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1079570

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date	01/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Overtime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) paid and (b) unpaid overtime hours worked by teachers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	227364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Teachers are not paid overtime as part of the national framework of terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) sets out the terms and conditions, including working hours, of teachers employed in maintained schools in England. The STPCD requires that teachers be available for work on 195 days each year, of which 190 are teaching days (the other five being for INSET); teachers are also required to be available for 1265 hours each year to be allocated reasonably across these days. The 1265 hours make up the directed hours, which are available for headteachers to direct the work of teachers.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the directed time, teachers must also work &quot;such reasonable additional hours as may be necessary to enable the effective discharge of the teacher’s professional duties&quot;.</p><p> </p><p>Non-maintained schools, including academies and free schools, are responsible for determining the pay and conditions of their staff themselves. Such schools are not obliged to follow the statutory arrangements set out in the STPCD, although they may still choose to do so if they wish.</p><p>The Department collects robust information about teachers’ working hours in both the Teaching and Learning International Survey and the Teacher Workload Survey, including time spent on teaching and non-teaching activities.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/03/2019 16:21:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1064572

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances: Specific Learning Difficulties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the undertaking in the letter from Viscount Younger of Leckie to Lord Addington on 3 December that those diagnosed with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties before the age of 16 will no longer have to undertake a second diagnosis to qualify for the Disabled Students’ Allowance, whether those who have been qualified to carry out this assessment will continue to be so after February 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL13891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The department is yet to conclude discussions currently being held with relevant experts, including the British Dyslexia Association, about the qualifications that should be held by those undertaking specific learning difficulty diagnostic assessments that can be used to determine eligibility for Disabled Students’ Allowances. The experts with whom the department is discussing this issue have knowledge and understanding of diagnostic assessment undertaken for school pupils. The department expects to conclude these discussions by the middle of March 2019.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL13892 HL13893 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:48:55 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

1064573

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances: Specific Learning Difficulties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether all potential students with a diagnosis of dyslexia or specific learning difficulties whose assessment was carried out by somebody without the Assessment Practising Certificate before the end of February 2019 will have to undertake and pay for a second assessment to make them eligible for the Disabled Students’ Allowance in the future.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL13892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The department is yet to conclude discussions currently being held with relevant experts, including the British Dyslexia Association, about the qualifications that should be held by those undertaking specific learning difficulty diagnostic assessments that can be used to determine eligibility for Disabled Students’ Allowances. The experts with whom the department is discussing this issue have knowledge and understanding of diagnostic assessment undertaken for school pupils. The department expects to conclude these discussions by the middle of March 2019.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL13891 HL13893 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:48:55 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

1064574

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances: Specific Learning Difficulties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether those involved in teaching and diagnosing pupils with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties in the school system have been consulted about the changes to people who can conduct assessments for eligibility for the Disabled Students’ Allowance.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL13893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The department is yet to conclude discussions currently being held with relevant experts, including the British Dyslexia Association, about the qualifications that should be held by those undertaking specific learning difficulty diagnostic assessments that can be used to determine eligibility for Disabled Students’ Allowances. The experts with whom the department is discussing this issue have knowledge and understanding of diagnostic assessment undertaken for school pupils. The department expects to conclude these discussions by the middle of March 2019.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL13891 HL13892 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:48:55 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

1064575

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Specific Learning Difficulties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether those working in special educational needs in schools are currently required to hold the Assessment Practising Certificate or other relevant qualifications for the purposes of diagnosing dyslexia and specific learning difficulties.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL13894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>Neither qualified teachers, nor special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCO), are required to hold the Assessment Practising Certificate.</p><p> </p><p>Every school is required to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils that they support, including those with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties, and are subject to the requirements of the statutory guidance, the ‘Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Code of Practice: 0-25 Years’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In order for teachers to be awarded qualified teacher status, trainees must satisfy the teachers’ standards which include a requirement that they have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with SEN and are able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-standards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-standards</a>. ‘A framework of core content for initial teacher training (ITT)’, published in July 2016 states that providers should ensure SEND training is integrated across the ITT programme: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-government-response-to-carter-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-government-response-to-carter-review</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All maintained mainstream schools and nursery schools must designate a qualified teacher as the SENCO. Any SENCO appointed to the role after 1 September 2009, and who has not previously been the SENCO at that or any other relevant school for a total period of more than 12 months, is required to achieve a national award in special educational needs co-ordination (NASENCO). The NASENCO is a masters-level award, which covers all aspects of leading on SEND within schools and supporting children and young people with SEND.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government has provided support to organisations, including the British Dyslexia Association, to produce a range of guidance to help teachers provide support to children and young people with dyslexia. In April 2018 the Whole School SEND consortium, led by the National Association for SEN, nasen, were awarded £3.4 million for 2018-2020 to deliver a programme of work to equip the school workforce to deliver high quality teaching across all types of SEND, including specific learning difficulties. The programme of work aims to help schools identify and meet SEND training needs.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/03/2019 12:50:20 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

1064585

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Visual Impairment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what provision is made for students with visual impairments undertaking GCSE and A Level examinations to ensure that they have their chosen reading format available.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL13904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write directly to the noble Lord and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL13905 question first answered 01/03/2019 13:07:40 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1064586

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Visual Impairment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what powers they have provided to the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation to monitor the consistency and accuracy of examination papers transcribed into other reading formats such as Braille.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL13905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write directly to the noble Lord and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL13904 question first answered 01/03/2019 13:07:40 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1064587

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Curriculum Tests: Visual Impairment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which institution or body within the current education framework is responsible for the prompt availability of past SAT papers in formats such as Braille and large print and to ensure that such papers are available without charge.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL13906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) develops modified versions of national curriculum tests (commonly known as SATs) in modified large print (MLP) and braille. They are primarily designed for pupils with visual impairments, although they may be suitable for pupils with other needs.</p><p>Schools can request hard copies of past braille and MLP papers from the STA’s Modified Test Agency and can also access practice papers for MLP versions in the ‘practice test materials’ section of the National Curriculum Assessment Tools website.</p><p>Past versions of modified tests are available free of charge to schools.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 05/03/2019 14:37:28 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1064589

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Food
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money is allocated to food per day for children in care.
tabling member printed	Baroness Boycott
uin	HL13908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>The amount of money allocated to food for each child in care is for the placement provider or carer to determine.</p><p>In 2017/18, local authorities spent a total of £8.83 billion on children’s social care services; however, the department does not request information on the proportion of this that was spent on food.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/03/2019 12:47:24 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4704 label Biography information for Baroness Boycott

1064614

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which sub-central public bodies associated with the Department for Education are within scope of Regulation 113 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 requiring contracting authorities to pay undisputed invoices within 30 days and to publish their payment performance online.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes prompt payment performance online (percentage of invoices paid within 5 days and within 30 days of receipt) on GOV.UK. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prompt-payment-data-for-dfe" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prompt-payment-data-for-dfe</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The data covers:</p><p>the Department for Education;</p><p>the National College for Teaching and Leadership now known as Teaching Regulation Agency;</p><p>the Standards and Testing Agency;</p><p>the Education and Skills Funding Agency; and</p><p>the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/03/2019 13:00:13 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn