City Technology Colleges
(asked on 20th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in schools with city technology college status are looked-after children; and how this figure compares to other schools in their local authority areas.
The latest information on numbers of children looked-after in each school is for 2013. There were three schools with city technology college status for which information was returned on the spring 2013 school census. The information requested is provided in the table below.
Name of city technology college | BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology | Emmanuel College | Thomas Telford School |
Local authority | Croydon | Gateshead | Telford and Wrekin |
Number of looked-after children attending1 | 5 | x | x |
Headcount of children in school2 | 1,090 | 1,245 | 1,290 |
Looked-after children as a percentage of headcount | 0.6 | x | x |
Number of looked-after children attending all state funded secondary schools in local authority1,3 | 210 | 140 | 80 |
Total number of children attending all state funded secondary schools in local authority2 | 22,075 | 12,220 | 10,950 |
Looked-after children as a percentage of all those attending state funded secondary schools in the local authority | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
Source: 2013 SSDA903 Children looked after data collection matched to the spring census 2013
Notes:
- From SSDA903 Children looked-after data collection matched to the spring census 2013. To be included in this data, children must have been looked after during the year from 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013, had a UPN submitted by the local authority and been successfully matched with the spring 2013 school census.
- Taken from the spring 2013 census described in the Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2013 Statistical First Release.
- Relates to the local authority where the children were educated. The local authority responsible for the care of the children may be different.
- Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5, percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
- x denotes a number from 1 to 5 inclusive, which has been suppressed to protect confidentiality. Percentages have been suppressed where the numerator was 5 or less.