The subject headings below link to the full request details along with the council's response.
Could you please confirm to me the Number of children enrolled, added or left through out the year in the Reception Class at Horndon on the Hill Primary School between
Sept 2007-2008
Sept 2008-2009
Sept 2009-2010
and how long children were there i.e. full term, one term....
The number of teachers, teaching assistants or other school staff who have been subject to allegations in the last year by pupils or parents of pupils....
Please can you confirm the number of children living in Thurrock who are currently in year 6 and about to go up to secondary school in September.
I would like this broken down by area as well for each town and village in Thurrock:
Stanford-le-Hope
Corringham/ Fobbing
East Tilbury/ Linford
Horndon On The Hill
Orsett
Bulphan
Tilbury
Chadwell...
I am doing some research on Teaching and School Staffing Costs.
Please could you tell me if the Bands in the Staff Costs in the Council's Statement of Accounts 2008/09 include Teaching and School Staff Costs?
Please could you also provide me under the FOI Act with a break down of the...
1. In the last financial year (09/10) how much money did you pay to students, who attended schools under your authority's responsibility, as compensation for personal injuries?
2. How many individual claims did this represent?
3. For all payments in excess of £2,000 please state the amount of compensation and a brief...
I do understand that the consultation is over now it's just that I was looking through the councils website and i see this and wanted to ask a few questions I would be grateful if you could answer them.
1. Has this been am sure this has been approved yet by...
List of all schools under your remit including type of school e.g. primary, secondary and no. of pupils in each.
Total no. of separate incidents of closure by school over the last 3 years
Total no. of days closed by school over the last 3 years with reasons for closure on each...
1. How many school days were missed in your area by pupils who were away on holiday with their families. Please provide information for the most recent year for which information is available.
Please provide figures for both authorised and unauthorised absence at both primary and secondary schools.
2. How many (a)...
1.Could you supply the name and contact details of the person with responsibility for Elective Home Education in your authority.
2. Could you also provide me with an organisational chart indicating where the home education person or team fits into the structure of the authority.
3. Where applicable, could you please include...
1. How many day centers that are funded by either Thurrock Council or Learning Disability Partnership (LDP)?
2. Where are those day centers?
3. Who (which organisation) runs it or current holds the contract?
4. Is the contract is block purchase or spot purchase?
5. Contract value for block purchase and Unit/session cost...
1. Which organisation supplies the education IT system to your authority, (e.g. Capita, in house system, CACI)?
2. How long has this system been in place at your authority?
3. Over the past 12 months, how much has the supplier charged your authority for the support and maintenance of this...
1. Has your local authority set up a children in care council (these allow young people to have a greater say in the care they receive)? Please state Yes or No.
2. How many looked-after young people in your area have received higher education bursaries of £2,000 or more in...
1) The names and job titles of any person working for schools which come under your Local Education Authority (either as a staff member, a freelancer, a contractor), who was paid over £100,000 (gross) in the financial years 2009/10 and 2008/9 and the details of how much they were...
1) How many education welfare officers does the local authority employ to support school children in your area?
2) How many educational psychologists does the local authority employ to support school children in your area?
3) How many children of compulsory school age are there in your local authority area?...
For the 2007, 2008, 2009 academic years I would like to know the numbers of pupils who have been permanently excluded or made the subject of a fixed term exclusion.
I would also like to know the number of pupils in reception who have been permanently excluded or made the...
This is a Freedom of Information Request for data submitted by your Local Authority to the Parliamentary Select Committee on 'Allegations Against School Staff', the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) fifth report of session 2008-09. This involved the DCSF collecting data about allegations against staff as part...
1. Does your Council/LEA have a contract with Tribal Group for any of the following services:
2. Which schools receive these services and for how long? If Tribal Group has a contract that covers all...
1)How many home educated children in your area were subject to a Child Protection Plan?
2)What was the total number of all children in your area who were subject to a Child Protection Plan?...
Please supply the cost of vetting checks made by schools on members of staff, third party workers and volunteers within the council boundary
over the past three years, giving a year by year costing breakdown.
Please include the cost and number of Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks, Enhanced CRB checks, as well...
Please could you let me have the names of the schools/colleges to which you send statement of special needs students band E,F and G for post 16 education.
Please could you also let me know the ownership of these establishments (local authority - and if so which one, independent...
1. How much has the local authority paid out in compensation to teachers and headteachers working in schools and central services following claims in the County or High Court for accidents at work in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Please provide a breakdown of these payments according to whether the...
1. Please supply figures showing the total number of a) primary b) secondary schools in the local authority which have been granted a Determination from the local Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) which lifts the requirement of Section 7 (1) of the Education Reform Act 1988 that collective...
I am looking for some information relating to the provision of primary school places and funding in your local area, could you please answer the following;
1. Total reception year admissions sep 2009
2. Aggregate pupil funding for reception admissions Sep 2009
3. Projected total reception year admissions Sep 2014
4. Aggregate pupil funding...
1. As of 1 November 2009 in your children's services department,
(a) how many full-time equivalent social workers were employed,
(b) how many social worker posts were filled by agency staff,
(c) how many and which social worker posts were vacant.
2. Is your children's services department currently expected...
How much has your authority spent on its Integrated Children's System in each of the past five years?
How many users does your Integrated Children's System currently have?
Who is the provider of your Integrated Children's System?
When did you implement your current Children's System?...
Please supply copies of documents/guidance provided for parent choice advisers (employed by the council to give parents advice about school admissions) advising them on their use of language, including any terms, phrases, words or language that should be avoided....
Please supply a copy of the Local Authority report to the Chief Schools Adjudicator on admissions that had to be submitted to the adjudicator by June 30 2009...
1. How many applications have you received for shielding of records on ContactPoint?
2. How many records have you agreed to shield on ContactPoint?...
Please can you confirm for me the number of children you currently have registered as Electively Home Educated for the year. For the purposes of the remainder of this FOI request, these children are either de-registered from a school or have never been registered with a school.
A) I would like...
How many children are currently registered as being Electively Home Educated in your LA?
This mean children who are deregistered with the intent of being home educated or those who have never been registered at a school....
1.How much money has been spent on taxis to transport children who don't have any special needs to and from school for each of the last five years.
2.What proportion of the school travel budget these amounts equate to....
What is the breakdown by gender of people employed within the Children, Education and Families Directorate?...
Request to provide details of the services for blind and partially sighted people provided by Thurrock Council's Social Services for (1) Adults (2) Children and Young People....
Please supply a copy of estimated GCSE results for National Challenge schools for the next three years (or whichever years projections have been made), which have been submitted to the DCSF...
Four questions relating to under and over subscribed primary and secondary schools for September 2008....
1a. Names of Domiciliary Care (Home Care) Agencies;
1b. Fostering Agencies and Independent Children's Homes that supply Thurrock Council;
2. The average time, over the past three months Thurrock Council pay care organisations after invoices submitted for work done....
School Transport from Horndon on the Hill via Orsett to Grays Convent. Please advise on the number of seats on the school minibus that are available for children travelling on this route. Please advise on how many children are travelling on this route using free school transport and how many...
1. The number of Secondary School Children that are transported to the above school in particular, and to Romford in general.
2. The Capacity of the Bus used for School Transport to St Edwards CE School.
3. Details of all the Home to School Transport arrangements awards & benefits operated by Thurrock...
How much does the council pay (on average, per child) for 52 week x 7 day placements in residential schools for young people, aged 11-16, who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties?
How much does the council pay (on average, per child) for term-time only 7 day residential placements in schools...
1. What is the total annual figure spent on education by the council (most recent figures)?
2. What is the total annual amount spent on supply teachers by the council (the most recent figures)?
3. How does the cost of supply teachers compare to 10 years ago (or the nearest year available...
I would like details of exclusions within the Council's mainstream secondary schools. I would like to know the number of authorised permanent and fixed-term exclusions for 2002/3 and 2003/4....
How many parents applying to primary schools for their children in 2007 got their first preference school, and what percentage that was of the total?...
How many parents applying to secondary schools in 2007 got their first preference? What percentage was that of the total applying?...
1a. Provide the number of primary/infants school admission appeals lodged by parents against non-admission of their children to their preferred schools in 2006/07.
1b. What was the number of appeals that were heard?
1c. What proportion of the appeals went in the parents' favour?
2a. Provide the number of secondary school admission appeals...
1) Number of violent incidents in schools, broken down into gender, age and nature of incident. A violent incident is defined as an occasion in which any pupil or employee of a school was physically assaulted by a school pupil, with or without a weapon. Also indicate whether the incident...
What is the Council's policy/guidance/advice on the wearing of hijab/jilbab (Islamic dress) in schools?...
How many working days lost to the Authority due to teachers being absent from work due to stress, anxiety or depression?...
1. Number of children living in Chafford Hundred applying to Chafford Hundred Schools?
2. Number of children who live on Chafford Hundred who are then unsuccessful?
3. Number of children who go through the appeal process and who also win their appeal?...
How many and what proportion of secondary schools in the LEA were oversubscribed in the following years of entry (Sept entry, Yr 7 intake)2000,06,07,08. How oversubscribed was the most oversubscribed school?...
1. What additional human and other resources have been allocated to the school?
2. What considerations have been given to fire, health and safety in the following domains:
a)Play facilities
b)Lunch facilities
c)Overall facilities
3. What consideration have been given to specialist facilities in the following domains:
a)IT facilities
b)After school groups and events
4. What consideration was...
1. At the end of the current academic year (July 2007) how many children of secondary school age were not registered as pupils at schools? What is this figure as a percentage of all secondary school age children within your authority? Provide a list showing the number of pupils who...
How many educational establishments in Thurrock underwent an Ofsted inspection in the last two academic years?
Of those that had how many received
1.Outstanding
2.Good
3.Satisfactory
4.Inadequate...
1. How are the catachment areas for Warren Primary School, Tudor Court Primary and Chafford Hundred primary drawn up?
2. What are the catchment areas for all three schools, please include a map or list the names of streets within each catchment area.
3. When were the catchment areas for all three...
Request for a list of funded projects that were announced as per the article in the Community Focus page of the Thurrock Gazette on March 9th 2007. In addition, what if any of the £20,000 allocated to the Youth Representative from Chafford Hundred was spent on?...
1. Where will they be sited, if in school grounds, which schools?
2. Who they will be in partnership with?
3. Who will manage the nurseries? Private or Council?
4. Are they likely to be new build or in current buildings?
5. Provide addresses and phone numbers, if possible?
6. Contact names, if possible?
7. When...
How many teachers and school staff have been suspended?...
1. Number of 'Failure to Educate' or 'Suffering associated with bullying' claims for 2006 calendar year ?
2. Compensation payments for 'Failure to Educate' claims for the period January 06 to Dec 06?
3. The amount paid out on failure to educate claims for the period January 2000 to Dec 05?...
What is the total spend of inetrpreters and publications in foreign languages?...
Request for data, relating to figures for missing children from 2006....
Has the Council had contact from any parents asking for advice about sex offenders working in Thurrock schools? What advice has the Council given them?...
Request for copy of Section 52 budget statement for 2006-07 relating to the Youth Service....
1.Each authority's own assessment of progress on ICS
2. Copy of your local plan to ensure implementation by January 2007...
Thurrock has the worst adult reading levels in the South (if not all)of Essex. Why is Thurrock so poorly read and what is the Council doing about it?...
1. How many schools are there in Thurrock without a permanent headteacher? (September 05 or January 06)
2. Comparison with the same period last year (05 or last school year)
3. How many headteacher posts were advertised (same period)...
Sex Offenders and comments by Ruth Kelly: Is the Council's Education Department worried and are they going to change their own policies? Also, does the Council feel a need to take action in Thurrock schools?...
Details of school meal provision at Purfleet Primary School....
Information about the performance of Chafford Hundred Primary School....
What progress is Chafford Primary School making with...
What exact damage has occured to school busses and how much this has cost?
When specifically have the problems been occuring?
How many children use School transport?
Which companies supply the buses?...
School transport problems:
What exact damage has been done to school transport vehicles and how much this has cost?
When specifically have the problems been occuring?
How many children use School transport?...
Gateway Community College:
When will building works begin?
Has anyone been chosen to build it, if not, how will the Council decide on a company?...
1) How many schools in each category - Primary and Secondary - are closing
and why? (i.e. surplus places, old buildings etc).
2) How many schools in each category are amalgamating and why? How many
empty buildings does this leave?
3) How many new schools in each category are opening and why?...
Details of plans for the Centre of Excellence to open in Grays for children with Special Educational Needs....
