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1669825

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date	14/11/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of how resources can best be allocated to provide comprehensive sexual health education in schools.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	1963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>Schools are free to determine how they use their funding in support of subjects, including RSHE training for teachers.</p><p>The department expects schools to consult with parents on what they teach. Schools should ensure that, when they engage parents, they provide examples of the resources they plan to use, for example the books they will use in lessons.</p><p>In light of concerning reports about the use of inappropriate materials used to teach the RSHE curriculum, the Secretary of State has twice written to schools to make clear that schools should share resources with parents and clarify the position about how copyright law applies when schools share resources with parents. Copies of both letters can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/secretary-of-state-letter-to-schools-about-sharing-curriculum-resources-with-parents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/secretary-of-state-letter-to-schools-about-sharing-curriculum-resources-with-parents</a>.</p><p>The department has been reviewing the RSHE guidance and aims to launch a public consultation by the end of this year. The department anticipates that the revised guidance, including content on sexual health education, will be published in 2024.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/11/2023 15:14:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1669832

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of verbal abuse of children by adults on children's (a) mental health and (b) long-term educational outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	1936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p>Protection from abuse and neglect is a fundamental right for all children. The government’s priority for all vulnerable children is to keep them safe, protect their welfare and put their best interests at the heart of every decision. It is about supporting and intervening with the right families, at the right time, and, most importantly, in the right way.</p><p>In the department’s 'Children in need’ statistics release, we publish data on factors identified at the end of an assessment. Currently, verbal abuse is not defined but would fall into emotional abuse. For that reason, the department has not made a specific assessment of the impact of verbal abuse on children, but it is the government’s priority to ensure all children are protected and safe from harm, and we have an ambitious programme of reform to children’s social care underway. The latest statistics release is available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need</a>.</p><p>On 2 February 2023, the department published ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, an implementation strategy and consultation which sets out our plans to transform children’s social care, in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, the national review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, and the Competition Markets Authority report.</p><p>The department’s strategy focuses on six pillars of action to transform children’s social care, including to help families overcome challenges at the earliest stage, keep children safe from significant harm, and make sure children in care have stable, loving homes, long-term loving relationships, and opportunities for a good life.</p><p>Over the next two years, the department will address urgent issues and lay the foundations for wider-reaching reform across the whole system, which will have an impact for those children experiencing abuse, including verbal abuse.</p><p>Furthermore, the statutory guidance, ‘Working together to safeguard children’ (2018), is clear that, if at any time it is considered that a child may be a child in need or has suffered significant harm or is likely to do so, a referral should be made immediately to a local authority’s children social care service.</p><p>In terms of supporting children’s mental health, the department has committed to offer all state schools and colleges a grant to train a senior mental health lead by 2025, enabling them to introduce effective, whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. More than 14,000 schools and colleges have now received a senior mental health lead training grant, including more than 7 in 10 state-funded secondary schools.</p><p>Intervening early is critical. To expand access to early mental health support, the department is continuing to roll out Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) to schools and colleges. As of April 2023, MHSTs covered 35% of pupils in schools and learners in further education in England. We are extending coverage of MHSTs to an estimated 44% of pupils and learners by the end of this financial year and at least 50% by the end of March 2025.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 1644 1645 question first answered 22/11/2023 16:12:13 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1669838

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an estimate of how many newly qualified teachers work abroad because of (a) pay and (b) working conditions.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Tahir Ali
uin	2007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on teachers teaching outside England.</p><p>One of the department’s top priorities is to ensure that we continue to attract, retain and develop the highly skilled teachers we need to inspire the next generation.</p><p>On 13 July 2023, the department announced that we are accepting the School Teachers Review Body’s (STRB) recommendations for the 2023/24 pay award for teachers and headteachers. This means that teachers and leaders in maintained schools received the highest pay award in over thirty years and it delivers our manifesto commitment of at least a £30,000 starting salary for school teachers in all regions of the country.</p><p>The department has created an entitlement to at least three years of structured training, support and professional development for all new teachers underpinned by the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework and the Early Career Framework Together, these ensure that new teachers will benefit from at least three years of evidence-based training, across ITT and into their induction.</p><p>The department has also launched a new and updated suite of National Professional Qualifications for teachers and headteachers at all levels, from those who want to develop expertise in high-quality teaching practice to those leading multiple schools across trusts.</p><p>There are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools in England, which is an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes it the highest FTE of teachers since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.</p><p>The department’s reforms are aimed not only at increasing teacher recruitment through an attractive pay offer and financial incentives such as bursaries, but also at ensuring teachers stay and thrive in the profession.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/11/2023 15:21:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4747 label Biography information for Tahir Ali

1669877

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Advanced British Standard
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many officials in her Department have been reassigned from other projects to work on the development of the Advanced British Standard; and what the names of those other projects are.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	1865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>Delivering a world class education to all pupils is one of Government’s top priorities. The Advanced British Standard (ABS) is a cross cutting reform which will affect a number of different areas of policy across the Department, and as such officials from a range of policy teams, with a variety of skills and experience, have been brought together to develop and deliver the ABS. The Department has made huge strides in the last decade in driving up educational standards and improving outcomes for young people and will continue to utilise expertise in the Department to do this.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/11/2023 15:14:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1669878

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Concrete
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department who are working in roles relating to the management of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete were not working on school capital projects prior to 4 September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	1866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The department will allocate whatever resources necessary to support schools and colleges to manage and remove RAAC from their buildings. Every school and college with confirmed RAAC is assigned dedicated support from the department’s team of 80 caseworkers who work with them to assess what support is needed and implement mitigations plans that are right for them. Schools and colleges with confirmed RAAC are also being supported by the department’s ten Regional Directors and their teams across the country.</p><p>Project delivery teams are on site to support schools and colleges to minimise the disruption to teaching. A bespoke plan is put in place to ensure that each school and college receives the support that suits their circumstances. Project delivery, property, and technical experts are on hand to support schools to put face-to-face education measures in place.</p><p>Members of staff across the department work on RAAC across a range of policy and delivery areas as required. It is therefore not possible to give an accurate figure for numbers of staff working on RAAC.</p><p>An updated list of schools and colleges with confirmed cases of RAAC as at 16 October 2023 was published on 19 October and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-raac-management-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-raac-management-information</a>. This link contains a summary of the number of schools and colleges with confirmed RAAC and the status of education in place at these schools and colleges at the specified date.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 1868 question first answered 04/12/2023 16:20:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1669879

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Concrete
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools with suspected reinforced autoclave aerated concrete (RAAC) are awaiting buildings inspections to confirm the presence of RAAC as of 14 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	1867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of those who run schools - academy trusts, Local Authorities and voluntary aided school bodies - to manage the safety and maintenance of their schools and to alert the department if there is a serious concern with a building. It has always been the case that where the department is made aware that a building may pose an immediate risk, immediate action is taken.</p><p>All responsible bodies were requested to complete a questionnaire. As of 14 November 2023, the department now has responses to these questionnaires for all of the schools with blocks built in the target era, of which there are 15,158.</p><p>Where responsible bodies notify the department that they require a survey, it has allocated a professional surveyor to assess whether RAAC is present. The department has eight survey firms contracted to deliver technical surveys so we can rapidly confirm if RAAC is present.</p><p>All schools and colleges that have advised us they suspect they might have RAAC have had a survey to confirm if RAAC is present. The vast majority of schools and colleges surveyed to date have been found to have no RAAC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/12/2023 17:18:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1669880

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Concrete
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the schools listed in the publication entitled Education settings with confirmed RAAC and mitigations in place as of 16 October 2023, what proportion of lessons being taught in those schools are being taught in-person.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	1868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The department will allocate whatever resources necessary to support schools and colleges to manage and remove RAAC from their buildings. Every school and college with confirmed RAAC is assigned dedicated support from the department’s team of 80 caseworkers who work with them to assess what support is needed and implement mitigations plans that are right for them. Schools and colleges with confirmed RAAC are also being supported by the department’s ten Regional Directors and their teams across the country.</p><p>Project delivery teams are on site to support schools and colleges to minimise the disruption to teaching. A bespoke plan is put in place to ensure that each school and college receives the support that suits their circumstances. Project delivery, property, and technical experts are on hand to support schools to put face-to-face education measures in place.</p><p>Members of staff across the department work on RAAC across a range of policy and delivery areas as required. It is therefore not possible to give an accurate figure for numbers of staff working on RAAC.</p><p>An updated list of schools and colleges with confirmed cases of RAAC as at 16 October 2023 was published on 19 October and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-raac-management-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-raac-management-information</a>. This link contains a summary of the number of schools and colleges with confirmed RAAC and the status of education in place at these schools and colleges at the specified date.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 1866 question first answered 04/12/2023 16:20:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1669909

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of SCS2 civil servants on full-time contracts in her Department are women.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	1909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>As of the 31 of October 2023, the proportion of officials in the Department that are graded as senior civil servant 2 and are women on full time equivalent contracts is 64.9%. This figure was calculated by dividing the number of women at senior civil servant 2 grade on full time contracts by the total number of staff at senior civil servant 2 grade on full time contracts. This figure includes the Department, as well as its executive agencies – Education and Skills Funding Agency, Teaching Regulation Agency, Standard and Testing Agency.</p><p>The official public sector employment statistics published in June 2023 by the Office for National Statistics include data on the proportion of staff on temporary contracts who are women. These figures can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable</a>.</p><p>In 2022/23, more than half of new entrants to the civil service were women (54.1%). In 2021/22, 51.6% of new entrants and 53.9% of promotions to the senior civil service were women.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 1910 question first answered 21/11/2023 15:04:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1669910

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of civil servants on temporary contracts in her Department are women.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	1910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>As of the 31 of October 2023, the proportion of officials in the Department that are graded as senior civil servant 2 and are women on full time equivalent contracts is 64.9%. This figure was calculated by dividing the number of women at senior civil servant 2 grade on full time contracts by the total number of staff at senior civil servant 2 grade on full time contracts. This figure includes the Department, as well as its executive agencies – Education and Skills Funding Agency, Teaching Regulation Agency, Standard and Testing Agency.</p><p>The official public sector employment statistics published in June 2023 by the Office for National Statistics include data on the proportion of staff on temporary contracts who are women. These figures can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable</a>.</p><p>In 2022/23, more than half of new entrants to the civil service were women (54.1%). In 2021/22, 51.6% of new entrants and 53.9% of promotions to the senior civil service were women.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 1909 question first answered 21/11/2023 15:04:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

1669931

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Curriculum: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that parents have access to the materials used to teach their children (a) relationships, sex and health education, (b) religious education and (c) other subjects in the curriculum.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	1997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>All schools have a duty to share information concerning their curriculum with parents, including Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) and Religious Education (RE). The department has been very clear that schools should respond positively where parents request to see specific materials.</p><p>The Secretary of State wrote to schools again on Tuesday 24 October to clarify schools’ legal position and to make it clear that they can and should share RSHE curriculum materials with parents. Copyright restrictions under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act do not prevent schools from doing this. Schools can lawfully share copies of resources with parents and any contract clauses that seek to prevent schools from doing this are void and unenforceable. This is because they contradict the public policy interest in ensuring parents know what their children are being taught. The department is aware that some parents have particular concerns regarding materials used to teach RSHE.</p><p>As part of the review of the RSHE statutory guidance, the department will strengthen the guidance, in line with the Secretary of State’s letters, to help schools to share materials with parents.</p><p>It will remain important that schools take full responsibility for ensuring lessons and materials are age appropriate, suitable, and politically impartial, particularly when using materials produced by external organisations.</p><p>Schools may choose to use curriculum materials developed by Oak, an Arm’s Length Body, working independently of government and collaboratively with the education sector. Oak works with teachers across the country, providing them and their pupils with free, optional, and adaptable high quality digital curriculum resources. Their current resources are available at: <a href="https://www.thenational.academy/#teachers" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.academy/#teachers</a>. Oak is now developing new resources for eight more subject areas including for RSHE and RE.</p><p>Schedule 4 Paragraph 7(a) of the School Information Regulations (England) 2008/3093 requires all maintained schools to publish their school curriculum on their website. The guidance for this is outlined online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-maintained-schools-must-publish-online" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-maintained-schools-must-publish-online</a>. All academies must follow a similar process for their school curriculum. The guidance for this is outlined online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-academies-free-schools-and-colleges-should-publish-online" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-academies-free-schools-and-colleges-should-publish-online</a>.</p><p>If a parent feels that a maintained school is failing to comply with its legal requirements relating to the provision of the curriculum, or that a school is acting unreasonably in the way it complies with them, they can make a formal complaint to the governing body by following the school’s statutory complaints procedures.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/11/2023 15:08:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore