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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Pearson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many classroom assistants there are in (a) Dudley, South and (b) Dudley Metropolitan borough; and what the figure was in May 1997. [135864] Ms Estelle Morris: The available information is shown in the following table. The number of full-time educational support staff in maintained schools in Dudley, South parliamentary constituency has increased by 27 per cent. since January 1997. In Dudley local education authority area the equivalent percentage increase is 42 per cent. The Government will increase by 20,000 the number of full-time equivalent support staff working in primary and secondary schools in England by 2002. Information on educational support staff has recently been published in a statistical volume "Statistics of Education--Schools in England 2000" a copy of which is available from the Library, or alternatively can be accessed on the Department's statistical website www.dfee.gov.uk/statistics. Full-time equivalent numbers of educational support staff{ 1} in maintained schools in the parliamentary constituency area of Dudley, South: 1997-2000 Position as at January _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997 1998 1999 2000 Nursery 5 4 4 1 Primary 89 97 102 124 Secondary 29 31 31 31 Special 20 24 24 27 Pupil Referral units 4 4 4 5 Total 148 160 166 188 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes both full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time non-teaching staff Full-time equivalent numbers of educational support staff{ 1} in maintained schools in the local education authority area of Dudley Metropolitan borough: 1997-2000 Position as at January _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997 1998 1999 2000 Nursery 5 4 4 1 Primary 303 357 382 451 Secondary 113 124 127 140 Special 54 64 71 77 Pupil Referral units 4 4 4 5 Total 479 553 589 674 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes both full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time non-teaching staff

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

355 c507W; 135864

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Classroom assistants Schools Dudley

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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