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	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	16-19 Bursary Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when considering a payment through the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund, whether the personal circumstances of a student undergoing financial hardship should be taken into account by a sixth form college.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	211959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund supports the most financially disadvantaged 16- to 19-year-olds and those young people who most need help with the costs of staying in education. Schools, colleges and providers are allocated funding from which they can make discretionary awards to young people who are facing genuine financial barriers to participating in education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the annually updated guide published by the Education Funding Agency, institutions are advised that they should assess each student’s individual circumstances when deciding whether to award a discretionary bursary. The Government believes that institutions are best placed to decide which students face financial barriers to effective participation in education and institutions are free to determine the eligibility criteria they apply for discretionary bursary awards as well as the frequency and conditions of payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If a student in financial difficulties believes that their personal circumstances have not been taken into account and as a result they are facing hardship, I would urge them to ask their institution to look again at their claim.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 14:00:24 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1459823

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Computers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of school children that do not have a personal laptop or tablet.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	157561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department has delivered over 1.95 million laptops and tablets to schools, trusts, local authorities, and further education providers for disadvantaged children and young people. This is part of a £520 million government investment to support access to remote education and online social care services.</p><p>The laptops and tablets distributed through the department are owned by schools, trusts, local authorities, or further education providers who can lend these to children and young people who need them the most. These laptops and tablets are an injection of support on top of an estimated 2.9 million already owned by schools before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. These devices are intended to give schools the flexibility to provide remote education support and can continue to be used in the longer term either in the classroom or from home.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 27/04/2022 11:39:36 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1452118

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the upcoming SEND Review and Green Paper, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of revising the Initial Teacher Training framework to ensure that all teachers are equipped to teach children with (a) speech, language and communication needs and (b) other special educational needs.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	141963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2022 answer text <p>Since September 2020, all courses offered by initial teacher training (ITT) providers have been aligned to a mandatory core content framework (CCF), which was published in November 2019. The framework sets out a minimum entitlement for all trainee teachers.</p><p>Evidence shows that teacher quality is the most important factor within schools in improving outcomes for all children, particularly those from a disadvantaged background, or for those with additional needs. The CCF is therefore key to the government’s plans to improve school standards for all.</p><p>The CCF is based on the best peer-reviewed evidence about what works and is designed to emphasis the importance of high quality teaching. The framework therefore deliberately does not detail approaches specific to particular needs, but what makes the most effective teaching. The department expects ITT providers and their partners to continue to tailor their curricula to the needs of their trainees and the children in the schools where they train and will work, which may include pupils with specific speech, language and communication needs.</p><p>Additionally, courses must continue to be designed so that trainee teachers can demonstrate that they meet the Teachers’ Standards at the end of their course, including standard 5, which is clear that teachers must have an understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs.</p><p>In July 2021 we published the government response to the ITT Review which set out new quality requirements for all ITT from September 2024 and the government's aim to ensure that all trainee teachers experience consistently high-quality ITT that incorporates the ITT Core Content Framework in full.</p><p>This week, the department published the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Green Paper for full public consultation. These proposals set out a system that offers children and young people the opportunity to thrive, with access to the right support, in the right place, and at the right time, so they can fulfil their potential and lead happy, healthy and productive adult lives.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 01/04/2022 15:36:55 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1416311

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Home Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Government’s response to the Education Committee’s Third Report on Strengthening Home Education, published on 26 October 2021, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to create a statutory register including home educated children, based on the Government's response to the Committee’s report.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	111552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>The department remains committed to a form of local authority register for children not in school and we intend to legislate for it at a suitable opportunity. We will set out further details in the government response to the ‘Children Not in School’ consultation, which we will publish in coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/02/2022 16:36:09 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1403468

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2022
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that the estimate 100,000 children who have become severely absent from school following covid-19 lockdowns are returned to the classroom.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	105478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>Regular attendance at school is vital for children’s education, wellbeing, and long-term development.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, recently established an Attendance Alliance of national leaders from education, children’s social care and allied services to work together to raise school attendance and reduce persistent absence.</p><p>The Alliance has pledged to take a range of action to remove barriers preventing children attending school. This includes work by Rob Tarn, CEO of the Northern Education Trust, a multi-academy trust serving areas with high levels of disadvantage, to work with other trust leaders to identify and disseminate best practice for reducing persistent absence across schools through a range of webinars, case studies and videos which we will be publishing over the coming weeks.</p><p>We also welcome the Children’s Commissioner’s focus and investigation on children regularly missing school. The Children’s Commissioner pledged to do this work at the inaugural meeting of the Alliance in December 2021. The Commissioner’s Office are updating us on their progress which will be reported back to the Alliance.</p><p>The department is also committed to a form of register for children not in school. This will help local authorities undertake their existing duties to ensure children receive a suitable education and help safeguard all children who are in scope. We will set out further details on this in the government response to the ‘children not in school’ consultation, which we will publish in the coming weeks.</p><p>We continue to make clear that schools and local authorities should identify children who are persistently absent or at risk of persistent absence and develop plans to support them to return to regular education.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/01/2022 11:31:59 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1403467

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Attendance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many government attendance advisors have been appointed as of 17 January 2022; and how many schools are each of those advisers supporting.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	105477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>To date, 5 attendance advisers have been appointed by the department. During their first wave of work, they will be collectively supporting 15 multi-academy trusts and 20 local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 20/01/2022 13:29:43 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1403466

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2022
	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	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 number of children who were absent for at least 50 per cent of possible lessons in summer term 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	105476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>The data required to answer this question was collected in the Autumn school census. It is currently being collated for pre-announced publication in March 2022 in the following National Statistics release: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 20/01/2022 13:24:38 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1386212

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme: Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils supported in 2021 through academic mentoring receive the pupil premium.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	89557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>National Tutoring Programme (NTP) participation data has not yet been published.</p><p>The department continues to collect data from schools for all three strands of the programme (school-led tutoring, tuition partners and academic mentors) and will be publishing this shortly.</p><p>The NTP aims to engage up to 2 million pupils this year, and to deliver up to 90 million hours of tuition by the 2024/25 academic year.</p><p>Schools choose which pupils receive tutoring according to their individual needs. However, the £579 million for school-led tutoring has been allocated using the number of pupils in each school attracting the pupil premium. In addition, the department is working to ensure at least 65% of tuition partner tutoring goes to disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>An independent evaluation of the programme for the current academic year is being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 89551 89552 89553 89554 89555 89556 question first answered 16/12/2021 14:11:20 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1386211

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have been supported through the academic mentoring pillar of the National Tutoring Programme in 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	89556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>National Tutoring Programme (NTP) participation data has not yet been published.</p><p>The department continues to collect data from schools for all three strands of the programme (school-led tutoring, tuition partners and academic mentors) and will be publishing this shortly.</p><p>The NTP aims to engage up to 2 million pupils this year, and to deliver up to 90 million hours of tuition by the 2024/25 academic year.</p><p>Schools choose which pupils receive tutoring according to their individual needs. However, the £579 million for school-led tutoring has been allocated using the number of pupils in each school attracting the pupil premium. In addition, the department is working to ensure at least 65% of tuition partner tutoring goes to disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>An independent evaluation of the programme for the current academic year is being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 89551 89552 89553 89554 89555 89557 question first answered 16/12/2021 14:11:19 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1386210

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the School-led tutoring grant scheme, what the regional breakdown is of the pupils enrolled under that scheme as of 8 December 2021; and whether that breakdown fits with his Department’s stated priorities for that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	89555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>National Tutoring Programme (NTP) participation data has not yet been published.</p><p>The department continues to collect data from schools for all three strands of the programme (school-led tutoring, tuition partners and academic mentors) and will be publishing this shortly.</p><p>The NTP aims to engage up to 2 million pupils this year, and to deliver up to 90 million hours of tuition by the 2024/25 academic year.</p><p>Schools choose which pupils receive tutoring according to their individual needs. However, the £579 million for school-led tutoring has been allocated using the number of pupils in each school attracting the pupil premium. In addition, the department is working to ensure at least 65% of tuition partner tutoring goes to disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>An independent evaluation of the programme for the current academic year is being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 89551 89552 89553 89554 89556 89557 question first answered 16/12/2021 14:11:19 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon