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58286

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date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sexualisation of Young People Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the review Sexualisation of Young People by Dr. Linda Papadopoulos.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	199353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>In December 2010 the Government commissioned Reg Bailey, the Chief Executive of Mothers' Union, to carry out a review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. Mr Bailey drew upon the review by Dr Papadopoulos and its evidence base in making his recommendations in his report, ‘Letting Children be Children', published in June 2011. The Government welcomed Mr Bailey's analysis and the thrust of all the recommendations he made, and there has been progress on many of these.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/06/2014 08:50:19 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

58287

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will introduce the teaching of the dangers of pornography into the school syllabus.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	199200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>Teaching about sex and relationship education (SRE) is already compulsory in maintained secondary schools, and academies are expected to provide SRE as part of a broad and balanced curriculum.</p><p>When teaching SRE, all schools must have regard to the Secretary of State's statutory guidance, which sets out that SRE should be age-appropriate. Schools should ensure SRE supports young people to develop positive values and a moral framework that will guide their decisions, judgments and behaviour. Schools are encouraged to develop their SRE practice with the support of specialist organisations and expert professionals who are best placed to provide schools with up-to-date materials and advice on changing technologies.</p><p>Schools will welcome the new supplementary advice, ‘Sex and relationships education (SRE) for the 21st century', published recently by the PSHE Association, the Sex Education Forum and Brook. This addresses changes in technology and legislation since 2000, and will equip teachers to help protect children and young people from inappropriate online content, including the dangers of pornography, and from online bullying, harassment and exploitation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/06/2014 16:21:29 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

58288

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Newspaper Press: Retail Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's policy is on the easy visibility and access for children to overly sexualised and graphic magazines and periodicals in retail stores.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	199203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>In December 2010 the Government commissioned Reg Bailey, the Chief Executive of Mothers' Union, to carry out a review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. He published his report, Letting Children be Children in June 2011. The Government welcomed Mr Bailey's analysis and the thrust of all the recommendations he made, including that newspapers and magazines with sexualised images on their covers should not be displayed in easy sight of children. We welcome the action taken by publishers, distributors and retailers to promote the observance of the industry code of practice on the display of these magazines.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/06/2014 08:48:14 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

58290

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he will respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central received by his office on 29 May 2014, relating to the recent situation in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	199163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the statement made by my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of to the House on 9 June 2014, which addressed the questions raised in his letter.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/06/2014 16:54:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

57549

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Travellers: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish their report on pilots of a virtual head teacher system expressly aimed at redressing the inequalities in education experienced by Gypsies and Travellers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL22
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Two local authorities, Kent and Cambridgeshire, have been involved in piloting the role of a virtual head teacher who helped schools to engage with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) pupils to improve their school attendance and attainment. These local authorities are currently finalising their summaries of the projects. The Department for Education will work with these authorities and the GRT education stakeholder group, chaired by the noble Lady, to determine the most appropriate way to disseminate the outcomes of this work.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 11:07:13 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

57585

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 14 May (WA 532) stating that the Ofsted Report for 2013 found there were 700,000 pupils in schools where behaviour is "just not good enough", how many of these pupils were (1) under 10, (2) between 10 and 13, (3) over 13, (4) in local authority schools, (5) in academies, and (6) boys.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL58
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted's annual report (2012/13) indicates that around 700,000 pupils are in schools where behaviour needs to improve.</p><p>This figure is based on Ofsted's behaviour inspection judgement for 2013, which shows that nationally 8 per cent of schools in England are rated less than ‘good', and the number of pupils on roll in schools taken from the rounded January 2013 School Census Data. Information in the form requested is not held by the Department.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:27:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57586

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 14 May (WA 532), of the just under a third of teachers who "did not have the confidence...to discipline pupils for unacceptable behaviour", what proportion of those teachers were in (1) primary schools, (2) secondary schools, (3) local authority schools, and (4) academies.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL59
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>29 per cent of secondary school teachers did not feel confident using disciplinary powers, compared to 17 per cent of primary school teachers. The Department for Education does not hold separate data for local authority schools and academies.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:26:04 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57587

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 14 May (WA 533), if school exclusion data for the years 1980 and 1990 are not held by the Department for Education, from where they can be obtained.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL60
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Permanent exclusions data was first collected in 1994/95. Information on fixed period exclusions was only collected from 2003/04.</p><p>Information on exclusion rates prior to 2005/06 was collected via the Termly Exclusions Survey rather than the School Census.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:25:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57588

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether it has been their policy for fixed-period exclusions from school to remain broadly constant over the past decade and for permanent exclusions to fall sharply year by year; if so, how they assess the outcome; and if not, how they account for the difference.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL61
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Exclusion is a decision for headteachers alone to take. The Government does not set targets or expected levels for exclusion. Rather, the Government's policy is that headteachers need to ensure good discipline in schools, in the interest of all their pupils, and should feel confident in using exclusion where they believe this is warranted by a pupil's behaviour.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:25:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57589

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have observed any correlation between bad behaviour in schools and the absence of a specified dress code for (1) pupils, and (2) teachers.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL62
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not have any evidence of any correlation between bad behaviour in schools and the absence of a specified dress code for pupils and teachers.</p><p>The Department for Education has issued advice that strongly encourages schools to have a uniform, as it can play a valuable role in contributing to the ethos of a school and setting an appropriate tone. However, it is for the governing body of a school (or the academy trust in the case of academies and free schools) to decide whether there should be a uniform policy and other rules on appearance. This flows from the duties placed upon all governing bodies by statute to ensure that school policies promote good behaviour and discipline among the pupil body.</p><p>Dress codes for teachers are a matter for employers to determine, whether that is the governing body, academy trust or local authority. As part of the general terms and conditions of employment agreed with employees we would expect schools to consider an appropriate dress code, relevant to the individual setting, taking into account the requirements of the post.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/06/2014 11:39:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk