Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils are registered with (a) high and complex needs and (b) special educational needs in (i) Liverpool and (ii) Liverpool Walton.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The information requested can be found in the table below:
Number of pupils with special educational needs, based on where the pupil attends school, January 2016, England (1) (2)
| Total pupils | Pupils with statement or EHC plan (3) | Pupils on SEN support | Total pupils with SEN | |||
Number | % (4) | Number | % (4) | Number | % (4) | ||
ENGLAND | 8,559,540 | 236,806 | 2.8 | 991,981 | 11.6 | 1,228,787 | 14.4 |
Liverpool local authority | 71,183 | 1,702 | 2.4 | 10,777 | 15.1 | 12,479 | 17.5 |
Liverpool Walton constituency | 16,473 | 467 | 2.8 | 2,852 | 17.3 | 3,319 | 20.1 |
Source: School Census
(1) Includes maintained and direct grant nursery schools, maintained primary and secondary schools, city technology colleges, primary and secondary academies including free schools, special schools, special academies including free schools, pupil referral units, general hospital schools, alternative provision academies including free schools and independent schools.
(2) Includes pupils who are sole or dual main registrations.
(3) Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans were introduced from September 2014 as part of a range of SEND reforms.
(4) Expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in all schools.
Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the work experience provision for 14 to 19 year-olds in education.
Answered by Nick Boles
It is essential that we ensure young people leave school or college prepared for life in modern Britain. This will be achieved through a range of reforms, including improving the quality of existing qualifications and giving employers greater influence over the content of courses.
We ensure schools and colleges have the freedom and autonomy to decide how best to put in place work experience provision for 14-19 year olds. In August 2013 the government reformed the post-16 curriculum and funding system to incentivise education and training providers to offer high quality work experience to young people as part of 16-19 study programmes.
Work experience elements of study programmes and traineeships are now inspected and reported on as an integral part of the inspection of provision for 16-19 year olds (and up to age 24 for traineeships) against the Common Inspection Framework for Further Education and Skills 2015.
Our focus is on ensuring sufficient support is in place, and we have recently announced new funding for our careers strategy which will include continued funding for The Careers and Enterprise Company to help young people access the best advice and inspiration, for example by building on the national network of enterprise advisers to broker strong local links between schools, colleges and employers.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the National Funding Formula on (a) schools, (b) teachers and (c) pupils in Liverpool.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The government is committed to meeting our manifesto pledge to make school funding fairer. At the Spending Review we announced our intention to deliver this by introducing a National Funding Formula in 2017, so that the money we provide for schools is fairly matched to need. As we develop our plans we will consider the effect of the formula on all schools, and we will make sure change is introduced at a pace that is manageable for the sector. We will set out our detailed proposals and consult extensively in the new year.