Freedom of Information

Enquiry Number – 1-714683730

Request and Response:

Q1: How many school children in Sandwell count English as a second language?

A1: 13,969

Q2: How many different languages are spoken as a first language by children attending schools in Sandwell?

A2: 143

Q3: Please provide a list of the different languages.

A3: See appendix.

Q4: How many interpreters are provided to schools in Sandwell, and at what cost, broken down per individual school?

A4: The local authority does not hold this information. Schools will need to be contacted directly.

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[IL0: UNCLASSIFIED] Appendix Languages

Afar-Saho Igbo Russian Afrikaans Italian Samoan Akan/Twi-Fante Italian (Any Other) Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian Akan (Fante) Japanese Bosnian Akan (Twi/Asante) Croatian Albanian/Shqip Kashmiri Serbian Amharic Katchi Scots Arabic Kirundi Shona Arabic (Any Other) Korean Sign Language (Other) Arabic (Algeria) Kurdish Slovak Arabic (Iraq) Kurdish (Any Other) Slovenian Arabic (Morocco) Kurdish (Sorani) Sinhala Arabic (Sudan) Luganda Somali Arabic (Yemen) Lingala Spanish Bemba Lithuanian Sotho/Sesotho Bengali Latvian Swahili/Kiswahili Bengali (Any Other) Magahi Swahili (Any Other) Bengali (Sylheti) Makua Swahili (Kingwana) British Sign Language Manding/Malinke Swahili (Bajuni/Tikuu) Bulgarian Manding/Malinke (Any Swedish Caribbean Creole English Other) Tamil Caribbean Creole French Bambara Telugu Chechen Marathi Temne Chinese Macedonian Tagalog/Filipino Chinese (Any Other) Filipino Chinese (Cantonese) Indonesian/Bahasa Tagalog Chinese (Hakka) Indonesia Tigrinya Chinese Ndebele Thai (Mandarin/Putonghua) Ndebele (South Africa) Tiv Chichewa/Nyanja Ndebele (Zimbabwe) Turkish Czech Nepali Ukrainian Danish Norwegian Dagbane Other Language Urhobo-Isoko Dutch/Flemish Pangasinan Uzbek Ebira Pampangan Vietnamese Edo/Bini Pashto/Pakhto Wolof Efik-Ibibio Pahari/Himachali () Yoruba English Pahari (Pakistan) Zulu Esan/Ishan Panjabi Finnish Panjabi (Any Other) French Panjabi (Gurmukhi) Fula/Fulfulde-Pulaar Panjabi (Mirpuri) Ga Panjabi (Pothwari) Georgian Polish German Portuguese Kikuyu/Gikuyu Portuguese (Any Other) Greek Persian/Farsi Guarani Farsi/Persian (Any Other) Gujarati Dari Persian Hausa Rajasthani/Marwari Romany/English Romanes Herero Romanian Hungarian Romanian (Moldova) Romanian (Romania) [IL0: UNCLASSIFIED]