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1729683

registered interest
date	13/09/2024
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 His Majesty's Government what plans they have for the existing draft PSHE statutory guidance; what steps they are taking to ensure that the final version is evidence-based; and what is the timeline for action on the PSHE statutory guidance.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL1100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2024 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has been clear that children’s wellbeing must be at the heart of RSHE guidance for schools. Over the autumn, the government will look carefully at the consultation responses, discuss with stakeholders, and consider the relevant evidence, including the published Cass Review. Next steps will then be set out.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern question first answered 27/09/2024 12:54:36 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1729606

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Music: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the mental health benefits of music education for children; and what plans they have to promote music in the national curriculum for primary schools.
tabling member printed	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
uin	HL1072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The government believes that creative subjects like arts, music and drama are important elements of the rounded and enriching education every child deserves to receive. Under this government, the arts and music will no longer be the preserve of a privileged few.</p><p>Music is in the current National Curriculum, which is compulsory in all maintained schools from the age of 5 to 14 years. The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, which will be chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE, and one of the aims is to deliver a broader curriculum so that pupils do not miss out on subjects such as music. When the review has concluded, and subject to Parliament passing the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, the department will require all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools, to follow the National Curriculum.</p><p>The department additionally supports children to learn music through the Music Hubs programme, which supports instrumental teaching in schools, as well as providing continuing professional development for teachers and access to local, regional and national ensembles. In 2022/23, Music Hubs provided support to around 90% of primary schools across England.</p><p>The department has not made a specific assessment of whether promoting music education in the National Curriculum for primary schools would help diminish pressures on the NHS arising from children’s mental health. However, studies show that music education has a wide range of wellbeing benefits for children.</p><p>The government is committed to improving mental health support for all children and young people. The right support should be available to every young person that needs it, which is why the government will provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school.</p><p>The government will also be putting in place new Young Futures hubs, including access to mental health support workers, and will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1073 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:44:04 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	1164 label Biography information for Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne

1729607

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Music: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether promoting music education in the national curriculum for primary schools would help diminish pressures on the NHS arising from children’s mental health.
tabling member printed	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
uin	HL1073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The government believes that creative subjects like arts, music and drama are important elements of the rounded and enriching education every child deserves to receive. Under this government, the arts and music will no longer be the preserve of a privileged few.</p><p>Music is in the current National Curriculum, which is compulsory in all maintained schools from the age of 5 to 14 years. The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, which will be chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE, and one of the aims is to deliver a broader curriculum so that pupils do not miss out on subjects such as music. When the review has concluded, and subject to Parliament passing the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, the department will require all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools, to follow the National Curriculum.</p><p>The department additionally supports children to learn music through the Music Hubs programme, which supports instrumental teaching in schools, as well as providing continuing professional development for teachers and access to local, regional and national ensembles. In 2022/23, Music Hubs provided support to around 90% of primary schools across England.</p><p>The department has not made a specific assessment of whether promoting music education in the National Curriculum for primary schools would help diminish pressures on the NHS arising from children’s mental health. However, studies show that music education has a wide range of wellbeing benefits for children.</p><p>The government is committed to improving mental health support for all children and young people. The right support should be available to every young person that needs it, which is why the government will provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school.</p><p>The government will also be putting in place new Young Futures hubs, including access to mental health support workers, and will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1072 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:44:04 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	1164 label Biography information for Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne

1729610

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Outdoor Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefit of forest schools and similar nature-focused learning for child development.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Norwich
uin	HL1076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>Forest schools provide children with frequent opportunities for outdoor play and exploration.</p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and requirements that all early years providers must follow to ensure every child has the best start in life.</p><p>The EYFS framework states that providers must provide access to an outdoor play area. If that is not possible, they must ensure that outdoor activities are planned and taken on a daily basis, unless circumstances make this inappropriate, for example unsafe weather conditions. The EYFS framework also specifies that young children should develop positive values towards the environment and the natural world.</p><p>By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, such as in larger parks and spaces in the local area or through forest schools, adults can support children to develop in a number of areas, including core strength, stability, balance and spatial awareness.</p><p>The department is committed to supporting all early years settings to deliver the EYFS well, for the benefit of all children.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern question first answered 25/09/2024 14:42:45 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	4999 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Norwich

1729624

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which providers of language intervention programmes for schools they support with funding.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL1093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The department works with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support building the evidence base for early language interventions. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme (two thirds of English state primary schools) would continue for the 2024/25 academic year. NELI is the most robustly evidenced early language programme in the UK, helping children who need extra support with their speech and language development to make four months of additional progress and seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>To support early language skills, the department has invested over £20 million in NELI. The department does not hold the exact number of children who have completed NELI since 2020, but an estimate is based on the data included in EEF’s 'NELI Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2', as attached. The programme has screened more than 650,000 children in the last four years and supported more than 210,000 four and five-year-olds since the pandemic. Broken down by academic year, this is:</p><p>2020/21: 35,000</p><p>2021/22: 59,000</p><p>2022/23: 58,000</p><p>2023/24: 59,000</p><p>The Stronger Practice Hubs, which provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners, have also collaborated with the EEF to fund and make places available on several early language programmes. This is helping to strengthen and add to the evidence base of early years professional development programmes. The department does not hold data on the number of children who have benefitted from these programmes.</p><p>The number of new schools who registered to deliver NELI in each academic year since 2020 are as follows:</p><p>2020/21: 6,668</p><p>2021/22: 4,418</p><p>2022/23: 26</p><p>2023/24: no new school registration undertaken</p><p>For registered schools, the government has continued to fund the intervention so that schools can deliver the programme to new cohorts of reception children, where they are identified with below or well-below average language levels. We do not hold figures on how many of these schools completed the full work programme in each of those years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1094 HL1095 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:50:13 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_NELI_Scale_Up_Evaluation_Report_Year_2.pdf title HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_attachment
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1729625

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many children have completed language intervention programmes each year since such programmes were first funded by the Government in 2021.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL1094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The department works with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support building the evidence base for early language interventions. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme (two thirds of English state primary schools) would continue for the 2024/25 academic year. NELI is the most robustly evidenced early language programme in the UK, helping children who need extra support with their speech and language development to make four months of additional progress and seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>To support early language skills, the department has invested over £20 million in NELI. The department does not hold the exact number of children who have completed NELI since 2020, but an estimate is based on the data included in EEF’s 'NELI Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2', as attached. The programme has screened more than 650,000 children in the last four years and supported more than 210,000 four and five-year-olds since the pandemic. Broken down by academic year, this is:</p><p>2020/21: 35,000</p><p>2021/22: 59,000</p><p>2022/23: 58,000</p><p>2023/24: 59,000</p><p>The Stronger Practice Hubs, which provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners, have also collaborated with the EEF to fund and make places available on several early language programmes. This is helping to strengthen and add to the evidence base of early years professional development programmes. The department does not hold data on the number of children who have benefitted from these programmes.</p><p>The number of new schools who registered to deliver NELI in each academic year since 2020 are as follows:</p><p>2020/21: 6,668</p><p>2021/22: 4,418</p><p>2022/23: 26</p><p>2023/24: no new school registration undertaken</p><p>For registered schools, the government has continued to fund the intervention so that schools can deliver the programme to new cohorts of reception children, where they are identified with below or well-below average language levels. We do not hold figures on how many of these schools completed the full work programme in each of those years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1093 HL1095 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:50:13 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_NELI_Scale_Up_Evaluation_Report_Year_2.pdf title HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_attachment
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1729626

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many schools registered to deliver language intervention programmes in (1) 2021, (2) 2022, and (3) 2023, and how many completed the full work programme in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL1095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The department works with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support building the evidence base for early language interventions. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme (two thirds of English state primary schools) would continue for the 2024/25 academic year. NELI is the most robustly evidenced early language programme in the UK, helping children who need extra support with their speech and language development to make four months of additional progress and seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>To support early language skills, the department has invested over £20 million in NELI. The department does not hold the exact number of children who have completed NELI since 2020, but an estimate is based on the data included in EEF’s 'NELI Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2', as attached. The programme has screened more than 650,000 children in the last four years and supported more than 210,000 four and five-year-olds since the pandemic. Broken down by academic year, this is:</p><p>2020/21: 35,000</p><p>2021/22: 59,000</p><p>2022/23: 58,000</p><p>2023/24: 59,000</p><p>The Stronger Practice Hubs, which provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners, have also collaborated with the EEF to fund and make places available on several early language programmes. This is helping to strengthen and add to the evidence base of early years professional development programmes. The department does not hold data on the number of children who have benefitted from these programmes.</p><p>The number of new schools who registered to deliver NELI in each academic year since 2020 are as follows:</p><p>2020/21: 6,668</p><p>2021/22: 4,418</p><p>2022/23: 26</p><p>2023/24: no new school registration undertaken</p><p>For registered schools, the government has continued to fund the intervention so that schools can deliver the programme to new cohorts of reception children, where they are identified with below or well-below average language levels. We do not hold figures on how many of these schools completed the full work programme in each of those years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1093 HL1094 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:50:13 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_NELI_Scale_Up_Evaluation_Report_Year_2.pdf title HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_attachment
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1728714

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many children with special educational needs and disabilities do not receive an education, health and care plan within the legal time limit of 20 weeks from the initial request; and what potential measures for improvement they have identified.
tabling member printed	Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie
uin	HL931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2024 answer text <p>The department publishes information on education, health and care (EHC) plans annually at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans</a>, which includes a section titled “Timeliness – EHC plans issued within 20 weeks”. Here and attached you can see information on how many EHC plans were issued within 20 weeks, both where this is the statutory time limit and where statutory exceptions to that time limit apply.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced a strengthened area special education needs and disabilities (SEND) inspection framework in January 2023, which led to a greater emphasis on the outcomes being achieved for children and young people. It is the primary tool to maintain a focus on high standards in the SEND system across all partners.</p><p> </p><p>The department is working to monitor, support and challenge local authorities as needed, working closely with NHS England to tackle any weaknesses that sit with health partners. Where a council does not meet its duties, including the 20 week timeliness, the department will offer a range of universal, targeted and intensive support through managed programmes, such as the Sector Led Improvement Partners, which provides peer-to-peer tailored support. Councils identified as having issues with the 20 week timelines are subject to additional monitoring by the department. Where the department has concerns about their capacity to make the required improvements, it will secure specialist SEND advisor support to help identify barriers and improve the service.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not hold data on how many children with SEND are currently not able to be placed in a suitable school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL932 question first answered 26/09/2024 12:01:12 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL931_HL932_data_education_health_and_care_plans.xlsx title HL931_HL932_attachment
tabling member	4906 label Biography information for Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie

1728715

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many children with special educational needs and disabilities are currently not able to be placed in a suitable school.
tabling member printed	Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie
uin	HL932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2024 answer text <p>The department publishes information on education, health and care (EHC) plans annually at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans</a>, which includes a section titled “Timeliness – EHC plans issued within 20 weeks”. Here and attached you can see information on how many EHC plans were issued within 20 weeks, both where this is the statutory time limit and where statutory exceptions to that time limit apply.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced a strengthened area special education needs and disabilities (SEND) inspection framework in January 2023, which led to a greater emphasis on the outcomes being achieved for children and young people. It is the primary tool to maintain a focus on high standards in the SEND system across all partners.</p><p> </p><p>The department is working to monitor, support and challenge local authorities as needed, working closely with NHS England to tackle any weaknesses that sit with health partners. Where a council does not meet its duties, including the 20 week timeliness, the department will offer a range of universal, targeted and intensive support through managed programmes, such as the Sector Led Improvement Partners, which provides peer-to-peer tailored support. Councils identified as having issues with the 20 week timelines are subject to additional monitoring by the department. Where the department has concerns about their capacity to make the required improvements, it will secure specialist SEND advisor support to help identify barriers and improve the service.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not hold data on how many children with SEND are currently not able to be placed in a suitable school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL931 question first answered 26/09/2024 12:01:12 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL931_HL932_data_education_health_and_care_plans.xlsx title HL931_HL932_attachment
tabling member	4906 label Biography information for Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie

1728722

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Civil Engineering
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which further education establishments in England provide courses which include instruction in the construction of tunnels for the use of railway or road traffic.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2024 answer text <p>It is for providers to determine what courses to deliver based on employer and learner demand. Statistics are published on sector subject area, which can be accessed here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/further-education-and-skills" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/further-education-and-skills</a>. The department does not hold information on which institutions are providing provision covering the construction of tunnels for the use of railway or road traffic.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern question first answered 03/10/2024 13:55:33 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling