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1013200

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Accountability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 11 July and 20 October (HL9052 and HL10598), when they intend to publish the consultation document on reviewing the school accountability system.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL11760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>It was announced on 9 November that the consultation will take place in the New Year.</p><p>The consultation will be focused on considering how schools that might benefit from support can be best identified.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 07/12/2018 12:32:57 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1013201

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Maintained Schools
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new local authority maintained schools have been established since 1 January 2014 as a result of the amalgamation of two or more maintained schools.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL11761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>Since 1 January 2014, 42 new local authority maintained schools have been established. Of these schools, 25 were established as a result of amalgamation.</p><p>The table attached lists the LA maintained schools that have been established since 1 January 2014, alongside the relevant local authority and the reason for establishment. This includes all local authority maintained mainstream provision, but does not include special schools, pupil referral units or LA maintained nursery schools.</p><p>This data was obtained from ‘Get Information about Schools’ (GIAS).[1]</p><p>It has always been possible to establish a new local authority maintained school, in certain circumstances, under section 10 or section 11 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006. Section 10 proposals require the permission of the Secretary of State prior to their publication.</p><p> </p><p>A ‘new school’ may not always be ‘new provision’, and may be replacement provision following the closure of one or more schools. This includes where a school has opened as a result of an amalgation (where two or more existing schools have closed and have been replaced by a new school), where a school changes its religious character, or where independent schools join the state-maintained sector.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The responsibility for updating GIAS is shared between the Department for Education, local authorities and schools, it changes each day as data is removed and uploaded therefore we are unable to guarantee complete accuracy.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL11762 question first answered 07/12/2018 12:30:46 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL11761_List_of_New_Maintained_Schools_2014-18_bm_RD.pdf title HL11761_List_of_New_Maintained_Schools_2014-18_bm_
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1013202

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Maintained Schools
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which new local authority maintained schools have been established since 1 January 2014 other than by amalgamation; and for each school, (1) what was the relevant local authority, (2) what category of school was established, and (3) what was the reason of the establishment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL11762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>Since 1 January 2014, 42 new local authority maintained schools have been established. Of these schools, 25 were established as a result of amalgamation.</p><p>The table attached lists the LA maintained schools that have been established since 1 January 2014, alongside the relevant local authority and the reason for establishment. This includes all local authority maintained mainstream provision, but does not include special schools, pupil referral units or LA maintained nursery schools.</p><p>This data was obtained from ‘Get Information about Schools’ (GIAS).[1]</p><p>It has always been possible to establish a new local authority maintained school, in certain circumstances, under section 10 or section 11 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006. Section 10 proposals require the permission of the Secretary of State prior to their publication.</p><p> </p><p>A ‘new school’ may not always be ‘new provision’, and may be replacement provision following the closure of one or more schools. This includes where a school has opened as a result of an amalgation (where two or more existing schools have closed and have been replaced by a new school), where a school changes its religious character, or where independent schools join the state-maintained sector.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The responsibility for updating GIAS is shared between the Department for Education, local authorities and schools, it changes each day as data is removed and uploaded therefore we are unable to guarantee complete accuracy.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL11761 question first answered 07/12/2018 12:30:46 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL11761_List_of_New_Maintained_Schools_2014-18_bm_RD.pdf title HL11761_List_of_New_Maintained_Schools_2014-18_bm_
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1027202

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the adequacy of funding for apprenticeships.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL12384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The departmental budget for spending on further education and apprenticeships in England from 2015-16 to 2019-20 was set initially in the 2015 Spending Review. Skills is a devolved matter and the funding for the devolved nations for the current spending review period was set at the same time. As with other areas of departmental spending, further education funding from 2020 onwards will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.</p><p>The department has protected the base rate of funding for 16 to 19 year olds for all types of providers until the end of the current spending review period in 2020. The department has been allocated £1.5 billion for the adult education budget for each year of the 2015 Spending Review period up to 2020, to engage adults and provide the skills and learning they need up to level 3 to equip them for work, an apprenticeship or further learning.</p><p>Since 2016, the department has made over £330 million available to support major college restructuring, supporting significant improvements to financial sustainability in the sector. The department is currently considering the final applications for the restructuring facility and expect the final figure to rise significantly before the programme ends next year.</p><p>The department is actively exploring the funding and resilience of further education and will be assessing how far existing and forecast funding and regulatory structures enable high quality provision. This work will align closely with the Post-18 Review in particular, to ensure a coherent vision for further and higher education.</p><p>By 2019-20, the funding available for apprenticeships in England will have risen to over £2.5 billion, including the additional £115 million confirmed at Budget 2018. Spending on the apprenticeship programme is demand-led and employers can choose which apprenticeships they offer and at what level, how many and when. Further, levy paying employers have two years to spend the funds available to them in their apprenticeship service accounts.</p><p>The department will publish details on further education and apprenticeship spending in our annual report and accounts as part of our normal financial reporting cycle. The department published 2017-18 spending in July and the annual report and accounts can be found on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL12385 question first answered 20/12/2018 16:46:27 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1027203

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Finance
	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 adequacy of funding for further education.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL12385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The departmental budget for spending on further education and apprenticeships in England from 2015-16 to 2019-20 was set initially in the 2015 Spending Review. Skills is a devolved matter and the funding for the devolved nations for the current spending review period was set at the same time. As with other areas of departmental spending, further education funding from 2020 onwards will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.</p><p>The department has protected the base rate of funding for 16 to 19 year olds for all types of providers until the end of the current spending review period in 2020. The department has been allocated £1.5 billion for the adult education budget for each year of the 2015 Spending Review period up to 2020, to engage adults and provide the skills and learning they need up to level 3 to equip them for work, an apprenticeship or further learning.</p><p>Since 2016, the department has made over £330 million available to support major college restructuring, supporting significant improvements to financial sustainability in the sector. The department is currently considering the final applications for the restructuring facility and expect the final figure to rise significantly before the programme ends next year.</p><p>The department is actively exploring the funding and resilience of further education and will be assessing how far existing and forecast funding and regulatory structures enable high quality provision. This work will align closely with the Post-18 Review in particular, to ensure a coherent vision for further and higher education.</p><p>By 2019-20, the funding available for apprenticeships in England will have risen to over £2.5 billion, including the additional £115 million confirmed at Budget 2018. Spending on the apprenticeship programme is demand-led and employers can choose which apprenticeships they offer and at what level, how many and when. Further, levy paying employers have two years to spend the funds available to them in their apprenticeship service accounts.</p><p>The department will publish details on further education and apprenticeship spending in our annual report and accounts as part of our normal financial reporting cycle. The department published 2017-18 spending in July and the annual report and accounts can be found on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL12384 question first answered 20/12/2018 16:46:27 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1027204

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Care Leavers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they provide outside term-time to full-time higher education students who are care leavers without a permanent home, particularly over the Christmas holiday period.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL12386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>As autonomous and independent organisations, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) determine what support services they provide to their students. Each institution will be best placed to identify the needs of their particular student body. The government places a high priority on how the particular needs of care leavers are addressed by HEIs. Many already provide all-year-round accommodation and bursaries for care leaver students. The Department for Education’s Guidance to the Office for Students (OfS), on completing 2019/20 access and participation plans, specifically identifies care leavers as a key target group whose needs HEIs should address. This is reflected in the OfS own guidance to the sector.</p><p> </p><p>The government recently launched the Care Leaver Covenant, which provides a way for organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors – including universities – to set out and publicise what support they provide to care leavers. A number of universities have already signed the Covenant, including Leeds, Liverpool John Moores, Huddersfield and Bradford; and we will continue to work closely with the OfS to encourage all universities to sign it.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 20/12/2018 16:47:10 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1027205

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	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: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they plan to allocate for (1) relationships and sex education, and (2) relationships education in schools.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL12387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>We want all schools to deliver high quality teaching in this important area of the curriculum and many already do so. Our public consultation closed on 7 November 2018. We will use those findings to develop the right school support package to complement the content set out in the draft guidance.</p><p>We expect to lay the regulations in spring 2019. We will publish the government’s response to the consultation and place a copy of the guidance in both Houses when the regulations are laid.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 20/12/2018 17:56:20 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1027206

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Assessments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what they consider to be the potential educational merits of a baseline assessment for reception pupils.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL12388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, following a full public consultation, we announced that we would introduce a new reception baseline assessment (RBA) from autumn 2020. The purpose of the RBA will be to provide the starting point of a school progress measure. This will give schools full credit for the important work that they do with all of their pupils throughout their time at primary school, regardless of their prior attainment. Unlike the current progress measure, which only runs from year 2 to year 6 and does not cover the first three years of school, the RBA will allow schools to be recognised for the crucial work that they do with their pupils in the reception year, year 1 and year 2. The short, teacher-mediated assessment will also add to a teacher’s understanding of their class when they start the reception year.</p><p>Additionally, the introduction of the RBA will enable us to remove the statutory end of key stage 1 assessments, as they will no longer be required to provide a baseline for progress measures, reducing the overall burden of the statutory assessment system on teachers and headteachers.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 21/12/2018 13:59:41 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1052398

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Al-Hijrah School
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham complies with the Court of Appeal ruling on 7 November 2017, which found that the school's segregation policy was unlawful.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL13343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The government is taking action so that pupils at Al Hijrah are prepared for life in modern Britain. We are committed to ensuring that the pupils succeed in their personal development as well as their academic development.</p><p> </p><p>Al Hijrah is currently a school that caters for pupils aged 4 to 16. The local authority has now re-designated Al Hijrah into a primary school, which will operate from a new school site from 1 September 2019. Following this re-designation, the Regional Schools Commissioner for West Midlands approved an application for the newly designated primary school to become an academy sponsored by Star Academies Trust.</p><p> </p><p>A new provision for secondary girls will also be available through a single sex free school on a new site. A decision on the free school is expected to be made by the end of February 2019.</p><p>Secondary boys currently attending Al Hijrah will be able to attend other local schools from September 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 12/02/2019 15:23:23 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1052399

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Discrimination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many schools Ofsted has reported to them as operating a segregation policy; and what action has been taken as a result of any such reports.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL13344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>In June 2018 the department published the attached guidance ‘Gender separation in mixed schools’, to support schools in complying with the law on this matter. Such separation is permissible when in accordance with exemptions under the Equality Act 2010 – for instance those related to the correction of educational disadvantage or the needs of different sexes, provision for competitive sports, or is insignificant enough to be regarded as de minimis<em>.</em></p><p> </p><p>Ofsted began systematically reporting on pupil segregation matters from September 2018 and has drawn attention to this in several inspection reports published since that date. The exact number of schools reported by Ofsted could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The department is taking action in relation to each school where this has occurred, by seeking details of the school’s plans to eliminate segregation or making organisational changes to the school and setting out the approvals process which has to be followed. The department is also in touch with a number of schools thought to operate segregation for pupils to discuss their plans, and has liaised with representative bodies for the schools involved.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding how many schools in England treat girls differently to boys in terms of (1) common room access, (2) playground activities, (3) eating arrangements, and (4) any other activities in the school but outside the classroom, is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL13345 question first answered 12/02/2019 15:24:47 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL13344_HL13345_Gender_Separation_in_Mixed_Schools.pdf title HL13344_HL13345_Gender_Separation_in_Mixed_Schools
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie