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Department for Education and Employment and Office for Standards in Education The Government’s Expenditure Plans 2001–02 to 2003–04 and Main Estimates 2001–02 Department for Education and Employment and Office for Standards in Education Departmental Report Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Command of Her Majesty March 2001 Cm 5102 £31.00 OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION Contents Introduction Foreword 5 Aims and Objectives 6 Ministerial Team 8 Organisational Charts 9 Section A – Better Public Services 11 Chapter 1: Department for Education and Employment 12 Chapter 2: Sure Start 19 Chapter 3: Office for Standards in Education 21 Section B – Expenditure and Investment 25 Chapter 4: Expenditure Plans 30 Chapter 5: Investment 40 Section C – DfEE Objective 1 51 Chapter 6: Firm Foundations 52 Chapter 7: Standards 55 Chapter 8: Secondary Education 61 Chapter 9: Inclusion 65 Chapter 10: Teachers 69 Section D – DfEE Objective 2 75 Chapter 11: Learning and Skills for Young People 76 Chapter 12: Learning and Skills for Adults 82 Chapter 13: Delivering Lifelong Learning 87 Chapter 14: Higher Education 92 Section E – DfEE Objective 3 97 Chapter 15: From Welfare to Work 98 Chapter 16: Equality of Opportunity 110 Chapter 17: A Shared International Agenda 113 Section F – Modern Government 117 Chapter 18: Department for Education and Employment 118 Chapter 19: Office for Standards in Education 126 Chapter 20: Associate Bodies 134 Section G – Main Estimates 2001–02 141 Department for Education and Employment 142 Teachers’ Pension Scheme 162 Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England 168 Annexes 177 A Resource Accounting and Budgeting – Explanatory Notes by HM Treasury 178 B Resource Plans Summary 184 C Departmental Voted Cash Requirement 185 DTotal Capital Employed 185 E Consumption – Analysis of Resource Budget Spending Plans 186 F Investment – Analysis of Capital Budget Spending Plans 189 G Reconciliation of Resource Expenditure between Accounts, Estimates and Budgets 191 H Reconciliation of Capital Expenditure between Accounts, Estimates and Budgets 192 I Administration Costs 193 J Staff Numbers 195 K DfEE Fixed Assets 195 L Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) Cash Plans 196 M Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) Cash to Resource Reconciliations 198 N Administration Costs of Non-Departmental Public Bodies 198 O Public Appointments to Non-Departmental Public Bodies 199 P Local Education Authorities’ Standard Spending Assessments, Budgeted Expenditure and Outturn 202 Q Maintained Schools: Pupil Numbers 205 R Maintained Schools: Teacher Numbers and Pupil: Teacher Ratios 205 S Participation in Education and Training by 16-, 17- and 18-Year-Olds 206 T Further Education Student and Staff Numbers 207 U Higher Education Student and Staff Numbers 208 V Home and Overseas, Full-Time and Part-Time Students in Higher Education by Type of Institution and Level of Course 209 W Home First-Degree Graduates from English Institutions 210 X Destination of First-Degree Graduates from Full-Time Courses 210 Bibliography 211 Glossary 216 Index 219 5 FOREWORD I am pleased to be introducing my fourth departmental report. It sets out the work that the Department, OFSTED and the Employment Service – working with our many partners – have done during the financial year 2000-01.The year was also notable in that the Department celebrated the fifth anniversary of its creation. The report is an important way of letting Parliament and a wider public know what is being achieved with public resources.And of showing how investment in education and employment is paying dividends for the whole country and its economy. Under this Government, we have made explicit the link between the resources that are invested, and the results departments are expected to achieve. So this report details achievements against our public service agreements and against the Department’s business plans. I am particularly pleased that we can report that, as promised, a quarter of a million young people have found work through the New Deal, and that we are very close to achieving our ambitions both for smaller infant class sizes and for literate and numerate 11-year-olds. In both cases, we are on target.And that our plans for new services such as the Learning and Skills Council, Connexions and the Disability Rights Commission are well grounded. I would wish to highlight the Government’s renewed commitment to invest in education and employment, as demonstrated in July’s spending review announcements and the March Budget.This proved our determination to make a reality of the aims of this Department: giving young people the skills they need for life, improving everyone’s chances through lifelong learning, and helping those without a job into work, particularly those at a disadvantage. Examples of what has already been achieved on the ground for people can be found throughout the Report – they show the benefits that can be reaped from joined-up thinking on education, employment and equality in a single department; and how this delivers both economic benefits and improvements to people’s engagement with, and stake in, society. New challenges and priorities, however, are arising for the Department.We are developing policies to address these.We have set new public service agreement targets to guide delivery to 2004 and beyond, linked to investment. Achieving a transformation of people’s chances and securing a cohesive, prosperous and inclusive society is not a task for the Government alone.The report pays tribute to everyone throughout the country who has contributed. I add my own thanks to them, and commend this report to you. DAVID BLUNKETT 6 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Department for Education and Employment Aim – To give everyone the chance, through education, training and work, to realise their full potential, and thus build an inclusive and fair society and a competitive economy. Objectives – DfEE is working with others in Government and beyond, towards two overarching goals: an inclusive society where everyone has an equal chance to achieve their full potential; and a globally competitive economy with successful firms and a fair and efficient labour market. Objective 1 – Ensuring that all young people reach 16 with the skills, attitudes and personal qualities that will give them a secure foundation for lifelong learning, work and citizenship in a rapidly changing world. Objective 2 – Developing in everyone a commitment to lifelong learning, so as to enhance their lives, improve their employability in a changing labour market and create the skills that our economy and employers need. Objective 3 – Helping people without a job into work. Office for Standards in Education Aims 1 – To help improve the quality and standards of education through independent inspection and advice. 2 – To help ensure and improve the quality and standards of childcare through regulation (in support of the Government’s aim of raising the quality of childcare) by establishing and operating a national system for the regulation of childcare. Objective 1 – To deliver high-quality inspection of schools, further education for students up to 19, local education authorities and teacher training; and provide well-informed, high-quality advice to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to assist in the formation and evaluation of government policies concerning education for young people aged 5 to 19 in schools and colleges and the training of teachers of this age group. Objective 2 – To establish and ensure high-quality regulation of childminders and day care providers, including the delivery of high quality inspections of childcare and funded nursery education; and provide high-quality advice to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to assist in the formation and evaluation of government policies on early years childcare and education. Introduction 7 Employment Service Aim – To help people without jobs to find work and employers to fill their vacancies. Objective A – To help all people without jobs, and particularly those on welfare and at a disadvantage in the labour market, to find and keep work by providing appropriate information, advice, training and support, and by encouraging employers to open more opportunities to them. Objective B – To ensure that the rights and relevant labour market responsibilities of people on Jobseeker’s Allowance and other benefits are fulfilled, whilst helping to combat fraud and abuse of the system. Objective C – To harness new technology, the pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement to deliver effective, efficient and accessible services to all people without jobs and to employers in Jobcentres and, increasingly, through other locations and means of communication. Objective D – To deliver services to all ES customers in a way which respects individual differences, helps to overcome disadvantages due to ethnicity, gender, age or disability, and achieves the best possible outcome for each of them. Sure Start Aim – To work with parents and children to promote the physical, intellectual and social development of pre-school children – particularly those who are disadvantaged – to ensure they are ready to flourish when they get to school. Objective 1 – Improving children’s social and emotional development. Objective 2 – Improving children’s health. Objective 3 – Improving children’s ability to learn. Objective 4 – Strengthening families and communities. Objective 5 – Increasing
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