Public Services Funding (Hansard, 15 September 2004)

§ Mr. Charles Clarke

[holding answer 1 July 2004]The Department provides funding for schools and their pupils aged 3–15, other education services, Children, Young People and Family Services, and the Youth Service, in the Isle of Thanet and Canterbury City, through Kent county council and local partnerships. In 2004–05, Kent county council and local partnerships in the county receive funding from the Department through the funding streams set out as follows. Schools can already spend most of these funds in any way they choose and we will be working with schools and local authorities to take further steps to rationalise funding streams, including a Single Improvement Grant.

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Recurrent funding for education in Kent

School standards grant
Standards fund:
Advanced Skills Teachers
Aim Higher
Beacon Schools
Behaviour Improvement Programme
Building schools' capacity for continuing professional development
Early Excellence Centres
Education Health Partnerships
Enterprise Learning Pathfinders
Ethnic minority achievement grant
Excellence in Cities and Excellence Clusters
Extended schools
Federations
Key Stage 3 National Strategy: central coordination
LEA support for workforce remodelling
Leadership incentive grain
Leading Edge schools
Music services
Primary expansion
Primary Strategy Central Coordination
School development grant
School travel advisers
Specialist schools grant
Study support quality development programme
Summer schools for gifted and talented children
Targeted improvement grant
Targeted support for Key Stage 3
Targeted support for primary strategy
Training schools
Vulnerable children
Targeted transitional grant
Teachers' performance pay funding
Teachers' threshold pay grant
Capital funding for education in Kent
Academies capital¹
Capital support for the expansion of successful and popular secondary schools¹
Devolved formula capital
Excellence in Cities (City Learning Centres)
Failing Schools and Fresh Start¹
ICT in schools (including ICT infrastructure, hands-on support, Broadband lnterconnectivity and eLearning Credits
Interactive whiteboards
Modernisation funding
New pupil places (basic need)
Non-maintained special schools¹
Private Finance Initiative
School travel plans
Schools Access Initiative
Seed Challenge
Specialist schools capital
Targeted capital funding
Voluntary aided schools capital

¹Capital funding stream available to Kent, though the county does not currently have an allocation in 2004–05.

Recurrent and capital funding for children, young people and family services in Kent

Adoption and special guardianship grant
Child and adolescent mental health services
Children's fund partnerships
Children's social services supported capital expenditure (revenue)
Choice protects grant
Connexions partnerships
Integrated children's services grant
Safeguarding children's grant

SENDA funding for the youth service (to help the youth service become compliant with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act)

Sure Start general grant:
Non-ring-fenced funding:
Delivery support fund
Children's information service
Workforce development (recruitment and training)
Nursery schools development
Extended schools
New child care places in disadvantaged areas (revenue) New child care places in other areas (revenue)
New child care places (capital for out of school child care)
New child care places in disadvantaged areas (capital for playgroup conversion)
New child care places in other areas (capital for playgroup conversion)
Ring-fenced funding lines:
SEN and inclusion (children with special needs and disabled children)
Children's centres (revenue)
Children's centres (capital)
Support childminder scheme
Neighbourhood nurseries (revenue)
Neighbourhood nurseries (capital)
Sustainability of child care places
Sure Start local programme funding
Teenage pregnancy
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children leaving care

Suffolk county council
Academic year (September to may)	Compulsory school age	Number of pupils that missed at least a half day due to unauthorised absence	Average sessions missed per pupil due to unauthorised absence	percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence	Attendance (percentage)
Primary
2003	40,340	3,783	8	0.3	95
2002	40,686	3,826	8	0.3	95
2001	41,317	3,414	8	0.2	95
2000	40,358	2,994	8	0.2	95
1999	39,058	3,002	8	0.2	95
Secondary
2003	49,322	10,382	15	1.1	92
2002	48,668	8,001	16	0.9	92
2001	47,925	6,352	14	0.6	92
2000	47,180	4,529	14	0.5	93
1999	45,750	4,545	18	0.6	93

Bury St. Edmunds
Academic year (September to May)	Compulsory school age	Number of pupils that missed at least a half day due to unauthorised	Average sessions missed per pupil due to unauthorised absence	Percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence	Attendance (percentage)
Primary
2003	5,193	463	7	0.2	95
2002	5,253	439	6	0.2	96
2001	5,201	243	7	0.1	95

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Transforming youth work development fund.

Recurrent and capital funding for post-16 learning and skills provision (outside higher education) in Kent

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is responsible for the funding of post-16 learning and skills provision (outside higher education) in the Isle of Thanet and City of Canterbury local authority areas. The Department provides funding to the LSC through the following funding lines:

Learning Participation
School Sixth Forms
Capital
Local Intervention and Development
Administration.

Recurrent and capital funding for higher education in Kent

There are five institutions in Kent LEA: three higher education institutions (HEIs) and two further education colleges who run higher education courses. All of these receive funding from Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). As there are no HEIs on the Isle of Thanet there is no funding by HEFCE. HEFCE provided funding for the following funding lines:

Teaching (core funding, additional places, widening access and improving retention)
Research (quality related research, capability fund)
Moderation of Teaching and Research
Rewarding and Developing Staff.