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57549

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date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Travellers: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish their report on pilots of a virtual head teacher system expressly aimed at redressing the inequalities in education experienced by Gypsies and Travellers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL22
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Two local authorities, Kent and Cambridgeshire, have been involved in piloting the role of a virtual head teacher who helped schools to engage with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) pupils to improve their school attendance and attainment. These local authorities are currently finalising their summaries of the projects. The Department for Education will work with these authorities and the GRT education stakeholder group, chaired by the noble Lady, to determine the most appropriate way to disseminate the outcomes of this work.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 11:07:13 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

57585

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
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 14 May (WA 532) stating that the Ofsted Report for 2013 found there were 700,000 pupils in schools where behaviour is "just not good enough", how many of these pupils were (1) under 10, (2) between 10 and 13, (3) over 13, (4) in local authority schools, (5) in academies, and (6) boys.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL58
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted's annual report (2012/13) indicates that around 700,000 pupils are in schools where behaviour needs to improve.</p><p>This figure is based on Ofsted's behaviour inspection judgement for 2013, which shows that nationally 8 per cent of schools in England are rated less than ‘good', and the number of pupils on roll in schools taken from the rounded January 2013 School Census Data. Information in the form requested is not held by the Department.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:27:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57586

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
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 14 May (WA 532), of the just under a third of teachers who "did not have the confidence...to discipline pupils for unacceptable behaviour", what proportion of those teachers were in (1) primary schools, (2) secondary schools, (3) local authority schools, and (4) academies.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL59
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>29 per cent of secondary school teachers did not feel confident using disciplinary powers, compared to 17 per cent of primary school teachers. The Department for Education does not hold separate data for local authority schools and academies.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:26:04 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57587

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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	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 14 May (WA 533), if school exclusion data for the years 1980 and 1990 are not held by the Department for Education, from where they can be obtained.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL60
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Permanent exclusions data was first collected in 1994/95. Information on fixed period exclusions was only collected from 2003/04.</p><p>Information on exclusion rates prior to 2005/06 was collected via the Termly Exclusions Survey rather than the School Census.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:25:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57588

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether it has been their policy for fixed-period exclusions from school to remain broadly constant over the past decade and for permanent exclusions to fall sharply year by year; if so, how they assess the outcome; and if not, how they account for the difference.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL61
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Exclusion is a decision for headteachers alone to take. The Government does not set targets or expected levels for exclusion. Rather, the Government's policy is that headteachers need to ensure good discipline in schools, in the interest of all their pupils, and should feel confident in using exclusion where they believe this is warranted by a pupil's behaviour.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/06/2014 14:25:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57589

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have observed any correlation between bad behaviour in schools and the absence of a specified dress code for (1) pupils, and (2) teachers.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL62
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not have any evidence of any correlation between bad behaviour in schools and the absence of a specified dress code for pupils and teachers.</p><p>The Department for Education has issued advice that strongly encourages schools to have a uniform, as it can play a valuable role in contributing to the ethos of a school and setting an appropriate tone. However, it is for the governing body of a school (or the academy trust in the case of academies and free schools) to decide whether there should be a uniform policy and other rules on appearance. This flows from the duties placed upon all governing bodies by statute to ensure that school policies promote good behaviour and discipline among the pupil body.</p><p>Dress codes for teachers are a matter for employers to determine, whether that is the governing body, academy trust or local authority. As part of the general terms and conditions of employment agreed with employees we would expect schools to consider an appropriate dress code, relevant to the individual setting, taking into account the requirements of the post.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/06/2014 11:39:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57590

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in respect of the latest two years for which figures are available, how many of the pupils excluded from academies were admitted to local authority schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL63
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of exclusions from academies in England in the 2010/11[1] and 2011/12[2] academic years is available in table 16 of the “Permanent and fixed period exclusions from schools in England” statistical first releases for each year.</p><p>Information on the number of excluded pupils that were admitted to local authority schools is not held by the Department.</p><p>Academies are bound by their funding agreements to comply with the statutory requirements on admissions and the Admissions Code as if they were a maintained school. Schools, including academies, cannot refuse to admit pupils on the grounds of past behaviour unless they have received two or more permanent exclusions.</p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-academic-year-2010-to-2011" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-academic-year-2010-to-2011</a></p><p>[2]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-2011-to-2012-academic-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-2011-to-2012-academic-year</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/06/2014 11:38:54 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

57626

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records his Department maintains of instances where a teacher has had a sexual relationship with a student under the age of 16 years in (a) maintained schools and (b) independent schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	198580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p>Since April 2012, where a teacher has been dismissed, or resigned in the face of dismissal, as a result of serious misconduct all schools have had a statutory duty to consider referring the matter to the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL). The NCTL acts as the regulator of the teaching profession on behalf of the Secretary of State. It is responsible for determining whether the referred individual should be prohibited from teaching on the grounds of unacceptable professional conduct, conduct that might bring the profession into disrepute and/or conviction of a relevant offence. Information about cases considered by NCTL is not held in the format requested and to obtain the information requested would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>In addition to the NCTL process for regulating teachers, the Department's Independent Education and Boarding Team (IEBT) administer the wider regulatory system for independent schools. This team can receive information about allegations of abuse from a variety of sources, including Ofsted, local authorities, parents and the police. The Department's records show that there have been 5 referrals since April 2012 and 2 from January 2009 to March 2012 where sexual abuse of a pupil by an adult working at the school was a factor. When such referrals are received, the Department's role is not to investigate the allegations, which are a matter for the local authority and the police, but to determine whether the school is meeting the independent school standards, and take action to ensure it does so.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 09/06/2014 16:24:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

57627

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations his Department has received from families groups on allowing the names of parents and legal guardians to be included on a child's passport.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	198577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has no record of family groups (or anyone else) making representations on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 09/06/2014 16:18:01 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

57628

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 59-61W, on private education: offences against children, how many referrals the National College for Teaching and Leadership has (a) received and (b) acted upon since that body's establishment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	198607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership has received 40 referrals from independent schools in respect of matters outlined in the answer of 6 May 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, columns 59-61W.</p><p>All of these referrals have been considered, or are in the course of being considered, in accordance with the procedures outlined in that answer.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 09/06/2014 16:23:41 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe