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date	20/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Religion
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 pupils in Bolton South East constituency have access to a secular or community-ethos school.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	51662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2021 answer text <p>The government is committed to offering parents and children a diverse education system consisting of a wide variety of schools and this includes faith schools. Within Bolton South East, 24 of the 47 primary and secondary schools are not designated as faith schools.</p><p>The vast majority of parents are offered a place at a school of their choice. For the Bolton local authority, in 2021, 97.6% of parents received an offer from one of their top three choices of primary school, while 94.4 % received an offer from one of their top three choices of secondary school.</p><p>Faith schools have played an important role in our education system for many years and are popular with parents. They have a strong track record of delivering excellent education and achieving high standards and, on average, perform better than non-faith schools. These schools, like all other schools, play a vital role in promoting integration and supporting pupils to understand different faiths and communities.</p><p>Although faith schools have greater freedom to maintain their religious ethos, they remain subject to the same obligations as other state funded schools to promote community cohesion and integration, and to teach a broad and balanced curriculum.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 23/09/2021 12:29:06 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1357030

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date	20/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education: Relationships and Sex Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that children not in mainstream education receive relationship and sex education.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	51709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2021 answer text <p>Relationships education is compulsory for all primary school pupils, relationships and sex education is compulsory for all secondary school pupils, and health education is compulsory for pupils in all state-funded schools. This includes pupils in special schools and pupil referral units. In teaching the new curriculum, schools must have regard to the statutory guidance.</p><p> </p><p>To support all teachers to deliver the curriculum, the department has developed a package of support which can be accessed via this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health</a>. To further support teachers of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), we have delivered a national webinar as well as regional training events for primary and secondary schools:</p><p><a href="https://www.pshe-association.org.uk/content/send-hub" target="_blank">https://www.pshe-association.org.uk/content/send-hub</a>;</p><p><a href="https://nasen.org.uk/resources/supporting-effective-delivery-new-statutory-rshe-curriculum-pupils-send-primary-focused" target="_blank">https://nasen.org.uk/resources/supporting-effective-delivery-new-statutory-rshe-curriculum-pupils-send-primary-focused</a>;</p><p><a href="https://nasen.org.uk/resources/supporting-effective-delivery-new-statutory-rshe-curriculum-pupils-send-secondary-focused" target="_blank">https://nasen.org.uk/resources/supporting-effective-delivery-new-statutory-rshe-curriculum-pupils-send-secondary-focused</a>.</p><p>We have also developed a teacher training module specifically about teaching relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) to pupils with SEND: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health#pupils-with-send" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health#pupils-with-send</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As with other aspects of the curriculum, schools have flexibility over how they deliver RSHE, so they can develop an integrated approach that is sensitive to the needs and background of their pupils.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/09/2021 14:21:49 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1357031

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government is working with representatives of local Violence Against Women and Girls sector organisations to implement relationship and sex education.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	51710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2021 answer text <p>The department has not engaged specifically with any local representatives of sector organisations focused on violence against women and girls in relation to the implementation of the new Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum, which came into force in September 2020. The department commissioned Ofsted to undertake a review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges and they published their report in June 2021. The government accepted the findings in full. The department is developing a new support package for teachers, and we plan to engage with a range of stakeholders, including organisations with expertise in sexual abuse and violence against women and girls to inform that.</p><p>We will publish non-statutory RSHE guidance covering specific topics mentioned by the Ofsted review and in response to the Violence against Women and Girls strategy.</p><p>To support teachers further, we also plan to host a national webinar on specific topics in RSHE for teachers and other interested professionals using subject sector experts from the field and run smaller RSHE regional events to support teachers to network and share best practice.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 28/09/2021 14:44:38 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion