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1328879

registered interest
date	27/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prevent the teacher-assessed grading process in the 2020-21 academic year leading to legal disputes.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	8679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Parents and pupils can have confidence in the grades awarded this summer. Teachers are being supported to assess their students, including through clear guidance published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ): <a href="https://www.jcq.org.uk/summer-2021-arrangements/" target="_blank">https://www.jcq.org.uk/summer-2021-arrangements/</a>. The JCQ guidance provides detailed information to schools and colleges on the grading process and the range of support that Awarding Organisations have and will continue to provide. The Department trusts teachers’ judgements as they are best placed to understand the content students have covered, their students’ performance and how they compare to other students this year and in previous years. Teacher assessed grades will allow results to reflect the knowledge students have acquired based on what they have been taught, recognising the variability in teaching that some young people have experienced.</p><p> </p><p>To further support teachers, a robust quality assurance process is in place. There will be a process for both internal and external quality assurance to support teachers to do what is needed, ensure as much consistency as possible and reduce the risk of any malpractice. Head teachers will have to confirm to the exam boards that the requirements for quality assurance have been met at the time of submitting the grades for their centre.</p><p> </p><p>Students should feel confident in their teacher assessed grades, but an appeals system will be in place as a safety net in exceptional circumstances, for example, where an error has been made and not identified in the earlier parts of the process.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/06/2021 10:39:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1329050

registered interest
date	27/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Ofsted review on sexual abuse in schools will be published.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	8681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member for Hove, and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/06/2021 10:49:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1329062

registered interest
date	27/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional mental health and wellbeing support his Department has provided to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in York; and whether he has made an assessment of the (i) adequacy of that support and (ii) need for further support to be provided to those schools.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	8676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing is a priority for this government.</p><p>We have supported schools to put the right pastoral support in place through the Wellbeing for Education Return scheme in 2020/21 academic year, which funded expert advisers in every English local authority, including City of York to offer training, support and resources for staff dealing with children and young people experiencing additional pressures from the last year – including trauma, anxiety, or grief. Our Mental Health in Education Action Group highlighted that schools and colleges continue to need help to understand, navigate and access the range of provision available locally, so we provided an additional £7 million funding to local authorities to provide further expert support to do this through the Wellbeing for Education Recovery programme.</p><p>The support schools are providing to their pupils following the return to face-to-face education should include time devoted to supporting mental health and wellbeing, which will play a fundamental part in supporting recovery. We want schools to have the freedom to decide what wider pastoral and extra-curricular activity to put in place, based on the needs of their pupils and drawing on evidence of effective practice. The return to education settings was supported by a £700 million package, which includes a new one-off Recovery Premium for state primary, secondary and special schools to use as they see best to support disadvantaged students. This will help schools to provide their disadvantaged pupils with a one-off boost to the support, both academic and pastoral, that has been proved most effective in helping them recover from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and can be used for mental health and wellbeing support.</p><p>On 5 March 2021 the government confirmed an additional £79 million in funding to NHS England for children and young people’s mental health support, which will include increasing the number of Mental Health Support Teams, which include the areas of Scarborough, Ryedale and Vale of York. The number of support teams will grow from the 59 set up by last March to around 400 by April 2023, supporting nearly 3 million children. This increase, on top of the investment in mental health services set out in the NHS 10-year plan, means that millions of children and young people will have access to significantly expanded mental health services.</p><p>Alongside this, we confirmed on 10 May 2021 that up to 7,800 schools and colleges in England will be offered funding worth £9.5 million to train a senior mental health lead from their staff in the next academic year, which is part of the government’s commitment to offering this training to all state schools and colleges by 2025. Training will provide senior leads with the knowledge and skills to develop or introduce a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing in their setting, which encourages staff to develop their own understanding of issues affecting their pupils, giving young people a voice in how their school or college addresses wellbeing and working with parents and monitoring pupils where appropriate. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958151/Promoting_children_and_young_people_s_emotional_health_and_wellbeing_a_whole_school_and_college_approach.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958151/Promoting_children_and_young_people_s_emotional_health_and_wellbeing_a_whole_school_and_college_approach.pdf</a>. We will also fund an adapted ‘Link' programme, which is designed to improve partnerships between health and education leaders in local areas, raise awareness of mental health concerns and improve referrals to specialist help when needed.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 07/06/2021 11:56:25 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1329070

registered interest
date	27/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the Resource Account and Budgeting charge his Department estimates to be made up of the interest accrued on student loans rather than the capital borrowed for tuition and maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	8728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>In the 2020-21 financial year, the Resource Accounting and Budget (RAB) charge for full-time Plan 2 loans was estimated to be 54% (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2019-to-2020</a>). This is calculated by forecasting how far future repayments on those loans will fall short of the amount originally lent, when put into present value terms using the HM Treasury discount rate (currently RPI + 0.7%).</p><p>The interest charged on student loans adds to the total amount of repayments received. For 2020-21 loans issued, the department estimates that repayments due to interest reduced the RAB charge by 4 percentage points.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/06/2021 11:39:55 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1328086

registered interest
date	26/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research his Department has carried out or commissioned on the effect of hunger and poverty on children's ability to learn effectively.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	7851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>The government supports the provision of nutritious food in schools, which ensures that pupils are well nourished, develop healthy eating habits and can concentrate and learn. Under the benefits-related criteria, there are currently 1.6 million pupils eligible for and claiming a free school meal, and a further 1.4 million infant-aged children who benefit from our Universal Infant Free School Meals policy.</p><p>The government also funds breakfast clubs in over 2,450 schools to support more than a quarter of a million children in the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Up to £24 million will be available to extend our support for school breakfast clubs until 2023, to make sure that thousands of children in disadvantaged areas have a healthy start to the day. We know that breakfast clubs can bring a wide range of benefits for children. An evaluation by the Education Endowment Foundation found that supporting schools to run a free-of-charge, universal breakfast club before school delivered an average of 2 months’ additional progress for pupils in key stage 1 with moderate to low security. Breakfast club schools also saw an improvement in pupil behaviour and attendance.</p><p>Backed by an investment of up to £220 million, the Holiday Activities and Food programme ran nationwide throughout the Easter holiday period and will run during the summer and Christmas holidays in 2021, supporting disadvantaged pupils with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things and improving socialisation. This programme builds on pilots of the scheme since 2018, including last summer’s programme, which supported around 50,000 children across 17 local authorities. We have developed this programme, as we know that disadvantaged children are more likely to experience unhealthy holidays (in terms of nutrition and physical exercise), are less likely to take part in enriching activities and can experience isolation during the holidays.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 07/06/2021 12:06:29 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1328093

registered interest
date	26/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the ability of students living in private accommodation to travel to their term time address at any time, for what reason he has suggested to universities that the start of the 2021-22 academic year should be staggered.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	7870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>As autonomous institutions it is for universities to determine their own provision, including arrangements for the start of term, taking account of any government guidance.</p><p>The government will announce further easing of COVID-19 restrictions at Step 4 of the roadmap, including the outcome of the review of social distancing measures, which will be no earlier than 21 June. In light of these developments, we are working with universities to identify a number of scenarios we should consider in planning for the autumn term, taking account of the latest public health advice. We intend to update the higher education guidance in due course to support the return of students for the new academic year.</p><p>As outlined in guidance, we expect providers to continue to organise the return of students in a way that minimises the logistical risks of large numbers of students travelling between households at the same time. We encourage providers to work with other local providers to manage the return of students in a way that minimises transport pressures. Providers should apply what they have learned over the course of this academic year to minimise the risk of outbreaks at the start of the new term.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/06/2021 11:49:48 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1328165

registered interest
date	26/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to take steps in response to the reported planned introduction by the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University of arrangements (a) defining racism as an exclusively white phenomenon, (b) encouraging the anonymous reporting of perceived microaggressions by named individuals and (c) other related measures; and what steps the Government plans to take through forthcoming legislative proposals to tackle such arrangements in UK universities.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	7724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>I understand that the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has issued a statement setting out that the website referred to has been temporarily taken down while some material is removed, and I welcome this decision.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/06/2021 11:35:50 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1328322

registered interest
date	26/05/2021
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, whether his Department plans to take steps in response to the recommendations of the National Secular Society's report entitled Religiosity inspections: the case against faith-based reviews of state schools, including repeal of section 48 of the Education Act 2005.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	7894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Section 48 of the Education Act 2005 places a duty on the governing body of maintained schools that are designated as having a religious character, to arrange for the inspection of any denominational education and collective worship. This requirement applies to maintained faith schools and academies (via the funding agreement). In arranging the inspection, the school must consult with the appropriate religious body, specified in regulations. This approach brings a consistency of approach and oversight to the inspections.</p><p>The Government greatly values the contribution that faith schools make to the education sector by providing high quality school places and choice for parents. Section 48 inspections provide assurance in relation to the religious education and collective worship provided in these schools. There are no plans to change the current arrangements for the inspection of designated faith schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/06/2021 11:01:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1327735

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Foundation Courses
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 increase the number of universities that offer foundation year provision.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	7183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>We recognise that foundation years can play an important role in enabling students with lower prior attainment, potentially from disadvantaged backgrounds, to access high tariff provision. We also recognise their role in allowing students to switch subjects. Some universities are already using high-quality foundation years in ways which provide good value for these students, and we are pleased to support such universities.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that all foundation years continue to provide good value for money and provide a distinct benefit to students.</p><p>We plan to consult on further reforms to the higher education system, including the treatment of foundation years, in summer 2021, before setting out a full response to the report and final conclusion to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding alongside the next Comprehensive Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 7184 question first answered 07/06/2021 11:43:17 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1327736

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Foundation Courses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of supporting more universities to offer foundation year courses on the Government’s levelling up agenda.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	7184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>We recognise that foundation years can play an important role in enabling students with lower prior attainment, potentially from disadvantaged backgrounds, to access high tariff provision. We also recognise their role in allowing students to switch subjects. Some universities are already using high-quality foundation years in ways which provide good value for these students, and we are pleased to support such universities.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that all foundation years continue to provide good value for money and provide a distinct benefit to students.</p><p>We plan to consult on further reforms to the higher education system, including the treatment of foundation years, in summer 2021, before setting out a full response to the report and final conclusion to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding alongside the next Comprehensive Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 7183 question first answered 07/06/2021 11:43:17 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis