Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2022 to Question 22411 on Coronavirus: Schools, whether she has provided guidance to schools on the findings of the Rapid Covid-19 Air Disinfection Study; if she will place a copy of the findings of that study in the Library; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Rapid Covid-19 Air Disinfection Study, which has been renamed the Bradford classroom air cleaning technology (class-ACT) trial, is a project looking at the implications and potential benefits of fitting schools with air cleaning technology.
This trial was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and managed through the UK Health Security Agency. The study is run from the Centre for Applied Education Research which is based at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. Officials from the Department for Education sat on the working group of the trial. The trial has concluded and the academic leads intend to make the results available by publishing in a peer reviewed journal in due course. As the results have not yet been published, no guidance has been provided.
The Department recognises that good ventilation can reduce the spread of respiratory infections and has provided CO2 monitors to all eligible state funded settings in England. These monitors enable staff to identify areas where ventilation needs to be improved and provide reassurance that existing ventilation measures are working. This helps balance the need for good ventilation and keeping classrooms warm. The Department has also provided over 9,000 air cleaning units (ACUs) to over 1,300 settings that had sustained high CO2 readings of above 1500ppm. These ACUs work through high efficiency particulate air filter technology.
Feb. 15 2024
Source Page: Face coverings in schoolsFound: Face coverings in schools
Asked by: Caroline Ansell (Conservative - Eastbourne)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Eastbourne constituency have applied for a grant for senior mental health lead training.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department began offering schools and colleges a grant to train senior mental health leads in October 2021. A list of schools and colleges receiving a senior mental health lead training grant is published and updated throughout the year. This list can be found at the following link, alongside details of other payments to institutions: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-data-on-funding-claims-by-institutions.
In the 2021/22 financial year, seven schools and colleges within the Eastbourne constituency applied for the senior mental health training grant. In the 2022/23 financial year, a further five schools and colleges applied for the grant, which totals twelve grant applications to date. In the 2023/24 financial year, there were no grant applications in this constituency for Q1 and Q2.
Asked by: Selaine Saxby (Conservative - North Devon)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Senior mental health lead training, which schools in North Devon constituency have applied for the senior mental health training grant.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department began offering schools and colleges a grant to train senior mental health leads in October 2021. A list of schools and colleges receiving a senior mental health lead training grant is published and updated throughout the year. This list is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-data-on-funding-claims-by-institutions. In the 2021/22 financial year, 15 schools and colleges within the North Devon constituency applied for the senior mental health training grant. 8 schools and colleges applied for the grant in the 2022/23 financial year, totalling 23 grant applications to date. There were no grant applications in this constituency for Q1 and Q2 of this financial year (2023/24).
Asked by: Golden, Maurice (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the status is of the schools food waste pilot that began in autumn 2021, and what progress has been made on establishing a baseline for school food waste.
Answered by Slater, Lorna - Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity
Zero Waste Scotland supported Glasgow City Council Education Services to run a food waste pilot across five schools in 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and the cost of living crisis, operational priorities shifted towards cost of living support. As a result, the project was only partly delivered.
Zero Waste Scotland has undertaken analysis of data gathered and provided a food waste baseline and recommendations for reduction to these schools.
Nov. 08 2023
Source Page: Evidence for COVID-19 face masks: FOI releaseFound: on the use of face masks in schools.
Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) We saw that very clearly during the coronavirus pandemic, when we pledged £750 million to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) My Lords, independent schools are not among the very smallest charities in our country but they are pretty - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) My noble friend speaks with great authority as the president of the Independent Schools Association, - Speech Link
Found: National Tutoring Programme, or NTP , was introduced in England as a response to the impact of the coronavirus
Sep. 27 2023
Source Page: Coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery premium funding: allocations and conditions of grant 2023/24Found: Coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery premium funding: allocations and conditions of grant 2023/24
May. 03 2024
Source Page: Readiness for Remote Learning ReportFound: information to support the development of the readiness for remote learning report required under The Coronavirus