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Written Answers
26 OCTOBER 2009
Written Answers
204W
The downward trend in entrants to ITT courses
specialising in Modern Foreign Languages reflects the
target number of places set for recruitment and the low
level of teacher vacancies in the subject.
Travelling People: Schools
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State
for Children, Schools and Families whether local
authority performance targets on Traveller pupils are
part of his Department’s national indicator set.
[294898]
Mr. Coaker: Currently local authorities have to set
performance targets for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller
pupils at key stages 2 and 4 where there is a cohort of 30
or more pupils. Recent changes to the target setting
regulations mean that from 2010, performance targets
will need to be set where there is a cohort of three or
more Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils.
Vocational Guidance: Finance
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families how much funding has
been provided to each local authority to provide
careers services in accordance with sections 68 and 69
of the Education and Skills Act 2008. [295587]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Education and Skills Act 2008
transfers to local authorities the statutory responsibility
for the delivery of Connexions services, including
assessments for young people with learning difficulties.
Sections 68 and 69 of the Act require local authorities
to provide services, as directed by the Secretary of State,
to encourage, enable or assist the effective participation
of young people in education or training.
Responsibility and funding for Connexions services,
including information, advice and guidance and careers
services, transferred to local authorities on 1 April
2008. The funding is paid via the area based grant
arrangements and is not ring fenced. We do not collect
information on what precisely the Connexions funding
is spent on.
Connexions grant funding is allocated using a national
funding formula which is based on the 13-19 population,
educational attainment, NEET figures and deprivation
indicators. The funding formula is intended to share out
the national Connexions budget between the 152 local
authorities in a way that is fair, objective and transparent,
so that they can deliver a high quality service to all
young people. It is intended that the formula should
broadly reflect the needs of an area and that it is then
for local authorities to decide how best to use their
funding to deliver Connexions services locally.
We only have information on the funding provided
for the provision of Connexions services as a whole
which includes the provision of careers services. Some
local authorities reflecting the needs of their area, may
commission additional services from a number of other
agencies. The amount of funding allocated to each local
authority for the provision of Connexions services since
2008 is as follows:
Connexions grant allocations 2008 to 2011
Local authority 2008-09 200-10 2010-11
Barking and
2,135,835 2,240,946 2,307,413
Dagenham
Barnet 2,859,769 2,714,745 2,620,723
Barnsley 2,205,107 2,313,628 2,543,299
Bath and North East 1,403,928 1,370,345 1,363,043
Somerset
Bedfordshire 1 3,505,688 — —
Bedford Borough — 1,465,059 1,462,201
Central Bedfordshire — 1,965,163 1,976,288
Bexley 2,258,109 2,224,658 2,241,851
Birmingham 11,598,496 11,054,022 11,041,218
Blackburn with
1,897,017 1,944,424 1,942,646
Darwen
Blackpool 1,847,217 1,837,938 1,827,692
Bolton 2,951,714 3,096,977 3,126,891
Bournemouth 1,322,610 1,387,700 1,417,809
Bracknell Forest 1,248,546 1,185,230 1,065,998
Bradford 4,999,312 5,231,922 5,261,420
Brent 2,601,070 2,483,963 2,469,858
Brighton and Hove 2,180,983 2,189,813 2,167,918
Bristol 3,576,383 3,484,002 3,447,371
Bromley 2,499,349 2,403,908 2,408,810
Buckinghamshire 3,784,634 3,592,708 3,455,960
Bury 1,656,126 1,737,629 1,887,805
Calderdale 2,073,434 2,046,741 2,057,580
Cambridgeshire 4,536,860 4,306,787 4,066,514
Camden 1,925,970 2,020,753 2,079,846
Cheshire 1 5,350,028 — —
Cheshire East — 2,490,744 2,504,255
Cheshire West and
— 2,738,198 2,739,897
Chester
City of London 217,476 228,178 250,829
Cornwall 3,965,389 4,123,537 4,120,511
Coventry 3,342,950 3,173,422 3,158,928
Croydon 3,205,064 3,209,614 3,211,589
Cumbria 4,442,949 4,217,638 4,093,511
Darlington 995,950 1,044,964 1,148,696
Derby (City) 2,364,299 2,453,271 2,458,612
Derbyshire 6,058,264 5,906,203 5,955,901
Devon 5,387,090 5,220,313 5,227,787
Doncaster 3,134,965 3,289,247 3,347,957
Dorset 2,822,958 2,961,884 3,020,302
Dudley 3,031,490 3,029,173 3,023,431
Durham 4,956,762 4,999,034 5,003,606
Ealing 2,514,411 2,573,209 2,588,967
East Riding of
2,395,442 2,513,329 2,539,149
Yorks
East Sussex 3,996,083 4,127,521 4,133,868
Enfield 3,048,524 2,942,302 2,946,685
Essex 10,837,768 10,731,707 10,788,610
Gateshead 1,910,170 2,004,175 2,118,030
Gloucestershire 4,846,892 4,601,097 4,288,908
Greenwich 2,868,202 3,009,355 3,168,221
Hackney 2,609,071 2,737,472 2,888,913
Halton 1,603,374 1,682,281 1,718,540
Hammersmith and 1,475,346 1,547,953 1,592,527
Fulham
Hampshire 9,515,254 9,399,152 9,393,133
Haringey 2,476,065 2,593,898 2,588,100
Harrow 1,879,255 1,874,784 1,846,840
Hartlepool 1,113,733 1,168,543 1,284,543
Havering 2,255,523 2,141,141 2,087,035
Herefordshire 1,548,216 1,469,703 1,394,246
Hertfordshire 8,576,130 8,141,218 8,184,407
Hillingdon 2,863,097 2,717,904 2,588,297
Hounslow 2,295,067 2,289,625 2,275,528