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Departmental Policies (Great Grimsby)
Mr. Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the constituency, the effect on the Great Grimsby constituency of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [156248]
Mr. Wills: Outlined are the details of the effects of a range of the Department's policies on the Great Grimsby constituency and North-East Lincolnshire LEA.
There are two Sure Start programmes in North-East Lincolnshire.
- Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park: The programme was approved in January 2000. The level of grant approved was a maximum of £2,304,430 up until 31 March 2002 of which £785,000 for capital projects and £1,518,930 for revenue costs. The catchment area covers Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park, which is about two miles outside Grimsby and covers 550 0 to three-year-olds. Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park is a local authority led programme which offers services such as Story Sacks where parents work with an Adult Education Tutor to boost their involvement in their children's learning, a versatile information service which can be booked into various locations (schools, clinics etc.) and a Family Literacy Programme. The programme has close links with the Early Excellence Centre, which is adjacent to the main Sure Start Centre.
- East Marsh: A round 4 programme, which covers 800 0 to three-year-olds and is in an early stage of development. The programme is currently working to draw up its outline plan, which is due in the Sure Start Unit on April 25. Deadline for full delivery of the plan is 18 July 2001.
Beacon Schools
Schools with specialist status designated since 1997
There are three Specialist Schools in North-East Lincolnshire. Hereford School and Western School are jointly designated (Technology) and The Lindsey School (Arts).
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Education Action Zone
North-East Lincolnshire has one EAZ, Grimsby EAZ is a first round zone, which was established in September 1998. It has been approved for extension from three to five years, taking it to August 2003. The zone consists of 11 primary, three secondary schools and a nursery school (details follow). The zone receives up to £1 million in additional public and private sector funding each year.
The zone's key activities are:
- Open school TV programmes taking the classroom into the living room via local TV station.
- Secondary schools as ICT Centres of excellence linking primary schools.
- Virtual classroom via the Internet.
- Daily sessions focusing on literacy, numeracy and IT for all pupils in the zone.
- In-school units for years eight and nine to reduce permanent exclusions.
| Revenue | Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| 1998-99 | 0 | 518,483 |
| 1999-2000 | 377,000 | 171,532 |
| 2000-01 | 715,302 | 448,212 |
| 2001-02 | 646,908 | 0 |
The September 2000 figures show that there are now only 98 (1.8 per cent.) pupils remaining in infant classes of 31 or more. The figure in January 1997 was 2,393 (38 per cent.).
| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | |||
| LEA | 71 | 66 | 58 |
| England | 75 | 71 | 65 |
| Maths | |||
| LEA | 68 | 66 | 53 |
| England | 72 | 69 | 59 |
| Science | |||
| LEA | 80 | 73 | 62 |
| England | 85 | 78 | 69 |
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| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5+A*-C | |||
| LEA | 35.8 | 35.5 | 33.3 |
| England Average | 49.2 | 47.9 | 46.3 |
| 5+ A*-G | |||
| LEA | 87.0 | 84.8 | 82.7 |
| England Average | 88.9 | 88.5 | 87.5 |
| No passes | |||
| LEA | 6.7 | 7.8 | 10.1 |
| England Average | 5.6 | 6.0 | 6.6 |
| Average point score | |||
| LEA | 33.5 | 32.3 | 30.8 |
| England Average | 38.9 | 38.1 | 37.0 |
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| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average points for fewer than 2 A/AS levels | |||
| LEA | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
| England Average | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Average points for 2 or more A/AS levels | |||
| LEA | 16.2 | 15.9 | 14.1 |
| England Average | 18.5 | 18.2 | 17.8 |
| Advanced GNVQs | |||
| LEA | 8.5 | 6.9 | 10.8 |
| England Average | 10.1 | 9.9 | 9.6 |
In North-East Lincolnshire LEA, funding per pupil has increased by £590 in real terms between 1997-98 and 2001-02.
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| £000 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-02 | 2000-01 | 1999-2000 | 1998-99 | 1997-98 | |
| Annual Capital Guideline (ACG) | 191 | 601 | 957 | 1,075 | 474 |
| Supplementary Credit Approval (SCA) | -- | 228 | 119 | 38 | 20 |
| New Deal for Schools (NDS) | -- | 2,173 | 1,600 | 1,472 | 328 |
| Voluntary Aided (VA) grant | 38 | 53 | 203 | 199 | 36 |
| Seed Challenge Initiative | 151 | 138 | -- | -- | -- |
| Public Private Partnerships (PPP) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Formula Capital (Including additional) | -- | 259 | -- | -- | -- |
| National Grid for Learning (NGfL) | 847 | 587 | 390 | 520 | -- |
| Science labs | 133 | 133 | -- | -- | -- |
| Early Excellence Centre grant | -- | 153 | 67 | -- | -- |
| Assist Management Plan (AMP) Assistance | -- | -- | 24 | -- | -- |
| Access at 85 per cent. | 232 | -- | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Security | 41 | 60 | 60 | 59 | 47 |
| Outside toilets | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Energy | -- | -- | -- | 60 | -- |
| Class Size Initiative | -- | 492 | 91 | 518 | -- |
| Nursery Provision | -- | 60 | -- | -- | -- |
| Secondary Learning Support Units | 43 | 49 | -- | -- | -- |
| NDS Devolved Formula | 675 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Additional NDS Devolved Formula | 351 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| NDS Condition Funding | 495 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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Education Maintenance Allowance
In September 2000 we extended the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) scheme to 41 additional pilot areas, one of which is the North-East Lincolnshire LEA area. This is one of five pilots designed to identify the extent to which transport costs are a barrier to learning. There are currently over 700 young people in receipt of an allowance. Recent published evaluation
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reports show that EMAs are making a positive difference to young people's lives. On average, an additional 5 per cent. of eligible 16 and 17-year-olds are staying in education in the pilot areas because of EMAs.
Student numbers at all Further Education Funding Council funded institutions where home postcode is in the local authority district of Great Grimsby are given in the table.
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| FEFC funded | Non-FEFC funded | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-18 | Adult | 16-18 | Adult | |||||
| Full-time | Part-time | Full-time | Part-time | Full-time | Part-time | Full-time | Part-time | |
| 1996-97 | 1,081 | 368 | 416 | 5,715 | 58 | 314 | 55 | 771 |
| 1997-98 | 1,158 | 381 | 292 | 5,628 | 100 | 274 | 26 | 855 |
| 1998-99 | 1,237 | 360 | 344 | 5,653 | 44 | 281 | 32 | 827 |
| 1999-2000 | 1,272 | 388 | 300 | 6,601 | 40 | 280 | 62 | 1,143 |
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Information on Modern Apprenticeships for all English constituencies will be placed in the Library by the end of March.
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New Deal for Young People
In the Great Grimsby constituency, 1,974 young people have joined the New Deal to end December 2000. 991 have found jobs, 701 of which are sustained.
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Labour market statistics
The working age employment rate in North-East Lincolnshire in autumn 2000 was 68.6 per cent., below the UK rate of 74.7 per cent. The rate in autumn 1997 was 66.6 per cent.
The claimant unemployment rate has fallen from 8.9 per cent. in February 1997 to 6.5 per cent. in February 2001 in the Great Grimsby constituency.
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