Jun. 26 2024
Source Page: School census autumn 2024 to summer 2025: school summary reportFound: EHWZHHQ DQG Table 7: Early years pupil pr emium – nursery schools [For
Jun. 26 2024
Source Page: School census autumn 2024 to summer 2025: school summary reportFound: schools [For: Schools with phase ‘NS’ ONLY] [used for funding] 20 Table 8: Early years pupil premium
Jun. 26 2024
Source Page: School census autumn 2024 to summer 2025: school summary reportFound: - maintained special schools and city technology college] 13 Table 7: Early years pupil premium – nursery
Jun. 12 2024
Source Page: Funding for national professional qualifications (NPQs)Found: Schools @ Halbutt Street104280Eastfield Nursery SchoolEY557530627394Sunshine Community Nursery104557Matthew
Jun. 05 2024
Source Page: Education Bill: consultation analysis - GaelicFound: nas fhaiceallaiche is nas mionaidiche le briathrachas mu roinn an TCC, mar eisimpleir, na cleachd ‘nursery
Jun. 05 2024
Source Page: Education Bill: consultation analysisFound: more careful and accurate phraseology when referring to the ELC sector, i.e. avoiding use of the term ‘nursery
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024Found: schools, community special schools, foundation special schools, pupil referral units and maintained nursery
Found: – for example, nurseries ; • 55,800 staff in school -based provision – this includes maintained nursery
Found: for the Early Years Pupil Premium, Disability Access Fund and supplementary funding for maintained nursery
Asked by: Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat - Twickenham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the number of schools that recorded zero young carers in their most recent school census return; and what steps her Department is taking to improve the identification of young carers in schools.
Answered by David Johnston
The most recent published census data on young carers is from January 2023, and can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics/2022-23.
You can find the number of young carers in each school in column JF of the school level underlying data file – see ‘School level underlying data - 2022/23 (csv, 22 Mb)’ under the heading ‘Additional supporting files’. 17,093 of the total 21,642 state-funded schools recorded no young carers. Statistics from the January 2024 school census will be published in June.
As this is a new data collection, the department expects the quality of the data returns to improve over time as the collection becomes established. All schools, except nursery schools, must send this information as part of the Spring school census. However, the recording and handling of the information is at the school’s discretion. In 2023, 79% of schools recorded no young carers.
Young carers make an enormous contribution in caring for their loved ones. The department wants to ensure that they are supported in their education and can take advantage of opportunities beyond their caring responsibilities.
The department added young carers to the annual school census in 2023, raising the visibility of young carers in the school system and, in time, providing the department with hard evidence on both the numbers of young carers and their educational outcomes.
The department will be incorporating young carers in the school-level annual school census for independent schools from early 2024 to ensure parity with the school census, which further builds on the department’s data on young carers across the school system.
The government has published information on how and where young carers can get help and support, encouraging them to speak to someone they trust at their school or college, like a teacher or school nurse, about their caring responsibilities and how this might affect them. As set out in ‘Keeping children safe in education’, the department require Designated Safeguarding Leads to undergo training to provide them with the knowledge and skills to carry out their role, which includes having a good understanding of, and alertness to, the needs of young carers. The guidance can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2.