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1714642

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the proposed increase in early years childcare provision could lead to a widening of the attainment gap.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL4194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results in 2022/23 found 67.2% of children had a good level of development, which is an increase of around 2 percentage points compared to the previous year. Additionally, the percentage of disadvantaged children with a good level of development had increased by 2.5 percentage points and the gap with their peers had narrowed by at least 0.5 percentage points.</p><p> </p><p>The department has commissioned an independent evaluation of the childcare entitlements expansion, which will explore the effects of the expansion on children’s development. Results will be made available on GOV.UK in due course. This is in addition to the existing significant programme of monitoring that includes pulse surveys with early years providers, polling with parents and annual large-scale surveys of providers and parents. The department will also continue to use the existing body of evidence from studies such as the Study of Early Education and Development and Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education to inform its work.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 09/05/2024 16:17:42 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1714668

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, given the finding by Action for Children in its report, Above and Beyond: How teachers fill gaps in the system to keep children learning, that teachers are supporting 3.3 million children who face barriers to their education because of issues outside of school, what plans they have to make schools the fourth statutory safeguarding partner.
tabling member printed	Lord Hampton
uin	HL4144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The government recognises that education needs to play a greater role in local safeguarding arrangements. This reflects the part schools, colleges, early years and other education settings play in the lives of children and families, and their safeguarding responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>In 2023, the department consulted on and strengthened its statutory guidance, titled ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, which clarified the roles and responsibilities of education settings, both strategically and operationally, in local safeguarding arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, the department is exploring how it can increase the role of education in multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 09/05/2024 15:28:38 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4951 label Biography information for Lord Hampton

1714669

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, given the findings by Action for Children in its report, Above and Beyond: How teachers fill gaps in the system to keep children learning, that (1) nine children in an average class of 25 face challenges outside of school which hinder their ability to learn, and (2) teachers are struggling to support them and their families, what action they are taking to encourage schools to employ family liaison officers to support struggling families.
tabling member printed	Lord Hampton
uin	HL4145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The government recognises the pivotal role teachers and education settings play in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and families.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s 2023 updated statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ confirms that staff working in education settings play an important role in building relationships, identifying concerns and providing direct support to children.</p><p> </p><p>At the last Spending Review, the department announced over £1 billion for programmes to improve early help services from birth to adulthood, including delivering on Family Hubs and helping families facing multiple disadvantages through the Supporting Families Programme and the holiday activities and food programme. Local authorities working with their partners can decide to use this funding to employ family liaison officers or other professionals to support families within education settings.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love: strategy and consultation’, announced plans to build on the strengths of these vital early help services through the implementation of family help. In the Families First for Children Pathfinder, the department is testing how it can increase the role of education in multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and how local areas can provide targeted support to help children and families overcome challenges at the earliest opportunity. The Pathfinder is running in ten local authority areas across two ‘waves’: Dorset, Lincolnshire and Wolverhampton (wave one announced July 2023) and Lewisham, Luton, Redbridge, Walsall, Warrington, Warwickshire and Wirral (wave two announced April 2024).</p><p>The department is also making the ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance statutory from September 2024. This sets out how schools, local authorities and other services need to work together to support pupils at risk of poor attendance and ensure support provided to these families is consistent across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s package of wide-ranging reforms designed to support schools to improve attendance means that there were 440,000 fewer children persistently absent or not attending in 2022/23 compared to 2021/22.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 14/05/2024 13:57:53 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4951 label Biography information for Lord Hampton

1421512

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of the 55 Education Investment Areas have surplus school places.
tabling member printed	Lord Baker of Dorking
uin	HL6114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes school place planning estimates as part of the school capacity official statistics publication, available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity</a>.</p><p>This contains estimates of future school place shortfalls and surpluses. This data was last published in May 2019 and covered the place planning estimates for mainstream school places in year groups from reception to year 11. The department will be publishing updated school capacity official statistics at the end of March 2022.</p><p>Identification of forecast need is carried out at planning area level. This means that within a local authority there may be planning areas forecasting a surplus and others forecasting a need for additional places. Based on the data published in May 2019, an estimated 53,000 primary places and 77,000 secondary places were needed across England to meet demand for academic year 2023/24. Around 17,000 of these primary places and 25,000 of these secondary places are in Education Investment Areas.</p><p>The need for places will be an important consideration in determining whether new free schools will be approved and opened. The department will set out more details on the future free school programme in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL6115 question first answered 23/02/2022 11:51:34 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1028 label Biography information for Lord Baker of Dorking

1421513

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, if there are surplus school places available in the Education Investment Areas, new specialist sixth form free schools will be allowed to be established there.
tabling member printed	Lord Baker of Dorking
uin	HL6115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes school place planning estimates as part of the school capacity official statistics publication, available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity</a>.</p><p>This contains estimates of future school place shortfalls and surpluses. This data was last published in May 2019 and covered the place planning estimates for mainstream school places in year groups from reception to year 11. The department will be publishing updated school capacity official statistics at the end of March 2022.</p><p>Identification of forecast need is carried out at planning area level. This means that within a local authority there may be planning areas forecasting a surplus and others forecasting a need for additional places. Based on the data published in May 2019, an estimated 53,000 primary places and 77,000 secondary places were needed across England to meet demand for academic year 2023/24. Around 17,000 of these primary places and 25,000 of these secondary places are in Education Investment Areas.</p><p>The need for places will be an important consideration in determining whether new free schools will be approved and opened. The department will set out more details on the future free school programme in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL6114 question first answered 23/02/2022 11:51:34 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1028 label Biography information for Lord Baker of Dorking

1421539

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Barran on 21 October (HL Deb col 381), what progress they have made on the education sector certification scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The department has now finalised the programme of work and anticipate that we will be placing a copy of the work in the House of Lords Library by the end of March 2022.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 23/02/2022 11:58:10 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1349326

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of educational underachievement in Britain; and whether they feel a one-size-fits-all approach is the answer.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2021 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response will outline the education reforms for England.</p><p>The government remains committed to raising educational standards for all pupils, to ensure they have the knowledge, qualifications and skills they need to succeed in life. The proportion of schools now rated by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding has risen from 68% in 2010 to 86% in 2020. For all phases of education, there is funding in place that specifically targets disadvantaged children and young people, in order to tackle the attainment gap.</p><p>For children in their early years, the department is investing £17 million to deliver the Nuffield Early Language Intervention, improving the language skills of reception age children who need it most during the COVID-19 outbreak. We have also announced £10 million for a pre-reception early language continued professional development programme, supporting early years staff to work with those disadvantaged children who are at risk of falling behind.</p><p>Disadvantaged children at school continue to benefit from additional funding given to their schools through the pupil premium, worth over £2.5 billion in 2021/22.</p><p>For 16 to 19-year-olds, the national funding formula includes extra funding for disadvantaged students. In 2020/21 the government allocated over £530 million to enable colleges, schools, and other providers to recruit and support disadvantaged 16 to 19-year-olds and to support students with special educational needs and disabilities.</p><p>The Disadvantage Gap Index shows that, between 2011 and 2019, the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils narrowed by 13% at age 11 and 9% at age 16.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 04/08/2021 13:36:18 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1341530

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by New Schools Network and Onward Lost Learning: Why we need to Level Up Education, published on 25 June; and what plans they have to offer teachers a fixed stipend to work in schools in areas of underperformance.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The department would like to thank New Schools Network and Onward for their report ‘Lost Learning: Why we need to Level Up Education’. The government will be responding to the report’s recommendations and conclusions in due course.</p><p>Levelling Up is at the heart of the government’s agenda to build back better after the COVID-19 outbreak and to deliver for citizens across the UK. The government will publish a landmark Levelling Up White Paper later this year, setting out new policy interventions to improve livelihoods and opportunity in all parts of the UK.</p><p>The department is currently piloting several retention payment schemes for teachers, including early career payments, teacher student loan reimbursement, and the mathematics and physics teacher retention payments. These schemes are targeted towards disadvantaged areas to encourage teachers to work in schools in these areas. The department is conducting evaluations to assess the effect of these pilot schemes, and we will consider our future retention offer in light of the evaluation findings.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 12/07/2021 11:09:49 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1246816

registered interest
date	27/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to close the educational attainment gap between wealthy and deprived areas.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL9682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>The government established the Opportunity Areas programme in 2017 to focus resources on transforming the life chances of children and young people in 12 areas of the country with low social mobility. We are investing £90 million to tackle regional inequality, convene resources, test new approaches and unlock barriers in those geographic areas where educational challenges are greatest.</p><p>Nationally, the department’s pupil premium grant provides additional funding to schools based on the number of disadvantaged pupils on roll. We have invested more than £18 billion since 2011, and another £2.4 billion this year, to enable schools to arrange extra support for their pupils. This is accelerating their progress and narrowing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. The attainment gap index shows the attainment gap has narrowed by 9% at age 16 and 13% at age 11 since 2011. We established the Education Endowment Foundation with £137 million to research and promote the most effective ways of using pupil premium, so that all schools can make a difference to their disadvantaged pupils’ futures. Schools should consult their pupil premium guide when arranging support for their pupils.</p><p>We are aware that all pupils, irrespective of where they live, have been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>The £1 billion COVID-19 catch-up package will give additional funding to schools to support pupils whose education has been negatively affected by the outbreak. As part of this package, the National Tutoring Programme will target £350 million to boost the progress of disadvantaged pupils through providing access to subsidised tuition supplied by approved tuition partners. Schools in the most deprived areas will also be supported to use in-house academic mentors to provide intensive catch-up support to their pupils in small groups. This sits alongside our £650 million universal catch-up premium, which will enable schools to prioritise support for pupils in line with their levels of need. The Education Endowment Foundation has published guidance to help schools make the most of this catch-up funding, which is available here: <a href="https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/national-tutoring-programme/covid-19-support-guide-for-schools/#nav-covid-19-support-guide-for-schools1" target="_blank">https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/national-tutoring-programme/covid-19-support-guide-for-schools/#nav-covid-19-support-guide-for-schools1</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 10/11/2020 18:01:01 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1175160

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills 2018/19, published on 21 January.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector’s Annual Report paints a strong picture of success across early years, schools and further education in England, with 96% of early years, 86% of schools and 81% of further education and skills judged to be ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by the inspectorate. The report also shows positive developments in social care with 48% of local authorities now judged ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, compared with 36% after their first inspections under the previous framework.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s findings are a testament to the dedication and professionalism of so many individuals working hard to improve the lives of young people and adults.</p><p> </p><p>The government wants to build on this and go further. Hence, we are investing an additional £14.4 billion in schools over the next three years; an extra £1 billion for adult and children’s social care every year of this Parliament; an additional £3 billion over the course of this Parliament to support the creation of a National Skills Fund; and a further £4.4 billion to fund pension contributions into the Teacher Pension Scheme, one of the best pension schemes available. We are including a further £1.8 billion for funding on capital investment into further education colleges. We are also increasing 16 to 19 funding in 2020-21 by £400 million, the biggest injection of new money in a single year since 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 04/02/2020 18:02:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick