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1143107

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will respond to the petition entitled Stop treating school refusal as truancy hosted by 38 Degrees from Not Fine in School which calls for the creation of a new legal attendance / absence code that will measure the scale of school refusal.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	284511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department trusts schools to record, authorise and monitor attendance effectively and to work constructively with individual parents and pupils to improve school attendance where it is a problem.</p><p> </p><p>The law places a duty on parents to ensure that their child attends school regularly where the child is of compulsory school age and registered at a school. The Education Act 1996 also sets out the situations in which an absent pupil will not be taken to have failed to attend school regularly, such as where the child was prevented from attending due to illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that mental health problems can have an impact on a pupil’s attendance and the guidance to schools is clear that they should authorise pupil absence due to illness (both physical and mental health related) unless they have genuine cause for concern about the veracity of an illness. If the authenticity of illness is in doubt, schools can request parents to provide medical evidence to support absence, but this is not mandatory.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory Special Educational Need and Disability Code of Practice sets out the approach that schools should take when staff notice an emerging issue, including mental health issues. Where more serious problems occur, schools should expect pupils and families to be able to access support from specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities must arrange suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age who, because of illness, would not receive suitable education without such provision. The Department’s statutory guidance states that local authorities should provide such education as soon as it is clear that a child will be away from school for 15 days or more, whether consecutive or cumulative.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 284514 284778 question first answered 05/09/2019 16:32:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1143108

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the petition entitled Stop treating school refusal as truancy hosted by 38 Degrees from Not Fine in School, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new legal attendance / absence code to measure the scale of school refusal.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	284778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department trusts schools to record, authorise and monitor attendance effectively and to work constructively with individual parents and pupils to improve school attendance where it is a problem.</p><p> </p><p>The law places a duty on parents to ensure that their child attends school regularly where the child is of compulsory school age and registered at a school. The Education Act 1996 also sets out the situations in which an absent pupil will not be taken to have failed to attend school regularly, such as where the child was prevented from attending due to illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that mental health problems can have an impact on a pupil’s attendance and the guidance to schools is clear that they should authorise pupil absence due to illness (both physical and mental health related) unless they have genuine cause for concern about the veracity of an illness. If the authenticity of illness is in doubt, schools can request parents to provide medical evidence to support absence, but this is not mandatory.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory Special Educational Need and Disability Code of Practice sets out the approach that schools should take when staff notice an emerging issue, including mental health issues. Where more serious problems occur, schools should expect pupils and families to be able to access support from specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities must arrange suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age who, because of illness, would not receive suitable education without such provision. The Department’s statutory guidance states that local authorities should provide such education as soon as it is clear that a child will be away from school for 15 days or more, whether consecutive or cumulative.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 284511 284514 question first answered 05/09/2019 16:32:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1143109

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy
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 that schools are consistent in their responses to cases of school refusal.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	284514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department trusts schools to record, authorise and monitor attendance effectively and to work constructively with individual parents and pupils to improve school attendance where it is a problem.</p><p> </p><p>The law places a duty on parents to ensure that their child attends school regularly where the child is of compulsory school age and registered at a school. The Education Act 1996 also sets out the situations in which an absent pupil will not be taken to have failed to attend school regularly, such as where the child was prevented from attending due to illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that mental health problems can have an impact on a pupil’s attendance and the guidance to schools is clear that they should authorise pupil absence due to illness (both physical and mental health related) unless they have genuine cause for concern about the veracity of an illness. If the authenticity of illness is in doubt, schools can request parents to provide medical evidence to support absence, but this is not mandatory.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory Special Educational Need and Disability Code of Practice sets out the approach that schools should take when staff notice an emerging issue, including mental health issues. Where more serious problems occur, schools should expect pupils and families to be able to access support from specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities must arrange suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age who, because of illness, would not receive suitable education without such provision. The Department’s statutory guidance states that local authorities should provide such education as soon as it is clear that a child will be away from school for 15 days or more, whether consecutive or cumulative.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 284511 284778 question first answered 05/09/2019 16:32:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1126828

registered interest
date	15/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to develop National Professional Qualifications on (a) SEND and (b) literacy.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	254849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy, the Department has committed to develop new specialist National Professional Qualifications (NPQs). The focus of the specialist NPQs is yet to be finalised, but they will be linked to the core areas in which teachers receive training at the start of their career, such as assessment, behaviour management, subject and curriculum expertise and pedagogy. The Department will continue to work with the sector, including special education needs and disability stakeholders and literacy specialists, as we design these qualifications. The Department will release further details in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/05/2019 14:24:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1352657

registered interest
date	03/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 4 of the Department's Realising the potential of technology in education: A summary report, published in April 2019, how many teachers have participated in training courses on the use of education technology since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	42021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2021 answer text <p>The EdTech Demonstrator programme, launched in April 2020, provided peer-to-peer support on making the best use of technology to support remote teaching during the COVID-19 outbreak. Over 4,000 schools and further education colleges received support as part of Phase 1 of the EdTech Demonstrator Programme, with over 11,000 accessing live weekly webinars and tutorials.</p><p>891 schools and further education colleges have now registered for Phase 2 of the EdTech Demonstrator Programme, which aims to bridge the gap from crisis response to long-term sustained use of technology.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/09/2021 16:28:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1337483

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Physical Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many PE teachers were employed by schools in each of the last 10 calendar years, by local authority.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	16906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>The headcount of physical education (PE) teachers in service in state-funded secondary schools in November 2011 to November 2020 is provided in the attached table. It is also published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>While there is no formal register for PE teachers, for context, information is also shown on the percentage of hours spent teaching PE in each year and the percentage of hours of PE which are taught by a teacher with a relevant post A level qualification. A relevant post A level qualification is a level 4 qualification or above in physical education, sports science, sports physiology, sports psychology or dance (including ballet).</p><p>Information for teachers in primary schools and broken down by local authority is not available due to the manner in which data is collected from a sample of secondary schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/06/2021 14:28:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 16906_table_on_teaching_physical_education.xls title 16906_table
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1343140

registered interest
date	01/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the retention rate was after one year post-qualification for newly qualified teachers in each of the last ten calendar years by (a) region and (b) local authority.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	25896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>The national retention rate of teachers who qualified in the last 10 years is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>Regional and local authority retention rates are not currently published. Figures for teachers who qualified in 2016 were published in the Teacher Analysis Compendium, which is availble on page 67 at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748164/Teachers_Analysis_Compendium_4_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748164/Teachers_Analysis_Compendium_4_.pdf</a>. Estimates have not been compiled for other time periods as this would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/07/2021 11:21:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 25896_Table_showing_Regional_Retention_Rates.xls title 25896_table
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1342552

registered interest
date	30/06/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Arts and Design
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers are employed to teach (a) art, (b) design, (c) music and (d) drama in each English region.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	25095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide information on teachers by subject taught at a regional level due to the manner in which data is collected from a sample of secondary schools.</p><p>A national level headcount of teachers by subjects taught is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2021 16:12:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1341263

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers were employed in (a) art and design, (b) drama and (c) music in schools in England in each of the last 10 calendar years.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	23275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>The headcount of art and design, drama and music teachers in service in state funded secondary schools in November 2011 to November 2020 is provided in the attached table and published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>While there is no formal register for teachers of these subjects, for context, information is also shown on the percentage of hours spent teaching each subject in each year and the percentage of hours of which are taught by a teacher with a relevant post A level qualification.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/07/2021 16:48:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 23275_table_school_workforce_headcount_specialist_subjects.xls title 23275_table
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

940701

registered interest
date	13/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
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 ensure that the Centre of Excellence for Literacy Teaching provides support for learners with dyslexia and other literacy needs.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	163809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department is currently in the process of selecting English Hubs, which will share effective practice with a particular focus on language and literacy teaching in reception and Key Stage 1. One of the programme’s key aims and objectives is to develop and promote effective, evidence-based teaching practice in all aspects of early literacy for all children, including systematic synthetic phonics.</p><p> </p><p>Good phonics teaching, as highlighted by England’s highest ever results in the 2016 PIRLS study, provides an excellent foundation for reading: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pirls-2016-reading-literacy-performance-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pirls-2016-reading-literacy-performance-in-england</a>. There is also evidence that structured, systematic synthetic phonics teaching, in addition to engaging with reading books, can also help pupils in reception and Key Stage 1 with dyslexia to read well. The reformed National Curriculum and the Phonics Screening Check, encourage teachers to use this method and since the introduction of the Phonics Screening Check in 2012, 154,000 more six-year-olds on track to become fluent readers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/07/2018 16:53:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle