Schools: North East

(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the potential benefits of (a) additional funding for training chairs of governance and (b) careers pilots in primary schools in Opportunity Area designation will be extended to the Opportunity North East initiative.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 2nd May 2019

The additional funding announced by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, in June 2018 is helping to improve the capacity and capability of governors, including training for chairs and vice-chairs through our existing governance leadership programmes. These programmes are available to eligible participants in Opportunity North East local authorities and the £500 rate will fully fund participation of the chair or vice-chair of governors. For ONE Vision schools, where governor training is identified as a priority by the analysis of need for both the chair or vice-chair, additional support will be provided. More information on the national programme can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-governors-professional-development.

The government’s careers strategy, published in 2017, called for more evidence of effective approaches in primary schools to allow schools to learn from best practice and build their expertise. We asked our delivery partner, the Careers & Enterprise Company, to publish research on ‘what works’ in career-related learning activities in primary school. The findings have informed a £2 million investment fund to develop and extend career-related learning. Successful applicants will be confirmed soon, with delivery beginning in September 2019 and both local enterprise partnerships in the North East were eligible to apply. More information can be found here: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/funding/primary-fund.

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