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WQ.281/2021

WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AND EDUCATION BY DEPUTY M.R. HIGGINS OF ST. HELIER

QUESTION SUBMITTED ON TUESDAY 1st JUNE 2021

ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 8th JUNE 2021

Question

Will the Minister provide tables detailing –

the number of children taught in each school for each of the last 5 years whose first language was not English, as well as the number and cost of any additional teaching staff employed to carry out dedicated tuition for these children, together with any costs associated with addressing this educational need; and
the number of children taught in each school for each of the last 5 years who had a special educational need, with the figures broken down by need (i.e. physical, autism spectrum disorders, dyslexia, reading difficulties, behavioural), as well as the costs of supporting the children with these needs?

Answer

(a) The number of pupils in each school who had English as an Additional Language are shown below (data is correct as of January in each year)

School	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Bel Royal	68	69	64	64	67
d'Auvergne	131	155	155	163	156
First Tower	155	151	153	155	154
Grainville	173	194	213	244	257
Grands Vaux	55	72	63	63	59
Grouville	44	41	39	39	44
Haute Vallée	256	258	266	257	265
Hautlieu	77	80	93	109	112
Janvrin	187	193	227	243	231
Jersey College Prep	<5	5	31	41	43
Jersey College for Girls	31	32	40	49	53
La Moye	69	63	56	45	76
La Sente	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
Le Rocquier	155	196	181	198	213
Les Landes	20	15	13	13	14
Les Quennevais	75	81	96	104	127
Mont Nicolle	28	25	23	35	29
Mont à l'Abbé Primary	16	15	14	18	21
Mont à l'Abbé Secondary	9	12	11	13	15
Plat Douet	148	164	166	186	190
Rouge Bouillon	280	273	260	277	267
Samarès	73	79	78	71	65
Springfield	92	94	101	99	107
St Clement's	21	21	22	38	50

St John's	27	27	23	26	19
St Lawrence	26	21	22	24	21
St Luke's	55	59	55	62	87
St Martin's	18	15	16	14	36
St Mary's	24	22	18	17	17
St Peter's	35	32	58	57	40
St Saviour's	54	52	64	63	60
Trinity	30	29	27	33	38
Victoria College	13	20	30	32	37
Victoria College Prep	13	10	9	12	15

The costs of the central EAL team is shown below. The academic year 2017/18 included funding for a Jersey Premium pilot, which not continue beyond the pilot year.

EAL costs are not separately identifiable in our accounts on a school by school basis. They will form part of the SEN figures in part b.

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
EAL - Central Team	249,003	261,287	219,004	190,209	207,788
EAL - JP Funded Pilot	0	42,493	129,865	0	0
EAL - within Schools - UNKNOWN
	249,003	303,780	348,868	190,209	207,788

b) The number of pupils in each school with a Special Educational Need are shown below (data is correct as of January in each year)

School	SEN Description	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Bel Royal	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	6
	Hearing Impairment	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	15	14	13	12	8
	Severe Learning Difficulty		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	6	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	11	7	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	5	<5	<5	<5	<5
d'Auvergne	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	6
	Moderate Learning Difficulty		14	13	10	8
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	5	<5	<5	<5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty					<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty		<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	6	11	9	10	18
	Specific Learning Difficulty	9	9	7	13	11
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	29	11	12	17	22
	Visual Impairment		<5	<5	<5	<5
First Tower	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5		<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment			<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	7	<5	<5	<5	5

	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	21	16	16	10	13
	Specific Learning Difficulty	13	13	10	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	21	26	29	14	22
Grainville	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	9	13	11	11	12
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	10	8	9	8	7
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	5	<5	<5	7	9
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	40	51	56	87	57
	Specific Learning Difficulty	20	9	8	13	12
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	7	6	<5	7	<5
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
Grands Vaux	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	7	10	9	8	<5
	Multi-Sensory Impairment	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	10	9	<5	5	8
	Specific Learning Difficulty		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	8	11	8	7	9
Grouville	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	9	<5	<5	<5
	Multi-Sensory Impairment		<5		<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty				<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	21	15	14	23	16
	Specific Learning Difficulty	<5	6	5	5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	8	10	12	19	17
Haute Vallée	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	11	10	10	11	15
	Hearing Impairment		<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5		<5	5	12
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	6
	Severe Learning Difficulty				<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	10	31	17	23	26
	Specific Learning Difficulty	14	32	69	49	33
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	7	6	<5	6	6
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5
Hautlieu	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	7	<5	6	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5		<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	10	13	5	14	15
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	85	63	52	51	68
	Specific Learning Difficulty	61	81	<5	<5	5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need		<5	<5
	Visual Impairment	<5
Janvrin	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	6	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5		<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty		<5

	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	23	31	13	10	18
	Specific Learning Difficulty	11	6	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	32	29	31	28	36
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5
Jersey College Prep	Hearing Impairment		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	8	6	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	10	8	12
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
Jersey College for Girls	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5
	Other Difficulty/Disability		<5		<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	8		<5		<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	35	17	22	43	36
	Specific Learning Difficulty	55	18	12	11	5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need			<5	<5	<5
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
La Moye	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment				<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5		<5	<5	<5
	Multi-Sensory Impairment					<5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	12	<5	7	11	12
	Specific Learning Difficulty	16		6	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	15	11	18	19	14
	Visual Impairment	<5
La Sente	Autistic Spectrum Disorder			<5	5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty			<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	14	23	18	16	16
	Speech, Language or Communication Need			<5	<5
Le Rocquier	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	6	<5	11	12
	Hearing Impairment	5	7	5	5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	6	5	9	10
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	17	11	8	6	6
	Severe Learning Difficulty			<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	47	49	33	46	62
	Specific Learning Difficulty	58	33	23	21	25
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	8	<5	5	<5	<5
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
Les Landes	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment			<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Multi-Sensory Impairment		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical				<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	5	11	12	7	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	10	9	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	<5	<5	<5	<5	5

	Visual Impairment				<5	<5
Les Quennevais	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	9	10	8	6
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	5	7	9	9
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	9	10	<5	<5	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty			<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	19	59	35	29	28
	Specific Learning Difficulty	9	31	35	50	38
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	<5	5	6	<5	<5
	Visual Impairment		<5	<5	<5
Mont Nicolle	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5			<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	<5	<5	6	6	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	<5	6	6	<5	12
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	10	16	8	13	15
Mont à l'Abbé Primary	Autistic Spectrum Disorder			<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5		<5	8	8
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	5	6
	Severe Learning Difficulty	42	44	44	40	44
	Speech, Language or Communication Need					<5
Mont à l'Abbé Secondary	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	5	<5	<5	5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty	34	42	44	42	44
	Specific Learning Difficulty				<5	<5
Plat Douet	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5			<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	5	6	5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	7
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	14	21	10	14	16
	Specific Learning Difficulty	20	29	12	5	5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	23	22	23	48	47
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5
Rouge Bouillon	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	11	14	17	13	13
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	8	6	8	7	5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	14	25	25	28	29
	Specific Learning Difficulty	16	<5	<5	<5	5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	26	33	35	35	37
	Visual Impairment	<5
Samarès	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	9	5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	11	15	<5	<5	6
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	6	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	21	23	12	13	19
	Specific Learning Difficulty	7	<5	14	9	11
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	16	17	20	17	24

Springfield	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5		<5	6
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Other Difficulty/Disability		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	21	16	10	10	12
	Specific Learning Difficulty	14	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	11	30	12	13	15
	Visual Impairment				<5	<5
St Clement's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	6	6	5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty				<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	6	5	<5	<5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	7	7	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	9	10	5	6	6
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
St John's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5		<5	<5
	Multi-Sensory Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	<5	6	5	<5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	10	7	9	9	9
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	10	7	8	<5	13
St Lawrence	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty				<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	19	17	12	14	18
	Specific Learning Difficulty	9	15	14	16	15
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	6	5	6	6	6
	Visual Impairment	<5
St Luke's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder			<5		<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5			<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	<5	<5	5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty		<5			<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	9	10	8	9	9
	Specific Learning Difficulty	11	<5	<5		<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	17	5	9	9	9
St Martin's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5			<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5	5	6	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5		<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	10	11	7	5	6
St Mary's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5

	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5		<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	8	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	9	16	<5	5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	<5	6	5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	<5	8	5	<5	5
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
St Peter's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder			<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment					<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty		<5			<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical					<5
	Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	<5	<5	<5		<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	10	12	8	6	11
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	12	10	12	12	11
	Visual Impairment					<5
St Saviour's	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	10	10	11	9	9
	Hearing Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Multi-Sensory Impairment	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Severe Learning Difficulty					<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	8	10	11	18	21
	Specific Learning Difficulty	15	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	6	9	10	8	10
Trinity	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty				<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	<5	<5		<5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	7	6	5	5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	<5	8	7	<5	5
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5
Victoria College	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	22	20	7	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	7		5	5
	Visual Impairment	<5	<5	<5	<5
Victoria College Prep	Autistic Spectrum Disorder		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Hearing Impairment	<5
	Moderate Learning Difficulty		<5	<5	<5
	Physical Disability and/or Medical		<5	<5	<5	<5
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health	11	16	<5	<5	<5
	Specific Learning Difficulty	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
	Speech, Language or Communication Need	13	<5	<5		<5
	Visual Impairment		<5	<5	<5	<5

The table below identifies the costs coded to SEN & Mental Health business units by individual schools. The actual costs associated with supporting children with SEN & MH will most likely differ as costs may be coded to different business units.

SEN	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Bel Royal	1,975	42,787	45,569	58,510	63,391
D'Auvergne	958	101,398	100,488	127,106	137,919
First Tower	386	92,273	120,998	120,114	126,837
Grands Vaux	411	540	895	494	2,546
Grouville	2,155	0	2,582	118,986	148,139
Janvrin	0	0	0	895	139,276
La Moye	476	95,896	102,916	102,783	99,097
Les landes	0	0	56,822	63,168	61,941
Mont Nicolle	0	44,712	69,185	67,578	59,696
Plat Douet	431	2,389	1,045	634	198,454
Rouge Bouillon	715	171	1,454	151,938	347,586
Samares	242	306	482	54	132,421
Springfield	0	0	0	52,010	53,931
St Clements	0	0	0	0	89,981
St John	134	281	269	106	25,328
St Lawrence	75	79,737	59,067	42,467	47,539
St Luke	523	163	208	97,634	99,557
St Martin	2,814	41,354	44,921	53,405	10,667
St Mary	61	0	48,652	92,524	147,385
St Peter	11	476	63,009	63,873	86,409
St Saviour	0	238	493	1,347	102,745
Trinity	338	112	384	52	108
Grainville	460,928	417,154	374,500	418,305	698,993
Haute Vallee	219,430	217,030	261,101	659,594	692,483
Hautlieu	27,719	45,457	46,993	46,845	48,848
Le Rocquier	251,436	233,174	536,589	606,821	750,001
Les Quennevais	154,163	172,115	170,516	314,938	359,156
VCP	0	0	0	0	97,873
Victoria College	1,030	1,919	357	627	181,711
JCP	1,434	1,391	989	955	990
JCG	2,995	3,020	1,789	3,848	930
	1,130,839	1,594,094	2,112,273	3,267,612	5,011,940

The table below identifies the costs of Jersey's special schools and alternative provision

Special Schools	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Mont à l'Abbé	2,239,928	2,485,482	2,764,541	3,124,481	3,664,719
La Sente (formerly D'Hautrée and Alternative Curriculum)	1,178,328	1,076,166	1,153,350	1,116,526	1,407,655
La Passerelle	0	0	0	69,627	122,265
	3,418,255	3,561,649	3,917,890	4,310,632	5,194,639

The table below identifies the costs of the additional resource centres within primary and secondary schools:

Resource Centres	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Bel Royal	254,136	280,998	295,182	297,442	316,206
Rouge Bouillon	341,600	312,452	343,639	352,389	389,034
St Clement's	0	0	136,624	124,352	131,000
St Saviour	256,588	252,815	261,021	289,249	299,367
Grainville	150,390	177,921	202,576	210,784	221,224
Haute Vallée	186,182	157,082	189,315	188,649	210,176
Le Rocquier	0	0	88,623	85,736	58,937
Les Quennevais	115,659	89,613	80,337	78,355	136,176
	1,304,555	1,270,882	1,597,315	1,626,957	1,762,119

The following table identifies central costs for the CYPES Inclusion Service (excluding any already picked up above). This does not include Jersey Premium.

Central Costs	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Inclusion Service	3,152,896	3,304,872	3,588,514	3,646,224	4,140,056
Every Child our Future	-121	59,421	22,208	862	137,971
	3,152,775	3,364,293	3,610,722	3,647,087	4,278,027

English as Additional Language and Special Educational Needs students