Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Inquiry: Disability employmentFound: EWS, August 2023 A street homeless UC claimant, with poor literacy and health problems, failed
Correspondence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Liaison Committee (Lords)Found: In addition, this Government announced a strong action plan to ensure every student has the literacy
Found: The department heads a media literacy strategy that is due to end in 2025.
Apr. 26 2024
Source Page: Community Learning and Development: Guidance for 2024-2027Found: This route embeds literacy and numeracy into all of its provision, so that learning and skills development
Apr. 26 2024
Source Page: I. Supporting families: a foundation for family help. Annual report of the Supporting Families programme 2023-2024. Incl. annex. 25p. II. Local Data Accelerator Fund: process evaluation. Incl. appendices. 97p.Found: acceptance among project teams that some individuals and organisations, especially those with lower data literacy
Apr. 26 2024
Source Page: Improving police productivity: a response to the recommendations of the Policing Productivity Review. 20p.Found: Technology Strategy has already set out how the NPCC will invest in its people, championing S&T literacy
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on steps to help improve levels of health literacy in school children.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Pupils need to know how to be safe and healthy, and how to manage their academic, personal, and social lives in a positive way. That is why the department has made health education compulsory in all state-funded schools in England alongside making Relationships Education (for primary pupils) and Relationships and Sex Education (for secondary pupils) compulsory, collectively known as Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE).
The department has also published implementation guidance and teacher training modules covering all the RSHE topics to help schools develop their curricula and teach subjects confidently and effectively, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health. Topics in the RSHE curriculum at both primary and secondary include health and prevention, healthy eating, mental wellbeing and physical health and fitness.
The department is reviewing the RSHE statutory guidance this year, working with colleagues in the Department of Health and Social care to do so. The department is taking a comprehensive, evidence-based approach in deciding what should be included and will consider whether the current content on health education could be amended or expanded to enhance the health literacy of pupils. The department intends to publish revised guidance later in 2024.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
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 health literacy for services to support people at the end of life.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Health Service website and the NHS App are our main digital tools available to citizens, to support them in accessing services and making decisions about their health. Clinicians across the NHS also support patients’ health literacy by providing clear information, increasing patients’ knowledge, and sharing decision-making on their care.
Additionally, through the Voluntary Community Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Programme, the Department, NHS England, and the UK Health Security Agency work together with VCSE organisations to drive transformation of health and care systems, promote equality, address health inequalities, and help people, families, and communities to achieve and maintain wellbeing. The current projects include increasing health literacy through intersectional considerations at the end of life, digital inclusion, and barriers for those likely to be in the last year of life without a life-limiting diagnosis.
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)Found: practice/Attachment/Virtual Reality training/Understanding ACEs 36 30 Mental health, anxiety, emotional literacy
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)Found: Health/ anxiety 48 (38.4) 41 (32.8) n/a n/a Well-being 38 (30.4) 33 (26.4) n/a n/a Emotional literacy