 27 Northumberland 18 Nottingham 17 Nottinghamshire 31 Oldham 15 Oxfordshire 22 Peterborough 10 Plymouth 12 Poole 6 Portsmouth 8 Reading 3 Redbridge 15 Redcar and Cleveland 11 Richmond upon Thames 6 Rochdale 14 Rotherham 17 Rutland 2 Salford 14 Sandwell 18 Sefton 22 Sheffield 27 Shropshire 18 Slough 10
Number of schools involved in formal collaborative networks by LEA LEA Number of secondary schools in network Solihull 12 Somerset 28 South Gloucestershire 10 South Tyneside 9 Southampton 9 Southend-on-Sea 9 Southwark 12 St. Helens 11 Staffordshire 25 Stockport 8 Stockton-on-Tees 13 Stoke-on-Trent 17 Suffolk 27 Sunderland 17 Surrey 25 Sutton 7 Swindon 7 Tameside 9 Telford and Wrekin 8 Thurrock 9 Torbay 4 Tower Hamlets 16 Trafford 13 Wakefield 13 Walsall 18 Waltham Forest 17 Wandsworth 9 Warrington 7 Warwickshire 24 West Berkshire 10 West Sussex 16 Westminster 8 Wigan 15 Wiltshire 13 Windsor and Maidenhead 5 Wirral 22 Wokingham 5 Wolverhampton 18 Worcestershire 16 York 11 Total 2,391 Source:
EduBase 13/01/04
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans his Department has to provide help to develop management information systems where secondary schools or further education institutions are(a) undertaking collaborative working and (b) are part of a federated structure. [150026]
§ Mr. Charles Clarke[holding answer 22 January 2004]The Department has provided funding and is working closely with LEAs to support them in ensuring they have an infrastructure for management information systems in all their maintained schools, including those schools working collaboratively with other educational institutions or those within a federated structure. Total funding is £30 million via LEAs in 2001–02 and £7 million supplementary in 2002–03. Collaborative working is also supported in the form of access to on-line communities through the National College of School Leadership's Talk2Learn facility and will be part of a single annual conversation with the education system on targets, priorities and support and improved data flows.