Jersey Music Service figures (FOI)

Request

Please give the number of children benefiting from tuition from the Jersey Music Service (or its precursor body) in:

A

2000

B

The year prior to the year in which the policy of charging for lessons was introduced.

C

2019

D

The year for which most recent figures are held.

E

(i) The year for which the oldest data is held.

(ii) Please indicate, for each figure above the breakdown between the number of students coming from fee paying and non fee-paying schools.

(iii) Please give the 2019 and the latest figures for the total number of students whose tuition is subsidised (ie whose parents are not required to pay the standard charge for tuition. )

Response

Jersey Music Service data is collated as the number of students enrolled for lessons at the beginning of each term and began in a recordable format in January 2012.

A

The Department does not hold data for the year 2000.

B

The table below represents the number of students enrolled at the start of each term with the Jersey Music Service in the academic year September 2013 to July 2014 which was the academic year prior to the introduction of fees:

*School not recorded represents students who attend a lesson in one of the Jersey Music Service venues usually after school and therefore their school may not be recorded; this could also include 'home schooled' children.

C

The table below represents the number of students enrolled at the start of each term with the Jersey Music Service in the academic year September 2019 to July 2020*:

D

The table below represents the number of students enrolled at the start of each term with the Jersey Music Service in the academic year September 2021 to July 2022*:

E

(i) to (iii)

Data collection at the Jersey Music Service began in a recordable format in January 2012. As such, the table below represents the number of students enrolled at the start of each term with the Jersey Music Service in the spring and summer terms only, January 2012 to July 2012:

Due to the small number of pupils represented in the school not recorded category, disclosure control has been applied to avoid identification of individuals. Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 has been applied.

Articles applied

Article 25 - Personal information 

(1)     Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2)     Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a)     it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b)     its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.