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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will identify, for (a) his Department and (b) the agencies and task forces for which his Department is responsible, each funding stream for public services in (i) the Isle of Thanet and (ii) the Canterbury City local authority area. [181730] Mr. Charles Clarke: [holding answer 1 July 2004]: The Department provides funding for schools and their pupils aged 3-15, other education services, Children, Young People and Family Services, and the Youth Service, in the Isle of Thanet and Canterbury City, through Kent county council and local partnerships. In 2004-05, Kent county council and local partnerships in the county receive funding from the Department through the funding streams set out as follows. Schools can already spend most of these funds in any way they choose and we will be working with schools and local authorities to take further steps to rationalise funding streams, including a Single Improvement Grant. Recurrent funding for education in Kent School standards grant Standards fund: Advanced Skills Teachers Aim Higher Beacon Schools Behaviour Improvement Programme Building schools' capacity for continuing professional development Early Excellence Centres Education Health Partnerships Enterprise Learning Pathfinders Ethnic minority achievement grant Excellence in Cities and Excellence Clusters Extended schools Federations Key Stage 3 National Strategy: central coordination LEA support for workforce remodelling Leadership incentive grant Leading Edge schools Music services Primary expansion Primary Strategy Central Coordination School development grant School travel advisers Specialist schools grant Study support quality development programme Summer schools for gifted and talented children Targeted improvement grant Targeted support for Key Stage 3 Targeted support for primary strategy Training schools Vulnerable children Targeted transitional grant Teachers' performance pay funding Teachers' threshold pay grant Capital funding for education in Kent Academies capital1 Capital support for the expansion of successful and popular secondary schools1 Devolved formula capital Excellence in Cities (City Learning Centres) Failing Schools and Fresh Start1 ICT in schools (including ICT infrastructure, hands-on support, Broadband Interconnectivity and eLearning Credits Interactive whiteboards Modernisation funding New pupil places (basic need) Non-maintained special schools1 Private Finance Initiative School travel plans Schools Access Initiative Seed Challenge Specialist schools capital Targeted capital funding Voluntary aided schools capital 1 Capital funding stream available to Kent, though the county does not currently have an allocation in 2004-05. Recurrent and capital funding for children, young people and family services in Kent Adoption and special guardianship grant Child and adolescent mental health services Children's fund partnerships Children's social services supported capital expenditure (revenue) Choice protects grant Connexions partnerships Integrated children's services grant Safeguarding children's grant SENDA funding for the youth service (to help the youth service become compliant with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act) Sure Start general grant: Non-ring-fenced funding: Delivery support fund Children's information service Workforce development (recruitment and training) Nursery schools development Extended schools New child care places in disadvantaged areas (revenue) New child care places in other areas (revenue) New child care places (capital for out of school child care) New child care places in disadvantaged areas (capital for playgroup conversion) New child care places in other areas (capital for playgroup conversion) Ring-fenced funding lines: SEN and inclusion (children with special needs and disabled children) Children's centres (revenue) Children's centres (capital) Support childminder scheme Neighbourhood nurseries (revenue) Neighbourhood nurseries (capital) Sustainability of child care places Sure Start local programme funding Teenage pregnancy Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children leaving care Transforming youth work development fund. Recurrent and capital funding for post-16 learning and skills provision (outside higher education) in Kent The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is responsible for the funding of post-16 learning and skills provision (outside higher education) in the Isle of Thanet and City of Canterbury local authority areas. The Department provides funding to the LSC through the following funding lines: Learning Participation School Sixth Forms Capital Local Intervention and Development Administration. Recurrent and capital funding for higher education in Kent There are five institutions in Kent LEA: three higher education institutions (HEIs) and two further education colleges who run higher education courses. All of these receive funding from Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). As there are no HEIs on the Isle of Thanet there is no funding by HEFCE. HEFCE provided funding for the following funding lines: Teaching (core funding, additional places, widening access and improving retention) Research (quality related research, capability fund) Moderation of Teaching and Research Rewarding and Developing Staff.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

181730; 424 c1607-10W;424 c1605-8W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Executive agencies Finance Government departments Kent Public service Department for Education and Skills Thanet Task forces Canterbury

Link

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