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1655110

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Strikes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they are having with universities about the marking of students’ examination and assessment papers given the current industrial action by university staff; and whether they plan to require universities to reimburse students whose papers have not been marked.
tabling member printed	Lord Bailey of Paddington
uin	HL9673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2023 answer text <p>It is hugely disappointing that students, many of whom have already suffered during the pandemic, are facing further disruption and uncertainty. It is imperative that higher education (HE) institutions continue to do everything within their powers to protect the interests of their students.</p><p>While the department plays no formal role in such disputes, we are concerned about the potential impact of the marking and assessment boycott on students, particularly those who are graduating and looking to enter the jobs market or progress to further study.</p><p>The department understands that the vast majority of students will remain unaffected by the industrial action and, in most cases, will receive their full results on time and progress and/or graduate as normal.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education has held discussions with the Russell Group, Universities UK and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) to better understand the boycott’s impact on students and the actions institutions are taking to minimise disruption. He has also written to the Russell Group and Universities UK, encouraging them to continue to do everything within their powers to protect the interests of students during this phase of industrial action.</p><p>HE institutions are working on minimising the disruption to their students in a variety of ways, including reallocating marking to other staff members and hiring external markers. Many HE institutions can award degrees when they have enough evidence of a student’s prior attainment to do so. Others will be able to assign provisional grades to students to allow them to progress, and, once all papers have been marked, most institutions will award degree classifications that either remain as provisionally assigned or are uplifted to reflect the student’s achievements.</p><p>On 12 June 2023, the Office for Students (OfS) wrote to institutions affected by the boycott to reiterate its expectations in relation to its conditions of registration. The OfS will continue to monitor this ongoing situation through their normal regulatory mechanisms and have published guidance to students on their rights during industrial action. This guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/for-students/student-rights-and-welfare/student-guide-to-industrial-action/" target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/for-students/student-rights-and-welfare/student-guide-to-industrial-action/</a>.</p><p>Students who have complaints about their HE experience should contact their institution in the first instance. Students in England and Wales may also raise a complaint with the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), which was set up to provide an alternative to the courts and is free of charge to students. Depending on the complaint, the OIA may recommend that compensation be awarded. Whilst compensating students for disruption is the responsibility of HE institutions, the OIA expects institutions to comply with their recommendations. Further information is available at: <a href="https://www.oiahe.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.oiahe.org.uk/</a>.</p><p>The department will continue to engage with the HE sector over the coming weeks to help better understand the boycott’s impact on students and we hope an agreement between UCEA and University and College Union can be reached that delivers good value for students, staff and universities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2023 15:54:53 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4987 label Biography information for Lord Bailey of Paddington

1655134

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools and Teachers: Harassment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 13 July (HL8942), how many incidents of bomb threats to schools or death threats to teachers there have been in the past 10 years; and how many of those threats were made by Islamist individuals or groups.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL9702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2023 answer text <p>The department is unable to comment on individual cases as the police are responsible for investigating such incidents and will take action where they deem appropriate.</p><p>Where the department is made aware of incidents of this nature, the local authority and the police will be engaged where appropriate to seek assurances and offer support to schools.</p><p>The department’s school and college security guidance provides advice and support to the sector including how to deal with bomb threats. The guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-and-college-security" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-and-college-security</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 01/08/2023 10:31:39 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1655136

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to address the gaps in learning for disabled children who need to be absent from school more often than their peers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL9706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>Disabled children often face greater barriers to attending school than their peers, but the government is clear that the attendance ambition for these pupils should be the same as for any other pupil.</p><p>The department’s new ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance (attached) sets expectations on schools to be mindful of the barriers that disabled children face and put in place additional support where necessary to access full-time education, including making reasonable adjustments (for example, to uniforms or school routines). The department’s attendance hubs, mentors and advisor programmes will help schools to meet these expectations.</p><p>Local authorities are responsible for arranging suitable education for children of compulsory school age who, because of health reasons including long-term illness, would otherwise not receive suitable education. The department’s statutory guidance, ‘Ensuring a good education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs’ (attached), sets out clear expectations of local authorities to meet this duty including that the education provided is of good quality.</p><p>The attached Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan and the Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy, detail commitments to providing stronger support for disabled children. This includes a Law Commission review of children’s social care legislation for disabled children and a £30 million investment in innovative approaches to short breaks for disabled children. Improved attendance will be a key outcome in the new SEND and AP inclusion dashboards and in the new performance framework for AP. Information on the implementation strategy is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/childrens-social-care-stable-homes-built-on-love" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/childrens-social-care-stable-homes-built-on-love</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_health_needs_guidance.pdf title health needs guidance 2 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_SEND_and_alternative_provision_improvement_plan.pdf title SEND AP plan 3 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_Working_together_to_improve_school_attendance_guidance.pdf title School attendance guidance grouped question UIN HL9707 HL9708 question first answered 07/08/2023 11:38:50 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1655137

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the provision of education for disabled children who have long periods of absence from schools.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL9707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>Disabled children often face greater barriers to attending school than their peers, but the government is clear that the attendance ambition for these pupils should be the same as for any other pupil.</p><p>The department’s new ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance (attached) sets expectations on schools to be mindful of the barriers that disabled children face and put in place additional support where necessary to access full-time education, including making reasonable adjustments (for example, to uniforms or school routines). The department’s attendance hubs, mentors and advisor programmes will help schools to meet these expectations.</p><p>Local authorities are responsible for arranging suitable education for children of compulsory school age who, because of health reasons including long-term illness, would otherwise not receive suitable education. The department’s statutory guidance, ‘Ensuring a good education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs’ (attached), sets out clear expectations of local authorities to meet this duty including that the education provided is of good quality.</p><p>The attached Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan and the Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy, detail commitments to providing stronger support for disabled children. This includes a Law Commission review of children’s social care legislation for disabled children and a £30 million investment in innovative approaches to short breaks for disabled children. Improved attendance will be a key outcome in the new SEND and AP inclusion dashboards and in the new performance framework for AP. Information on the implementation strategy is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/childrens-social-care-stable-homes-built-on-love" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/childrens-social-care-stable-homes-built-on-love</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_health_needs_guidance.pdf title health needs guidance 2 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_SEND_and_alternative_provision_improvement_plan.pdf title SEND AP plan 3 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_Working_together_to_improve_school_attendance_guidance.pdf title School attendance guidance grouped question UIN HL9706 HL9708 question first answered 07/08/2023 11:38:50 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1655138

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Attendance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Children’s Commissioner report Beyond the labels: A SEND system which works for every child, every time, published in November 2022, which found that “children with SEND are overrepresented in terms of low attendance at school”, what plans they have to reform approaches to school attendance to incorporate the needs of disabled children.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL9708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>Disabled children often face greater barriers to attending school than their peers, but the government is clear that the attendance ambition for these pupils should be the same as for any other pupil.</p><p>The department’s new ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance (attached) sets expectations on schools to be mindful of the barriers that disabled children face and put in place additional support where necessary to access full-time education, including making reasonable adjustments (for example, to uniforms or school routines). The department’s attendance hubs, mentors and advisor programmes will help schools to meet these expectations.</p><p>Local authorities are responsible for arranging suitable education for children of compulsory school age who, because of health reasons including long-term illness, would otherwise not receive suitable education. The department’s statutory guidance, ‘Ensuring a good education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs’ (attached), sets out clear expectations of local authorities to meet this duty including that the education provided is of good quality.</p><p>The attached Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan and the Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy, detail commitments to providing stronger support for disabled children. This includes a Law Commission review of children’s social care legislation for disabled children and a £30 million investment in innovative approaches to short breaks for disabled children. Improved attendance will be a key outcome in the new SEND and AP inclusion dashboards and in the new performance framework for AP. Information on the implementation strategy is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/childrens-social-care-stable-homes-built-on-love" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/childrens-social-care-stable-homes-built-on-love</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_health_needs_guidance.pdf title health needs guidance 2 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_SEND_and_alternative_provision_improvement_plan.pdf title SEND AP plan 3 file name HL9706_HL9707_HL9708_Working_together_to_improve_school_attendance_guidance.pdf title School attendance guidance grouped question UIN HL9706 HL9707 question first answered 07/08/2023 11:38:50 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1655144

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Email
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the email from the Secretary of State for Education to school leaders and others on 20 July entitled 'Thank you for your work this year', (1) how many people were sent that email, (2) what proportion of recipients were sent it by virtue of (a) having signed up to receive it, (b) being school leaders, or (c) both, (3) what were the open rates for that email in respect of each of the categories above, and (4) what codes of guidance around the political nature of emails govern the (i) tone, and (ii) content, sent to headteachers by the Secretary of State.
tabling member printed	Baroness Taylor of Bolton
uin	HL9719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2023 answer text <p>The end of term email from the Secretary of State was sent to 45,418 email addresses. Of those recipients:</p><ul><li>27,064 were subscribers who had opted to receive these updates from the Secretary of State.</li><li>21,850 were school leader contact email addresses held by the department for school leaders (all primary and secondary schools (England only), including specialist settings. This includes Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provision providers, but excludes independent schools, such as trust accounting officers.</li><li>To note: the email platform used removes any duplication between these two data sets, so the final figure (45,418 email addresses) is not a sum of a) and b).</li></ul><p>The email has a 45% unique open rate. It was opened 60,245 times as of 26 July 2023, indicating that it had been forwarded beyond the original contact list. The open rate cannot be broken down by categories of school leaders versus subscribers.</p><p>As with all departmental communications, Civil Service advice is provided on tone and content, along with factual accuracy checks to ensure it meets the needs of the audience it is intended for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2023 15:35:23 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	407 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Bolton

1655147

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the Full Time Equivalent number of teachers employed in state schools in England in each of the last five years; and what is the corresponding pupil teacher ratio for each of these years.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL9726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p>Recent data shows that there are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools in England. This is an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes the highest number of FTE teachers since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.</p><p>Information on the state funded school workforce in England, including the number of teachers and pupil to teacher ratios, is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics release, available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2023 15:33:14 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1655148

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what initiatives or incentives are planned to either attract new entrants into the profession of teaching or to ensure retention of teaching staff within the profession.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL9727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter. This response outlines the information for England only.</p><p>Recent data shows that there are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state-funded schools in England, an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes it the highest number of FTE teachers on record since the school workforce census began in 2010.</p><p>The department’s reforms are aimed at increasing teacher recruitment and ensuring teachers across England stay and thrive in the profession. The Get Into Teaching service helps to make teaching a career of choice and supports candidates to apply for teacher training. Prospective trainees can access support and advice through expert one-to-one teacher training advisers, a contact centre, and a national programme of events. The teaching marketing campaign provides inspiration and support to explore a career in teaching and directs people to the Get Into Teaching service: <a href="https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>The department is accepting in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendations for the 2023/24 pay award for teachers and leaders. This means that teachers and head teachers in maintained schools will receive a pay award of 6.5%, which is the highest pay award for teachers in over thirty years. This award also delivers the manifesto commitment of a minimum £30,000 starting salary for teachers in all regions in England, with a pay award of up to 7.1% for new teachers outside London.</p><p>The department announced a financial incentives package worth up to £181 million for those starting initial teacher training (ITT) in the 2023/24 academic year. The department is providing bursaries worth up to £27,000 and scholarships worth up to £29,000 to encourage trainees to apply to train in key secondary subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing.</p><p>The department provides a levelling up premium worth up to £3,000 annually for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers who work in disadvantaged schools nationally, including within education investment areas. The eligibility criteria and list of eligible schools is can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers</a>.</p><p>To support retention in the sector, the department has worked with schools and published a range of resources to help address staff workload and wellbeing and to support schools to introduce flexible working practices. This includes the Workload Reduction Toolkit and the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. The workload reduction toolkit is accessible at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit</a>. The Charter is accessible at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter</a>. More than 2,700 schools have signed up to the Charter so far. The department will also convene a Workload Reduction Taskforce to explore how we can go further to support trusts and head teachers to minimise workload. The department wants to build on previous successes and aim to reduce working hours by five hours per week.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 01/08/2023 15:50:29 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1655153

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many apprenticeships started at (1) Level 6, and (2) Level 7, in (a) 2020–21, and (b) 2021–22, by individuals who already hold qualifications at this level; and of those, how many also had university degrees.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
uin	HL9733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2023 answer text <p>The department does not hold representative data on prior qualifications held by apprentices, as this is not information that is mandatory for training providers to submit through an apprentice’s individual learner record. The department will only fund apprentices to undertake an apprenticeship at the same or lower level than a qualification they already hold if the apprenticeship allows the individual to acquire substantive new skills, and the provider can show that the content of the training is materially different from any prior qualification. This is to ensure that the department is not funding any duplication in training.</p><p>The department has seen year-on-year growth of degree level apprenticeships (Levels 6 and 7) with over 190,000 starts since their introduction in the 2014/15 academic year. An additional £40 million is being provided over the next two years to support degree apprenticeship providers to expand and help more people access this provision, on top of the £8 million investment in 2022/23.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 01/08/2023 10:31:14 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

1655159

registered interest
date	25/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 11 July (HL 8841), following the decision by the Teaching Regulation Authority to impose a prohibition order on Joshua Sutcliffe, whether they will publish guidance to clarify whether teachers may refer to pupils by their legal and biological gender.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL9704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2023 answer text <p>The department recognises that gender is a complex and sensitive issue, and that some schools and colleges feel that they need more support in this area in order to help pupils, students and parents deal with concerns raised. That is why the department is working with the Minister for Women and Equalities to develop guidance to support schools and colleges in relation to gender questioning children.</p><p>The department has committed to publishing a draft for consultation at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 01/08/2023 15:50:54 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch