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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers are teaching in pupil referral units in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority; and how many have received specific training to teach in such units. [216863] Mr. Stephen Twigg: The following table shows the full-time equivalent number of regular teachers in pupil referral units for each Government office region and local education authority in January 2004, the latest information available. All teachers with qualified teacher status are trained to teach in pupil referral units. Full-time equivalent regular teachers in pupil referral units _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Regular qualified teachers Total regular teachers Darlington 1-- 1-- Hartlepool 10 10 Middlesbrough 0 0 Redcar and Cleveland 10 20 Stockton on Tees 10 20 Durham 20 20 Northumberland 10 10 Gateshead 20 20 Newcastle upon Tyne 10 10 North Tyneside 10 10 South Tyneside 30 30 Sunderland 20 20 North East 140 160 Blackburn with Darwen 20 20 Blackpool 10 10 Halton 0 0 Warrington 10 10 Cheshire 0 0 Cumbria 20 20 Bolton 1-- 1-- Bury 20 20 Manchester 10 10 Oldham 0 0 Rochdale 30 30 Salford 30 30 Stockport 30 30 Tameside 20 20 Trafford 0 0 Wigan 10 10 Lancashire 60 60 Knowsley 10 10 Liverpool 30 30 St Helens 10 10 Sefton 20 20 Wirral 10 20 North West 360 370 East Riding of Yorkshire 10 10 City of Kingston Upon Hull 30 40 North East Lincolnshire 20 20 North Lincolnshire 10 10 York 10 10 North Yorkshire 20 20 Barnsley 0 0 Doncaster 20 20 Rotherham 1-- 1-- Sheffield 0 0 Bradford 30 30 Calderdale 0 0 Kirklees 10 10 Leeds 20 20 Wakefield 20 20 Yorkshire and the Humber 220 230 Derby 30 30 Leicester 20 20 Nottingham 30 30 Rutland 0 0 Derbyshire 60 60 Leicestershire 0 0 Lincolnshire 10 10 Northamptonshire 20 30 Nottinghamshire 50 50 East Midlands 220 220 Herefordshire 10 10 Stoke on Trent 10 10 Telford and Wrekin 10 10 Shropshire 0 0 Staffordshire 20 20 Warwickshire 60 60 Birmingham 130 130 Coventry 0 0 Dudley 10 10 Sandwell 30 30 Solihull 1-- 1-- Walsall 20 20 Wolverhampton 40 40 Worcestershire 50 50 West Midlands 400 400 Luton 10 10 Peterborough 10 10 Southend on Sea 1-- 10 Thurrock 10 10 Bedfordshire 20 20 Cambridgeshire 40 80 Essex 40 40 Hertfordshire 70 70 Norfolk 50 50 Suffolk 40 40 East of England 270 330 Camden 10 20 City of London 0 0 Hackney 10 20 Hammersmith and Fulham 40 40 Haringey 20 20 Islington 20 30 Kensington and Chelsea 20 20 Lambeth 10 20 Lewisham 30 30 Newham 30 30 Southwark 40 40 Tower Hamlets 50 50 Wandsworth 30 30 City of Westminster 1-- 1-- Barking and Dagenham 10 10 Barnet 10 10 Bexley 20 20 Brent 20 20 Bromley 10 10 Croydon 30 50 Ealing 20 30 Enfield 20 20 Greenwich 20 20 Harrow 0 0 Havering 10 10 Hillingdon 1-- 10 Hounslow 10 10 Kingston upon Thames 10 10 Merton 10 10 Redbridge 10 10 Richmond upon Thames 10 10 Sutton 1-- 1-- Waltham Forest 10 10 London 550 630 Bracknell Forest 10 10 Brighton and Hove 0 0 Isle of Wight 1-- 1-- Medway 10 10 Milton Keynes 1-- 1-- Portsmouth 20 30 Reading 0 0 Slough 10 10 Southampton 30 30 West Berkshire 10 10 Windsor and Maidenhead 10 10 Wokingham 1-- 1-- Buckinghamshire 30 30 East Sussex 10 10 Hampshire 70 80 Kent 60 60 Oxfordshire 20 20 Surrey 50 60 West Sussex 10 20 South East 360 400 Bath and North East Somerset 0 0 Bournemouth 0 0 City of Bristol 0 0 North Somerset 30 30 Plymouth 20 20 Poole 10 10 South Gloucestershire 20 20 Swindon 20 30 Torbay 10 10 Cornwall 0 0 Isles of Scilly 0 0 Devon 20 30 Dorset 20 20 Gloucestershire 10 10 Somerset 30 40 Wiltshire 20 20 South West 220 250 England 2,750 2,990 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Between 1 and 5 Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 Source: Annual survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

216863; 431 c289-91W;431 c288-90W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Economic regions Local education authorities Staff Teachers Training Pupil referral units

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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