Jersey Music Service (FOI)

​​Request

With regard to the activities of the Jersey Music Service (JMS), please detail, for each of the following criteria​

• the most recent available school year
• the school year immediately prior
• the school year five years prior
  
• the school year ten years prior.
  

A

Number of secondary school students engaged in one to one or small group sessions (excluding any class size sessions) delivered by the JMS.

B

Number of JMS students passing a Grade 5 examination (ABRSM / Trinity College) or above in the given school year.

C

Number of FTE staff employed by the JMS in the given school year.

D

Number of FTE teaching staff, split by specialist instrument family, in the given school year.

E

Total operating and administrative expenditure of the JMS in the given school year (or most appropriate financial year).

F

Total funding provided to the JMS excluding direct payments for service (tuition fees) and direct government funding - in other words the total income from, for example; charitable grants, legacies, donations and corporate contributions, in the given school year (or most appropriate financial year).

Response

A

The table below represents the number of secondary school students engaged in one to one or small group sessions delivered by the JMS for the years requested:

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D​ata has been taken from the autumn term to ensure consistency.

B

This data is not held centrally and therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

C

The below figures show the FTE within JMS at the end of each of the academic years (July) as requested:

D

This data is not held in a recordable format and cannot be presented as requested therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

E

The total operating and administrative expenditure for the JMS is accounted in calendar years, and not school years. The most appropriate figures for the date requested are therefore:

F

All financial reporting is by financial year (1 January to 31 December) and not by academic year. Total donations received by JMS excluding fees for the requested dates are:

​Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.