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	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been spent on The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since the beginning of that platform.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	102155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform.</p><p><del class="ministerial">As of 4 October there have been a total of 118,011 starts of the courses on the platform and 19,564 course completions. As of 11 October, the platform had 1.2 million page views.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As of 1 November 2020 there have been an estimated 119,000 course registrations. As of 1 November 2020 there have been 1,323,450 page views. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 27 November 2020 in the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships." target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 19/10/2020 16:09:57 question first ministerially corrected 17/12/2020 18:41:06 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 54420 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

759783

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Secure Accommodation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places for new admissions were available in secure children's homes in England and Wales in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	10084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The department publishes data on children accommodated in secure children’s homes on an annual, rather than a monthly basis. As at the 31 March 2017, there were 227 places in use or available for use, with 203 children accommodated in these places, which means there were 24 places available for new admissions. The full statistical release is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-accommodated-in-secure-childrens-homes-31-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-accommodated-in-secure-childrens-homes-31-march-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/09/2017 12:54:48 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1416047

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were permanently excluded from (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) special schools in (i) Oxford, (ii) Oxfordshire, (iii) South East England and (iv) England as a proportion of the total number of pupils in each school in the 2020-21 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	110569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Information on the numbers and rates of permanent exclusions and suspensions is available in the national statistics release “Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England.” This can be found at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england</a>.</p><p>The release includes data at national, regional, local authority, local authority district and school level. Data is not yet available for the academic year 2020-21, as this is due to be published in July 2022. Tables relating to 2019-20 giving the number and rate of permanent exclusions and suspensions by school type have been produced using the ‘create tables’ tool at the following links:</p><ul><li>Oxfordshire, South East and England: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a</a></li><li>Oxford: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3</a></li></ul><p>The attached table shows the average length of suspensions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 110570 110571 question first answered 02/02/2022 12:58:54 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 110569_110570_110571_avarage_length_of_exclusions.pdf title Exclusions
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1416049

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
	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 pupils on roll have been suspended from (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) special schools in (i) Oxford, (ii) Oxfordshire, (iii) South East England and (iv) England in the 2020-21 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	110570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Information on the numbers and rates of permanent exclusions and suspensions is available in the national statistics release “Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England.” This can be found at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england</a>.</p><p>The release includes data at national, regional, local authority, local authority district and school level. Data is not yet available for the academic year 2020-21, as this is due to be published in July 2022. Tables relating to 2019-20 giving the number and rate of permanent exclusions and suspensions by school type have been produced using the ‘create tables’ tool at the following links:</p><ul><li>Oxfordshire, South East and England: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a</a></li><li>Oxford: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3</a></li></ul><p>The attached table shows the average length of suspensions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 110569 110571 question first answered 02/02/2022 12:58:54 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 110569_110570_110571_avarage_length_of_exclusions.pdf title Exclusions
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1416050

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of average length of time of pupil suspensions in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools, and (c) special schools in (i) Oxford, (ii) Oxfordshire, (iii) South East England, and (iv) England in (A) 2019-20 and (B) 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	110571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Information on the numbers and rates of permanent exclusions and suspensions is available in the national statistics release “Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England.” This can be found at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england</a>.</p><p>The release includes data at national, regional, local authority, local authority district and school level. Data is not yet available for the academic year 2020-21, as this is due to be published in July 2022. Tables relating to 2019-20 giving the number and rate of permanent exclusions and suspensions by school type have been produced using the ‘create tables’ tool at the following links:</p><ul><li>Oxfordshire, South East and England: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a</a></li><li>Oxford: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3</a></li></ul><p>The attached table shows the average length of suspensions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 110569 110570 question first answered 02/02/2022 12:58:54 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 110569_110570_110571_avarage_length_of_exclusions.pdf title Exclusions
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1416907

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Gender Based Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's assessment is of the extent and effectiveness of existing programmes aiming to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) within schools and colleges in England, for each category of action (a) interventions that seek to transform gender norms to prevent VAWG, (b) healthy relationships education and bystander skills for both children and adolescents, (c) applied, participatory theatre projects concerning VAWG, (d) interventions designed to promote empowerment through self-defence and coaching for young women and (e) training of education professionals around the identification of potential victims of VAWG and their referral to other agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	112688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Schools and colleges have a critical role to play in protecting children and keeping them safe.</p><p>The subjects of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) are now a statutory part of the curriculum. They include teaching pupils what healthy relationships look like, and the concepts of, and laws relating to, all forms of abuse. The RSHE statutory guidance also advises schools to be alive to issues such as sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and gender stereotypes, and to take positive action to tackle these issues. The guidance is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education</a>.</p><p>As with other aspects of the curriculum, schools have flexibility over how they deliver these subjects, so they can develop an integrated approach that is sensitive to the needs and backgrounds of their pupils. The department has provided advice on choosing resources and working with external agencies in the non-statutory implementation guidance here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/plan-your-relationships-sex-and-health-curriculum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/plan-your-relationships-sex-and-health-curriculum</a>.</p><p>Following the Ofsted review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges, the department is strengthening support for designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) so they can confidently identify and address sexual abuse and harassment. This includes funding What Works for Children’s Social Care to trial supervision and training for DSLs in schools with a particular focus on supporting them to respond to sexual abuse issues in schools, working with the Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse. This also includes incorporating resources on child sexual abuse into the online resource hub for DSLs, which will launch in summer 2022.</p><p>Further education providers are expected to provide personal and social development for their learners and will be judged by Ofsted on how they deliver this. Key criteria for the assessment include developing confidence and resilience, understanding how to keep mentally and physically healthy and developing an age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships through appropriate relationships and sex education. The department does not specify how colleges should achieve this.</p><p>The statutory safeguarding guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' is very clear that all staff in schools and colleges should be aware of indicators of any form of abuse and or neglect, and what they should do if they have any concerns about a child being abused.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/02/2022 13:27:39 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1565671

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2023
	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: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on the adequacy of the provision of education on domestic abuse and controlling and coercive behaviour in post-16 education.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	120184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The department does not provide a national curriculum for post-16 students beyond key stage 4. Post-16 providers have the flexibility to offer aspects of relationships, sex and health education, including content on domestic abuse and controlling and coercive behaviour, and should support students to access the information and support they need to have positive relationships.</p><p>The Ofsted further education and skills inspection handbook includes personal development as part of its judgements. This includes ‘developing an age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships through appropriate relationship and sex education’.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 18/01/2023 13:18:07 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

810729

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	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 estimate she has made of the costs incurred by schools of dyslexia assessments; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	121074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education (DfE) does not collect data on costs incurred by schools in the assessment of dyslexia. Schools are required to identify and address the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) of pupils, including arranging for appropriate tests. They receive funding which enables them to meet additional needs up to £6,000 per pupil with SEND. Building on 2013-16 funding, the DfE is funding the British Dyslexia Association (BDA) and partners in 2017-18, with £500,000 to facilitate better support for children with dyslexia. BDA resources include affordable (£20-£50) on-line screening tools.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 08/01/2018 17:47:38 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

810730

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	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 assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the level of the provision of in-work training for teachers inacademy chains on the provision of training by specialist voluntary and third sector organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	121075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Academies, like all other schools, are responsible for the development of their teaching staff and evaluating the impact of training provided.</p><p>The Department’s consultation on strengthening qualified teacher status and improving career progression for teachers is currently open and seeks views on a range of areas including options to increase access to high-quality continuous professional development. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 121076 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:40:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

810731

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	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 criteria her Department uses to assess the quality of in-work training provided to teachers in academy chains.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	121076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Academies, like all other schools, are responsible for the development of their teaching staff and evaluating the impact of training provided.</p><p>The Department’s consultation on strengthening qualified teacher status and improving career progression for teachers is currently open and seeks views on a range of areas including options to increase access to high-quality continuous professional development. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 121075 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:40:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds