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1364751

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date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the need to identify and provide support services for children with a parent serving a term of imprisonment.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	903951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>We recognise the impact that a parent going to prison can have on a child’s learning, behaviour, mental health, and wellbeing. This is why statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children is clear that anyone who has concerns about a child’s welfare should make a referral to local authority children’s social care.</p><p>The local authority and its social workers have specific roles and responsibilities to lead statutory assessments. Every assessment should reflect children’s needs within their family and community context, including taking account of a parent being in prison. These children’s circumstances vary considerably and therefore local agencies are best placed to determine what support is needed – whether early help, statutory social care services, or support for other needs such as mental health.</p><p>Statutory guidance for schools (Keeping Children Safe in Education) is clear that staff should consider the additional needs of children with a family member in prison or who are affected by parental offending. The guidance highlights the risk of poor outcomes including poverty, stigma, isolation, and poor mental health. It signposts staff to the National Information Centre on Children of Offenders website which provides specialist staff advice and resources to support professionals working with offenders’ children and their families, to help mitigate negative consequences for those children.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/11/2021 16:54:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1364752

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	British Students Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to help increase access to opportunities to study overseas.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	903954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government recognises the value of supporting students to study and do work placements overseas because of the benefits it brings to the UK and our international partners.</p><p>Student mobility can provide life changing opportunities while creating a generation of globally minded young people with broadened horizons. It enhances productivity and employment outcomes for young people while also helping to build international relationships between students and institutions.</p><p>That is why we introduced the UK’s £110 million international mobility programme, the Turing Scheme, which is providing the opportunity for more than 40,000 students in schools, colleges and universities to study and work abroad this academic year in over 150 destinations.</p><p>The Turing Scheme specifically seeks to support participation of UK students from disadvantaged backgrounds and areas of historical low participation in student mobility. More than 19,000, 48%, of the placements approved for funding are for participants from disadvantaged backgrounds. This will help to ensure these life-changing opportunities are accessible to everyone across the country.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 01/11/2021 17:47:45 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1364806

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Languages: Primary Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to monitor the delivery of the national curriculum requirement that a foreign language be taught at Key Stage 2.
tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
uin	HL3557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>All maintained schools are required to follow the national curriculum, which includes teaching any modern or ancient foreign language at key stage 2. Academies are expected to teach a curriculum which is similar in breadth and ambition as the national curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not collect data on all schools on the teaching of individual subjects in primary schools, and this includes languages. Similarly, Ofsted does not inspect each individual subject in its inspections but would look at whether schools are teaching a broad, balanced, and well-sequenced curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>Any concerns that a maintained school may not be complying with the requirement to teach languages at key stage 2 should, in the first instance, be raised via the school’s complaints procedure. If the complaint is not resolved, then the issue can be escalated to the Department for Education’s school complaints unit.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL3558 question first answered 16/11/2021 16:54:38 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

1364808

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Languages: Primary Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many primary schools in England are not teaching a foreign language at Key Stage 2.
tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
uin	HL3558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>All maintained schools are required to follow the national curriculum, which includes teaching any modern or ancient foreign language at key stage 2. Academies are expected to teach a curriculum which is similar in breadth and ambition as the national curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not collect data on all schools on the teaching of individual subjects in primary schools, and this includes languages. Similarly, Ofsted does not inspect each individual subject in its inspections but would look at whether schools are teaching a broad, balanced, and well-sequenced curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>Any concerns that a maintained school may not be complying with the requirement to teach languages at key stage 2 should, in the first instance, be raised via the school’s complaints procedure. If the complaint is not resolved, then the issue can be escalated to the Department for Education’s school complaints unit.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL3557 question first answered 16/11/2021 16:54:39 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

1364819

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Dance and Music: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the cost-effectiveness of the Music and Dance Scheme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	67138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The department has a long-term commitment to ensuring that high-quality dance and music education is not the preserve of the elite, but the entitlement of every single child.</p><p>The Music and Dance Scheme (MDS) allows exceptionally talented children to attend specialist music and dance education providers. The scheme provides bursaries and grants totalling around £30 million per annum to children and young people with exceptional potential, regardless of their personal circumstances, to benefit from world-class specialist music or dance training.</p><p>The department regularly assesses the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of all programmes, including the MDS. The department is working with MDS providers to improve the information collected from them each year, so future assessments can be improved.</p><p>Following the Spending Review, the department will continue to invest around £115 million per annum in cultural education over the next three years, though our music, arts and heritage programmes, and this includes the Music and Dance Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 08/11/2021 17:18:38 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1364853

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Home Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 29 October (HL3408), what assessment they have made of the number of children being home educated.
tabling member printed	Lord Soley
uin	HL3594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on children who are home educated. However, we are aware of rising numbers of home-educated children.</p><p>The department supports the right of parents to educate their children at home. Most do so with the best education of their child at the centre of their decision. There are concerns about the rising numbers of home educated children, and how this increase is driven by reasons other than a commitment to home education. For some parents, the child’s education is not the primary reason behind the decision to home educate, which can mean that some children are not being provided with a suitable education.</p><p>The government remains committed to a form of registration system for children not in school. Further details on this will be in the government response to the Children Not in School consultation, which will be published in the coming months.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 08/11/2021 16:32:21 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	160 label Biography information for Lord Soley

1364857

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce compulsory teaching for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) once per week in schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2021 answer text <p>The government does not specify how schools should allocate their time to deliver the curriculum. School managers will need to design their timetables to meet the requirements of all parts of the statutory curriculum and their other duties with regard to the wider school curriculum.</p><p>Since September 2020, it has been compulsory for schools to teach relationships education (for primary school-aged pupils), relationships and sex education (for secondary school-aged pupils) and health education (for all pupils in state-funded schools). The department knows that many schools choose to teach some of the new content from the new curriculum in their personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) (or similarly described) programme for their pupils. Teachers are encouraged to develop their practice in a way that meets the specific needs of their pupils.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 11/11/2021 15:49:50 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1364883

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of Afghan children who have been relocated under Operation Warm Welcome are now in school.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	67175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2021 answer text <p>Children who have recently arrived from Afghanistan are entitled to full time education and one of the department’s priorities is to ensure they receive it. The duty to provide sufficient education for all school-age children rests with local authorities and the government is working closely with local authorities where Afghan families reside to ensure they can access education as soon as possible.</p><p>The department is urgently making available additional funds to local authorities to provide educational support and help Afghan children and young people settle into their local schools and communities.</p><p>The department cannot set an end date as Afghan families continue to come into the UK. We are working with departments across government and local authorities to ensure the availability of school places are taken into account as new families arrive and are settled into the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 67176 question first answered 04/11/2021 15:14:59 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1364884

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support the Government has put in place to ensure that Afghan children who have arrived in the UK under Operation Warm Welcome are able to access a school place; and by what date all of those children will be in school.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	67176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2021 answer text <p>Children who have recently arrived from Afghanistan are entitled to full time education and one of the department’s priorities is to ensure they receive it. The duty to provide sufficient education for all school-age children rests with local authorities and the government is working closely with local authorities where Afghan families reside to ensure they can access education as soon as possible.</p><p>The department is urgently making available additional funds to local authorities to provide educational support and help Afghan children and young people settle into their local schools and communities.</p><p>The department cannot set an end date as Afghan families continue to come into the UK. We are working with departments across government and local authorities to ensure the availability of school places are taken into account as new families arrive and are settled into the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 67175 question first answered 04/11/2021 15:14:59 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1364929

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	All Saints Roman Catholic School York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2021 to Question 62774 on All Saints School York, what assessment he has made of the impact of the ringfencing of that funding for All Saints School in a separate funding pot from the Dioceses of Middlesbrough with the Diocese of Leeds on the ability to transfer funds from wider Dioceses of Leeds schooling budget for a rebuild project for All Saints York in the context of limited funds being available.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	67188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The department allocates annual condition funding to schools and those responsible for school buildings to support them to meet their duties in maintaining schools in a safe and operational condition.</p><p>Large Voluntary-Aided (VA) bodies are eligible to receive a School Condition Allocation (SCA) to invest in priorities across the schools for which they are responsible. VA bodies are also allowed to form a chain, and, if that chain meets the relevant eligibility requirements, to receive a single allocation of SCA.</p><p>The Dioceses of Leeds and Middlesbrough have formed a chain for the purposes of SCA and received an allocation of £3,112,383 in the 2021-22 financial year. It is for the Diocese of Leeds and the Diocese of Middlesbrough to collectively agree how to prioritise their allocation, taking account of capital need across their combined school estate. The department does not insist on any ringfencing of this grant other than the funding be spent on capital projects, within the permitted time frame and for the purposes set out within the terms and conditions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 08/11/2021 17:23:54 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell