Reading recovery programmeReading recovery programme
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Request 73707524
1. How many children have taken part in the 'reading recovery' programme in Jersey schools in each of the last ten years?
2. How much has the programme cost CYPES in each of the last ten years?
3. Please provide a breakdown of how many students per school on the Island have taken part in the programme in each of the last ten years?
4. How many students Island-wide are currently enrolled in the 'reading recovery' programme in Jersey schools as of May 2, 2025?
5. What is the budget for the programme in 2025?
6. How much has been spent training teachers to teach as part of the 'reading recovery' programme in each of the last ten years?
7. Has the programme been scrapped and, if so, why?
Response
1. Please find below a table which represents how many children have taken part in the 'reading recovery' programme in Government of Jersey schools in each of the last ten years. This is represented in academic years.
Academic Year | Total |
2024-2025 | 63
|
2023-2024 | 111 |
2022-2023
| 140 |
2021-2022 | 85 |
2020-2021 | 64 |
2019-2020 | 25 |
2018-2019
| 45 |
2017-2018
| 57 |
2016-2017 | 39 |
2015-2016
| 10
|
2. Please find below a table for how much the reading recovery programme has been funded by CYPES since 2019. Due to our retention schedule, we do not hold financial data for more than six years, therefore this information is not available prior to 2019. The department have determined that Article 3 is applicable.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
|
Total | £6,608
| £399,537 | £413,102 | £408,481 | £421,355 | £343,059
|
3. The breakdown of students per school on the Island having taken part in the programme in each of the last ten years is displayed below.
Where numbers are fewer than five, disclosure control is applied to avoid identification of individuals. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
*The Department has determined that to provide a breakdown of students per school on the Island having taken part in the programme in the 2017-2018 academic year, would disclose small numbers and therefore would likely breach the privacy of individuals, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.
| Bel Royal | D'Auvergne | First Tower | Grands Vaux | Janvrin | Plat Douet | Rouge Bouillon | Samares | Springfield | St John | St Luke | St Peter | St Saviour |
2024- 2025 | 6
| 5
| 10
| | | <5
| 11
| 14
| 6
|
| <5
|
| <5 |
2023- 2024 | 8 | 16
| 12
| | 5
| 19
| 13 | 12
| 7
| | 8 | | 11
|
2022- 2023 | 8
| 17
| 9
| 7
| 10
| 27
| 17
| 15
| 6
| | 10
| | 14
|
2021- 2022 | 9
| 9
| 6
| 5 | 5
| 9
| 8
| 13
| 7
| | 6
| | 8
|
2020- 2021 |
| 8
| <5
| 6
| 13
| 13
| 12
| <5
| 5
|
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|
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2019- 2020 |
| <5 |
|
| 8
| <5
| 8
| <5
|
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|
|
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2018- 2019 |
| 6
|
| 6
| 8
| 11
| 9
| 5
|
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|
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|
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2017- 2018* | -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| - | - | -
| -
|
2016- 2017 | <5 |
|
| 9
| 12
|
|
| 8
| 8
| <5
|
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|
|
2015-
2016 | <5
|
|
| |
|
| <5
| <5 |
| <5 |
| <5
|
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4. 63 students Island-wide are currently enrolled in the 'reading recovery' programme in Jersey schools as of May 2, 2025
5. The budget for the programme in 2025 is £219,293
6. The table below shows how much has been spent training teachers to teach as part of the 'reading recovery' programme in each of the last six years. Due to our retention schedule, we do not hold financial data for more than six years, therefore this information is not available prior to 2019. The department have determined that Article 3 is applicable.
Year | Total
|
2019 | £6,608 |
2020 | £6,273 |
2021 | £150,220 |
2022 | £57,284 |
2023
| £98,358 |
2024
| £6,430
|
7. The reading recovery programme continues to be funded.
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(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.
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