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To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many truancy sweeps were conducted by each local authority in England in each of the last five years;
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many truancy sweeps were conducted by each local authority in England in each of the last five years;
| Number of school attendance and exclusion sweeps organised by local authorities as part of the nationally co-ordinated exercises | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Sweeps | |||||
| Local Authority | Spring 2003 | 2003-4 school year | 2004-5 school year | 2005-6 school year | Autumn 2006 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Barnet | 8 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 2 |
| Barnsley | 24 | 52 | 85 | 37 | 18 |
| Bath and NE Somerset | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Bedfordshire | 14 | 28 | 42 | 38 | 16 |
| Bexley | 1 | 7 | 29 | 12 | 4 |
| Birmingham | 10 | 58 | 22 | 30 | 20 |
| Blackburn | 14 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 7 |
| Blackpool | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Bolton | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Bournemouth | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Bracknell Forest | 12 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
| Bradford | 7 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| Brent | 9 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Brighton and Hove | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Bristol City | 38 | 115 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Bromley | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 13 |
| Buckinghamshire | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Bury | 10 | 112 | 70 | 46 | 10 |
| Calderdale | 5 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 4 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | .20 | 29 | 21 | 5 |
| Camden | 3 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 8 |
| Cheshire | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 10 |
| City of Derby | 32 | 94 | 74 | 62 | 0 |
| City of Nottingham | 25 | 38 | 32 | 33 | 8 |
| City of Westminster | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| Cornwall | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
| Corporation of London | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Coventry | 0 | 27 | 33 | 24 | 0 |
| Croydon | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| Darlington | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 4 | 29 | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Devon | 0 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 |
| Doncaster | 4 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 11 |
| Dorset | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| Dudley | 0 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| Durham | 18 | 42 | 39 | 47 | 21 |
| Ealing | 6 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 10 |
| East Riding | 4 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| East Sussex NB UG1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 25 | 25 |
| Enfield | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Essex | 6 | 12 | 26 | 29 | 14 |
| Gateshead | 11 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 14 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
| Greenwich | 9 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
| Hackney | 5 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 18 |
| Halton | 8 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 9 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 | 18 | 33 | 30 | 14 |
| Hampshire | 12 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Haringey | 8 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 10 |
| Harrow | 11 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 3 |
| Hartlepool | 4 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Havering | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Herefordshire | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 23 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 |
| Hillingdon | 16 | 29 | 38 | 38 | 17 |
| Hounslow | 8 | 12 | 18 | 64 | 21 |
| Isle of Wight | 9 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Isles of Scilly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Islington | 10 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 7 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 8 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Kent | 15 | 37 | 38 | 42 | 20 |
| Kingston upon Hull | 14 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
| Kirklees | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Knowsley | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
| Lambeth | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 46 | 30 | 34 | 14 |
| Leeds | 4 | 35 | 44 | 37 | 5 |
| Leicester City | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 2 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 4 |
| Lewisham | 9 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| Lincolnshire | 8 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 8 |
| Liverpool | 22 | 94 | 89 | 97 | 36 |
| Luton | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 |
| Manchester | 6 | 14 | 10 | 19 | 20 |
| Medway | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Merton | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Middlesbrough | 9 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 10 |
| Milton Keynes | 6 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 15 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 8 |
| Newham | 0 | 30 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| North Lincolnshire | 9 | 48 | 29 | 15 | 15 |
| North Somerset | 9 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 2 |
| North Tyneside | 5 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| North Yorkshire | 8 | 8 | 26 | 18 | 5 |
| Northamptonshire | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| Northumberland | 9 | 17 | 24 | 18 | 10 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| Oldham | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| Oxfordshire | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Peterborough | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Plymouth | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Poole | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| Portsmouth | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Reading | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Redbridge | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3- | 3 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Rochdale | 0 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Rotherham | 12 | 18 | 30 | 23 | 14 |
| Rutland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Salford | 0 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| Sandwell | 21 | 78 | 46 | 71 | 27 |
| Sefton | 10 | 66 | 46 | 66 | 30 |
| Sheffield | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Shropshire | 4 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 12 |
| Slough | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Solihull | 5 | 0 | 26 | 23 | 6 |
| Somerset | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| South Gloucestershire | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| South Tyneside | 0 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Southampton | 2 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 7 |
| Southend | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Southwark | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 |
| St Helens | 18 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
| Staffordshire | 27 | 55 | 27 | 32 | 22 |
| Stockport | 10 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 6 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 0 |
| Suffolk | 13 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 7 |
| Sunderland | 5 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 14 |
| Surrey | 9 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 9 |
| Sutton | 6 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 2 |
| Swindon | 4 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Tameside | 2 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 0 |
| The Wrekin | 6 | 23 | 20 | 32 | 11 |
| Thurrock | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 29 |
| Torbay | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Tower Hamlets | 3 | 12 | 38 | 43 | 30 |
| Trafford | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield | 3 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| Walsall | — | 11 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Waltham Forest | 3 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| Wandsworth | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Warrington | 10 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| West Berkshire | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| West Sussex | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Wigan | :2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 |
| Wiltshire | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| Wirral | 4 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 7 |
| Wokingham | 0 | 2 | 1 | a | 0 |
| Wolverhampton | 6 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| York | 4 | 47 | 22 | 25 | 23 |
(2) what assessment he has made of the effects of truancy on standards attained in education; and if he will make a statement;
(2) what assessment he has made of the effects of truancy on standards attained in education; and if he will make a statement;
| Number of school attendance and exclusion sweeps organised by local authorities as part of the nationally co-ordinated exercises | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Sweeps | |||||
| Local Authority | Spring 2003 | 2003-4 school year | 2004-5 school year | 2005-6 school year | Autumn 2006 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Barnet | 8 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 2 |
| Barnsley | 24 | 52 | 85 | 37 | 18 |
| Bath and NE Somerset | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Bedfordshire | 14 | 28 | 42 | 38 | 16 |
| Bexley | 1 | 7 | 29 | 12 | 4 |
| Birmingham | 10 | 58 | 22 | 30 | 20 |
| Blackburn | 14 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 7 |
| Blackpool | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Bolton | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Bournemouth | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Bracknell Forest | 12 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
| Bradford | 7 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| Brent | 9 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Brighton and Hove | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Bristol City | 38 | 115 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Bromley | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 13 |
| Buckinghamshire | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Bury | 10 | 112 | 70 | 46 | 10 |
| Calderdale | 5 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 4 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | .20 | 29 | 21 | 5 |
| Camden | 3 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 8 |
| Cheshire | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 10 |
| City of Derby | 32 | 94 | 74 | 62 | 0 |
| City of Nottingham | 25 | 38 | 32 | 33 | 8 |
| City of Westminster | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| Cornwall | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
| Corporation of London | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Coventry | 0 | 27 | 33 | 24 | 0 |
| Croydon | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| Darlington | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 4 | 29 | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Devon | 0 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 |
| Doncaster | 4 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 11 |
| Dorset | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| Dudley | 0 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| Durham | 18 | 42 | 39 | 47 | 21 |
| Ealing | 6 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 10 |
| East Riding | 4 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| East Sussex NB UG1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 25 | 25 |
| Enfield | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Essex | 6 | 12 | 26 | 29 | 14 |
| Gateshead | 11 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 14 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
| Greenwich | 9 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
| Hackney | 5 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 18 |
| Halton | 8 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 9 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 | 18 | 33 | 30 | 14 |
| Hampshire | 12 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Haringey | 8 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 10 |
| Harrow | 11 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 3 |
| Hartlepool | 4 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Havering | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Herefordshire | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 23 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 |
| Hillingdon | 16 | 29 | 38 | 38 | 17 |
| Hounslow | 8 | 12 | 18 | 64 | 21 |
| Isle of Wight | 9 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Isles of Scilly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Islington | 10 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 7 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 8 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Kent | 15 | 37 | 38 | 42 | 20 |
| Kingston upon Hull | 14 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
| Kirklees | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Knowsley | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
| Lambeth | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 46 | 30 | 34 | 14 |
| Leeds | 4 | 35 | 44 | 37 | 5 |
| Leicester City | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 2 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 4 |
| Lewisham | 9 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| Lincolnshire | 8 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 8 |
| Liverpool | 22 | 94 | 89 | 97 | 36 |
| Luton | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 |
| Manchester | 6 | 14 | 10 | 19 | 20 |
| Medway | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Merton | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Middlesbrough | 9 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 10 |
| Milton Keynes | 6 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 15 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 8 |
| Newham | 0 | 30 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| North Lincolnshire | 9 | 48 | 29 | 15 | 15 |
| North Somerset | 9 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 2 |
| North Tyneside | 5 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| North Yorkshire | 8 | 8 | 26 | 18 | 5 |
| Northamptonshire | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| Northumberland | 9 | 17 | 24 | 18 | 10 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| Oldham | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| Oxfordshire | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Peterborough | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Plymouth | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Poole | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| Portsmouth | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Reading | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Redbridge | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3- | 3 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Rochdale | 0 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Rotherham | 12 | 18 | 30 | 23 | 14 |
| Rutland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Salford | 0 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| Sandwell | 21 | 78 | 46 | 71 | 27 |
| Sefton | 10 | 66 | 46 | 66 | 30 |
| Sheffield | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Shropshire | 4 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 12 |
| Slough | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Solihull | 5 | 0 | 26 | 23 | 6 |
| Somerset | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| South Gloucestershire | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| South Tyneside | 0 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Southampton | 2 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 7 |
| Southend | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Southwark | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 |
| St Helens | 18 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
| Staffordshire | 27 | 55 | 27 | 32 | 22 |
| Stockport | 10 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 6 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 0 |
| Suffolk | 13 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 7 |
| Sunderland | 5 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 14 |
| Surrey | 9 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 9 |
| Sutton | 6 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 2 |
| Swindon | 4 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Tameside | 2 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 0 |
| The Wrekin | 6 | 23 | 20 | 32 | 11 |
| Thurrock | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 29 |
| Torbay | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Tower Hamlets | 3 | 12 | 38 | 43 | 30 |
| Trafford | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield | 3 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| Walsall | — | 11 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Waltham Forest | 3 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| Wandsworth | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Warrington | 10 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| West Berkshire | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| West Sussex | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Wigan | :2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 |
| Wiltshire | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| Wirral | 4 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 7 |
| Wokingham | 0 | 2 | 1 | a | 0 |
| Wolverhampton | 6 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| York | 4 | 47 | 22 | 25 | 23 |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers who discover a child truanting from school may take; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers who discover a child truanting from school may take; and if she will make a statement.
| Number of school attendance and exclusion sweeps organised by local authorities as part of the nationally co-ordinated exercises | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Sweeps | |||||
| Local Authority | Spring 2003 | 2003-4 school year | 2004-5 school year | 2005-6 school year | Autumn 2006 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Barnet | 8 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 2 |
| Barnsley | 24 | 52 | 85 | 37 | 18 |
| Bath and NE Somerset | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Bedfordshire | 14 | 28 | 42 | 38 | 16 |
| Bexley | 1 | 7 | 29 | 12 | 4 |
| Birmingham | 10 | 58 | 22 | 30 | 20 |
| Blackburn | 14 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 7 |
| Blackpool | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Bolton | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Bournemouth | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Bracknell Forest | 12 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
| Bradford | 7 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| Brent | 9 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Brighton and Hove | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Bristol City | 38 | 115 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Bromley | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 13 |
| Buckinghamshire | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Bury | 10 | 112 | 70 | 46 | 10 |
| Calderdale | 5 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 4 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | .20 | 29 | 21 | 5 |
| Camden | 3 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 8 |
| Cheshire | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 10 |
| City of Derby | 32 | 94 | 74 | 62 | 0 |
| City of Nottingham | 25 | 38 | 32 | 33 | 8 |
| City of Westminster | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| Cornwall | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
| Corporation of London | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Coventry | 0 | 27 | 33 | 24 | 0 |
| Croydon | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| Darlington | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 4 | 29 | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Devon | 0 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 |
| Doncaster | 4 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 11 |
| Dorset | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| Dudley | 0 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| Durham | 18 | 42 | 39 | 47 | 21 |
| Ealing | 6 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 10 |
| East Riding | 4 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| East Sussex NB UG1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 25 | 25 |
| Enfield | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Essex | 6 | 12 | 26 | 29 | 14 |
| Gateshead | 11 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 14 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
| Greenwich | 9 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
| Hackney | 5 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 18 |
| Halton | 8 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 9 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 | 18 | 33 | 30 | 14 |
| Hampshire | 12 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Haringey | 8 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 10 |
| Harrow | 11 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 3 |
| Hartlepool | 4 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Havering | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Herefordshire | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 23 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 |
| Hillingdon | 16 | 29 | 38 | 38 | 17 |
| Hounslow | 8 | 12 | 18 | 64 | 21 |
| Isle of Wight | 9 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Isles of Scilly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Islington | 10 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 7 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 8 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Kent | 15 | 37 | 38 | 42 | 20 |
| Kingston upon Hull | 14 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
| Kirklees | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Knowsley | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
| Lambeth | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 46 | 30 | 34 | 14 |
| Leeds | 4 | 35 | 44 | 37 | 5 |
| Leicester City | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 2 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 4 |
| Lewisham | 9 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| Lincolnshire | 8 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 8 |
| Liverpool | 22 | 94 | 89 | 97 | 36 |
| Luton | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 |
| Manchester | 6 | 14 | 10 | 19 | 20 |
| Medway | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Merton | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Middlesbrough | 9 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 10 |
| Milton Keynes | 6 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 15 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 8 |
| Newham | 0 | 30 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| North Lincolnshire | 9 | 48 | 29 | 15 | 15 |
| North Somerset | 9 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 2 |
| North Tyneside | 5 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| North Yorkshire | 8 | 8 | 26 | 18 | 5 |
| Northamptonshire | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| Northumberland | 9 | 17 | 24 | 18 | 10 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| Oldham | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| Oxfordshire | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Peterborough | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Plymouth | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Poole | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| Portsmouth | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Reading | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Redbridge | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3- | 3 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Rochdale | 0 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Rotherham | 12 | 18 | 30 | 23 | 14 |
| Rutland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Salford | 0 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| Sandwell | 21 | 78 | 46 | 71 | 27 |
| Sefton | 10 | 66 | 46 | 66 | 30 |
| Sheffield | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Shropshire | 4 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 12 |
| Slough | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Solihull | 5 | 0 | 26 | 23 | 6 |
| Somerset | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| South Gloucestershire | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| South Tyneside | 0 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Southampton | 2 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 7 |
| Southend | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Southwark | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 |
| St. Helens | 18 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
| Staffordshire | 27 | 55 | 27 | 32 | 22 |
| Stockport | 10 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 6 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 0 |
| Suffolk | 13 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 7 |
| Sunderland | 5 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 14 |
| Surrey | 9 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 9 |
| Sutton | 6 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 2 |
| Swindon | 4 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Tameside | 2 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 0 |
| The Wrekin | 6 | 23 | 20 | 32 | 11 |
| Thurrock | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 29 |
| Torbay | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Tower Hamlets | 3 | 12 | 38 | 43 | 30 |
| Trafford | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield | 3 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| Walsall | — | 11 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Waltham Forest | 3 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| Wandsworth | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Warrington | 10 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| West Berkshire | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| West Sussex | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Wigan | :2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 |
| Wiltshire | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| Wirral | 4 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 7 |
| Wokingham | 0 | 2 | 1 | a | 0 |
| Wolverhampton | 6 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| York | 4 | 47 | 22 | 25 | 23 |
(3) what guidance his Department has issued to (a) local education authorities and (b) the police on the detention of children truanting from school; and if he will make a statement.
(3) what guidance his Department has issued to (a) local education authorities and (b) the police on the detention of children truanting from school; and if he will make a statement.
| Number of school attendance and exclusion sweeps organised by local authorities as part of the nationally co-ordinated exercises | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Sweeps | |||||
| Local Authority | Spring 2003 | 2003-4 school year | 2004-5 school year | 2005-6 school year | Autumn 2006 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Barnet | 8 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 2 |
| Barnsley | 24 | 52 | 85 | 37 | 18 |
| Bath and NE Somerset | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Bedfordshire | 14 | 28 | 42 | 38 | 16 |
| Bexley | 1 | 7 | 29 | 12 | 4 |
| Birmingham | 10 | 58 | 22 | 30 | 20 |
| Blackburn | 14 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 7 |
| Blackpool | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Bolton | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Bournemouth | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Bracknell Forest | 12 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
| Bradford | 7 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| Brent | 9 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Brighton and Hove | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Bristol City | 38 | 115 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Bromley | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 13 |
| Buckinghamshire | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Bury | 10 | 112 | 70 | 46 | 10 |
| Calderdale | 5 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 4 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | .20 | 29 | 21 | 5 |
| Camden | 3 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 8 |
| Cheshire | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 10 |
| City of Derby | 32 | 94 | 74 | 62 | 0 |
| City of Nottingham | 25 | 38 | 32 | 33 | 8 |
| City of Westminster | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| Cornwall | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 2 |
| Corporation of London | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Coventry | 0 | 27 | 33 | 24 | 0 |
| Croydon | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| Darlington | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 4 | 29 | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Devon | 0 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 |
| Doncaster | 4 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 11 |
| Dorset | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| Dudley | 0 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| Durham | 18 | 42 | 39 | 47 | 21 |
| Ealing | 6 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 10 |
| East Riding | 4 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| East Sussex NB UG1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 25 | 25 |
| Enfield | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Essex | 6 | 12 | 26 | 29 | 14 |
| Gateshead | 11 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 14 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
| Greenwich | 9 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
| Hackney | 5 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 18 |
| Halton | 8 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 9 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 | 18 | 33 | 30 | 14 |
| Hampshire | 12 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Haringey | 8 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 10 |
| Harrow | 11 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 3 |
| Hartlepool | 4 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Havering | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Herefordshire | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 23 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 |
| Hillingdon | 16 | 29 | 38 | 38 | 17 |
| Hounslow | 8 | 12 | 18 | 64 | 21 |
| Isle of Wight | 9 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Isles of Scilly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Islington | 10 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 7 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 8 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Kent | 15 | 37 | 38 | 42 | 20 |
| Kingston upon Hull | 14 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
| Kirklees | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Knowsley | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
| Lambeth | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 46 | 30 | 34 | 14 |
| Leeds | 4 | 35 | 44 | 37 | 5 |
| Leicester City | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 2 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 4 |
| Lewisham | 9 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| Lincolnshire | 8 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 8 |
| Liverpool | 22 | 94 | 89 | 97 | 36 |
| Luton | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 |
| Manchester | 6 | 14 | 10 | 19 | 20 |
| Medway | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Merton | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| Middlesbrough | 9 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 10 |
| Milton Keynes | 6 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 15 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 8 |
| Newham | 0 | 30 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| North Lincolnshire | 9 | 48 | 29 | 15 | 15 |
| North Somerset | 9 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 2 |
| North Tyneside | 5 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| North Yorkshire | 8 | 8 | 26 | 18 | 5 |
| Northamptonshire | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| Northumberland | 9 | 17 | 24 | 18 | 10 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| Oldham | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| Oxfordshire | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Peterborough | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Plymouth | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Poole | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| Portsmouth | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Reading | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Redbridge | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3- | 3 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Rochdale | 0 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Rotherham | 12 | 18 | 30 | 23 | 14 |
| Rutland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Salford | 0 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| Sandwell | 21 | 78 | 46 | 71 | 27 |
| Sefton | 10 | 66 | 46 | 66 | 30 |
| Sheffield | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Shropshire | 4 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 12 |
| Slough | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Solihull | 5 | 0 | 26 | 23 | 6 |
| Somerset | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| South Gloucestershire | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| South Tyneside | 0 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Southampton | 2 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 7 |
| Southend | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Southwark | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 |
| St Helens | 18 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
| Staffordshire | 27 | 55 | 27 | 32 | 22 |
| Stockport | 10 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 6 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 0 |
| Suffolk | 13 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 7 |
| Sunderland | 5 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 14 |
| Surrey | 9 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 9 |
| Sutton | 6 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 2 |
| Swindon | 4 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Tameside | 2 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 0 |
| The Wrekin | 6 | 23 | 20 | 32 | 11 |
| Thurrock | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 29 |
| Torbay | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Tower Hamlets | 3 | 12 | 38 | 43 | 30 |
| Trafford | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield | 3 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| Walsall | — | 11 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Waltham Forest | 3 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| Wandsworth | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Warrington | 10 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| West Berkshire | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| West Sussex | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Wigan | :2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 |
| Wiltshire | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| Wirral | 4 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 7 |
| Wokingham | 0 | 2 | 1 | a | 0 |
| Wolverhampton | 6 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| York | 4 | 47 | 22 | 25 | 23 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when the roll out of secondary school behaviour and truancy partnerships in Gravesham will begin.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when the roll out of secondary school behaviour and truancy partnerships in Gravesham will begin.