Written question asked by Christopher Chope (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 November 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 December 2003. It was answered by David Miliband (Labour) on Monday, 8 December 2003 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Dept for Education and Skills

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the local education authorities where police officers are based in schools; and for each local education authority what funding from his Department is made available in support. - Inc list.

Answer: Mr. Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the local education authorities where police officers are based in schools; and for each local education authority what funding from his Department is made available in support. [141522] Mr. Miliband: My Department and the Home Office have encouraged schools and the police to set up Safer School Partnerships (police in schools). To fund administrative staff and equipment for SSP officers, those partnerships in Behaviour Improvement Programme (BIP) areas are able to negotiate locally for a share of the area's BIP fund. We are paying over £1 million this year in BIP funds for all eligible activities including SSPs in each of the local education authorities listed as follows. We have many reports of good work achieved by BIP-funded SSPs in their first year. Some areas have also taken the initiative to start SSPs in non- BIP areas, using their own local funds. Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brent Bristol Camden Ealing Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Hartlepool Hounslow Hull Islington Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Leeds Lewisham Liverpool Manchester Middlesbrough Newham Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Reading Rochdale Salford Sandwell Sheffield Slough Solihull Southwark Stoke on Trent Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster Wolverhampton.

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