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Select Committee
Child Poverty Action Group
 DES0024 - Devolution of employment support

Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024

Inquiry: Devolution of employment support
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: EWS, August 2023 A street homeless UC claimant, with poor literacy and health problems, failed to

Select Committee
techUK
 FRA0089 - Fraud

Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024

Inquiry: Fraud
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: - Expanding Education on Fraud and Cyber Literacy To participate in the modern economy and

Departmental Publication (Policy and Engagement)
Department for Education

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: ITT core content framework and early career framework: call for evidence
Document: The evidence base underpinning the initial teacher training and early career framework: government response to call for evidence (PDF)

Found: adaptive teaching, assessment, careers education, expectations (including teacher -pupil relationships), literacy

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Regulatory Horizons Council: the Future Regulation of Space Technologies
Document: (PDF)

Found: the OEWG initiative was recognised by stat es as an important and beneficial way of bolstering space literacy

Scottish Government Publication (Impact assessment)
Local Government and Housing Directorate

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Scottish Government Planning Guidance - Local Living and 20 Minute Neighbourhoods - Final Impact Assessment Report Update
Document: Scottish Government Planning Guidance: Local living and 20 minute neighbourhoods: Final Impact Assessment Report Update (PDF)

Found: to services should be available as a choice rather than the only available option and that digital literacy

Scottish Parliament Written Question
S6W-26798
Thursday 25th April 2024

Asked by: Choudhury, Foysol (Scottish Labour - Lothian)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what funding it is currently providing for anti-racism education, and what organisations it is funding that carry out anti-racism education.

Answered by Gilruth, Jenny - Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

The Scottish Government is absolutely committed to embedding anti-racism in education. As part of the Anti-Racism in Education Programme for financial year 2023-24 the Scottish Government provided the following funding aimed at providing anti-racist education. Funding streams for 24-25 will be published in due course.

Funding recipient

What is being funded?

Amount of funding in 2023-24

General Teaching Council for Scotland

This funds a specialist race equality post within the GTCS.

£97,708

Education Scotland

Delivery of the Building Racial Literacy Programme

£62,803

Education Scotland

This funds a specialist race equality post within education Scotland.

£25,200

Intercultural Youth Scotland

Delivery of a programme of engagement with children and young people on behalf of the Anti-Racism in Education Programme.

£37,818

Scottish Association of Minority Ethnic Educators

Delivery of the Leadership, mentoring and wellbeing course for minority ethnic educators

£58,900

Calabar Education Consultants Ltd.

Development of an action guide for the anti-racist recruitment, retention and progression of minority ethnic teachers.

£9520

Intercultural Youth Scotland

IYS School Education Partnerships in secondary schools

£200,000

ScotDEC Global Citizenship Education

Development of two new resources for anti-racism in education on health and wellbeing and early years

£60,000

Over 30 schools and education settings

Small Grants Fund for Children and Young People-led anti-racism in education

£25,000

Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling

Teaching Slavery in Scotland Programme of Professional Learning for educators

£45,000

Grand Committee
Pakistan: UK Aid - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bshp - Bishops) Punjabi Bureau of Statistics on the social and economic well-being of women showed that, while women’s literacy - Speech Link

Select Committee
Third Special Report - Ofsted’s work with schools: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report

Special Report Apr. 25 2024

Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: outstanding education for their pupils – up from 68% in 2010; with the Progress in International Reading Literacy

Written Question
Prisons: Education and Training
Thursday 25th April 2024

Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) educational and (b) vocational training opportunities are not reduced in prisons; and whether he plans to use those training opportunities to help reduce prison overcrowding.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Education is key for reducing reoffending and research indicates that prison education reduces reoffending by 9 percentage points. In September 2023, we set out our plans to deliver an improved Prison Education Service that will support more prisoners to improve their literacy and numeracy and increase the number of prison leavers employed on release.

Over the past 12 months we have seen a sustained delivery in the number vocational courses undertaken by prisoners following increases to 95,000. To ensure the right education and vocational training opportunities are available across prisons we have:

  • Introduced new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
  • Enabled the first ever prisoner apprenticeships in catering and construction through ground-breaking partnerships with Greene King, Kier and Clipper, with talks underway to open up apprenticeships in other industries.
  • Recruited Neurodiversity Support Managers in every prison to support offenders with neurodivergent needs in accessing education, skills and work opportunities within the prison.
  • Launched a Future Skills programme to train up over 2,000 offenders over the next two years in vital industries such as scaffolding and electrics, before linking them up with employers in the local community and guaranteeing interviews on release.
  • We are investing £16 million to test new ways of increasing workshop activity to get prisoners work-ready and improve labour supply.
  • £1.8 million in the Literacy Innovation Fund which is delivering pilots in 15 prisons targeting those with low literacy levels.

I am pleased to say that we have seen positive outcomes in employment in support of our work to make best use of prison capacity. The proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after release has more than doubled in the two years to March 2023, from 14% to over 30%and between 2011/12 and 2021/22, the overall proven reoffending rate has decreased from 31.3% to 25.2%.

Select Committee
Tommy's
 PRT0057 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: are involved in the development of information information is written to meet health and digital literacy