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1311931

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support sixth form students to recover from disruption to their education as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	914740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>We recognise that this has been a difficult period for sixth form students and so in this academic year we provided a £96 million 16-19 Tuition Fund for all providers of 16-19 education, including school sixth forms and sixth form colleges to provide catch up tuition for those most impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. We recently announced a £102 million extension of the Fund for the 2021/22 academic year to ensure that students can recover from the disruption and continue to progress in their education. We have also appointed Sir Kevan Collins, as Education Recovery Commissioner, to advise the government on the approach for education recovery and will be working with him to develop a full catch-up programme across the education sector around focusing on time, teaching and targeted interventions.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 27/04/2021 07:53:55 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1311935

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in delivering their statutory duty to lead the transition to sixth form process for 16- and 17-year olds in their area.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	914736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The department takes seriously its duty to support students during transition years and to assist them with progression to further education or training. We continue to support local authorities and monitor participation figures, with 94.4% of 16 and 17 year olds receiving an offer in education and training in 2020. Under the September Guarantee, all 16 and 17 year olds are entitled to an offer of a suitable place in education or training regardless of qualifications gained, and the government plans to invest over £7 billion during 2020/21, to ensure there is a place in education or training, including apprenticeships, for every 16 to 19 year old.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 27/04/2021 07:49:57 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1311519

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Food: Further Education and Schools
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 issue guidance to schools and colleges on offering plant-based food and drink options to pupils.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	186003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The government’s School Food Standards regulates the food and drink provided at both lunchtime and at other times of the school day. Beyond this, we believe that head teachers, school governors and caterers are best placed to make decisions about their school food policies, taking into account local circumstances and the needs of their pupils. In doing so, we expect schools to make reasonable adjustments for pupils with particular requirements, for example to reflect dietary and cultural needs.</p><p>The School Food Standards already contain sufficient flexibility to enable schools to provide a variety of plant-based food and drink options to pupils if there is a demand for them. School food policies work best when schools discuss them with parents and pupils, so that parents have the opportunity to raise pupils’ particular dietary needs.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 27/04/2021 14:55:18 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1311538

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment he has made of the level of achievement at the end of compulsory education in (a) Portsmouth South constituency and (b) the rest of England.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Department has published a wide range of data on the attainment of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 at both national and local level on 26 November 2020. More information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-performance-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-performance-2020</a>.</p><p><strong><br> </strong>The latest published data shows that in the Portsmouth South constituency, the average attainment 8 score was 47.5 compared with an average attainment 8 score of 50.2 across all state funded schools in England.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2021 14:46:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1311546

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing an annual survey of children's wellbeing.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	185980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The wellbeing of children and young people is a priority for this government. It is central to achieving the aims of the department and we have committed to publishing ‘State of the Nation: Children and Young People’s Wellbeing’ reports annually to bring together publicly available data, including that collected regularly by the Office of National Statistics on wellbeing.</p><p>On 10 October 2020, the department published the second annual report which focused on children and young people’s experience associated with wellbeing during the COVID-19 outbreak. The report is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-nation-2020-children-and-young-peoples-wellbeing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-nation-2020-children-and-young-peoples-wellbeing</a>. The report has helped the government, children and young people’s services, schools, parents and anyone interested in children and young people’s wellbeing to understand their experiences of the COVID-19 outbreak, the measures put in place to reduce the impact of the outbreak, and the broader effects on society.</p><p>We are continuing to monitor the emerging evidence on the experiences of children and young people during the outbreak to ensure the support measures being put in place by the government, including in the longer term, are informed by the most up-to-date evidence.</p><p>In particular, Public Health England is monitoring the impacts of the outbreak, including on children and young people, and is publishing regular surveillance reports. Their report about population mental health and wellbeing in England during the COVID-19 outbreak was last updated on 8 April 2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 27/04/2021 11:59:49 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1310941

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities in England on potential changes to bandings applied to children with Education, Health and Care Plans.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	185312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>We do not prescribe in detail how local authorities should allocate their high needs funding, including how top-up funding should be used for children with education, health and care (EHC) plans. However, local authorities and schools have statutory duties under the Children and Families Act 2014 to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Paragraph 94 of the operational guide on high needs funding arrangements (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2021-to-2022</a>) says that: “Many local authorities have systems which indicate the range of top-up funding that might be provided for children and young people with a particular complexity of need (sometimes referred to as ‘banded’ funding systems). These can be helpful in providing clear and transparent funding arrangements for many types of need that may be met in a range of different institutions. Where a local authority makes a large number of placements at an institution or range of institutions, a system for the local authority and institutions to agree levels of top-up funding in advance can be a very efficient way of allocating this funding. However, the final allocation of funding must be sufficient to secure the agreed provision specified in any EHC plan.”</p><p>However, the department does not play a part in local authorities’ decisions on whether to follow such banded funding systems or not.</p><p>The government is committed to delivering real improvements to the SEND system, which will be taken forward through the SEND review, which has sought views from family representative groups and partners across education, health and care. We share a common ambition to reform the SEND system so that children and young people can have the support they need at the earliest possible point, whilst streamlining the EHC planning process, so that we can both improve these children’s outcomes and make the system more sustainable. We will consult publicly on the review’s proposals, so that everyone with an interest can have their say on the system of the future.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 27/04/2021 16:36:31 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1311096

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in England are off-rolled; how many of those children (a) have an EHIC plan and (b) are diagnosed SEND; and what the average length of time is that they have been off-rolled.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	185389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by the Department and cannot be derived from current data sources.</p><p>The Government is clear that off-rolling is unacceptable in any form. We will continue to work with Ofsted to define and tackle it. Ofsted already considers records of children taken off roll and the revised framework in September 2019 strengthened this focus. Where inspectors find off-rolling, this will always be addressed in the inspection report, and where appropriate, could lead to a school’s leadership being judged inadequate.</p><p>A pupil’s name can lawfully be deleted from the admission register on the grounds prescribed in regulation 8 of the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006 as amended. All schools must notify the local authority when a pupil’s name is to be deleted from the admission register under any of the grounds prescribed in regulation 8, as soon as the ground for removal is met and no later than the time at which the pupil’s name is removed from the register.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2021 15:34:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1311101

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a registration system similar to the General Medical Council's register of doctors for teachers in (a) state and (b) independent schools.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Rob Roberts
uin	185500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Department has not and is not considering a return to a registration-based system for teachers in state maintained or independent schools. Whilst the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) does not maintain a register of teachers, it does maintain a list of qualified teachers and a list of those individuals prohibited from teaching work. Prospective employers in the state maintained and independent sector are able to verify instantly, via the TRA’s Teacher Services system, whether a teacher is qualified and/or is prohibited from teaching work as part of any recruitment process. Members of the public may check whether an individual is on the prohibited list via the TRA.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2021 14:50:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1311147

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Remote Education: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department took to ensure that (a) laptops and (b) tablets provided to children for home learning during the covid-19 outbreak were not infected with malware from international servers.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	185283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government is investing over £400 million to support access to remote education and online social care services, including making 1.3 million laptops and tablets available for disadvantaged children and young people.</p><p>To date, over 1.29 million laptops and tablets have been delivered to schools, academy trusts, local authorities and further education colleges. We have also provided support for over 100,000 families to get online through uplifts in mobile data and 4G wireless routers.</p><p>Schools are responsible for ensuring their IT infrastructure is secure. This includes checking the security of any laptops and tablets accessing the school’s network.</p><p>Devices available through the Get Help with Technology programme include Microsoft Windows devices, Chromebooks and Apple iPads. Microsoft Windows devices come with Windows Defender Antivirus. Chromebooks come with Chrome OS which manages encryption, anti-malware, and anti-virus. Apple iPads are built on the Apple iOS which is designed to be secure in a way which makes iOS targeted Malware very rare and specific protection against this unnecessary.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2021 15:32:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1310517

registered interest
date	20/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the national set of standards for independent and semi-independent placements for children in social care.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	184460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The government will be introducing national standards for independent and semi-independent settings for children in care and care leavers aged 16 and 17, to raise the bar for this provision. This was set in our response to the consultation on reforms to the use of unregulated provision: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/unregulated-provision-for-children-in-care-and-care-leavers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/unregulated-provision-for-children-in-care-and-care-leavers</a>.</p><p>The national standards will work towards ensuring that local authorities can be confident when making placements in this provision. They will also strengthen our ability to take action against poor providers. Most importantly, they will ensure that our children and young people are safe and have the best possible chances of success in life.</p><p>We know that this new regime will represent a major change for local authorities and providers. This is why we are committed to designing and implementing this regime in collaboration with the sector and with care-experienced children and young people. We are working closely with a range of partners across the sector to prepare a consultation on the content of the national standards and accompanying Ofsted regime.</p><p>We will publish this consultation shortly, which will include a draft version of the national standards.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 27/04/2021 16:01:22 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion