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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

1728454

	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	Schools: Lincolnshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many vacant state secondary school places there were in (a) Lincolnshire County Council and (b) South Holland and The Deepings constituency on 6 September 2024.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on places vacant on 6 September 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity</a>.</p><p> </p><p>For ease, local authority level information within the publication for Lincolnshire local authority can be accessed here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/62411dcf-5a26-4262-e175-08dccd7b577b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/62411dcf-5a26-4262-e175-08dccd7b577b</a>.</p><p> </p><p>School level information is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/5f26c269-bf72-41ab-8292-e17b58ed7c98" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/5f26c269-bf72-41ab-8292-e17b58ed7c98</a>. This information can be aggregated to borough and parliamentary constituency level by linking to here: <a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In summary, for South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary constituency, there were 605 unfilled secondary school places (8%) in May 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 15:57:24 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728473

	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	Citizenship: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps this Government is taking to promote British values.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	uin	4990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Education plays a vital role in promoting integration and ensuring children and young people are prepared for life in modern Britain, including learning about the values that underpin and unite our society. All schools have specific duties to promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of their pupils and to prepare them for the opportunities and responsibilities of adult life. Schools are also required to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. The department has issued guidance for maintained schools here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a758c9540f0b6397f35f469/SMSC_Guidance_Maintained_Schools.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a758c9540f0b6397f35f469/SMSC_Guidance_Maintained_Schools.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The duty is also reflected in guidance for independent schools (including academies) on compliance with the Independent Schools Standards. The guidance provides that schools should encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes. It can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cd3fc2fe5274a3fd6ee74b0/Independent_School_Standards-_Guidance_070519.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cd3fc2fe5274a3fd6ee74b0/Independent_School_Standards-_Guidance_070519.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Promotion of these values plays an important role in preparing our children and young people for life in a modern and diverse Britain. The department continues to provide free resources for teachers and school leaders to support them with this via our Educate Against Hate website, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.educateagainsthate.com/" target="_blank">https://www.educateagainsthate.com/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 15:47:32 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1728479

	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	Pupils: 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 real-term funding per pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in South Holland and the Deepings constituency was in each financial year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities receive their core funding for schools through the dedicated schools grant (DSG). Local authorities are then responsible for designing a local formula, within certain parameters, to distribute the funding that they receive from the department to schools in their area. This local formula is used to determine funding for both the maintained schools and academies in each area.</p><p>As the DSG is allocated at local authority level, DSG allocations are not available broken down to the level of individual constituencies. The individual allocations that schools within South Holland and The Deepings constituency receive are determined, each year, by the local funding formula set by Lincolnshire local authority.</p><p>The table below provides the cash per pupil funding levels from 2018/19 to 2024/25 for Lincolnshire local authority. The department cannot provide comparable funding data back to 2010, due to the changes in the funding system since that time. In particular, funding for schools was only identified separately from funding for high needs or early years in 2013, and funding for central school services provided by local authorities was split out from the schools block funding in 2018/2019.</p><p>The figures below represent the core funding schools receive through the schools block of the DSG. All the figures in the table exclude growth and premises funding. They also do not include additional funding that schools have received for pay and pensions or other funding streams such as the pupil premium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>DSG Schools Block Per Pupil Funding: Lincolnshire Local Authority</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Primary per pupil funding</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Secondary per pupil funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£3,811</p></td><td><p>£4,933</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£3,914</p></td><td><p>£5,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£4,184</p></td><td><p>£5,279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£4,570</p></td><td><p>£5,724</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£4,735</p></td><td><p>£5,899</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023/24</p></td><td><p>£4,993</p></td><td><p>£6,216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024/25</p></td><td><p>£5,278</p></td><td><p>£6,552</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 16:20:05 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728495

	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: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase pay in the further education sector.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Wyre
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	5065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The government does not set or recommend pay in further education (FE), and the FE sector does not have a Pay Review Body (PRB). Colleges are not bound by the national pay and conditions framework for school teachers and are free to implement their own pay arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The department will continue with its plans to invest in FE teachers, as part of approximately £600 million funding across the 2024/25 and 2025/26 financial years, including targeted retention incentive payments of up to £6,000 for eligible early career FE teachers.</p><p> </p><p>This government will consider the important contribution of non-PRB workforces, including FE, and will consider workforce sufficiency and what this might mean for FE funding in future years, as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:42:45 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith