The new core maths qualification is designed for students who have already achieved a GCSE grade C and wish to continue studying maths but not necessarily at AS/A level.<\/p>
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Qualifications are already available for students that have not achieved a GCSE C grade in either maths or English but are not yet ready to retake their GCSE.<\/p>
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A list of 263 stepping stone qualifications for teaching from September 2014 was published on 17 July and is updated regularly. 178 of those qualifications are specifically for English, 79 for maths and 6 combined.<\/p>
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As set out in section 5(2) of the Education Act 2005 (as amended) all state-funded schools are subject to inspection by Ofsted. This includes all community, foundation and voluntary schools, community and foundation special schools, pupil referral units, maintained nursery schools, academies (which includes free schools), city technology colleges, city technology colleges for the technology of the arts and certain non-maintained special schools approved by the Secretary of State under section 342 of the Education Act 1996.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4270", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Nash"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Nash"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-10T17:36:22.5687282Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Ofsted"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether further consideration is being given to extending Ofsted\u2019s remit to cover all state-funded schools; and if not, why not.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3254", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Quirk"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Quirk"} ], "uin" : "HL2620"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/106149", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/106149/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
As part of our plan for education the Government is ensuring that local authorities have the resources and flexibility to provide the school places needed by their communities.<\/p>
We are giving councils £5 billion to spend on new school places over the course of this parliament and have announced a further £2.35 billion to create the places needed by September 2017. This has already enabled local authorities to create 260,000 additional pupil places between May 2010 and May 2013, with many more in the pipeline for September 2015.<\/p>
Funding for the day-to-day running of a school is based primarily on the number of pupils in the school. Local authorities are able to allocate additional funding for pupils with particular needs \u2013 including pupils for whom English is not their first language.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4270", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Nash"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Nash"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-10T17:40:31.5880478Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Migrants"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what steps they will take to address the concerns of HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children\u2019s Services and Skills, Sir Michael Wilshaw, that schools \"faced with an influx of children from other countries\" need to be given \"the resources and capacity to deal with it\".", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3254", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Quirk"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Quirk"} ], "uin" : "HL2621"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/106234", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/106234/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Section 38 of the Children and Families Act 2014 strengthens the rights for parents and young people to request that a particular school or post-16 institution be named in an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. If a maintained school, maintained nursery school, Academy, non-maintained special school, FE college or an independent special school or specialist post-16 institution included on the list of providers approved by the Secretary of State under section 41 of the Act is requested, then the local authority must, after consultation with the institution, name the requested school or institution in the EHC plan unless specific criteria apply. Section 43 then requires the school or institution named in the EHC plan to admit the child or young person.<\/p>
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Guidance was issued to local authorities, schools and other education providers on this statutory admission process in June through the 0-25 SEND Code of Practice (2014), the code is published here:<\/p>
www.gov.uk/government/publications/implementing-the-0-to-25-special-needs-system<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Local authorities and the schools and institutions listed above should operate within this statutory framework and ensure that children and young people receive appropriate and high-quality provision, and that public money is used to best effect.<\/p> <\/p> Cabinet Office has recently consulted on draft Regulations to implement the new EU procurement Directives. The Department for Education is working closely with them, and guidance will be published in due course.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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