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1175653

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a yearly standardised mental health questionnaire for all secondary school children.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	11622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>Schools make a real difference to the mental wellbeing of their pupils, and the Government recognises that this is already a priority for many of them. According to the Department’s school snapshot survey published in winter 2018, 92% of secondary schools and 86% of primary schools already use tools such as surveys to monitor their pupils’ wellbeing.</p><p>To help more schools to access evidence-based approaches to measure and support wellbeing, the Government will provide wellbeing measurement advice that will enable schools to navigate the resources and tools available to them.</p><p>The Government will continue to engage with leading experts on the measurement of mental health and wellbeing in schools. Nationally, the Government draws upon large-scale sample surveys to understand trends in children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, and we recently published the first ‘State of the nation’ report on this vitally important issue.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/02/2020 16:01:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1140313

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of exams on the mental health of (a) sixth-form, (b) secondary, and (c) primary school students.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	279114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>Assessments are an essential part of ensuring that children and young people are taught the knowledge and skills they need. Statutory assessments at Key Stages 1 and 2 help teachers to understand how their pupils are performing against national expectations and enable them to identify where extra support may be needed. Both statutory assessments and qualifications enable the Department to hold schools and colleges to account and in doing so help to ensure that they offer a high-quality education to all their pupils.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is aware that tests and exams can be a time of heightened emotions for pupils and teachers, but they are not meant to cause stress and anxiety. Schools should encourage all pupils to work hard and achieve well, but this should not be at the expense of their wellbeing. They should also provide appropriate support for the betterment of pupils’ wellbeing and resilience.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/07/2019 11:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1140321

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) community, (b) academy, (c) grammar and (d) independent school students were given special consideration in exams due to mental health problems in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	279121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The administration of special consideration by exam boards is a matter for the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual). I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write directly to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/07/2019 12:27:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1127785

registered interest
date	21/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the effect on children’s (a) wellbeing and (b) development of changes in the time available for break-time over the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	257065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to assess the impact of any changes in the length of school break times. Schools have the autonomy to make decisions about the structure and duration of their school day to suit their own circumstances. However, the Department is clear that pupils should be given an appropriate break and expects school leaders to make sure this happens.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of physical activity in schools to improve physical and mental wellbeing and support attainment. The Department’s childhood obesity strategy reflects the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines that primary age children should get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day and the aim that 30 minutes of that should be during the school day.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/05/2019 16:12:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1038448

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support pupils who experience mental health problems at school.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	206794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Many schools provide support to pupils with mental health issues, but teachers are not mental health professionals and need specialist support.</p><p>The Department is making available an additional £1.4 billion between 2015 and 2020 to improve mental health services for children and young people. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a continued focus on improving specialist services to build on this. It makes a commitment that expenditure on children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than overall NHS spending and sets out plans to increase access to treatment.</p><p>This provision will include new Mental Health Support Teams working in or near schools and colleges to provide earlier access to a wider range of support and treatments. The first of these teams will be set up this year in 25 trailblazer areas that will test how they can work in practice. The aim is to cover a fifth to a quarter of England by 2023.</p><p>To support schools to engage with specialist support, the Government will fund the training of a designated senior lead in every school on how to put in place a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/01/2019 12:22:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 95257 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1002043

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to require schools to provide advice on mental health to pupils.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	188064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Schools will be required to teach mental health as part of the Department’s plans to make health education compulsory. The Government is currently seeking views on the draft guidance and regulations, which will support the new subjects of relationships education in primary, relationships and sex education in secondary, and health education in all schools. The consultation includes questions on what support schools will need to deliver high-quality teaching. The consultation closed on the 7 November. <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/</a>.</p><p>The draft statutory guidance sets out core content that schools will teach. The draft mental health content includes teaching pupils how to recognise and talk about their emotions, how to judge when they or someone they know needs support and prevention, including the benefits of physical exercise.</p><p>Schools will decide what further advice to provide to their pupils. To support schools, the Government will fund the training of a Designated Senior Lead for mental health in every school, to put in place a whole school approach to mental health and well-being. This can cover activities as part of pastoral support and advice for individual pupils with specific needs.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/11/2018 13:11:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

943900

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the mental well-being of young people waiting for their GCSE results.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>It is up to schools to decide what continuing support to offer students waiting for results during the summer holiday.</p><p> </p><p>Where young people or parents are concerned about mental wellbeing they can seek support from providers of online, telephone and face-to-face mental health and wellbeing support. Local NHS services can provide information and advice on sources of support, including that offered by local authority and voluntary and community sector providers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/07/2018 14:39:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

942451

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure the availability of support for children's mental health in the run-up to examinations.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	164533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Schools are responsible for preparing their pupils for examinations and should have strong pastoral support in place to help pupils with any worries they might have.</p><p>The Government has taken steps to increase teachers’ awareness of mental health issues. The Department of Health and Social Care is funding mental health awareness training for every secondary school teacher and plans to extend this to all primary schools before the end of this Parliament. This is in addition to funding MindEd – a free online portal providing information and training about mental health problems for adults working with children and young people.</p><p>Where pupils have an emerging mental health issue, many schools offer support. A Departmental survey indicated that 84% of secondary schools provide school-based counselling for pupils with emerging issues.</p><p>As set out in the green paper ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health provision’, the Government has committed to funding all schools to train a designated senior lead for mental health. The leads will be trained to promote and support good mental health and wellbeing in a school setting. The paper includes proposals for new Mental Health Support Teams. These will be made up of professionals trained in evidence-based interventions, with supervision from clinicians, to work alongside teachers and other professionals such as counsellors to provide support. The teams will also provide better routes into specialist NHS services for the pupils who need them.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/07/2018 16:13:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

873737

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the recommendation of the Centre for Mental Health's report of July 2017 entitled Against the Odds, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a Concordat for Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health to ensure that schools prioritise young people’s mental health and well-being.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	134851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The survey ‘Supporting mental health in schools and colleges’[1] shows the extensive help that schools provide for their pupils at present.</p><p>In December 2017 the Government published the green paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’,[2] which sets out further support, including designated senior leads for mental health in schools and colleges, and a significant increase in the number of early intervention practitioners</p><p>The Department is considering how mental health and wellbeing should be covered in the curriculum, as part of a process to determine the content of Relationships education and Relationships and Sex Education, and the future status of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. In providing education and support, schools and colleges must have regard to their equalities duties, including ensuring that they meet the needs of Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) pupils.</p><p>As the Against the Odds report suggests, behaviour management and exclusions practice in schools is an important factor. The Department has announced a review of exclusions which will focus on those pupils more likely to be excluded from school, including pupils from BAME groups.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-mental-health-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-mental-health-in-schools-and-colleges</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/04/2018 13:57:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

868608

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support mindfulness for pupils in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in England.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	133827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>We believe that it is for schools to decide what pastoral support to offer their pupils as they know them best. The department carried out a survey of school mental health provision (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-mental-health-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-mental-health-in-schools-and-colleges</a>) which found that 73% of schools offer sessions covering topics such as coping skills, problem-solving or mindfulness.</p><p> </p><p>The survey also indicated that schools need more information about evidence-based approaches to supporting mental wellbeing that work in a school setting. In January 2017, my Rt hon. Friend, the Prime Minister announced a programme of randomised control trials of school-based interventions to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>One of the trials, which commenced in August 2017, will involve approaches to promoting wellbeing in primary and secondary schools, including exercises, routines, and mindfulness. We will consider how best to provide schools with the outcomes of these projects and a range of other piloting and trial activity.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/03/2018 16:25:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra