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date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurseries: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of staff in nurseries.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	111013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>In March, the department published an early years’ workforce strategy, the Early Years Workforce Strategy, which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy</a>. This set out a number of measures to support the sector to recruit, retain and develop staff. These measures are currently being implemented. To support recruitment, for example, we consulted with the sector and as a result broadened out the English and maths qualification requirements for level 3 staff to include other suitable level 2 qualifications, including functional skills.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 10/11/2017 14:35:53 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to enhance collaboration between the (a) Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science and (b) other programmes in England and equivalent computing teacher support programmes in the devolved nations.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	109646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>The Network of Excellence for Computer Science Teaching is a Department funded programme which provides high-quality continuing professional development to existing teachers in England.</p><p>This programme is contracted to the British Computing Society who have members and local branches across the whole of the UK. Through its management of Computing At Schools, a network of local hubs for computing science teachers across the UK, the British Computing Society ensures that the Network of Excellence is part of a collaborative UK wide network. The Network of Excellence responds to local needs through collaboration with wider programmes such as the STEM learning centre in York, the London mayor’s digital programmes, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Apps for Good.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/11/2017 12:55:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to address mental health problems within universities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	109171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>Mental health is a priority for this Government. This is why the Department for Health, together with the Department for Education (DfE), is publishing a joint green paper on Children and Young People, which will set out plans to transform specialist services and support in education settings and for families.</p><p>As autonomous organisations, it is for Higher Education Institutions to determine what welfare and counselling services they need to provide to their students. Each institution will be best placed to identify the needs of their particular student body, including taking actions in line with any legal responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010.</p><p>The DfE is engaging with Universities UK (UUK) on their ongoing programme of work on Mental Health in Higher Education (MHHE). As part of UUK's MMHE Programme, UUK launched their Step Change programme on 4 September, which encourages higher education leaders to adopt mental health as a strategic imperative and implement a whole institution approach. Additionally, as part of MHHE, UUK has worked in partnership with the Institute for Public Policy Research to strengthen the evidence-base on mental health in higher education.</p><p>Their independent report – ‘Not by Degrees: Improving student mental health in the UK's universities’ was published on 4 September 2017 - <a href="https://ippr.org/research/publications/not-by-degrees" target="_blank">https://ippr.org/research/publications/not-by-degrees</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 31/10/2017 14:23:02 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon