Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Boys’ attainment and engagement in educationFound: BAE0013 - Boys’ attainment and engagement in education Association of School and College Leaders Written
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Boys’ attainment and engagement in educationFound: BAE0018 - Boys’ attainment and engagement in education Association of Colleges Written Evidence
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Plan for Jobs Cross-cutting Evaluation Wave 1 and 2 synthesis reportFound: Plan for Jobs Cross-cutting Evaluation Wave 1 and 2 synthesis report
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew), who needs to be found a seat fairly soon, for his great work on that - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Obviously a huge amount needs to be done in future years, but we can also get on with things now. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that Scotland needs to legislate on this issue, and I am glad that she has been able to - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) We want to see Sproson Park get a new special educational needs and disabilities playground, fenced with - Speech Link
5: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) place.Would the Leader of the House be good enough to make representations for my private Member’s Bill, the Special - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) Pupil Premium 2024 survey published on 19 April, particularly with regard to special educational needs - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) educational needs and disabilities since 2019. - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) These are the lifeblood of any school, particularly in supporting children with special educational needs - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Can the Minister tell us of anything that gives more promise for someone with special educational needs - Speech Link
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Found: the needs and satisfies the interests of as many different available audiences as practicable
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to increase the availability of auditory verbal therapy for deaf children.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Audiology services are locally commissioned, and responsibility for meeting the needs of non-hearing children lies with local National Health Service commissioners. Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A Framework for Clinical Commissioning Groups, was published in July 2016. This framework supports clinical commissioning groups, and now integrated care boards, to make informed decisions about what good value for the populations they serve would be, and to provide more consistent, high quality, integrated care. It also addresses inequalities in access and outcomes between hearing services. Additionally, in 2019, NHS England, with input from the National Deaf Children’s Society, produced a guide for commissioners and providers who support children and young people with hearing loss.
NHS England met with Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK) last year and discussed the need for more high-level research evidence for intervention, and to develop evaluations of impact. AVUK were also invited to join the Chief Scientific Officer’s Audiology stakeholder group. The Government is committed to improving outcomes and experiences for all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, including children with hearing loss, and we recognise the need to improve access to therapies generally. Since September 2020, all eligible nursing, midwifery, and allied health profession students have received a non-repayable training grant of a minimum of £5,000 per academic year.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department takes steps to monitor levels of parental engagement in schools.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department values the wealth of support parents and carers can provide schools and it strongly supports schools in their engagement with them. Many parents and carers regularly engage with schools as school governors, through parents’ associations and through everyday contact. The department does not routinely monitor levels of parental engagement in schools, but it encourages all schools to have a strategy in place which allows the views of parents and carers to be considered.
As part of government business, the department engages parents and carers to deliver effective policymaking, such as through consultations. The department also engages with a range of stakeholder organisations, some of whom represent parents and carers. For example, the parents, pupils and learners panel regularly surveys parents of primary and secondary school pupils and college learners (in classroom-based education). The panel provides robust, rapid-turnaround evidence to support the department in assessing the ongoing views and experiences of parents and pupils.
Policy teams also engage with parents and carers to gather views and feedback on specific areas. For example, the special educational needs and disabilities teams work with the National Network of Parent Carer Forums, the independent national voice for parent carer forums.
In addition, the department regularly uses its Education Hub website to communicate key updates to parents and carers. This includes popular topics, questions and answers and case studies.
Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) have the desired outcome.There is a similar story on special educational needs and disability. - Speech Link
2: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) educational needs and disabilities, and home-to-school transport. - Speech Link