Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 29 of the Government response to the First Report from the Women and Equalities Committee, Session 2015-16, on Transgender Equality, Cm 9301, published in July 2016, what the findings were of the study commissioned to ascertain the adequacy and consistency of knowledge on gender variance in initial social work training and continuous professional development.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Department for Education is currently in the process of commissioning the study referred to which is expected to be completed by the end of March 2017. Findings will be published at a later date.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps in response to the findings of the report published by the Children's Commissioner and the NSPCC in July 2016, on a quantitative and qualitative examination of the impact of online pornography on the values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of children and young people, to ensure that all children have access to age-appropriate PSHE at school.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Education can play a vital role in helping young people understand healthy relationships and identify those which are unhealthy. It can also give young people the confidence and knowledge they need to stay safe and respect others. Sex and relationships education (SRE) must be taught in all maintained secondary schools and we expect academies to teach it as part of a broad and balanced curriculum.
Schools can also choose to teach about the impact of pornography in their Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) lessons drawing on the guidance and resources available. The PSHE Association has produced a non-statutory programme of study as guidance for teachers, which includes teaching about the impact of pornography. The Government publishes guidance for schools teaching SRE, which is available on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/283599/sex_and_relationship_education_guidance.pdf.
The guidance makes clear that all SRE should be age-appropriate, and that schools should make sure young people develop positive values and a moral framework that will guide their decisions, judgments and behaviour. This is particularly relevant to sexual consent, and the guidance makes clear that all young people should understand how the law applies to sexual relationships. The guidance covers the importance of marriage, loving and stable relationships, consent and how to avoid exploitation and abuse.
The Government has made it clear in the introduction to the framework to the national curriculum that all schools should teach PSHE and we are working to ensure that all young people receive high quality, age-appropriate PSHE and SRE.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new (a) primary and (b) secondary school places have been created in each parliamentary constituency since 2010.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education collects information from local authorities on the number of school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. The most recent data available relates to the position at May 2013 and is published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013
Equivalent data for 2010 can be found at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-2009-to-2010-final
Data to May 2014 will become available shortly.
A comparison of the position in 2010 and 2013, showing the net change in capacity, is given in the table below. Positive figures indicate an overall increase in places; negative figures indicate an overall decrease in places. A decrease in places can be the consequence of actions to address oversupply and remove unsuitable place provision, or of restructuring the school system. Figures for local authorities that have restructured middle school provision or introduced all-through provision between 2010 and 2013 must be compared with caution.
The Department does not collect capacity data at constituency level; Basingstoke constituency lies within Hampshire local authority.
(a) Change in number of places in primary schools (including all through and middle-deemed primary schools) 2010 to 2013 | (b) Change in number of places in secondary schools (including all-through and middle deemed secondary schools) 2010 to 2013 | |
Barking and Dagenham | 6,538 | 2,567 |
Barnet | 2,449 | 1,190 |
Barnsley | -248 | -380 |
Bath and North East Somerset | 282 | 599 |
Bedford | 1,595 | 862 |
Bexley | 1,683 | 529 |
Birmingham | 10,028 | 6,545 |
Blackburn with Darwen | 492 | 407 |
Blackpool | 208 | 24 |
Bolton | 2,584 | 823 |
Bournemouth | 1,075 | 1,513 |
Bracknell Forest | 807 | 112 |
Bradford | 5,077 | 817 |
Brent | 2,768 | 2,465 |
Brighton and Hove | 1,721 | 566 |
Bristol, City of | 2,774 | 1,855 |
Bromley | 1,266 | 1,416 |
Buckinghamshire | 500 | 1,412 |
Bury | -63 | 619 |
Calderdale | 368 | 1,409 |
Cambridgeshire | 3,527 | 312 |
Camden | 235 | 1,485 |
Central Bedfordshire | 316 | 1,267 |
Cheshire East | -106 | 1,791 |
Cheshire West and Chester | 1,121 | 450 |
City of London | 0 | . |
Cornwall | 535 | 128 |
Coventry | 3,333 | 817 |
Croydon | 3,123 | 1,816 |
Cumbria | 755 | 493 |
Darlington | 189 | 2 |
Derby | 186 | 1,222 |
Derbyshire | 994 | -58 |
Devon | 3,493 | 1,473 |
Doncaster | 560 | 44 |
Dorset | -281 | 634 |
Dudley | 1 | 67 |
Durham | 1,145 | -545 |
Ealing | 2,775 | 1,596 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | -79 | 503 |
East Sussex | 141 | -546 |
Enfield | 4,491 | 86 |
Essex | 1,040 | -48 |
Gateshead | 69 | 287 |
Gloucestershire | 1,048 | -405 |
Greenwich | 1,908 | -788 |
Hackney | 1,030 | 4,493 |
Halton | -360 | 2,049 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 1,433 | 1,597 |
Hampshire | 1,286 | -881 |
Haringey | 1,297 | 146 |
Harrow | -2,199 | 5,672 |
Hartlepool | 584 | -205 |
Havering | 400 | 840 |
Herefordshire | -368 | -210 |
Hertfordshire | 5,889 | 3,288 |
Hillingdon | 1,352 | 1,685 |
Hounslow | 2,263 | 1,403 |
Isle of Wight | 2,868 | -4,254 |
Isles of Scilly | 20 | . |
Islington | 7 | -299 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 441 | -108 |
Kent | 2,189 | 5,952 |
Kingston Upon Hull, City of | 789 | 1,938 |
Kingston upon Thames | 2,529 | 64 |
Kirklees | 1,669 | -313 |
Knowsley | -1,460 | -822 |
Lambeth | 1,913 | -563 |
Lancashire | 681 | 322 |
Leeds | 5,074 | 1,973 |
Leicester | 1,600 | -1,810 |
Leicestershire | -623 | 1,677 |
Lewisham | 2,836 | -10 |
Lincolnshire | 231 | 865 |
Liverpool | 586 | -3,020 |
Luton | 2,636 | 162 |
Manchester | 5,284 | 2,944 |
Medway | 119 | 233 |
Merton | 1,576 | -2 |
Middlesbrough | -86 | -755 |
Milton Keynes | 1,452 | 648 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 106 | -83 |
Newham | 2,534 | 1,355 |
Norfolk | 322 | -81 |
North East Lincolnshire | 824 | -2,443 |
North Lincolnshire | 396 | -1,067 |
North Somerset | 1,585 | 319 |
North Tyneside | 48 | 428 |
North Yorkshire | -905 | -73 |
Northamptonshire | 1,676 | 1,923 |
Northumberland | 803 | -2,437 |
Nottingham | 941 | 1,722 |
Nottinghamshire | 1,517 | 453 |
Oldham | 649 | -502 |
Oxfordshire | 3,560 | 1,863 |
Peterborough | 1,622 | 478 |
Plymouth | 1,640 | 526 |
Poole | 300 | 336 |
Portsmouth | 227 | 36 |
Reading | 973 | 113 |
Redbridge | 3,323 | 3,285 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 280 | -467 |
Richmond upon Thames | 1,986 | 228 |
Rochdale | 1,076 | -1,480 |
Rotherham | 550 | 143 |
Rutland | -275 | 393 |
Salford | 641 | -294 |
Sandwell | 1,007 | 1,212 |
Sefton | -626 | -1,674 |
Sheffield | 2,086 | -328 |
Shropshire | -2,468 | 188 |
Slough | 3,154 | 340 |
Solihull | -159 | 371 |
Somerset | -6 | 1,023 |
South Gloucestershire | -553 | -154 |
South Tyneside | -428 | -337 |
Southampton | 2,079 | 240 |
Southend-on-Sea | 522 | 982 |
Southwark | 1,926 | -475 |
St. Helens | 432 | -42 |
Staffordshire | 1,064 | 1,170 |
Stockport | 300 | -666 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 532 | -570 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 2,417 | -824 |
Suffolk | 5,635 | -5,637 |
Sunderland | -111 | 565 |
Surrey | 4,177 | 1,230 |
Sutton | 1,302 | 1,016 |
Swindon | 2,434 | 837 |
Tameside | 1,102 | -15 |
Telford and Wrekin | 924 | 1,698 |
Thurrock | 1,948 | 1,922 |
Torbay | 18 | -513 |
Tower Hamlets | 2,405 | 908 |
Trafford | 786 | 923 |
Wakefield | 204 | 11 |
Walsall | 272 | 320 |
Waltham Forest | 2,291 | -145 |
Wandsworth | 1,534 | -863 |
Warrington | -16 | -453 |
Warwickshire | 1,538 | 810 |
West Berkshire | 181 | 232 |
West Sussex | 3,444 | 1,897 |
Westminster | -94 | 684 |
Wigan | 577 | -1,124 |
Wiltshire | 910 | 1,847 |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 1,079 | 476 |
Wirral | -155 | -1,425 |
Wokingham | 778 | 1,050 |
Wolverhampton | -283 | -453 |
Worcestershire | 338 | 803 |
York | 424 | 320 |
ENGLAND | 188,681 | 74,183 |
Source: School Capacity Survey 2010 and 2013
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment Ofsted has made of primary and secondary schools' policies regarding sexting and the incidence of sexting in such schools in England and Wales.
Answered by David Laws
This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. A copy of his reply will be placed in the library of the House.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many incidents of sexting among pupils have occurred in schools in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and what guidance her Department issues to schools on this matter.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department for Education does not collect data on incidents of sexting among pupils. All schools in England are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy which includes measures to tackle bullying, including cyberbullying which covers sexting. We have not produced specific advice on sexting but we have issued clear and succinct advice to schools on preventing and tackling bullying, including cyberbullying. This information is published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying
Certain instances of bullying, harassment and threatening behaviour, including the sharing of indecent images should be reported to the police. This is made clear in our advice to schools. Good schools create an ethos where bullying, including cyberbullying and sexting do not happen in the first place, and they deal with it promptly if it does occur to ensure the victim does not suffer continuing distress.
From September 2014, e-safety is being taught at all four key stages of the curriculum in England. It covers responsible, respectful and secure use of technology, as well as ensuring that pupils are taught age-appropriate ways of reporting any concerns they may have about what they see or encounter online.
Children and young people are being taught about the different and escalating risks they may encounter as they get older (initially relating to online content, then to the conduct of and contact with others, which can include sexting).
Schools can help to contain cyber-bullying and sexting during the school day by banning or limiting the use of mobile phones and other electronic devices. Search powers included in the Education Act 2011 have given teachers the power to search for, and if necessary delete, inappropriate images (or files) on electronic devices, including mobile phones.
Ofsted now holds schools clearly to account for how well they deal with behaviour and bullying. Since January 2012, inspectors must consider pupils’ freedom from bullying, including cyberbullying, harassment and discrimination. In January 2014, Ofsted produced briefing for inspectors when considering e-safety in schools. This makes clear that school inspectors should consider the schools’ ability to protect and educate pupils in their use of technology.