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884191

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	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 Her Majesty's Government what reports or assessments they have received from Ofsted about whether schools are implementing a broad and balanced curriculum that includes music; and any action being taken if schools are judged on this measure as "inadequate", particularly in schools that are otherwise judged to be outstanding.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury
	uin	HL6876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>All schools should provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum. While Ofsted does not grade individual curriculum subjects as part of school inspections, it does assess and report on the curriculum as a whole. Where a school is found not to be offering a curriculum that meets the needs of pupils, this will be reflected in the inspection outcome.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, is examining how schools deliver the curriculum as part of its research programme. Attached is a recent recent commentary, published by Ofsted, on the primary and secondary curriculum in which the Chief Inspector emphasises the importance of breadth in the curriculum. Findings from Ofsted’s curriculum review will help inform the development of its 2019 inspection framework.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 30/04/2018 16:03:26 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL6876_Attachment_Commentary_on_Primary_and_Secondary_Curriculum.pdf title ttachment_Commentary_on_Primary_and_Secondary_Cu
	tabling member	3699 label Biography information for Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury

1566647

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they have provided to target educational underachievement in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
	uin	HL4753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p>The great majority of school funding in England is allocated through the National Funding Formula (NFF).</p><p>The NFF allocates 17.4% of all funding in 2022/23 through additional needs factors to target pupils most likely to fall behind and need extra support. Alongside the NFF, the Pupil Premium provides additional funding to help schools tackle educational underachievement by children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The total funding directed through the NFF’s additional needs factors and through the Pupil Premium over the last five years is shown in the attached table.</p><p>Within the figures attached, the low prior attainment factor (LPA) in the NFF specifically targets pupils who did not reach the expected standard at the previous stage. The table attached also shows the amount of funding provided to schools in England through the LPA factor in the schools NFF over the last five years.</p><p>The department is also focusing on recovering from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic through an ambitious multi-year programme and has made available almost £5 billion for recovery since 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 31/01/2023 17:52:46 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name HL4753 funding table.xlsx title total_NFF_and_pupil_premium_funding
	tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

994039

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of teaching vacancies in (a) the North East and (b) Sunderland in (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	183371
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The following attached table provides the number of full-time classroom teacher vacancies[1] and temporarily filled posts[2] in state funded secondary schools in the North East region, Sunderland local authority and in England, as of November 2016 and 2017.</p><p>This information is publicly available here[3]: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Includes advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term’s duration) plus vacancies filled on a temporary basis by a teacher on a contract of less than one year.</p><p>[2] Temporarily filled posts are those where a vacancy exists, advertised or not, which is currently being filled by a teacher on a contract of at least one term but less than a year.</p><p>[3] Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/10/2018 16:20:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 183371_teachers_vacancies_table.pdf title teacher_vacancies_North_East_Sunderland_16_17
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1602487

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled The Recent Evolution of Apprenticeships, published by the Sutton Trust on 8 December 2022, what assessment she has made of consequences for her policies of the take-up of apprenticeships by (a) age and (b) socio-economic background of apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	161380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>The table attached shows the take-up of apprenticeships by age and home deprivation level from 2017/18 to 2022/23.</p><p>The department wants to see more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds accessing higher and degree level apprenticeships as they are crucial in driving social mobility by boosting skills and improving earnings and career opportunities.</p><p>We are promoting apprenticeships to students of all backgrounds through our Apprenticeship Support &amp; Knowledge programme. The department publishes the Higher and Degree apprenticeship vacancy listing twice a year, which will highlight over 350 vacancies across the country that are available for young people to apply for in 2023 and 2024. The link to the vacancy listing can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-and-degree-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-and-degree-apprenticeships</a>.</p><p>The department wants to ensure apprenticeships are accessible for young people and is working with UCAS on the expansion of their apprenticeships service. From this autumn, young people will see more personalised options on UCAS, including apprenticeships. From autumn 2024, students will be able to apply for apprenticeships alongside an undergraduate degree application. This will help put technical and vocational education on an equal footing with traditional academic routes.</p><p>The department is also making up to £8 million available to higher education providers in the 2022/23 financial year to support them to grow their degree apprenticeship offers. We are also working with the Office for Students to improve access to and participation in higher and degree apprenticeships.</p><p>The department knows that small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key in creating apprenticeship opportunities for those in disadvantaged areas and we have recently launched an SME pathfinder in four regions of the North of England to support employers to find and hire new apprentices at all levels.</p><p>The department provides additional funding to employers and training providers to support them to take on young apprentices aged 16 to18, and apprentices aged 19 to 24 that have an education, health and care plan or have been in care. Apprentices starting in August under the age of 25 that have been in local authority care can also claim a bursary of £3,000.</p><p>The department will continue to champion the Social Mobility Commission’s Apprenticeships Toolkit for employers, and work with some of the country’s most influential employers through the Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network to set out how employers can better recruit and support apprentices from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 161381 question first answered 13/03/2023 16:02:09 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon attachment 1 file name 161380 161381 AA edits 100323 (Table).xlsx title table for take-up of apprenticeships
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1602488

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Sutton Trust report entitled The Recent Evolution of Apprenticeships, published on 8 December, what steps she is taking to increase the uptake of higher and degree level apprenticeships by young people from more disadvantaged areas.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	161381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>The table attached shows the take-up of apprenticeships by age and home deprivation level from 2017/18 to 2022/23.</p><p>The department wants to see more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds accessing higher and degree level apprenticeships as they are crucial in driving social mobility by boosting skills and improving earnings and career opportunities.</p><p>We are promoting apprenticeships to students of all backgrounds through our Apprenticeship Support &amp; Knowledge programme. The department publishes the Higher and Degree apprenticeship vacancy listing twice a year, which will highlight over 350 vacancies across the country that are available for young people to apply for in 2023 and 2024. The link to the vacancy listing can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-and-degree-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-and-degree-apprenticeships</a>.</p><p>The department wants to ensure apprenticeships are accessible for young people and is working with UCAS on the expansion of their apprenticeships service. From this autumn, young people will see more personalised options on UCAS, including apprenticeships. From autumn 2024, students will be able to apply for apprenticeships alongside an undergraduate degree application. This will help put technical and vocational education on an equal footing with traditional academic routes.</p><p>The department is also making up to £8 million available to higher education providers in the 2022/23 financial year to support them to grow their degree apprenticeship offers. We are also working with the Office for Students to improve access to and participation in higher and degree apprenticeships.</p><p>The department knows that small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key in creating apprenticeship opportunities for those in disadvantaged areas and we have recently launched an SME pathfinder in four regions of the North of England to support employers to find and hire new apprentices at all levels.</p><p>The department provides additional funding to employers and training providers to support them to take on young apprentices aged 16 to18, and apprentices aged 19 to 24 that have an education, health and care plan or have been in care. Apprentices starting in August under the age of 25 that have been in local authority care can also claim a bursary of £3,000.</p><p>The department will continue to champion the Social Mobility Commission’s Apprenticeships Toolkit for employers, and work with some of the country’s most influential employers through the Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network to set out how employers can better recruit and support apprentices from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 161380 question first answered 13/03/2023 16:02:09 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon attachment 1 file name 161380 161381 AA edits 100323 (Table).xlsx title table for take-up of apprenticeships
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1653728

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Care Leavers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what programmes exist to support 18 year olds leaving the care system.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL9415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Children Act 1989, local authorities have the primary responsibility for supporting care leavers. The 2017 Children and Social Work Act imposed a new duty on local authorities to consult on and publish their ‘local offer’ for care leavers, setting out their legal entitlements and any further discretionary support that the local authority provides, such as Council Tax exemptions.</p><p>All care leavers up to the age of 25 are entitled to support from a personal adviser to help with access support from mainstream services, such as housing, health, and benefits. Personal advisors also provide practical and emotional support to help them prepare for and cope with the challenges of living independently.</p><p>The department is providing over £230 million over this spending review to support young people leaving care with housing, access to education, employment, and training, and to help them develop social connections and networks to avoid loneliness and isolation.</p><p>To support young people leaving the care system the department has:</p><ul><li>Launched the care leaver covenant. 400 businesses are signed up and are offering opportunities to care leavers. Businesses include John Lewis, Sky and Amazon.</li><li>Established the Civil Service care leaver internship scheme, which has led to over 880 care leavers taking up paid jobs across government.</li><li>Committed £8 million since October 2021 to run a pilot in 58 local authority areas, for virtual school heads to use Pupil Premium Plus (PP+) to provide targeted support to looked-after children and care leavers in further education. The department will provide a further £24 million of PP+ funding between 2023 and 2025 to expand this programme.</li><li>Increased the Leaving Care Allowance from £2,000 to £3,000 from 1 April 2023 to enable the young person to furnish their first home.</li><li>Committed to increasing the care leaver apprenticeship bursary from August 2023 from £1,000 to £3,000. Local authorities must provide a £2,000 bursary for care leavers who go to university.</li><li>The department is providing £99.8 million to local authorities to increase the number of care leavers that stay living with their foster families in a family home up to the age of 21 through the ‘Staying Put’ programme.</li><li>The department are providing £53 million to increase the number of young people leaving residential care who receive practical help with move-on accommodation, including ongoing support from a keyworker, through the ‘Staying Close’ programme.</li><li>The department are providing an additional £3.2 million to local authorities per year to provide extra support to care leavers at highest risk of rough sleeping.</li></ul><p>Our ambitions for reform, set out in the ‘stable homes, built on love’ strategy and consultation, put loving and stable relationships at the heart of children’s social care. This includes the mission that by 2027, every care-experienced child and young person will feel that they have strong, loving relationships in place.</p><p>As outlined in ‘stable homes, built on love’ the department is providing over £30 million in the next two years to significantly increase the number of local authorities with family finding, befriending and mentoring programmes. The department also wants to increase the accessibility and take-up of the Independent Visitors offer by working with the sector to reinforce current good practice and developing standards for Independent Visitor services. Additionally, the department is assessing levels of interest in introducing a way for care-experienced people to legally formalise a lifelong bond with someone they care about, such as a former foster carer or family friend. The ‘stable homes, built on love’ consultation is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 01/08/2023 10:48:51 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name HL9415 Children_s_social_care_stable_homes_consultation_February_2023.pdf title stable homes built on love consultation
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

994286

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of teachers are on the (a) main, (b) upper, and (c) leadership pay scales in (i) the UK, (ii) each region of the UK and (iii) in each local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	183270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The attached table provides the number and proportion of full and part-time regular teachers in service in state funded schools who are paid on the (a) main, (b) upper and (c) leadership pay ranges in each region, in each local authority and in England in November 2017. Within the table, the ‘Other’ column includes the leading practitioners[1] and unqualified teachers[2] pay ranges and the ‘Unknown’ column relates to invalid codes entered by schools during the collection process that were not amended by the schools after being identified as invalid.</p><p>Figures for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are a matter for the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Leading practitioners are qualified teachers who are employed in posts that the relevant body has determined have the primary purpose of modelling and leading improvement of teaching skills.</p><p> </p><p>[2] Unqualified teachers are teachers who are not a qualified teacher and who is prescribed by Order under section 122(5) of the Act as a school teacher for the purposes of that section.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/11/2018 16:50:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 183270_table.pdf title number_and_proportion_of_teachers_table previous answer version 81569 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

886355

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 April 2018 to Question 134364, on runaway children, how many looked-after children placed in children’s homes (a) inside and (b) outside the borough of the authority responsible for their care were reported missing.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
	uin	136550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of missing incidents of looked after children in children’s homes by the location of the placement is shown in the attached table.</p><p>These statistics are experimental statistics based on data collected for the first time in 2015 and should be treated with caution as local councils’ recording of this information is improving over time. The figures are therefore not comparable between years and any assessment of trends should take this into account. The information provided does not mean that the number of children going missing is increasing in the volumes indicated in the table.</p><p>Local councils have improved their reporting of missing incidents through increased collaboration with partner organisations and carers, updated recording systems, and further training for carers to improve understanding of reporting processes.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:42:45 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 136550_Table.pdf title missing_incidents_in_children’s_homes
	tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

930924

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Absenteeism
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take to identify the number of children who miss school each year; and what assessment they have made of the social and economic costs of that issue.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL8924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The total number of absences from school is collected termly via the school census and published regularly via the ‘Pupil absence in Schools in England’ National Statistics series.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the 2016/17 academic year can be found in the attached “Pupil absence in schools in England: 2016 to 2017” National Statistics release. The overall absence rate for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools was 4.7% in 2016/17, an increase from 4.6% in the previous academic year, but has followed a generally downward trend since 2006/07 when it was 6.5%.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the link between absence and attainment at key stages 2 (KS2) and 4 (KS4) was published in March 2016 in the attached “Absence and attainment at key stages 2 and 4: 2013 to 2014” research report. The analysis showed that when taking prior attainment and pupil characteristics into account, for each KS2 and KS4 measure, overall absence had a statistically significant negative link to attainment. For instance, every extra day missed was associated with a lower attainment outcome.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows overall absence rates since 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL8924_Overall_Absence_Rates.docx title HL8924_Overall_Absence_Rates 2 file name The-link-between-absence-and-attainment-at-KS2-and-KS4-2013-to-2014-academic-year.pdf title link-between-absence-and-attainment-at-KS2-and-KS4 3 file name SFR18_2018_absence_text.pdf title SFR18_2018_absence_text question first answered 09/07/2018 16:33:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

1182471

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether female genital mutilation education in schools is having a positive impact.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
	uin	HL2173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2020 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is child abuse and it is illegal. Services, including schools, should safeguard children from this abuse as from any other form of abuse.</p><p> </p><p>Keeping children safe in education is statutory safeguarding guidance. All schools must have regard to it when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The guidance sets out that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and that all school staff should receive appropriate safeguarding training at induction and that the training should be regularly updated. The guidance states that all staff should speak to the school’s designated safeguarding lead with regard to any concerns about FGM. It then goes on to explain the specific legal duty placed on teachers to report an act of FGM on a girl under the age of 18 to the police. The guidance is available here and attached: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>.</p><p>We want to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe. We want to equip them for adult life and to make a positive contribution to society. From September 2020, we are making Relationships Education compulsory for all primary pupils, Relationships and Sex Education compulsory for all secondary pupils and Health Education compulsory for all pupils in state-funded schools.</p><p>The statutory guidance states that by the end of secondary education, pupils should have been taught about FGM. Schools should address the physical and emotional damage caused by FGM. They should also be taught where to find support and that it is a criminal offence to perform or assist in the performance of FGM or fail to protect a person for whom you are responsible from FGM. As well as addressing this in the context of the law, pupils may also need support to recognise when relationships (including family relationships) are unhealthy or abusive (including the unacceptability of neglect, emotional, sexual and physical abuse and violence, including honour-based violence and forced marriage) and strategies to manage this or access support for oneself or others at risk. All teaching for these subjects should be age as well as developmentally appropriate and sensitive to the needs of the pupil. This includes ensuring that no pupil feels stigmatised. Schools for example should work closely with the local community and key partners such as school nurses, as well as draw on local health data, when planning their teaching for any aspect of these subjects.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge grouped question UIN HL2174 question first answered 01/04/2020 10:07:46 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge attachment 1 file name Keeping_children_safe_in_education_2019.pdf title keeping_children_safe_in_education_2019_pdf
	tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington