Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department paid any sums in to the Baker-Dearing Trust in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department has paid the following sums to the Baker Dearing Trust (BDT):
(a) 2014/15 - £213,191
(b) 2015/16 - £157,364
(c) 2016/17 –£138,341 (from 1 April 2016 – 31 January 2017)
BDT provide advice, guidance and pre-approval support to proposer groups developing applications to establish UTCs. The Department funds this work through a competitively tendered grant award.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many independent schools currently sponsor academies; what independent schools sponsor academies; and which academies each such independent school sponsors.
Answered by Nick Gibb
As of 3 March 2017, eight organisations have been set up by independent schools for the purpose of sponsoring academies. They currently sponsor 11 academies in total.
Three free schools are sponsored by independent schools.
The following table contains the names of the relevant academies, the sponsor organisations to which they are linked, and the relevant independent school(s) that originally established the sponsor organisation.
Academy Name | Sponsor name | Independent School/ Independent School Organisation |
Orchard Meadow Primary School | Blackbird Academy Trust | Dragon School |
Windale Community Primary School | Blackbird Academy Trust | Dragon School |
Theale Green School | Bradfield College | Bradfield College |
The Bourne Academy | Canford School | Canford School |
Birkenhead High School Academy | Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) | Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) – umbrella body of independent schools |
The Belvedere Academy | Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) | Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) – umbrella body of independent schools |
Haileybury Turnford | Haileybury Academy Trust | Haileybury and Imperial Service College |
Messing Primary School | New Hall Academy Trust | New Hall School |
The Steiner Academy Hereford | Steiner Waldorf | Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship – umbrella body of independent schools |
Wellington Primary Academy | Wellington College | Wellington College |
The Wellington Academy | Wellington College | Wellington College |
The following table contains the names of the relevant free schools and the sponsoring independent schools.
Free School Name | Independent School/ Independent School Organisation |
New Islington Free School | Manchester Grammar School |
London Academy of Excellence | Brighton College & a consortium of Eton College, Highgate School, City of London School |
Holyport Free School | Eton College |
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish its response to the consultation on implementing the English Baccalaureate which closed on 29 January 2016.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The English Baccalaureate provides the right foundation for most pupils, and we want to see a significant increase in the proportion of pupils in mainstream secondary schools entering the English Baccalaureate subjects at GCSE.
We are carefully considering the consultation responses and will publish the Government response in due course.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) which state schools entered candidates for A-level Greek in 2015-16.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the number of A level entries to Modern and Classical Greek by students at the end of advanced level study in 2015/16 is published at school level in the performance tables underlying data download file[1]
There were 54 state funded schools with pupils at the end of advanced level study in the 2015/16 academic year with A level entries to modern or classical Greek. A list of these schools is provided in the table below.
Local Authority | URN | School or college name | School or college type | A level entries in |
Camden | 100054 | The Camden School for Girls | Voluntary Aided School | Classical Greek |
Lambeth | 100638 | Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School | Voluntary Aided School | Modern Greek |
Barnet | 101361 | St Michael's Catholic Grammar School | Voluntary Aided School | Modern Greek |
Barnet | 101365 | Bishop Douglass School Finchley | Voluntary Aided School | Modern Greek |
Bromley | 101676 | St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School | Voluntary Aided School | Classical Greek |
Enfield | 102047 | Southgate School | Community School | Modern Greek |
Enfield | 102049 | Chace Community School | Community School | Modern Greek |
Enfield | 102055 | The Latymer School | Voluntary Aided School | Modern Greek |
Birmingham | 103560 | Bishop Challoner Catholic College | Voluntary Aided School | Modern Greek |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 108524 | Walbottle Campus | Community School | Modern Greek |
Dorset | 113854 | Ferndown Upper School | Community School | Modern Greek |
Brighton and Hove | 114607 | Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | Community School | Modern Greek |
Gloucestershire | 115758 | Rednock School | Foundation School | Modern Greek |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 118075 | Withernsea High School | Community School | Modern Greek |
Kent | 118840 | Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School | Voluntary Controlled School | Classical Greek |
Staffordshire | 124407 | Westwood College | Foundation School | Modern Greek |
Enfield | 132256 | Highlands School | Community School | Modern Greek |
Lewisham | 135073 | Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College | Sponsored Academy | Classical Greek |
Bristol, City of | 135581 | Colston's Girls' School | Sponsored Academy | Modern Greek |
Hertfordshire | 135876 | Francis Combe Academy | Sponsored Academy | Modern Greek |
Barnet | 136308 | Ashmole Academy | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Lincolnshire | 136358 | Branston Community Academy | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Buckinghamshire | 136419 | Dr Challoner's Grammar School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Bedford | 136470 | Sharnbrook Upper School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Kent | 136581 | Valley Park School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Warwickshire | 136587 | Ashlawn School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Hertfordshire | 136607 | The John Warner School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Kingston upon Thames | 136615 | The Tiffin Girls' School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Gloucestershire | 136623 | Chosen Hill School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Barnet | 136658 | East Barnet School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Milton Keynes | 136730 | Shenley Brook End School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Lancashire | 136742 | Lancaster Royal Grammar School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Sutton | 136785 | Cheam High School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Sutton | 136795 | Nonsuch High School for Girls | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Sutton | 136800 | Greenshaw High School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Kingston upon Thames | 136910 | Tiffin School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 137157 | The London Oratory School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Harrow | 137177 | Harrow High School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Warwickshire | 137302 | King Edward VI School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
West Berkshire | 137465 | St Bartholomew's School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Sefton | 137520 | Maghull High School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Brent | 137685 | Kingsbury High School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Essex | 137790 | Plume School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Essex | 137814 | Colchester Royal Grammar School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Oxfordshire | 137936 | Chipping Norton School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Brent | 137994 | Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Barnet | 138051 | The Henrietta Barnett School | Converter Academy | Classical Greek |
Bournemouth | 138385 | LeAF Studio | Studio School | Modern Greek |
Birmingham | 138136 | The Arthur Terry School | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Wandsworth | 138682 | Southfields Academy | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Sunderland | 139538 | St Aidan's Catholic Academy | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Plymouth | 140104 | Eggbuckland Community College | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Coventry | 140248 | President Kennedy School Academy | Converter Academy | Modern Greek |
Coventry | 140961 | WMG Academy for Young Engineers | University Technical College | Modern Greek |
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious case reviews commissioned in 2014 have not been published in full.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Where a serious case has occurred (in which abuse or neglect is known or suspected, and either a child has died, or a child has been seriously harmed and there is cause for concern as to the way local agencies have worked together to safeguard the child), it is the responsibility of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB) in a local authority area to decide whether or not to initiate a serious case review (SCR).
Ofsted collects and publishes data on notifiable incidents, and of these, data on the initiation of serious case reviews (SCRs).
Information on the publication and non-publication of SCRs is not available in the format requested. However, the following latest statistics are provided in the third report of the national panel of independent experts on Serious Case Reviews, which advises Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) on the initiation and publication of SCRs:
Period | Completed SCRs received by panel | SCRs where panel considered case for non-publication | SCRs where panel agreed with case for non-publication | SCRs where panel disagreed with non-publication | SCRs where panel agreed to anonymous publication on NSPCC website | SCRs where panel agreed to a summary publication |
01/07/13 to 30/06/14 | 74 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
01/07/14 to 30/06/15 | 80 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
01/07/15 to 30/06/16 | 110 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
Under the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015), LSCBs should complete an SCR within six months. The current statutory guidance does not specify a timescale for publication of the SCR report.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious case reviews were published in full in 2016.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Where a serious case has occurred (in which abuse or neglect is known or suspected, and either a child has died, or a child has been seriously harmed and there is cause for concern as to the way local agencies have worked together to safeguard the child), it is the responsibility of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB) in a local authority area to decide whether or not to initiate a serious case review (SCR).
Ofsted collects and publishes data on notifiable incidents, and of these, data on the initiation of serious case reviews (SCRs).
Information on the publication and non-publication of SCRs is not available in the format requested. However, the following latest statistics are provided in the third report of the national panel of independent experts on Serious Case Reviews, which advises Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) on the initiation and publication of SCRs:
Period | Completed SCRs received by panel | SCRs where panel considered case for non-publication | SCRs where panel agreed with case for non-publication | SCRs where panel disagreed with non-publication | SCRs where panel agreed to anonymous publication on NSPCC website | SCRs where panel agreed to a summary publication |
01/07/13 to 30/06/14 | 74 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
01/07/14 to 30/06/15 | 80 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
01/07/15 to 30/06/16 | 110 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
Under the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015), LSCBs should complete an SCR within six months. The current statutory guidance does not specify a timescale for publication of the SCR report.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious case reviews commissioned in 2015 have not been published in full.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Where a serious case has occurred (in which abuse or neglect is known or suspected, and either a child has died, or a child has been seriously harmed and there is cause for concern as to the way local agencies have worked together to safeguard the child), it is the responsibility of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB) in a local authority area to decide whether or not to initiate a serious case review (SCR).
Ofsted collects and publishes data on notifiable incidents, and of these, data on the initiation of serious case reviews (SCRs).
Information on the publication and non-publication of SCRs is not available in the format requested. However, the following latest statistics are provided in the third report of the national panel of independent experts on Serious Case Reviews, which advises Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) on the initiation and publication of SCRs:
Period | Completed SCRs received by panel | SCRs where panel considered case for non-publication | SCRs where panel agreed with case for non-publication | SCRs where panel disagreed with non-publication | SCRs where panel agreed to anonymous publication on NSPCC website | SCRs where panel agreed to a summary publication |
01/07/13 to 30/06/14 | 74 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
01/07/14 to 30/06/15 | 80 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
01/07/15 to 30/06/16 | 110 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
Under the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015), LSCBs should complete an SCR within six months. The current statutory guidance does not specify a timescale for publication of the SCR report.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect girls from female genital mutilation.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education’s vision statement, Putting Children First, published in July 2016, set out our commitment to protecting children from all forms of abuse, including female genital mutilation (FGM). The Children and Social Work Bill, currently before Parliament, will help us to deliver the change needed to secure a system that meets children’s needs.
As well as that wide-ranging work on safeguarding, we are currently funding two voluntary sector organisations working to safeguard girls from FGM. The Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development (FORWARD) and the Midaye Somali Development Network have been allocated a total of over £600,000 for work from December 2016 until March 2018.
On 1 March the Secretary of State made a statement to this House announcing her intention to put Relationships and Sex Education on a statutory footing. There will be a comprehensive programme of engagement, followed by full public consultation, and I know that those campaigning on issues such as FGM will want to contribute to that discussion.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2017 to Question 63174, on Department for Education: third sector, what information her Department holds on which charitable and voluntary organisations are in receipt of grants from her Department; what the value of each such grant is; and how each such grant was allocated.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Department publishes details of all expenditure exceeding £25,000 and they are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-department-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25-000 .
This information is taken directly from our financial systems where reported expenditure includes all payments made to organisations. However, those systems do not distinguish between payments made to charitable and voluntary sector organisations and those made to the private sector. We have attempted to consider alternative sources of information.
The DfE Grants Register (in Excel format) covers grants awarded and the planned allocation of funds including to organisations in the charitable and voluntary sectors. An extract of the information held is attached, though this does not give the total picture as we are updating the data as part of a migration process to a new system.
To provide information on all grants actually paid would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Michael Gove (Conservative - Surrey Heath)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which university vice-chancellors she has met to discuss sponsoring free schools.
Answered by Nick Gibb
My Rt Hon Friend, the Secretary of State has held meetings with vice chancellors and representative bodies, including Universities UK, as part of her engagement with the higher education sector on how it can increase its involvement with schools, including through the establishment of free schools. The Government is currently considering responses to the Schools that work for everyone consultation and will respond in due course.