Apr. 05 2024
Source Page: Prime Minister announces multi-million pound boost for grassroots cricketFound: Men’s T20 World Cup in 2030 Funding to also help extend England and Wales Cricket Board’s primary and secondary
Mentions:
1: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) If she will issue statutory guidance on teaching economic education in schools as part of the PSHE curriculum - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Friend will recall our curriculum reforms, and the national curriculum for mathematics and secondary - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) We therefore expect construction work on this complete new build to begin in late summer and complete - Speech Link
4: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) The headteacher, Mrs Walker, worked through last summer in the expectation that the rebuild could begin - Speech Link
Mar. 26 2024
Source Page: School census 2024 to 2025: technical informationFound: Science in Society - 12 Languages, Literature and Culture - 1920 Science for Public Understanding - 13 Education
Report May. 17 2024
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)Found: with secondary and further education being the worst impacted.
Nov. 03 2009
Source Page: I. Statutory Guidance: Impartial Careers Advice. 56 p. II. Quality, Choice and Aspiration: A strategy for young people’s information, advice and guidance. 52 p.Found: All maintained secondary and middle schools (including academies and special schools) and PRUs have
Written Evidence Jan. 30 2024
Inquiry: Financial EducationFound: FE0064 - Financial Education University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, and University of Edinburgh
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase pupil access to (a) sports and (b) arts opportunities out of school.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Sport and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health and this government is committed to ensuring every child, no matter their background or ability, should be able to play sport and be active.
That is why in ‘Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity’ we introduce an ambition that all children should meet the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines on physical activity, with a target of getting 1 million more active children by 2030.
Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport, setting them up for a lifetime of physical activity. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport, with guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and School Games Organiser network.
Outside of the school day, the £57 million Opening School Facilities programme will support the most inactive young people to access facilities that will enable them to play sport and take physical exercise. By opening school sport facilities, including swimming pools, disparities in access to opportunities seen between socio-economic groups will begin to be tackled through the programme.
Over the school holidays, the Government offers £200 million of support per year to the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which provides disadvantaged children in England with enriching activities (including physical and creative activities) and healthy meals. Last summer, the programme reached over 685,000 children and young people in England, including over 475,000 children in receipt of free school meals.
We are also investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support youth participation in sport.
The Government is additionally providing significant arts and cultural opportunities for young people both in and out of school.
This includes our creative careers promise, which is backed by £115m a year to increase young people’s access to cultural and music education. The upcoming Cultural Education Plan will support all children and young people to access a broad range of high-quality cultural and creative activities and experiences inside and outside of school. Our Enrichment Partnerships Pilot aims to improve the availability and quality of enrichment activities in up to 200 secondary schools within Education Investment Areas. In addition, 79% of the organisations in Arts Council England’s 2023-26 Investment Programme portfolio are delivering activity specifically for children and young people of all ages, wherever they live.
Separately, the Government funds a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes that are designed to improve participation in the arts for children. The National Saturday Club, for example, gives 13 to 16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study the subjects they love for free, including arts and creative subjects, on a Saturday at their local university, college or cultural institution. Government and Arts Council England also co-fund 15 National Youth Music Organisations offering large-scale, inclusive performances, high-quality music programmes, residencies, summer schools and workshops, to help develop young people’s skills, experience, and knowledge of music, supporting them to excel as young creatives outside of school.
The National Plan for Music Education includes £25m funding for musical instruments and equipment for schools, and the Music Progression Fund supports disadvantaged pupils with music tuition. Furthermore, we have created four new Music Hub Centres of Excellence to improve inclusion and create pathways to industry for talented young people from all backgrounds.
Jan. 31 2024
Source Page: Gender Based Violence in Schools Working Group minutes: June 2023Found: Gender Based Violence in Schools Working Group minutes: June 2023
Mentions:
1: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) It is no wonder, then, that teacher numbers are down in secondary schools, but we need them to be on - Speech Link
2: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) record, and we are also seeing the gap reduce in secondary schools. - Speech Link
3: Rowley, Alex (Lab - Mid Scotland and Fife) We need more resources going into our primary and secondary schools, and, as Pam Duncan-Glancy says, - Speech Link
4: Webber, Sue (Con - Lothian) The report stated:“In secondary schools, the behaviour most commonly reported as having the greatest - Speech Link
May. 12 2011
Source Page: Wolf Review of Vocational Education – Government response. 22 p.Found: Wolf Review of Vocational Education – Government response. 22 p.