DfEE - Departmental Report and Main Estimates 2001 and OFSTED Departmental Report The Government’s Expenditure Plans 2001–02 to 2003–04 and Main Estimates 2001–02 Published by The Stationery Office Limited and available from: The Stationery Office (Mail, telephone and fax orders only) PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN General enquiries 0870 600 5522 Order through the Parliamentary Hotline Lo-Call 0845 7 023474 Fax orders 0870 600 5533 Email [email protected] Internet http://www.ukstate.com The Stationery Office Bookshops 123 Kingsway, London WC2B 6PQ 020 7242 6393 Fax 020 7242 6394 68–69 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AD 0121 236 9696 Fax 0121 236 9699 33 Wine Street, Bristol BS1 2BQ Cm 5102 0117 926 4306 Fax 0117 929 4515 9–21 Princess Street, Manchester M60 8AS 0161 834 7201 Fax 0161 833 0634 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD 028 9023 8451 Fax 028 9023 5401 The Stationery Office Oriel Bookshop 18–19 High Street, Cardiff CF1 2BZ 029 2039 5548 Fax 029 2038 4347 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9AZ Positional – 0870 606 5566 Fax 0870 606 5588 Still awaiting Accredited Agents live bar code (see Yellow Pages) and through good booksellers This is part of a series of departmental reports and main estimates which, accompanied by the document Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses 2001-02, present the Government’s expenditure plans for 2001-02 to 2003-04. The plans were published in summary form in the Budget documentation.The complete series is also available as a set at a discounted price. Conventions Dates refer to the financial year 2000-01, unless otherwise indicated.Academic years are shown in the format 2001/02. Figures in a number of tables and annexes have been rounded and therefore may not sum to the total. The report relates to England, unless otherwise indicated; for example Welfare to Work programmes cover Great Britain. Further Information Department for Education and Employment, Public Enquiry Unit, Castle View House, East Lane, Runcorn WA7 2GJ. Tel:0870 000 2288. www.dfee.gov.uk Employment Service, Caxton House,Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NF.Tel:020 7273 6060. www.employmentservice.gov.uk Office for Standards in Education,Alexandra House, 29-33 Kingsway,London WC2B 6SE.Tel:020 7421 6744. www.ofsted.gov.uk Feedback Please send comments on this report to [email protected]:01268 696708. Production team: Susan Craddock, Ron David, Philip Parker, Adrian Walsh and Geoff Wisbey.Also, Roy Boardman, Carol Maduka and Nigel Richards. The cover photo was taken in July to mark the fifth anniversary of the Department’s creation in 1995. 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 D Total 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.