Children: Bereavement Support in Schools Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Children: Bereavement Support in Schools

Baroness Wilcox of Newport Excerpts
Monday 6th February 2023

(1 year, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I thank the right reverend Prelate for the invitation; I would be delighted to meet with them.

Baroness Wilcox of Newport Portrait Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab)
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My Lords, as the Minister will know, the Government’s £8 million Wellbeing for Education Return training programme was launched in 2020, with the aim of helping children to process the impacts of the pandemic. What is the Government’s assessment of equality of access to this programme between deprived and affluent areas across the United Kingdom?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I do not have the breakdown that the noble Baroness refers to. She referred to the 2020 return programme, which was followed by the recovery programme in 2021. Looking at those two years, I am aware that 14,000 schools and colleges, out of roughly 22,000 nationally, got those resources.