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1181554

registered interest
date	28/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have (a) been granted permission to move (i) up to 0.5 per cent, (ii) between 0.51 and 1 per cent and (iii) over 1 per cent of schools block funding to high needs block funding, (b) been denied permission to move schools block funding to high needs block funding and (c) made a request to move schools block funding to high needs block funding but no decision has yet been made; and what criteria his Department uses to determine those requests.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	22393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>In total, 25 local authorities submitted a request to my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, to move schools block funding to high needs block funding. All schools block movement requests are reviewed against the criteria set out in paragraphs 261-286 of the ‘Schools revenue funding operational guide: 2020 to 2021’, which is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-16-schools-funding-local-authority-guidance-for-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-16-schools-funding-local-authority-guidance-for-2020-to-2021</a>.</p><p>Of these 25 requests, the following were granted permission to move funding from the schools block to the high needs block:</p><ul><li>no requests to move up to 0.50%;</li><li>one request, from Kent County Council, to move between 0.51% and 1%; and</li><li>two requests, from Rotherham and South Gloucestershire local authorities, to move 1%.</li></ul><p>The remaining 22 requests to move funding away from the schools block were denied.</p><p>All decisions have been made as advised in Table A.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/03/2020 17:06:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 22393_table_schools_block_funding__move_decision_outcomes..pdf title 22393_table
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1172055

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Restraint Techniques
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were subjected to the use of physical restraint in schools in each of the academic years (a) 2017-18, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	5446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not collect or record information about schools’ use of restraint or restrictive practices, and does not intend to introduce mandatory reporting at this time. We trust schools to use their judgement in recording incidents involving force and, when serious incidents occur, we would expect schools to record the incident and let the parents know.</p><p> </p><p>Schools need to be safe and calm environments with effective behaviour management policies and approaches that meet the needs of all pupils, including those with mental health difficulties, special educational needs or disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>At times, it may be necessary to use reasonable force to restrain a pupil – for example, to break up a fight in order to protect teachers and other pupils. Wherever possible, restraint and restrictive intervention should be avoided; and proactive, preventative, non-restrictive approaches adopted in respect of behaviour that challenges.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2019, the Department for Health &amp; Social Care and Department for Education jointly published non-statutory guidance on reducing restraint and restrictive intervention in health and social care services and special education settings. This guidance aims to help settings adopt a preventative approach to supporting children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and mental health difficulties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 5447 question first answered 23/01/2020 17:08:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1172056

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Restraint Techniques
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Government will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 to introduce mandatory reporting of incidents of restraint in schools.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	5447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not collect or record information about schools’ use of restraint or restrictive practices, and does not intend to introduce mandatory reporting at this time. We trust schools to use their judgement in recording incidents involving force and, when serious incidents occur, we would expect schools to record the incident and let the parents know.</p><p> </p><p>Schools need to be safe and calm environments with effective behaviour management policies and approaches that meet the needs of all pupils, including those with mental health difficulties, special educational needs or disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>At times, it may be necessary to use reasonable force to restrain a pupil – for example, to break up a fight in order to protect teachers and other pupils. Wherever possible, restraint and restrictive intervention should be avoided; and proactive, preventative, non-restrictive approaches adopted in respect of behaviour that challenges.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2019, the Department for Health &amp; Social Care and Department for Education jointly published non-statutory guidance on reducing restraint and restrictive intervention in health and social care services and special education settings. This guidance aims to help settings adopt a preventative approach to supporting children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and mental health difficulties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 5446 question first answered 23/01/2020 17:08:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1171620

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the block allocations for (a) individual maintained schools and (b) academies for 2019-20; and for what reason the allocations will be published later in the school year than in previous years.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	4755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>In previous years, school-level allocations for local authority maintained schools and academies have been published as transparency statistics in late autumn, but not to a fixed schedule.</p><p>This year we will be publishing the individual school-level school’s block allocations, covering allocations for 2019-20, in the Department’s new school funding official statistics report on 30 January 2020.</p><p>The Department already publishes detailed information on school funding, including full details of individual grant funding allocations issued to schools and local authorities, but we recognise that this information can be hard to understand and navigate. The aim of this new official statistics report is to help users’ understanding of this issue, and we are including the 2019-20 school-level allocations in that report.</p><p>This dataset will include details of more grants than in previous years, giving a fuller picture of school-level funding for the year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/01/2020 17:51:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1142670

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Religion: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations have been received by his Department on the provision of RE teaching in schools as part of a broad and balanced curriculum; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	284143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department receives regular representation on the matter of religious education (RE). For example, I attended a panel discussion at the All Party Parliamentary Group on RE on 16 July.</p><p>All state funded schools are required by legislation or by their funding agreements to teach RE to all registered pupils aged 5 to 18 years. Teaching RE is also central to the duty on state schools to teach a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral and cultural development of pupils.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/09/2019 16:52:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1142154

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department have made of the quality of training for primary teachers in religious education; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	282360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Providing the best possible initial teacher training (ITT) is the focus of the Department’s drive to improve teaching standards. In order to be awarded qualified teacher status (QTS), trainees must demonstrate that they have met the Teachers’ Standards, which includes a requirement that they demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge. Ofsted is responsible for testing the quality of teacher training and at their most recent inspection, 99% of all teacher training providers were rated good or outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of time that primary trainees spend in training on each of the subjects in the national curriculum is not specified by the Government. It is for ITT providers to use their professional judgement to determine the content and structure of courses, but they must be designed so that trainees can demonstrate that they meet all the required standards at the appropriate level by the end of their training. This includes religious education.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2016, the Department published a ‘framework of core content for initial teacher training’, further guidance which states that ‘trainees must be conversant with a range of effective subject-specific pedagogical approaches’. The framework also outlines providers’ responsibility to audit trainees’ subject knowledge early in their training and make provision to ensure that trainees have sufficient subject knowledge to satisfy the standard by the end of their training.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/09/2019 15:17:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1142155

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Religion: Education
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 ensure that all schools provide pupils with opportunities to develop specific and age-appropriate knowledge and understanding of religions as part of promoting mutual respect and tolerance of people with different faiths and beliefs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	282361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>All state funded schools are required by legislation or by their funding agreements to teach religious education (RE) to all registered pupils aged 5 to 18 years. Teaching RE is also part of schools’ activity to meet their legal duty to promote young people’s spiritual, moral and cultural development.</p><p>Each area is required to have a locally agreed syllabus for RE that maintained schools without a religious designation must follow. This is monitored by each area’s Standing Advisory Council for RE (SACRE). As part of school inspections from September 2019, as set out in Ofsted’s published School Inspection Handbook, inspectors will take account of the religious education taught as part of assessing the quality of education provided by the school. It is not Ofsted’s role to inspect denominational religious education in faith schools as part of its inspections. This provision is inspected separately under section 48 of the Education Act 2005.</p><p>The requirement for state funded schools to teach RE did not change with the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).</p><p>Many schools choose to teach RE in key stage 4 through offering Religious Studies GCSEs, which are not included in the EBacc. Information on entries to the RE GCSE can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-2018-revised" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-2018-revised</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 282362 282363 question first answered 03/09/2019 15:59:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1142156

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Religion: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the EBacc on the opportunity pupils have to study religious education.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	282362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>All state funded schools are required by legislation or by their funding agreements to teach religious education (RE) to all registered pupils aged 5 to 18 years. Teaching RE is also part of schools’ activity to meet their legal duty to promote young people’s spiritual, moral and cultural development.</p><p>Each area is required to have a locally agreed syllabus for RE that maintained schools without a religious designation must follow. This is monitored by each area’s Standing Advisory Council for RE (SACRE). As part of school inspections from September 2019, as set out in Ofsted’s published School Inspection Handbook, inspectors will take account of the religious education taught as part of assessing the quality of education provided by the school. It is not Ofsted’s role to inspect denominational religious education in faith schools as part of its inspections. This provision is inspected separately under section 48 of the Education Act 2005.</p><p>The requirement for state funded schools to teach RE did not change with the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).</p><p>Many schools choose to teach RE in key stage 4 through offering Religious Studies GCSEs, which are not included in the EBacc. Information on entries to the RE GCSE can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-2018-revised" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-2018-revised</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 282361 282363 question first answered 03/09/2019 15:59:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1142159

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Religion: Education
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 that all state-funded schools are providing an adequate provision of religious education; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	282363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>All state funded schools are required by legislation or by their funding agreements to teach religious education (RE) to all registered pupils aged 5 to 18 years. Teaching RE is also part of schools’ activity to meet their legal duty to promote young people’s spiritual, moral and cultural development.</p><p>Each area is required to have a locally agreed syllabus for RE that maintained schools without a religious designation must follow. This is monitored by each area’s Standing Advisory Council for RE (SACRE). As part of school inspections from September 2019, as set out in Ofsted’s published School Inspection Handbook, inspectors will take account of the religious education taught as part of assessing the quality of education provided by the school. It is not Ofsted’s role to inspect denominational religious education in faith schools as part of its inspections. This provision is inspected separately under section 48 of the Education Act 2005.</p><p>The requirement for state funded schools to teach RE did not change with the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).</p><p>Many schools choose to teach RE in key stage 4 through offering Religious Studies GCSEs, which are not included in the EBacc. Information on entries to the RE GCSE can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-2018-revised" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/key-stage-4-and-multi-academy-trust-performance-2018-revised</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 282361 282362 question first answered 03/09/2019 15:59:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1142160

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) religious education lessons and (b) history lessons are taught by teachers with no post A-level qualification in those subjects; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	282364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>For religious education, 24.2% of hours taught in all state funded secondary schools and academies, were taught by a teacher without a relevant post A-level qualification, a decrease from 2010 when the figure was 27.2%. The proportion was considerably lower for history, where 9.1% of hours were taught by a teacher without a relevant post A-level qualification, a decrease from 2010 when the figure was 10.4%.</p><p>Information on the proportion of hours taught in state funded secondary schools which are not taught by a teacher with a relevant post A-level qualification in the subject are shown in Table 13 of the publication School Workforce in England, November 2018, which is attached: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/09/2019 16:39:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane