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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Collins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what grants for primary and secondary schools have been available through the Standards Fund since its creation; and on what date each was (a) introduced and (b) closed. [171085] Mr. Miliband: The following table shows for each Standards Fund grant supporting schools and pupils: the year in which it was introduced into the Standards Fund, and the final year of operation. The table also show where grants have merged, or where the grant has been transferred to another agency. The Standards Fund was created in 1998-99 replacing the previous specific grant programme, Grants for Education Support and Training (GEST). The table also shows which Standards Fund grants continued from the GEST programme. Many of the programmes supported through the Standards Fund are for specific time limited projects and programmes to encourage activities to be continued at local level. The Government are considering further rationalisation of specific grants to provide a single grant for schools, to allow them to access improvement projects and programmes according to their own needs and priorities. Standard Fund Grants since 1998-99 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Introduced Final year Baseline Assessment GEST 1998-99 1998-99 merged into School Improvement Grant in 1999-2000 Assessment: Verification Key GEST 1998-99 1998-99 merged into School Stage 1 Improvement Grant in 1999-2000 Assessment: Supply Cover GEST 1998-99 1998-99 merged into School Improvement Grant in 1999-2000 Training for Key Stage 2 GEST 1998-99 1998-99 merged into School Teacher Assessment Improvement Grant in 1999-2000 Books for Schools GEST 1998-99 1998-99 Specialist Teacher GEST 1998-99 1998-99 Assistants National Professional GEST 1998-99 2001-02 transferred to National Qualification for Headship College for School Leadership Family Literacy GEST 1998-99 2001-02 transferred to Basic Skills Agency in 2003-04 New Deal for Schools Capital GEST 1998-99 2001-02 Funding School Effectiveness/ GEST 1998-99 2002-03 School Improvement Qualifications GEST 1998-99 2002-03 Improving Attendance and GEST 1998-99 2002-03 Behaviour/Social Inclusion School Security GEST 1998-99 2002-03 Drug Prevention and Advice GEST 1998-99 2003-04 Special Educational Needs GEST 1998-99 2003-04 merged into School Development Grant in 2004-05 Specialist Schools GEST 1998-99 n/a Effective Use of National 1998-99 1998-99 Curriculum Results Special Educational Needs: 1998-99 1998-99 Regional Co-ordination Pilot Projects Work Related Learning at Key 1998-99 1999-2000 merged into School Stage 4 Improvement Grant in 2000-01 Recruitment Strategy 1998-99 1999-2000 Managers/Local Recruitment Measures Removal of Outside Toilets 1998-99 1999-2000 Energy Management 1998-99 1999-2000 Public/Private Partnership 1998-99 1999-2000 Pilots School Leadership: Serving 1998-99 2001-02 transferred to National Heads College for School Leadership Induction for 1998-99 2002-03 not in operation in Newly-Qualified Teachers 1999-2000 and 2000-01 Reduction of Infant Class 1998-99 2002-03 funding transferred to Sizes Education Formula Spending baseline Out of School Hours 1998-99 2003-04 merged into School Learning/ Development Grant in Study Support 2004-05 Advanced Skills Teachers 1998-99 2003-04 National Literacy and 1998-99 n/a Numeracy Strategies/ Primary Strategy Key Stage 3 Literacy and 1998-99 n/a Numeracy/Key Stage 3 Strategy Football League Study 1998-99 n/a Support Centres/Playing for Success Health Education 1998-99 n/a Partnerships Beacon Schools 1998-99 n/a National Grid for Learning/ 1998-99 n/a Information Communication Technology in Schools Laptops for Heads of Small 1999-2000 1999-2000 Primary and Special Schools School Asset Management 1999-2000 1999-2000 Plans Working Environment Fund 1999-2000 2000-01 Best Practice Research 1999-2000 2000-01 Scholarships Support for Parent Governor 1999-2000 2000-01 merged into School Representatives Improvement Grant in 2001-02 Family Numeracy 1999-2000 2002-03 transferred to Basic Skills Agency in 2003-04 Administrative Support in 1999-2000 2002-03 merged into School Small Schools/Small Schools Support Staff Grant in Fund 2003-04 Travellers and Displaced 1999-2000 2002-03 merged into Vulnerable Persons1 Children's Grant in 2003-04 Excellence in Cities 1999-2000 n/a City Learning Centres 1999-2000 n/a Small/Excellence in Cities 1999-2000 n/a Education Action Zones Music Services 1999-2000 n/a Ethnic Minority Achievement2 1999-2000 n/a Pilot Partnership 2000-01 2000-01 Initiatives New National Curriculum 2000-01 2001-02 merged into School Improvement Grant in 2002-03 Supported Early Retirement 2000-01 2001-02 Scheme for Heads New Models for LEA Services 2000-01 2001-02 School Laboratories for the 2000-01 2001-02 21st Century Pupil Support Allowance 2000-01 2002-03 Teaching Assistants 2000-01 2002-03 merged into School Support Staff Grant in 2003-04 Performance Management 2000-01 2002-03 Support and Training Improving Adult: Pupil 2000-01 2002-03 Ratios in Reception Classes Children of Asylum Seekers 2000-01 2002-03 merged into Vulnerable Children's Grant in 2003-04 Teenage Pregnancies 2000-01 2002-03 merged into Vulnerable Children's Grant in 2003-04 Summer Schools for Gifted 2000-01 n/a and Talented Pupils Excellence Challenge/ 2000-01 n/a Aimhigher Teacher Incentives/Golden 2000-01 n/a Helios Training Schools 2000-01 n/a Fresh Start 2000-01 n/a Devolved Formula Capital for 2000-01 n/a Schools Seed Capital Challenge 2000-01 n/a National Grid for Learning: 2000-01 n/a Regional Broadband Consortia Pupil Learning Credits 2001-02 2002-03 Learning Support Units 2001-02 2002-03 Recruitment and Retention 2001-02 2002-03 Fund Teachers' Sabbaticals 2001-02 2002-03 Welcome Back Bonus 2001-02 2002-03 Grammar/Non- Selective 2001-02 2002-03 School Partnerships Children in Public Care 2001-02 2002-03 merged into Vulnerable Children's Grant in 2003-04 Sick Children 2001-02 2002-03 merged into Vulnerable Children's Grant in 2003-04 Key Stage 2 Class Sizes 2001-02 2002-03 Information Management 2001-02 2002-03 Strategy Early Professional 2001-02 2003-04 Development Pilot Scheme School Achievement Awards 2001-02 2003-04 Classrooms of the Future 2001-02 2003-04 School Improvement 2001-02 n/a Projects/Targeted Improvement Projects Diversity Pathfinders 2001-02 n/a Child Protection 2001-02 n/a Co-ordinators Condition Funding 2001-02 n/a Targeted Capital Projects 2001-02 n/a Interactive Whiteboards 2001-02 n/a Training for Educational 2002-03 2002-03 Visits Coordinators Building the Room for 2002-03 2002-03 Improvement Staff Workspaces 2002-03 2003-04 Learning through Landscapes 2002-03 2003-04 Laptops for Teachers 2002-03 2003-04 merged into ICT in Schools Grants in 2004-05 Electronic Registration 2002-03 2003-04 Systems in Secondary Schools Behaviour Improvement 2002-03 n/a Programme Fast Track Payments 2002-03 n/a Extended Schools 2002-03 n/a e-Learning Credits 2002-03 n/a Information Communication 2002-03 n/a Technology Pilot Projects Primary Foundation Stage 2003-04 2003-04 Profile School Support Staff 2003-04 2003-04 merged into School Development Grant in 2004-05 School Support Staff: 2003-04 2003-04 merged into School Training and Development Development Grant in 2004-05 Gypsy-Traveller Achievement 2003-04 2003-04 Project Gifted and Talented Pupils: 2003-04 2003-04 Sports Grant Transforming School 2003-04 2003-04 Workforce Pathfinder Projects Leadership Incentive Grant 2003-04 n/a Targeted Improvement Grant 2003-04 n/a Study Support: Quality 2003-04 n/a Development Programme Primary Behaviour Pilot 2003-04 n/a Local Education Authority 2003-04 n/a Support for School Workforce Remodelling Federations 2003-04 n/a Leading Edge Schools 2003-04 n/a Raising Achievement of 2003-04 n/a African Caribbean Pupils National Primary Strategy 2003-04 n/a EAL Pilot Vulnerable Children 2003-04 n/a Enterprise Learning 2003-04 n/a Pathfinders Key Stage Language 2003-04 n/a Pathfinders: Recurrent 14-19 Pathfinders 2003-04 n/a London Challenge Projects 2003-04 n/a School Development Grant 2004-05 n/a a combination of eight previously separate grants School Travel Advisers 2004-05 n/a _________________________________________________________________________________________________. n/a = The grant continues in 2004-05. 1 Paid as a separate grant outside the Standards Fund prior to 1999-2000. Note: GEST means that the grant continued from the previous grant regime.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

421 c423-8W;421 c424-9W; 171085

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Grants Schools Standards Fund

Link

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