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809793

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidelines his Department set for schools on reporting people who injure children to the Police.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	120413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>We are clear that schools should be safe learning places for all children.</p><p>Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) is statutory guidance which all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.</p><p>If a child has been harmed, is at risk of harm or is in immediate danger, a referral should be made to children’s social care and/or the police.</p><p> </p><p>KCSIE is clear that all staff should be aware of the process for making referrals to children’s social care.</p><p> </p><p>Allegations against teachers should be referred to the local authority designated officer. The reasons for referral include behaving in a way that has harmed a child, or may have harmed a child. In some cases, a referral to the police will also be appropriate. The designated officer will discuss this with the school.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 22/12/2017 18:23:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027355

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Health
	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 ensure child wellbeing (a) inside and (b) outside of school.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	202849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department wants to help schools support the wellbeing of their pupils. That is why in October 2018, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that schools would be provided with a framework to support them to assess the wellbeing of their pupils. The Prime Minister also made a commitment that the Government will publish an annual ‘State of the Nation’ report every year on World Mental Health Day, highlighting the trends and issues in young people’s wellbeing. Work is underway to deliver these commitments.</p><p>In addition, the Department is working with the Department of Health and Social Care to ensure that all schools have access to mental health support, and has also doubled the Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium to £320 million per year since September 2017. The Department is delivering a programme of work to explore how best to support disadvantaged children and their families to access free enrichment activities and healthy food during the school holidays. Up to £26 million is being invested in a breakfast club programme, which will open or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools and will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country.</p><p>Bullying can have serious and lasting consequences on wellbeing. The Government has sent a clear message to schools that bullying, including cyberbullying, for whatever reason is unacceptable. All schools are legally required to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying. The Department is providing over £2.8 million of funding between September 2016 and March 2020, to four anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/12/2018 16:57:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1086559

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Classroom Assistants: West Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in primary schools in West Yorkshire in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	230863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teaching assistants in state funded nursery and primary schools in West Yorkshire and England in each November, from 2011 to 2017.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011[1]</p></td><td><p>7,439</p></td><td><p>136,876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012[2]</p></td><td><p>7,725</p></td><td><p>146,660</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013[3]</p></td><td><p>8,237</p></td><td><p>156,238</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>8,399</p></td><td><p>166,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015[4]</p></td><td><p>9,043</p></td><td><p>174,533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016[5]</p></td><td><p>9,125</p></td><td><p>177,692</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>8,972</p></td><td><p>176,242</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p><p>West Yorkshire includes Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield local authorities. Comparable information for 2010 is not available.</p><p>[1] 2011 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 14 out of 735 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[2] 2012 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 10 out of 734 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[3] 2013 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 5 out of 734 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[4] 2015 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 1 out of 729 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[5] 2016 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 5 out of 728 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2019 17:34:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1104819

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to ensure that relationship and sex education is LGBT-inclusive in all types of school in Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	236526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants all young people to be happy, healthy and safe; equipping them for adult life and to make a positive contribution to society. That is why the Department is making relationships education compulsory for all primary pupils and relationships and sex education (RSE) compulsory for all secondary pupils from September 2020. From that point, health education will also be compulsory for all pupils.</p><p>Pupils should be taught about the society in which they are growing up. RSE should meet the needs of all pupils, whatever their developing identity or sexuality. Pupils should receive teaching on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) relationships during their school years. The Department expects secondary schools to include LGBT content and primary schools are encouraged and enabled to cover LGBT content if they consider it age appropriate to do so. The updated draft guidance can be accessed via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/relationships-and-sex-education-and-health-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/relationships-and-sex-education-and-health-education</a>.</p><p>The updated draft guidance sets out that secondary pupils should be taught the facts and the law about sex, sexuality and gender identity. When teaching the subjects, schools should ensure there is equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships. This should be integrated appropriately into the RSE programme, rather than addressed separately or in only one lesson.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/03/2019 15:25:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1122119

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Transgender People
	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 provide adequate mental health support for (a) transgender and (b) gender-questioning children in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	245972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>It is up to schools to decide, in dialogue with parents, how to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pupils, including transgender and gender-questioning pupils. The Government Equalities Office has provided guidance and links to support and services for LGBT individuals, including support for children and young people. This guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advice-and-support-for-lgbt-people#children-and-young-people-up-to-the-age-of-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advice-and-support-for-lgbt-people#children-and-young-people-up-to-the-age-of-19</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Counselling can play an effective role as part of a whole school approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing. To support the provision of counselling support in schools, the Department published a blueprint for school counselling services. This provides schools with practical evidence-based advice informed by schools and counselling experts, on how to deliver high quality school-based counselling. It also offers information on how to ensure that children who have a higher prevalence of mental illness, including those who are LGBT, can access counselling provision.</p><p>This is available here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also making sure that there is better access to specialist mental health support and treatment for pupils that need it. In March, the Government appointed the first ever National Adviser for LGBT Health in the NHS and Advisory Panel, to help improve the health and wellbeing of LGBT people. Under the NHS long term plan, mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. For the first time, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall NHS funding and total mental health spending. This will mean that by 2023/24 an extra 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 will receive mental health support via NHS-funded mental health services and school or college-based Mental Health Support Teams.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/04/2019 15:56:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1126076

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: English Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils do not have English as their first spoken language in each primary school in the Leeds City Council area.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	253713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils by English as a first language in England is published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data for each school is available in the underlying data of this release, contained in file ‘Schools_Pupils_and_their_Characteristics _2018_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by local authority name e.g. Leeds (column H), school phase e.g. state-funded primary schools (column N). The number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English is in column GA.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/05/2019 16:22:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1127542

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department took to alert (a) schools and (b) nurseries to pollution episodes in England during April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	256345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Outdoor air quality is a responsibility of local authorities. The Department does not currently monitor air quality in schools, nurseries or other educational institutions. Where there are concerns about air quality, a local authority must prepare an air quality action plan. The Department has recently published ‘Building Bulletin 101 Ventilation of School Buildings’, which provides guidance on achieving good indoor air quality in new and refurbished schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 256346 256347 question first answered 23/05/2019 13:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1127543

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Pollution
	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 protect children in (a) schools and (b) nurseries from pollution episodes.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	256346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Outdoor air quality is a responsibility of local authorities. The Department does not currently monitor air quality in schools, nurseries or other educational institutions. Where there are concerns about air quality, a local authority must prepare an air quality action plan. The Department has recently published ‘Building Bulletin 101 Ventilation of School Buildings’, which provides guidance on achieving good indoor air quality in new and refurbished schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 256345 256347 question first answered 23/05/2019 13:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1127544

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department issued to (a) schools and (b) nurseries on protecting children from pollution episodes in England in April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	256347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Outdoor air quality is a responsibility of local authorities. The Department does not currently monitor air quality in schools, nurseries or other educational institutions. Where there are concerns about air quality, a local authority must prepare an air quality action plan. The Department has recently published ‘Building Bulletin 101 Ventilation of School Buildings’, which provides guidance on achieving good indoor air quality in new and refurbished schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 256345 256346 question first answered 23/05/2019 13:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1129315

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prioritise issues of sexual consent within sexual health education.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	259432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>From 2020, Relationships Education will become compulsory for all primary aged pupils and Relationships and Sex Education for all secondary aged pupils in England. Alongside this, we are introducing Health Education for all pupils in state funded schools. The core content for these subjects includes, at age-appropriate points, content on permission seeking and consent both in the context of sexual and non-sexual relationships. By introducing these subjects alongside each other, schools will teach children how to have respectful and healthy relationships and how to understand and protect their own mental and physical health. These new subjects complement the reforms set out in the ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision’ green paper and support schools to adopt a whole-school approach to foster pupil wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>As with other aspects of the curriculum, schools will have flexibility over how they deliver the subjects to ensure that content is age-appropriate and sensitive. The updated draft guidance is hosted on gov.uk: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/relationships-and-sex-education-and-health-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/relationships-and-sex-education-and-health-education</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 259433 question first answered 11/06/2019 13:42:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel