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1463587

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason children and young people who present as causing serious risk to themselves or others are placed in police cells.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>Children may be placed in police cells for several reasons, on which we do not hold data. However, the police, children’s social care, legal advisers, Crown Prosecution Service, and the youth justice system should work together to ensure that the time a child spends in police cells is reduced to the minimum.</p><p>Police custody is governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Codes of Practice, which makes it clear that children and young people are a protected group with specific vulnerabilities. The local authority has a duty (discharged by its youth justice services) to provide all under 18-year-olds with an appropriate adult. In addition to protection under domestic law, their treatment in detention is governed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child, which the UK has signed and ratified.</p><p>The department’s statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) sets out a framework for the three local safeguarding partners (including the police) to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and meet their needs. This guidance is clear that children who are offenders (or alleged offenders) are entitled to the same safeguarding as other children and due regard should be always given to their welfare. The full guidance can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2</a></p><p>The fact that a child has been taken into police custody may indicate a wider safeguarding risk in their life which requires input from other agencies. The police’s Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme, funded by the Home Office, identifies, and shares best practice across forces in responding to incidents involving vulnerable children.</p><p>The ideal situation is to prevent children coming into the justice system. Turnaround is a new £60m youth early intervention programme led by the Ministry of Justice. Building on the success of the Government’s Supporting Families programme, Turnaround will provide funding for youth justice teams to intervene earlier, working with children to address their needs and build on their strengths and help them access support to turn their lives around.</p><p>Where accommodating a child or young person in a specialist unit is appropriate, this should be actioned as soon as possible. Legislation introduced in 2017 banned the use of police cells as a place of safety for children in mental health crisis under the Mental Health Act 1983.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 3676 question first answered 25/05/2022 13:53:09 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1469277

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure equity in the initial teacher education accreditation process for students.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	15771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The department’s teacher recruitment campaigns are targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates, and potential career changers regardless of their identity or background. We take every effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing materials we use. New ‘Bring It’ creative materials, introduced in January 2022 also strongly reflect the diversity of our young target audiences and the fact that this generation value diversity and want reassurance that teaching is for people like them.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, Apply for Teacher Training, our new application service for initial teacher training (ITT) in England,  was rolled out nationally. Apply has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible and has been extensively tested with a diverse range of potential applicants to ensure it helps remove barriers to great teachers applying for ITT courses.</p><p> </p><p>Apply for Teacher Training will also allow the department to collect more data, giving us greater insight into candidate behaviour and the behaviour of teacher training providers so that we can identify barriers and work to address them. The department will continue to work closely with ITT providers to explore, design and test new interventions to ensure teaching is an inclusive career that is open to candidates from all backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>This year, the department produced specific guidance for providers on how to treat candidates fairly during recruitment. This guidance is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/treating-candidates-fairly-when-you-recruit-trainee-teachers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/treating-candidates-fairly-when-you-recruit-trainee-teachers</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As recommended by the independent review of the ITT market, all existing and new providers of ITT courses are required to undergo an accreditation process to demonstrate that, from September 2024, they will be able to meet the standard set by the new ITT Quality Requirements. The accreditation process is ongoing and the second application round will close on 27 June. All organisations that submit an application for accreditation as a provider of ITT are treated equitably, with applications assessed through an impartial process, by trained assessors.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 15772 question first answered 15/06/2022 16:14:09 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1469280

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will issue guidance to initial teacher education accreditation providers to ensure that students are given the same information after submitting their application.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	15772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The department’s teacher recruitment campaigns are targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates, and potential career changers regardless of their identity or background. We take every effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing materials we use. New ‘Bring It’ creative materials, introduced in January 2022 also strongly reflect the diversity of our young target audiences and the fact that this generation value diversity and want reassurance that teaching is for people like them.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, Apply for Teacher Training, our new application service for initial teacher training (ITT) in England,  was rolled out nationally. Apply has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible and has been extensively tested with a diverse range of potential applicants to ensure it helps remove barriers to great teachers applying for ITT courses.</p><p> </p><p>Apply for Teacher Training will also allow the department to collect more data, giving us greater insight into candidate behaviour and the behaviour of teacher training providers so that we can identify barriers and work to address them. The department will continue to work closely with ITT providers to explore, design and test new interventions to ensure teaching is an inclusive career that is open to candidates from all backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>This year, the department produced specific guidance for providers on how to treat candidates fairly during recruitment. This guidance is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/treating-candidates-fairly-when-you-recruit-trainee-teachers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/treating-candidates-fairly-when-you-recruit-trainee-teachers</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As recommended by the independent review of the ITT market, all existing and new providers of ITT courses are required to undergo an accreditation process to demonstrate that, from September 2024, they will be able to meet the standard set by the new ITT Quality Requirements. The accreditation process is ongoing and the second application round will close on 27 June. All organisations that submit an application for accreditation as a provider of ITT are treated equitably, with applications assessed through an impartial process, by trained assessors.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 15771 question first answered 15/06/2022 16:14:09 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1465883

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	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 percentage shortfall in the cumulative targets for recruitment of trainee secondary teachers of (a) religious education and (b) modern foreign languages for the recruitment period 2017-18 to 2021-22, excluding the 2020-21 recruitment year.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	9094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2022 answer text <p>The attached table shows the new entrants to postgraduate Initial Teacher Training for modern foreign languages and religious education for the recruitment years from 2017/18 to 2021/22. These figures have been taken from the ITT Census publication which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census/2021-22#releaseHeadlines-tables" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census/2021-22#releaseHeadlines-tables</a>.</p><p>The table also presents the postgraduate ITT recruitment targets for those subjects as well as the percentage of the target reached in each of the recruitment years. It is not recommended to add up shortfalls to targets over several years to obtain a ‘cumulative shortfall’. This would likely over-state the true recruitment shortfall over the period - a consequence of the methodology used to set the targets each year.</p><p>The 2022/23 recruitment year Postgraduate Initial Teacher Training (PGITT) targets include an adjustment to build in impacts of recruitment being below targets for the two PGITT rounds prior to 2022/23 (the 2020/21 and 2021/22 recruitment year rounds).</p><p>The 2022/23 recruitment year Modern Foreign Languages (including Classics) PGITT target of 2,170 trainees includes such an adjustment due to missed targets in the two previous ITT cycles.</p><p>For Religious Education, the 2022/23 recruitment year PGITT target of 450 trainees does not include any adjustments for under-recruitment in the two previous ITT cycles. Whilst the 2021/22 recruitment year target for Religious Education was slightly below target (99% of target), this under-recruitment was offset by increases in supply from other routes such as returners to teaching.</p><p>For more information on the 2022/23 recruitment year PGITT targets and the underlying methodology, please see the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2022-23#releaseHeadlines-summary" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2022-23#releaseHeadlines-summary</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 9095 question first answered 10/06/2022 10:05:24 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 9094_9095_table_showing_ITT_entrants.pdf title 9094_9095_table
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1465884

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether adjustments have been made to the target number of trainee secondary teachers being recruited for (a) modern foreign languages and (b) religious education in 2022-23 on the basis of historical recruitment levels.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	9095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2022 answer text <p>The attached table shows the new entrants to postgraduate Initial Teacher Training for modern foreign languages and religious education for the recruitment years from 2017/18 to 2021/22. These figures have been taken from the ITT Census publication which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census/2021-22#releaseHeadlines-tables" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census/2021-22#releaseHeadlines-tables</a>.</p><p>The table also presents the postgraduate ITT recruitment targets for those subjects as well as the percentage of the target reached in each of the recruitment years. It is not recommended to add up shortfalls to targets over several years to obtain a ‘cumulative shortfall’. This would likely over-state the true recruitment shortfall over the period - a consequence of the methodology used to set the targets each year.</p><p>The 2022/23 recruitment year Postgraduate Initial Teacher Training (PGITT) targets include an adjustment to build in impacts of recruitment being below targets for the two PGITT rounds prior to 2022/23 (the 2020/21 and 2021/22 recruitment year rounds).</p><p>The 2022/23 recruitment year Modern Foreign Languages (including Classics) PGITT target of 2,170 trainees includes such an adjustment due to missed targets in the two previous ITT cycles.</p><p>For Religious Education, the 2022/23 recruitment year PGITT target of 450 trainees does not include any adjustments for under-recruitment in the two previous ITT cycles. Whilst the 2021/22 recruitment year target for Religious Education was slightly below target (99% of target), this under-recruitment was offset by increases in supply from other routes such as returners to teaching.</p><p>For more information on the 2022/23 recruitment year PGITT targets and the underlying methodology, please see the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2022-23#releaseHeadlines-summary" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2022-23#releaseHeadlines-summary</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 9094 question first answered 10/06/2022 10:05:24 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 9094_9095_table_showing_ITT_entrants.pdf title 9094_9095_table
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1472470

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current routes into the teaching profession.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	23222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Following the department’s commitment to review the initial teacher training (ITT) market in the 2019 Teacher Recruitment and Retention strategy, we welcomed the expert advisory group’s recommendations to define all ITT that leads to qualified teacher status within three core routes of undergraduate, postgraduate fee-funded, and postgraduate employment-based.</p><p>By 2024, a reformed ITT provider market will be delivering quality-assured training that places a greater emphasis than ever before on embedding structured practice into courses, ensuring trainees are ready to thrive in the classroom in their early careers. The department is also working with stakeholders as part of the scheduled review of the employment-based postgraduate teacher apprenticeship route.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 28/06/2022 11:23:04 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1472472

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to provide support to teaching assistants in transitioning to become fully qualified teachers.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	23223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The department is committed to supporting teaching assistants to become qualified teachers, including through providing accessible routes into the teaching profession.</p><p>Teaching assistants that have a degree can choose from various routes, including the School Direct (tuition fees) placement or School Direct (salaried places). Both routes carry the award of qualified teacher status (QTS) and some may lead to the award of a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE).</p><p>An alternative route into teaching is through an apprenticeship.</p><p>Currently, schools have access to a range of apprenticeship standards, including the level three teaching assistant apprenticeship and level six postgraduate teacher apprenticeship (PGTA). The level six PGTA is only available to those with a degree. The department is working with all interested parties to improve the PGTA for providers, employers, and candidates as part of its scheduled review.</p><p>There are a range of other routes into teaching, including PGCE or postgraduate diploma in education (PGDE) for those with an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification. Additionally, qualified teacher learning and skills status (QTLS) allows those without degrees to teach in schools, providing they meet the eligibility criteria. Those without a degree can also train to teach through an undergraduate degree. Unlike the apprenticeships and School Direct routes, these routes do not allow teaching assistants to train within a school they may already be employed in.</p><p>While teaching is a graduate profession, the department is working with interested parties to consider how teaching assistants and others working in schools can attain the relevant qualifications to become teachers.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 23224 question first answered 01/07/2022 15:19:18 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1472474

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current routes into the teaching profession for teaching assistants without a university degree.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	23224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The department is committed to supporting teaching assistants to become qualified teachers, including through providing accessible routes into the teaching profession.</p><p>Teaching assistants that have a degree can choose from various routes, including the School Direct (tuition fees) placement or School Direct (salaried places). Both routes carry the award of qualified teacher status (QTS) and some may lead to the award of a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE).</p><p>An alternative route into teaching is through an apprenticeship.</p><p>Currently, schools have access to a range of apprenticeship standards, including the level three teaching assistant apprenticeship and level six postgraduate teacher apprenticeship (PGTA). The level six PGTA is only available to those with a degree. The department is working with all interested parties to improve the PGTA for providers, employers, and candidates as part of its scheduled review.</p><p>There are a range of other routes into teaching, including PGCE or postgraduate diploma in education (PGDE) for those with an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification. Additionally, qualified teacher learning and skills status (QTLS) allows those without degrees to teach in schools, providing they meet the eligibility criteria. Those without a degree can also train to teach through an undergraduate degree. Unlike the apprenticeships and School Direct routes, these routes do not allow teaching assistants to train within a school they may already be employed in.</p><p>While teaching is a graduate profession, the department is working with interested parties to consider how teaching assistants and others working in schools can attain the relevant qualifications to become teachers.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 23223 question first answered 01/07/2022 15:19:18 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1467615

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Career Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support teachers wishing to take on leadership positions within schools.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	13162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The department is delivering the single biggest programme of teacher development ever undertaken in this country and investing further in the skills and careers of teachers.</p><p>We will deliver 500,000 teacher training and development opportunities by 2024, giving all teachers and school leaders access to world-class, evidence-based training and professional development at every stage of their career.</p><p>This includes supporting school leaders to develop their expertise through delivering three refreshed leadership National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) in Senior Leadership, Headship, and Executive Leadership.</p><p>The government is investing £184 million in NPQs in this parliament, and have confirmed that our fully-funded scholarships for leaders at all levels will be continued for the next two years.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 14/06/2022 15:29:36 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1465879

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sixth Form Education: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average level of per pupil funding was in (a) actual and (b) real terms for sixth form funding in 2018-19; and what that the equivalent figures are for 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	North West Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
	uin	9199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The average Total Programme Funding per 16 to 19-year-old student in the 2018/19 academic year was £4,504.</p><p> </p><p>The equivalent figure for the 2022/23 academic year is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018/19, the base rate of funding per 16 and 17-year-old student was £4,000. This was the largest component in the Total Programme Funding per student. In the 2022/23 academic year, the base rate will be £4,542. This is an increase of 13.6% in cash terms, or 2% in real terms over the base rate in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 09/06/2022 13:35:34 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden