Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the £2.30 awarded for free school meals is spent on (a) food and (b) labour.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
For universal infant free school meals, the £2.30 per meal rate is provided to schools via a direct grant. This covers the cost of raw materials as well as other fixed costs associated with providing the meals.
It is for schools to decide how to allocate their budgets in order to provide these meals.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure provision for pupils with cerebral palsy in schools.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
It is important that children with medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy, are supported to receive a full education. Under Section 100 of the Children and Families Act (2014), governing boards are required to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance.
The guidance is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3, and covers a range of areas including the preparation and implementation of school policies for supporting pupils with medical conditions, the use of individual healthcare plans, staff training, medicines administration, roles and responsibilities, consulting with parents and collaborative working with healthcare professionals. It was developed with a range of stakeholders including the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance (HCSA), school leaders, academy organisations, unions, young people and their parents, and Department of Health and Social Care officials and is based on good practice in schools.
We continue to work with organisations such as the HCSA to help raise further awareness of the duty on schools.
To be awarded qualified teacher status, trainees must meet the teachers’ standards, which include a requirement that they adapt teaching to meet the strengths and needs of all pupils. The performance of all existing teachers in maintained schools must be assessed every year against the teachers’ standards. It is the responsibility of school leaders to determine the training needs of their staff within their approach to school improvement, professional development and performance management.
Staff training is critical in enabling school staff to provide the support needed to pupils with medical conditions. The statutory guidance is clear that governing boards should ensure that any member of school staff providing support to a pupil with medical needs has received suitable training. It also states that training should be sufficient as to ensure that staff are competent and have confidence in their ability to support pupils with medical conditions, and to fulfil the requirements as set out in individual healthcare plans.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will include guidance on education provision for children with cerebral palsy to teacher training courses.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
It is important that children with medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy, are supported to receive a full education. Under Section 100 of the Children and Families Act (2014), governing boards are required to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance.
The guidance is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3, and covers a range of areas including the preparation and implementation of school policies for supporting pupils with medical conditions, the use of individual healthcare plans, staff training, medicines administration, roles and responsibilities, consulting with parents and collaborative working with healthcare professionals. It was developed with a range of stakeholders including the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance (HCSA), school leaders, academy organisations, unions, young people and their parents, and Department of Health and Social Care officials and is based on good practice in schools.
We continue to work with organisations such as the HCSA to help raise further awareness of the duty on schools.
To be awarded qualified teacher status, trainees must meet the teachers’ standards, which include a requirement that they adapt teaching to meet the strengths and needs of all pupils. The performance of all existing teachers in maintained schools must be assessed every year against the teachers’ standards. It is the responsibility of school leaders to determine the training needs of their staff within their approach to school improvement, professional development and performance management.
Staff training is critical in enabling school staff to provide the support needed to pupils with medical conditions. The statutory guidance is clear that governing boards should ensure that any member of school staff providing support to a pupil with medical needs has received suitable training. It also states that training should be sufficient as to ensure that staff are competent and have confidence in their ability to support pupils with medical conditions, and to fulfil the requirements as set out in individual healthcare plans.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding per pupil (a) Broomfield secondary, (b) Highlands secondary, (c) Southgate secondary, (d) St Anne's Catholic high and (e) Winchmore secondary school received and is projected to receive in each year from 2017 to 2020.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The national funding formula (NFF) has, for the first time in 2018-19, distributed school funding according to a formula based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country. The attached table outlines the notional NFF allocations for the requested schools in Enfield Southgate from 2017 to 2020.
To provide stability for schools, local authorities continue to be responsible for the distribution of individual schools’ budgets in their areas in consultation with local schools. Because of this, the actual amount that schools receive may be different from the amount they are attracting through the NFF.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) children and (b) children eligible for free school meals attained a Good Level of Development at age five in Enfield, Southgate constituency in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The requested data is shown in Annex A, which is attached.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) female and (b) male apprentices employed by his Department completed their apprenticeships between May 2015 and May 2017.
Answered by Anne Milton
The data on apprenticeship starts is not available in the format requested. The following number of people have started an apprenticeship in the department each year since 2012:
Year | Number of apprentice starts |
2012/2013 | 32 |
2013/2014 | 15 |
2014/2015 | 34 |
2015/2016 | 64 |
2016/2017 | 50 |
2017/2018 | 116 |
The following number of male and female apprentices are currently employed by the department. Mean and median salaries for currently employed male and female apprentices are also included in the attached table.
The number of part and full time male and female apprentices currently employed by the department is within the attached table.
We do not currently hold data on the outcome of apprenticeships for department employees. We are putting in place a mechanism to collect this data.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the recommendations in the report by the Young Women’s Trust, Trust for London, Learning and Work Institute and Timewise Foundation, entitled Exploring models for part-time and flexible apprenticeships, what plans he has to promote greater use of part-time apprenticeships by (a) public and (b) private sector employers.
Answered by Anne Milton
We have amended our apprenticeships funding rules to allow more flexibility in working arrangements to make it easier for part-time workers to undertake apprenticeships, such as those with caring responsibilities and lone parents.
The new rules have a stronger emphasis on making sure the apprentice has enough hours in their working week to undertake sufficient, regular training and on-the-job activity, rather than being overly prescriptive on the number of hours an apprentice must work. If the circumstances for a particular learner mean they are unable to do an apprenticeship in full-time hours (30 hours or more per week), the employer and training provider can structure the apprenticeship with fewer weekly hours, and a longer duration to make sure all of the necessary training and assessment can be carried out.
We have introduced an apprenticeships target for the public sector, to help public bodies improve the skills in both their full-time and part-time staff and develop the skilled workforce they need to deliver world class public services. We will continue to work closely with employers in the private sector to support them to take advantage of the levy, and wider funding and quality reforms, to invest in the long-term skills needs of their businesses.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) female and (b) male apprentices continued working for his Department after completing their apprenticeships there to date.
Answered by Anne Milton
The data on apprenticeship starts is not available in the format requested. The following number of people have started an apprenticeship in the department each year since 2012:
Year | Number of apprentice starts |
2012/2013 | 32 |
2013/2014 | 15 |
2014/2015 | 34 |
2015/2016 | 64 |
2016/2017 | 50 |
2017/2018 | 116 |
The following number of male and female apprentices are currently employed by the department. Mean and median salaries for currently employed male and female apprentices are also included in the attached table.
The number of part and full time male and female apprentices currently employed by the department is within the attached table.
We do not currently hold data on the outcome of apprenticeships for department employees. We are putting in place a mechanism to collect this data.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) female and (b) male apprentices employed by his Department for Education have failed to complete their apprenticeships in each year since 2010.
Answered by Anne Milton
The data on apprenticeship starts is not available in the format requested. The following number of people have started an apprenticeship in the department each year since 2012:
Year | Number of apprentice starts |
2012/2013 | 32 |
2013/2014 | 15 |
2014/2015 | 34 |
2015/2016 | 64 |
2016/2017 | 50 |
2017/2018 | 116 |
The following number of male and female apprentices are currently employed by the department. Mean and median salaries for currently employed male and female apprentices are also included in the attached table.
The number of part and full time male and female apprentices currently employed by the department is within the attached table.
We do not currently hold data on the outcome of apprenticeships for department employees. We are putting in place a mechanism to collect this data.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) mean and (b) median pay is for (i) female and (ii) male apprentices employed by his Department.
Answered by Anne Milton
The data on apprenticeship starts is not available in the format requested. The following number of people have started an apprenticeship in the department each year since 2012:
Year | Number of apprentice starts |
2012/2013 | 32 |
2013/2014 | 15 |
2014/2015 | 34 |
2015/2016 | 64 |
2016/2017 | 50 |
2017/2018 | 116 |
The following number of male and female apprentices are currently employed by the department. Mean and median salaries for currently employed male and female apprentices are also included in the attached table.
The number of part and full time male and female apprentices currently employed by the department is within the attached table.
We do not currently hold data on the outcome of apprenticeships for department employees. We are putting in place a mechanism to collect this data.