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date	14/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is taking steps to provide counselling for students in schools.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	208280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>School based counselling by well-qualified practitioners can play an effective role as part of a ‘whole school’ approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing. The Department’s England-wide representative survey of school provision, published in 2017, indicated that 61% of schools offer counselling services, with 84% of secondary schools providing their pupils with access to counselling support. To support more schools to do so, the Government has provided advice on how to deliver high quality school-based counselling, available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will fund new mental health support teams, working in schools and colleges, which will be rolled out to between one fifth and a quarter of England by the end of 2023. This will start with 25 trailblazer areas which will be fully operational by the end of 2019. Next steps for this roll out are being considered as part of the NHS long term plan, published on 7 January, and will be informed by the evaluation of the initial trailblazers. These new teams should work closely with services which are already being provided in local areas, including other professionals who work closely with schools and colleges, such as school counsellors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/01/2019 12:13:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

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date	14/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students did not get a grade 9-4 in their GCSE results in the 2017-18 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	208284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>In 2018, pupils sat a combination of the 23 reformed GCSEs graded on a 9-1 scale and the remaining legacy GCSEs graded on an A*-G scale. The bottom of grade 4 is aligned with the bottom of grade C, so a grade 4 or above marks a similar achievement to the old grade C or above.</p><p> </p><p>The number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2018 who did not achieve any grades A*-C/9-4 across all their GCSE and equivalent subject entries[1], [2] are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2018 who did not achieve any grades A*-C/9-4 across all their GCSE and equivalent subject entries</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type of school</p></td><td><p>Total number of pupils <br>at the end of Key Stage 4</p></td><td><p>Total number <br> of pupils not <br> achieving grades <br> A*-C or 9-4[3]</p></td><td><p>Percentage pupils not <br>achieving grades A*-C or 9-4 (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All schools[4]</p></td><td><p>585,377</p></td><td><p>94,436</p></td><td><p>16.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded school</p></td><td><p>523,757</p></td><td><p>76,168</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2017-to-2018-provisional" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2017-to-2018-provisional</a>.</p><p>[2] Cambridge International Certificates and Edexcel Level 1/2 Certificates were classed as GCSE equivalent awards in 2017/18. If GCSE equivalents were excluded from the analysis, the number not achieving any 9-4/A*-C passes would go up by 283 in all schools, and 121 in state funded schools.</p><p>[3] From 2017, new reformed GCSEs in English language, English literature and mathematics are graded using a new 9-1 scale. Unreformed subjects continue to be graded using the A* to G system. See the statistical first release (SFR) ‘Quality and methodology’ document for further information.</p><p>[4] Discounting has been applied where pupils have taken the same subject more than once and only one entry is counted in these circumstances. Only the first entry is counted, in all subjects, in line with the early entry guidance (see SFR 'Quality and Methodology' document).</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/01/2019 12:24:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson