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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he proposes to take to ensure that claims that children are receiving home education are not used to disguise truancy; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Harry Cohen (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

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Answered

Date

20 December 1999

Reference

102971; 341 c400W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what monitoring is undertaken of Fresh Start schools' policies and actions in dealing with children playing truant. - (Holding answer 16 December 1999).

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 December 1999

Reference

102982; 341 c402W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what recent research his Department has commissioned to investigate the underlying causes of truancy; and if he will make a statement. - Inc ref to 'Truancy and School Exclusion' and 'Tackling Truance Together'. (Holding answer 16 December 1999).

Asked by

Helen Jones (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 December 1999

Reference

341 c402W; 102887

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of reports of parents of children who persistently play truant from Fairfield School, Newcastle, being persuaded to sign documents saying that the children are being educated at home when home education is not being provided.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 December 1999

Reference

102981; 341 c290W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the average level of unauthorised absence (a) in schools in local education authorities with three-tier school systems and (b) nationally. - Includes figures and ref to 'Tackling Truancy Together' in Library.

Asked by

Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 1999

Reference

340 c421-2W;340 c420W; 101176

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

Statement on what progress there has been on tackling truancy and school exclusion since the Social Exclusion Unit's report on Truancy and School Exclusion was published in May 1998. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Karen Buck (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 July 1999

For answer on

27 July 1999

Answered on

27 July 1999

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what progress there has been on tackling truancy and school exclusion since the Social Exclusion Unit's report on Truancy and School Exclusion was published in May 1998. [93825] Ms Estelle Morris: The Ministerial Task Force on Truancy and School Exclusion, which I chair, has today sent its first annual report on truancy and school exclusion to the Prime Minister. The report sets out the action we have taken to implement the recommendations in the Social Exclusion Unit's report, including examples of good practice, and sets out our priorities for 1999-2000. We are pleased to report that permanent exclusions have fallen by 3 per cent. (from 12,700 in the 1996-97 school year to 12,300 in 1997-98). This is particularly good news because it is the first time that permanent exclusions have fallen since my Department began collecting information on exclusions in 1994-95. Since the "Truancy and School Exclusion" report was published, we have: made available through the "Social Inclusion: Pupil Support" grant some £500 million over the next three years to tackle truancy and exclusion from school. As part of the Government's commitment to ensuring that all pupils who are excluded for more than three weeks have access to a full-time and appropriate timetable by 2002, this includes £22 million made available to local education authorities in 1999-2000 to extend out of school provision; required local education authorities to set targets for reducing unauthorised absence and permanent exclusions within their Education Development Plans--in order to meet the national target of a one third reduction in levels of unauthorised absence and school exclusion by 2002; given the police, under the "Crime and Disorder Act 1998", a new power to pick up truants and return them to designated premises. issued new guidance on "Social inclusion: Pupil Support", which brings together advice on attendance, discipline, the use of exclusion, education outside school and re-integration, with a focus on early intervention. The document emphasises the importance of multi-agency support. Our priorities for 1999-2000 include: new local education authority targets for reducing the level of fixed period exclusions; continued work to secure more joined up working at local level to support pupils who are at risk of truancy or disaffection; following recommendations in the Macpherson report, a consultation on how to increase the amount of exclusions information which is published down to school level, including information about the ethnicity of excluded pupils; generating more innovative ideas for tackling truancy and exclusion from school (from 2000-01); as part of the "Excellence in Cities" initiative, the introduction of learning mentors and learning support units to tackle disaffection and barriers to learning.

Date

27 July 1999

Reference

336 c188-9W; 93825

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many LEA education development plans have identified high levels of (a) absenteeism and (b) turnover in pupil enrolments, as factors affecting the performance of schools. - Inc fact that local education authorities' final education development plans were submitted to...

Asked by

Gordon Marsden (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 March 1999

Reference

327 c433W; 75716

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many of the education action zones have identified high levels of (a) turnover in pupil enrolments and (b) absenteeism as contributing to underperformance in their participating schools; and what initiatives they have put in place to address these problems....

Asked by

Gordon Marsden (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 March 1999

Reference

327 c433W; 75715

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to increase the responsibilities of education welfare officers in respect of absenteeism and truancy. - Inc ref to new draft guidance, "Social Inclusion: Pupil Support".

Asked by

Harry Cohen (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 February 1999

Reference

68910; 325 c335W

House

House of Commons

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