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Dept for Education and Employment

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Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Tooting, Wandsworth parliamentary constituency, the effect of his Department's policies and actions since 1 May 1997 on this constituency. [149865] Mr. Wills: Outlined are details of the effect on the Tooting constituency and Wandsworth LEA of a range of the Department's policies. Sure Start Wandsworth is one of the second wave Sure Start programmes. The programme is based in Battersea and covers Latchmere, St. Johns and St. Mary's Park wards. Sure Start Battersea was approved on 6 October 2000 and will receive revenue funding of £1,829,000 and capital funding of £705,000, until March 2003. Infant class size The LEA has made good progress towards reducing infant class sizes to 30. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of pupils in classes over 30 January 1998 1,228 January 2000 636 September 2000 158 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Key stage 2 results Pupils achieving level 4 and above: Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000 1999 1998 1997 English LEA 72 65 64 61 England 75 71 65 63 Maths LEA 68 63 56 59 England 72 69 59 62 Science LEA 80 70 64 63 England 85 78 69 69 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. GCSE/GNVQ results Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000 1999 1998 1997 5+A*-C LEA average 41.6 35.6 34.7 35.0 England Average 49.2 47.9 46.3 45.1 5+A*-G LEA average 86.5 84.6 83.0 82.4 England average 88.9 88.5 87.5 86.4 No passes LEA average 3.0 5.0 6.7 6.6 England average 5.6 6.0 6.6 7.7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Beacon schools There are nine Beacon schools in Wandsworth: Allfarthing Primary School Burntwood Foundation School for Girls Elliott Secondary School Fircroft Primary School Graveney School High View Primary School Our Lady of Victories Catholic Primary School Sir James Barrie Primary School West Hill Primary School. Specialist schools In the Tooting constituency there are two specialist schools: Chestnut Grove School (Arts), designated in September 1997; and Ernest Bevin School (Sports), designated in September 2000. Education Action Zone (EAZ) There is one Small EAZ in Wandsworth LEA called "Achieving Excellence in Battersea EAZ". The zone started in April 2000 and is made up of eight schools, comprising one secondary, six primary and one special school. The schools are: Battersea Technology College Garrett Park Special School Bolingbroke Primary Chesterton Primary Falconbrook Primary John Burns Primary John Milton Primary Shaftesbury Park Primary There are no large EAZs in Wandsworth LEA. Excellence in Cities (EiC) Wandsworth is included in Phase 1 of the Excellence in Cities programme, which started in September 1999. All of Wandsworth's nine secondary schools are involved in the EiC programme, as well as 26 of its 57 primary schools. Learning Mentor strand in Wandsworth 19 learning mentors have been appointed at secondary level, and half of the planned amount of 29 full time equivalent primary learning mentors have been appointed. Learning Support Units (LSU) Secondary--four funded by EiC at: Southfields Community College Ernest Bevin College Salesian College John Paul II School Primary--two LSUs which are used by four schools. Gifted and Talented in Wandsworth Gifted and Talented strand coordinators are in place. All nine secondary schools are involved in the Gifted and Talented strand, along with eight primary schools. Secondary Gifted and Talented In the last academic year the EiC in Wandsworth brought about 148 early entries for GCSE. 725 were involved in out of school activities. Last summer 93 attended HE summer school. Capital allocations (£000) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2001-02 2000-01 1999-2000 1998-99 1997-98 ACG 407 1,166 1,614 274 50 SCA -- 124 26 98 212 NDS -- 2,635 1,016 865 135 VA Grant 2,659 715 142 229 428 Seed 151 133 -- -- -- PPP -- -- -- -- -- Formula Capital -- {1}659 -- -- -- NgFL -- 580 455 292 -- Science Labs 124 124 -- -- -- SSLU -- -- -- -- -- Access at 85 per cent. 232 16 26 3 -- Security -- 59 59 45 36 Class size -- 108 115 -- -- Outside toilets -- -- -- 66 -- Energy Efficiency -- -- -- 25 -- Assistance with AMP -- -- 23 -- -- Nursery Provision -- 68 -- -- -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Plus 593 additional FC Note: The allocation for 2001-02 also includes £551,000 for NDS Devolved Formula Capital and £385,000 NDS Condition Funding New Deal For Schools Allocation for schools in the Tooting constituency _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year/school Project Grant awarded (£) 1997-98 Chestnut Grove Secondary New roof and temporary accommodation {1}135,000 1998-99 22 School LEA wide package Safety of chimney/flues renewal {2}379,500 1999-2000 Included within a 12 school package: Ravenstone Primary \ \ Holy Ghost RC Primary | Renewal of mechanical and electrical | {2}1,946,000 services Wandle Primary / / 2000-01 Included within a 12 school package: Burntwood Girls School \ \ Chestnut Grove Secondary | | Ernest Bevin College | Renewal of roofs and associated drainage | {2}1,621,017 works Franciscan primary | | Wandle Primary / / Saint Boniface RC Primary Removal of outdoor toilets and proposal 101,265 for replacement within school building _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Local education authorities were not required to specify total project costs for phase 1 of the NDS programme. Wandsworth Local Education Authority holds this information. {2} Denotes total allocation made to package projects covering more than one school. Wandsworth Local Education Authority will be able to advise the value of projects at schools City Learning Centre (CLC) There is one CLC in operation, which was opened last November by Estelle Morris, and currently there are no more planned. Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) EMA statistical data for Wandsworth: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number EMA applications received 625 Fully processed 324 Awaiting Learning Agreement/more information 166 Refused (don't meet criteria) 133 Number in receipt of EMA payments 141 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Further education Student number at all FEFC funded institutions where home postcode is in the Local Authority District of Wandsworth-- 1996-97 to 1999-2000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Council funded Non council funded 16-18 19+ 16-18 19+ Grand Year Full time Part time Full time Part time Full time Part time Full time Part time total 1996-97 1,678 452 1,948 9,803 40 74 168 381 14,544 1997-98 1,617 474 1,600 11,845 40 78 173 819 16,646 1998-99 1,532 547 1,488 11,880 36 87 222 1,114 16,906 1999-2000 1,544 482 1,410 10,767 41 100 247 1,242 15,833 Grand Total 6,371 1,955 6,446 44,295 157 339 810 3,556 63,929 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Student number at all FEFC funded institutions where home postcode is in the Local Authority Ward of Tooting--1996-97 to 1999-2000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Council funded Non council funded 16-18 19+ 16-18 19+ Grand Year Full time Part time Full time Part time Full time Part time Full time Part time Total 1996-97 114 30 134 632 2 3 16 25 956 1997-98 105 30 118 668 4 5 17 36 983 1998-99 106 27 99 733 4 5 22 54 1,050 1999-2000 108 34 88 636 2 7 22 66 963 Grand total 433 121 439 2,669 12 20 77 181 3,952 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Modern Apprenticeships Information about the number of Modern Apprenticeships in South West London is unreliable because of the inaccuracy of some postcodes on the Department's database. The inaccuracies are being corrected and information on Modern Apprenticeship starts for all parliamentary constituencies in England will be made available in the Library of the House in March. Labour market statistics The working age employment rate in Wandsworth UA in autumn 2000 was 79.9 per cent., above the UK rate of 74.7 per cent. The rate in autumn 1997 was 72.3 per cent. The claimant unemployment rate has fallen from 11.0 per cent. in December 1997 to 6.8 per cent. in December 2000 in the Tooting constituency New Deal statistics In the Tooting constituency to the end of November 2000, 1,029 young people have joined the New Deal, with 413 finding employment. Of these, 317 have entered sustained employment.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

149865; 363 c349-53W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Government departments Department for Education and Employment Tooting

Contains statistics

Yes

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