Teachers: Migrant Workers
(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps schools, colleges and local education authorities are taking to ensure that teaching staff from EU countries are aware of what their citizenship status will be post-Brexit.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department continues to plan for EU Exit and to ensure that we are best prepared for all potential scenarios. As part of our planning, we are taking steps to ensure that our schools, further education and higher education institutions, and local authorities are similarly prepared.
The department published guidance to provide information and advice to our stakeholders on how to best prepare. The notices include information on the EU Settlement Scheme and on the arrangements that apply to EU, European Economic Area and Swiss citizens arriving after EU Exit. The notices form part of the government's public information campaign which can be viewed at this link: https://euexit.campaign.gov.uk/. This campaign ensures that UK citizens and organisations, EU citizens living in the UK, and UK nationals living in the EU are well informed about how EU Exit will affect them and about the practical steps they will need to take to be ready for it.
The department has shared guidance with a large number of our stakeholders across the education sector. This includes the document ‘EU exit: no deal preparations for schools in England’, attached[1].
It also includes ‘EU exit: no deal preparations for higher education institutions’ guidance, attached,[2] and ‘EU exit: no deal preparations for further education and apprenticeship providers’ guidance’, also attached[3].
The document ‘EU Exit: No deal preparations for local authority children's services[4]’, which will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england.