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Select Committee
Fourth Special Report - Health barriers for girls and women in sport: Government and Sport England responses to the Committee’s Third Report

Special Report May. 17 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Along with the teaching of menstruation through Biology in secondary schools, as mentioned in the report

Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) attendance champion, and families will be aware of the expectations incumbent on them before choosing secondary - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Having a regional approach meant that, for families who had primary schools kids at one school and secondary - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) In secondary schools, persistent absence is 7%, which is below the national average of 8.7%. - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) extended half-term in autumn and one week less in summer, which they say has had a positive impact on - Speech Link
5: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) We have the fourth best primary school readers in the world, and our secondary school children have risen - Speech Link

Select Committee
Second Report - Teacher recruitment, training and retention

Report May. 17 2024

Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: with secondary and further education being the worst impacted.

Departmental Publication (Open consultation)
Department for Transport

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Lowering the minimum age requirement for train drivers from 20 to 18
Document: (PDF)

Found: proposal to lower the minimum age requirement for train drivers with a view to implementing this change by summer

Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) The excellent physical education and sport premium must become a permanent feature of our future education - Speech Link
2: Baroness Nye (Lab - Life peer) The programme will cost an estimated £15 million to roll out across all 32,000 primary and secondary - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

May. 15 2024

Source Page: Safeguarding children in elective home education
Document: (PDF)

Found: Safeguarding children in elective home education

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Teaching - Wed 15 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) It found that access to services outwith the education setting has diminished, that services in schools - Speech Link
2: Rennie, Willie (LD - North East Fife) and then in secondary schools, we might not need to recruit another 3,500 extra teachers in order to - Speech Link
3: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) There were more than 400 responses from staff at more than 100 schools, nurseries and education centres - Speech Link
4: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) do not know whether their mentor will still be there for them when they return to school after the summer - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Biodiversity Loss - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) At sea, primary and secondary plankton production is likely to be shifted northwards. - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) to nature in both urban and rural areas through, for example, expanding initiatives such as forest education - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) We will produce the next environment improvement plan in the summer, and it will only be the second one - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) is easy.We are working on our UK biodiversity strategy right now, and it should be published in the summer - Speech Link

Select Committee
Joint Modern Slavery Policy Unit of Justice and Care and the Centre for Social Justice
 MSA0037 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Written Evidence May. 14 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: Twice as many teachers in schools with the most deprived students had encountered suspected criminal

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

May. 14 2024

Source Page: New levelling up powers to fill empty shops across England
Document: Improving access to greenspace: 2020 review (publishing.service.gov.uk) (PDF)

Found: the ‘Mirror Pool’ fountain, which acts as a public forum for Bradford city centre, particularly in summer