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443614

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mental Health: Primary Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to put mental health on the national curriculum for primary school children, as advocated by the Young People's Mental Health Advisory Group.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The new national curriculum, introduced in September 2014, does not attempt to represent the sum total of everything that should be taught in schools. It only prescribes the essential knowledge that should be taught, leaving schools greater flexibility to teach over and above what the national curriculum requires and to decide how to teach the essential content that is prescribed. It is also places greater trust in teachers to cover topics important for their community, including mental health.</p><p>Mental health and wellbeing is part of the non-statutory programme of study for Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education, produced by the PSHE Association. To help schools deliver this, we funded the PSHE Association to produce guidance and lesson plans to support age-appropriate teaching about mental health. Further support for teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people is available through the Government funded MindEd site[1].</p><br /><p>[1] MindEd can be accessed at the following link: <a href="https://www.minded.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.minded.org.uk/</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 25/01/2016 17:30:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

443615

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they intend to address the shortfall of trainee teachers in business studies, social science, and design and technology.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>Teaching continues to be a popular career choice for both graduates and career changers, and last year we recruited 1,000 more secondary teachers overall than in the previous year. We recognise, however, that recruitment is more difficult in some subjects than others, which is why we offer generous financial incentives in those subjects where more teachers are needed to meet demand.</p><p>We continue to support recruitment to Design and Technology initial teacher training through bursaries of up to £12,000. Subject knowledge enhancement courses are also available for those candidates who need to refresh or boost their knowledge of Design and Technology prior to commencing teacher training.</p><p>Bursaries are designed to incentivise applications in subjects where it is difficult to recruit, and where the Department’s teacher supply model tells us that we need to attract more applicants.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/01/2016 14:02:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

443616

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance they give to academies about having education, health and care plans in order to stop them from turning away children with special needs.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>It is vital that young people with special education needs and disabilities (SEND) are supported throughout their education so that they develop the knowledge and skills they need to fulfil their potential.</p><p>The School Admissions Code ensures that academies operate a fair admissions policy for all children with SEND. Section 1.8 of that Code requires admission authorities to ‘ensure that their arrangements will not disadvantage unfairly, either directly or indirectly, a child from a particular social or racial group, or a child with a disability or special educational needs.’ These provisions apply to admission authorities for all state-funded mainstream schools, including academies.</p><p>Once a school (of any type) is open, anyone can object to the Schools Adjudicator if its admission policy breaches these requirements. This is in addition to their right to seek redress through the courts for any breach of equalities legislation, since disability is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. Parents also have the right to refer disability discrimination cases to the First Tier Tribunal (SEN &amp; Disability) to seek redress if their issues cannot be resolved locally.</p><p>In addition, all schools, including academies, must adhere to the statutory guidance, the ‘Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0-25 years’.</p><p>The Code of Practice is clear that parents are asked to express a preference for a school, as part of the process for agreeing an education and health care (EHC) plan for their child. The local authority must name the parents’ preferred school in the EHC plan, unless it is unsuitable for the child’s age, aptitude, ability and special educational needs; or if placing the child at the preferred school would be incompatible with the efficient education of others or the efficient use of the authority’s resources. The local authority must consult the school before naming it in the EHC plan.</p><p>If an academy is named in an EHC plan, it is obliged to admit that child or young person.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 19/01/2016 17:34:58 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

443617

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Employment: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the Prime Minister's commitment to tackle race inequality in the labour market, what action they propose to end the current situation identified by the Resolution Foundation that the black and minority ethnic group find it twice as hard to secure employment as their white counterparts.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 protects all individuals against racial and other forms of discrimination in the workplace. The Prime Minister has underlined the Government’s commitments to increasing racial diversity in the workplace in his 2020 Vision in which he made a commitment to increase BAME employment by 20% by 2020. The Government is aware of the forthcoming report by the Resolution Foundation and will study its recommendations carefully when it is published.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/01/2016 13:45:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

443618

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Ofsted report highlighting a 60 per cent increase in the number of children who have died as a result of abuse and neglect in the past year.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>The death of any child is a tragedy. We want all children at risk of abuse or neglect to be identified early, to have timely and proportionate assessments of their individual needs, and to have the right services provided at the right time.</p><p>The Ofsted statistical release, <em>Serious Incident Notifications from local authority children’s services 2015</em>, reports a 17 percent increase in the number of cases of child death being notified to Ofsted compared to the previous year. The rise in numbers of deaths reported to Ofsted does not necessarily indicate a rise in the number of child deaths. The official figures for the number of child deaths in 2014-2015 will be published by Office for National Statistics (ONS) later in the year.</p><p>The Ofsted statistical release contains experimental data, based on information supplied by local authorities about serious incident notifications. What constitutes a serious incident is set out in statutory guidance, <em>Working Together 2015</em>. The Ofsted report is just one of a range of data sources relating to serious incidents involving children. It is not, however, the official source of data on child deaths, which is collected by the ONS. The Government also publishes reviews of homicide and child deaths, which together enable a more accurate assessment of the number and causes of child death.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/01/2016 13:07:58 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

437852

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 9 December (HL4113), whether instances of bullying and abuse of children and young people via social media networks are reported, recorded and included in those exclusions statistics.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2015 answer text <p>Incidents of bullying and abuse of children and young people via social media by pupils which resulted in exclusions are reported to the Department. The Department publishes these incidents in its annual exclusions statistics. The latest statistics were published on 30 July 2015 and can be found online at GOV.UK.</p><br /><p>The school census guidance provided to schools and local authorities for the 2015/16 academic year explicitly includes cyber bullying in the bullying exclusion category for the first time.</p><br /><p>Prior to this, the guidance for the bullying category only specifically referenced verbal, physical and homophobic bullying.</p> answering member printed Earl of Courtown question first answered 30/12/2015 14:38:52 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

433395

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many acts of reported bullying were recorded in schools during each of the past three academic years.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>All bullying is unacceptable and schools must have measures in place to address it. The Department does not collect information on the number of acts of reported bullying recorded in schools. Ofsted does, however, hold schools accountable for their effectiveness in tackling bullying.</p><br /><p>In 2015-16, the Department is providing £3.3m to charitable organisations to tackle bullying and to provide support for those who are bullied. This is on top of the £4m provided in 2013-15.</p><br /><p>The Longitudinal Study of Young Peoplein England (LSYPE), which was published in November 2015, compared bullying among two cohorts of 14 year olds (year 10 students) from 2004 and 2014. The study found that 30,000 fewer pupils said they had been bullied in the last twelve months in 2014. This represented a drop from 41 per cent in 2004 to 36 per cent in 2014.</p><br /><p>The Department does publish information on the number of permanent and fixed period exclusions due to bullying in the “Statistics: exclusions” series. This information has been provided in the table below.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 1: The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions due to bullying in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools (1)(2)(3)(4)</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Permanent exclusions</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>40</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fixed period exclusions</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>4,490</p></td><td><p>3,920</p></td><td><p>3,360</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>1. State-funded primary schools include all primary academies, including free schools. Includes middle schools as deemed.</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>2. State-funded secondary schools include city technology colleges and all secondary academies, including all-through academies and free schools. Includes middle schools as deemed.</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>3. Special schools include maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools and special academies. Excludes general hospital schools.</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>4. Totals have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="7"><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2015 16:00:21 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

433396

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many children move schools each month because of bullying, and what assessment they have made of the implications of such moves for the education system and the children affected.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the number of children who move school each month because of bullying.</p><br /><p>All bullying is unacceptable and every school is required to have a behaviour policy including measures to tackle all forms of bullying. They are held to account by Ofsted and inspectors will look at records and analysis of bullying, discriminatory and prejudicial behaviour.</p><br /><p>In 2015-16, the Government is providing £3.3m to charitable organisations to help tackle bullying and to provide support for those who are bullied. This is further to the £4m provided over the period 2013-15.</p><br /><p>Levels of bullying have reduced as a consequence of the efforts of schools and anti-bullying charities. The Longitudinal Study of Young Peoplein England published by the Department in November 2015 compared experiences of bullying among two cohorts of 14 year olds (year 10 students)from 2004 and 2014. It found that 30,000 fewer people in year 10 in 2014 said they had been bullied in the last twelve months. This represented a decrease from 41 per cent in 2004 to 36 per cent in 2014.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/12/2015 14:21:25 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

433397

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the extent of self-harm among school children as a consequence of bullying in the education system.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made a systematic assessment of the extent of self-harm as a consequence of bullying. There is wide variation in reported rates of self-harming among school children because individuals often do not disclose it. However, schools are well placed to spot a change in behaviour that may indicate something is wrong. To assist school staff, we published advice for schools on mental health and behaviour, providing teachers with information and tools that will help them to identify and support pupils with mental health needs, including advice about making referrals to a specialist service when necessary. The advice includes specific information about self-harm and effective treatment, as well as a school case study about how to address mental health issues in a non-stigmatising way in the classroom.</p><br /><p>The SEND Code of Practice makes it clear that schools need to look past any behaviour issues to identify underlying problems, including mental health issues, and put support in place where learning is affected. Our new joint training pilots with the NHS will further help to schools to effectively support children and young people with mental health concerns.</p><br /><p>The new PSHE lesson plans include teaching about self-harm and to help schools teach about mental health we have funded the PSHE Association to provide new mental health guidance and resources. This will help schools provide age appropriate teaching about mental health issues through the teaching of PSHE.</p><br /><p>All bullying is unacceptable and every school is required to have a behaviour policy with measures to tackle all forms of bullying. They are held to account by Ofsted and inspectors will look at records and analysis of bullying, discriminatory and prejudicial behaviour. In 2015-16, the Government has provided £3.3m to charitable organisations to help tackle bullying and to provide support for those who are bullied. This is further to the £4m provided over the period 2013-15.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/12/2015 14:24:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

425292

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds with lower 11-plus test scores are more or less likely to be offered grammar school places than children from higher socioeconomic status backgrounds; and what steps they are taking to achieve equality of opportunity in education.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL3218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on the selection test scores of prospective applicants to grammar schools.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that every child, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. The recent report by the Public Accounts Committee on ‘Funding for disadvantaged pupils’ stated that, since the introduction of the pupil premium, the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers has closed by 4.7 percentage points in primary schools and by 1.6 percentage points in secondary schools.</p><p>We continue to invest in our academies and free schools programme, which is already raising standards in areas serving some of our most disadvantaged young people.</p><p>We are also putting high expectations at the heart of our school system, with a rigorous new curriculum, world-class exams, and a new accountability system that rewards schools that encourage every child to achieve their best.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/11/2015 16:37:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley