Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Rossendale and Darwen have received funding from the pupil premium; and how many pupils in each such school have attracted such payments.
Answered by David Laws
In financial year 2013-14, 52 schools in Rossendale and Darwen received a pupil premium allocation. A list of these schools and the number of eligible pupils are provided below. In addition to the main deprivation pupil premium, schools receive allocations for looked after children and service children, though this information is not available at school level due to data protection issues. More information on pupil premium allocations for financial year 2013-14 can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2013-to-2014-final-allocation-tables
School Name | Total Number of Pupils Eligible for the Deprivation Pupil Premium |
Britannia Community Primary School | 33 |
Northern Primary School | 14 |
Bacup St Saviour's Community Primary School | 28 |
Sharneyford Primary School | 15 |
Bacup Thorn Primary School | 122 |
Helmshore Primary School | 25 |
Ramsbottom Stubbins Primary School | 20 |
Rawtenstall Water Primary School | 8 |
Waterfoot Primary School | 69 |
Tonacliffe Primary School | 60 |
Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School | 89 |
Crawshawbooth Primary School | 34 |
Rawtenstall St Paul's Constable Lee Church of England Primary School | 51 |
St Mary's Rawtenstall Church of England Primary School | 59 |
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School | 56 |
Edenfield Church of England Primary School | 13 |
Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School | 52 |
Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School | 99 |
Rawtenstall St Anne's Church of England Primary School, Edgeside | 53 |
St Veronica's Roman Catholic Primary School, Helmshore | 18 |
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup | 52 |
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Bacup | 74 |
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch | 31 |
St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall | 15 |
St John with St Michael Church of England Primary School, Shawforth | 31 |
Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth | 19 |
Alder Grange Community and Technology School | 168 |
Fearns Community Sports College | 247 |
Whitworth Community High School | 124 |
All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, Rossendale | 141 |
Belthorn Primary School | 23 |
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School | 36 |
Rawtenstall Cribden House Community Special School | # |
The Sunnyhurst Centre | # |
Lower Darwen Primary School | 30 |
Turton Belmont Community Primary School | x |
Avondale Primary School | 126 |
Sudell Primary School | 96 |
Holy Trinity VC School | 134 |
Turton and Edgworth CofE/Methodist Controlled Primary School | 9 |
Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School | 12 |
Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | 30 |
Darwen St James' Church of England Primary School | 96 |
Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School | 83 |
St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary School | x |
St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School | 78 |
St Edward's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | 31 |
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen | 25 |
Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary | 75 |
Darwen Vale High School | 376 |
Ashleigh Primary School | 43 |
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | 361 |
Notes:
X - Schools with less than five pupils or a percentage based on less than five pupils or an allocation amount based on less than five pupils have had their figures suppressed for data protection.
# - Pupil numbers for these schools are not included as they are either a maintained special school, special academy, pupil referral unit (PRU) or alternative provision (AP) academy. The premium for these establishments may be held with the local authority (please see the conditions of grant).
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are home-schooled in (a) Lancashire and (b) Rossendale and Darwen constituency.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The information requested is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what applications he received from groups in Lancashire to establish a new free school in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education publishes a list of every application received in all the completed application rounds on the gov.uk website.
Applications received in Wave 4 can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-wave-4-application-information
Applications received in Wave 5 can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-wave-5-application-information
Applications received in 2013 to establish free schools were part of Waves 4 and 5. As the published list states, two applications were received from groups in Lancashire in Wave 4: Burnley High School and Steiner Academy Lancaster. No applications from groups in Lancashire were received in Wave 5.
Applications received so far in 2014 are part of Wave 6. The Department for Education will publish a list of all applications received shortly after the assessment process is complete, in the same way it has for previous rounds.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce absences from school due to bullying.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Government has made tackling all forms of bullying a top priority. It is never acceptable for a child to be bullied, victimised or harmed in any way and the Government does not want any young person to be absent from school due to the effects of bullying.
All schools are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying among pupils. Ofsted now holds schools clearly to account for their effectiveness. Under the current Ofsted framework, school inspectors consider pupil behaviour and safety, which includes how well schools prevent bullying, harassment and discrimination.
In the Education Act 2011, we strengthened teachers' powers to discipline pupils for poor behaviour, including bullying. They can now issue same day detentions, confiscate banned items and search for, and if necessary delete, inappropriate images on mobile phones which might be linked to cyberbullying.
We are also providing £4 million of funding over two years from spring 2013 to four organisations: Beatbullying, the DianaAward, Kidscape and the National Children's Bureau, to develop effective measures in school to prevent and tackle bullying.
Good schools create a positive ethos with clear expectations about pupil behaviour that prevent bullying from happening in the first place and deal with it quickly if it does occur.
We recognise the effect that bullying can have, that is why on 17 March 2014 we published a factsheet to help schools identify and support pupils which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying.