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registered interest
date	18/04/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Sexting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to prevent sexting by schoolchildren and to monitor trends in the level of that activity.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	71020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Keeping children safe in education is statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges. The guidance sets out that all schools and colleges should have a child protection policy. The child protection policy should reflect the school or college’s approach to sexting.</p><p>To support schools and colleges the UK Council for Child Internet Safety Education Group has recently published advice for schools and colleges. The advice supports them in tackling the range of issues which sexting presents, including responding to disclosures, handling devices and imagery, risk assessing situations and involving other agencies. The advice also contains information about preventative education, working with parents and reporting imagery to providers.</p><p>High quality personal, social, health and economic education and Sex and Relationships Education are a vital part of preparing young people for life in modern Britain - helping young people make informed decisions, manage risks, stay safe and learn to respect themselves and others. Schools have the autonomy to tailor their programmes to reflect the needs of their pupils, and they are free to include teaching to support pupils to manage issues such as sexting.</p><p>The Government has produced advice for schools on searching, screening and confiscation which makes clear that school staff can search pupils for items that have been or could be used to cause harm or break the law, teachers can also search for items banned by the school rules such as mobile phones.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 24/04/2017 14:42:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

713451

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Sexual Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of students who have reported incidents of sexual harassment or threat in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	68971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>In September 2015, Universities UK was asked by Government to set up a sexual violence and harassment taskforce<strong>. </strong>The Taskforce reported its findings in October 2016 in the report ‘<a href="http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2016/changing-the-culture.pdf" target="_blank">Changing the Culture</a>’.</p><p>The Taskforce’s report draws on the available data and evidence to make a series of recommendations on preventing and responding to sexual harassment. The Taskforce report establishes there is no single source of data on the levels of sexual harassment on University campuses. The Taskforce plans to establish more baseline evidence on this issue and report later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/03/2017 09:54:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

678014

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to improve educational standards in schools.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	61504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>In 2014, we introduced a new ambitious National Curriculum. We have reformed GCSEs and A levels to ensure they are on par with qualifications used in the best education systems in the world and to keep pace with universities and employers’ demands. Last July, we announced a £41M programme to support primary schools to adopt successful Southeast Asian ‘mastery’ approach to teaching mathematics. In the financial year 2016-17 we funded eight phonics partnerships and ten phonics roadshows to improve the teaching of early reading.</p><p> </p><p>We also want to ensure that schools are able to access the support they need to improve. We are making funds available to the school system. This includes a new £140 million ‘Strategic School Improvement Fund’ for academies and maintained schools and a £50 million a year grant for local authorities to continue to monitor and commission improvement provision for low-performing maintained schools.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the proportion of children taught in good or outstanding schools has risen from 66% to 86%, which means almost 1.8 million more pupils today have a good or better school place than in 2010. The ‘Schools that work for everyone’ consultation sets out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents, in more parts of the country.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2017 16:42:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

674445

registered interest
date	17/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Self-harm: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to prevent children from self-harming due to social media.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	60480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Good mental health and wellbeing are a priority for this Department. We want all our children to fulfil their potential and we want to tackle the burning injustice of mental health problems, so that future generations can develop into resilient, confident adults, equipped to go as far as their talents will take them.</p><p>Self-harm, which occurs in relation to a wide range of personal problems, emotional turmoil and psychiatric disorders, is a serious concern. Schools and colleges should take prompt action to deal with cases of self-harm; as a part of an integrated approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing.</p><p>This Department has taken a range of actions to help schools and colleges to respond to and prevent self-harm. We have funded guidance and lesson plans on teaching about mental health in PSHE – which cover self-harm in an age-appropriate way. Training for teachers on self-harm is available through MindEd, a free online portal which has been developed to enable all adults working with children and young people learn more about specific mental health problems and how to support them.</p><p>We recognise that teachers are not mental health professionals, and where more serious problems occur, schools and colleges should expect the pupil/student to get additional specialist support. We are extending the joint training pilot to improve collaborative working across schools and mental health services to include up to a further 1200 schools and colleges in an additional 20 areas.</p><p>The Department has also produced the statutory guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education – which schools and colleges must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This guidance sets out that governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that children are taught about safeguarding, including online, through teaching and learning opportunities as part of a broad and balanced age-appropriate curriculum; and that governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that appropriate filters and monitoring systems are in place to protect children from accessing potentially harmful and inappropriate material online. The Department also requires all school and college staff to receive appropriate safeguarding and child protection training and know what to do if they suspect a child is at risk of harm, including self-harm.</p><p>In relation to internet safety, the new national curriculum computing programmes of study, introduced in September 2014, includes e-safety at all four key stages. There is progression in the content across the key stages to reflect the different and escalating risks that young people face as they get older.</p><p>In September 2016 the Department announced £1.6m of funding over the next 2 years, for four anti-bullying organisations to support schools tackle bullying, including cyber bullying. Organisations include Internet Matters, who support the reporting of cyber bullying to schools, via an online platform which works on a range of media devices and allows young people, parents and carers to report bullying incidents to schools. (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-children-to-benefit-from-anti-bullying-app" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-children-to-benefit-from-anti-bullying-app</a>). We have also ensured that schools have the power to confiscate and examine mobile devices as part of dealing with bullying incidents.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/01/2017 13:36:55 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

674474

registered interest
date	17/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Universities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of sexual attacks and rapes at universities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	60481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2017 answer text <p>This Government takes any form of sexual violence in universities, as elsewhere, extremely seriously. In November 2015, Universities UK (UUK) was asked by Government to set up a sexual violence and harassment taskforce. The UUK Taskforce reported its findings in October 2016 in the report ‘Changing the Culture’. The report can be found at: <a href="http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2016/changing-the-culture.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2016/changing-the-culture.pdf</a>.</p><p>This sets out that universities should embed a zero-tolerance approach to harassment and hate crime. The Taskforce made a series of recommendations to universities on preventing and responding to sexual violence, harassment and hate crime in universities. UUK plan to assess institutions’ ‘progress’ in implementing the recommendations, and report later this year.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 25/01/2017 16:53:50 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

661656

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grandparents: Parental Responsibility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of recent trends in the number of grandparents providing free childcare for working parents; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	58189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the number of grandparents providing free childcare for working parents, however information is available on the proportion of families using grandparents for childcare.</p><p>The Department’s Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents contains information on the proportion of families using grandparents for childcare by family type and work status. This information is published for the past five surveys online at:</p><p>2009 Survey - Table c2.2 (page 196):<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181743/DFE-RR054.pdf</p><p>2010 Survey - Table c2.4 (page 233):<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211819/OSR_12_2012_Updated_Jun13.pdf</p><p><br>2011 Survey - Table c2.6 (page 232):<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211820/SFR08-2013Text97-03_Updated_Jun13.pdf</p><p>2012-13 Survey - Table c2.6 (page 271):<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275992/SFR06-2014_Childcare_and_Early_Years_Survey_of_Parents_2012-13_final.pdf</p><p>2014-15 Survey - Table c2.6 (page 294):<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/516924/SFR09-2016_Childcare_and_Early_Years_Parents_Survey_2014-15_report.pdf.pdf</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/01/2017 15:28:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

661657

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage teachers to remain in the UK after they have completed their studies.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	58190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not collect specific data on the number of teachers who leave the UK to work abroad, whether they are UK nationals or overseas nationals who undertook their teacher training in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>However, at a national level we are retaining and recruiting the teachers we need, and we have more teachers in state-funded schools in England than ever before. Of the teachers who trained in the 2014/15 academic year and who have successfully completed their training, 95% were employed in a state-funded school in England within six months of qualifying.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that given the strong graduate labour market there are challenges in recruiting and retaining teachers, particularly in certain subjects and for some specific schools. We are working hard to address the issues that cause teachers to consider leaving the profession, such as unnecessary workload and poor pupil behaviour, to ensure that teaching remains an attractive and rewarding career.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/01/2017 13:46:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

661658

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure special needs places are available for all children who have a statement of need; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	58188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>We will invest at least £200 million in places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities that have education, health and care plans. We will distribute this funding to local authorities in England to support them to provide new places and improve facilities in both mainstream and special schools. This is over and above the basic need funding that we allocate to local authorities to support them to provide new school places. Local authorities are also free to use basic need funding to invest in places for pupils with special needs and disabilities where they identify that to be where the need is greatest.</p><p> </p><p>We will allocate this funding to local authorities in England and we will say more about this in 2017. Education is a devolved matter, meaning that the Northern Ireland Assembly is responsible for pupil place policy in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 11/01/2017 15:10:17 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

599429

registered interest
date	11/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that sprinkler systems are installed in all schools.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	48152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The proper standard of fire safety, to protect life and property, is essential in our schools. All schools must comply with building and fire safety regulations.</p><p> </p><p>All new schools are assessed on a case-by-case basis for fire safety and, where it is concluded that sprinklers must be fitted to protect property or keep children safe, they will be. This is consistent with the position set out in our Fire Safety Design for Schools – Building Bulletin 100 (BB100) guidance for schools in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Schools in Northern Ireland are required to comply with the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 and the Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 which reinforces a risk based approach to fire prevention.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 31/10/2016 16:43:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451967

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's rationale was for allocating £30,000 to provide training or recruitment of teachers with protected characteristics.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>School workforce census data continues to show under-representation of particular groups of individuals within leadership positions (in particular for Black and Minority Ethnic and female leaders).</p><p>The Leadership Equality and Diversity Fund supports teachers from under-represented groups (as measured by the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010) to prepare for leadership positions.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/02/2016 14:51:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon