Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 125334 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, if he will publish his Department's criteria for determining which local authorities to target with an increase in training available to early years SENDCO.
Answered by Will Quince
We are in the process of procuring for additional special educational needs coordinators training for early years. We are aiming to target training in the following local authorities:
Barnsley | Gloucestershire | Redcar and Cleveland |
Bath and North East Somerset | Halton | Rochdale |
Birmingham | Hartlepool | Rotherham |
Blackpool | Herefordshire | Salford |
Bolton | Hertfordshire | Sheffield |
Bradford | Kingston upon Hull, City of | Solihull |
Brighton and Hove | Kirklees | Somerset |
Bristol, City of | Knowsley | South Gloucestershire |
Buckinghamshire | Lancashire | South Tyneside |
Calderdale | Leeds | St. Helens |
Cambridgeshire | Leicestershire | Staffordshire |
Central Bedfordshire | Lincolnshire | Stockport |
Cheshire East | Liverpool | Stockton-on-Tees |
Cheshire West and Chester | Manchester | Stoke-on-Trent |
Cornwall | Medway | Surrey |
Coventry | Middlesbrough | Tameside |
Cumbria | Newcastle upon Tyne | Torbay |
Darlington | Norfolk | Wakefield |
Derbyshire | North East Lincolnshire | Walsall |
Devon | North Tyneside | West Sussex |
Doncaster | North Yorkshire | Wigan |
Dorset | Northamptonshire | Wirral |
Dudley | Nottinghamshire | Wolverhampton |
Durham | Oldham | Worcestershire |
East Riding of Yorkshire | Oxfordshire | |
Gateshead | Portsmouth |
These local authorities have been identified using metrics to measure levels of disadvantage in individual local authorities. The metrics used are: rates of access to free school meals alongside Early Years Foundation Stage profile outcomes, % of children eligible for Early Years Pupil Premium, % of children in receipt of an Education and Healthcare Plan and COVID-19 cases rate per 100,000 resident population across the length of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 125334 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, if he will publish the local authorities targeted for an increase in training available to early years SENDCO.
Answered by Will Quince
We are in the process of procuring for additional special educational needs coordinators training for early years. We are aiming to target training in the following local authorities:
Barnsley | Gloucestershire | Redcar and Cleveland |
Bath and North East Somerset | Halton | Rochdale |
Birmingham | Hartlepool | Rotherham |
Blackpool | Herefordshire | Salford |
Bolton | Hertfordshire | Sheffield |
Bradford | Kingston upon Hull, City of | Solihull |
Brighton and Hove | Kirklees | Somerset |
Bristol, City of | Knowsley | South Gloucestershire |
Buckinghamshire | Lancashire | South Tyneside |
Calderdale | Leeds | St. Helens |
Cambridgeshire | Leicestershire | Staffordshire |
Central Bedfordshire | Lincolnshire | Stockport |
Cheshire East | Liverpool | Stockton-on-Tees |
Cheshire West and Chester | Manchester | Stoke-on-Trent |
Cornwall | Medway | Surrey |
Coventry | Middlesbrough | Tameside |
Cumbria | Newcastle upon Tyne | Torbay |
Darlington | Norfolk | Wakefield |
Derbyshire | North East Lincolnshire | Walsall |
Devon | North Tyneside | West Sussex |
Doncaster | North Yorkshire | Wigan |
Dorset | Northamptonshire | Wirral |
Dudley | Nottinghamshire | Wolverhampton |
Durham | Oldham | Worcestershire |
East Riding of Yorkshire | Oxfordshire | |
Gateshead | Portsmouth |
These local authorities have been identified using metrics to measure levels of disadvantage in individual local authorities. The metrics used are: rates of access to free school meals alongside Early Years Foundation Stage profile outcomes, % of children eligible for Early Years Pupil Premium, % of children in receipt of an Education and Healthcare Plan and COVID-19 cases rate per 100,000 resident population across the length of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked by: Joy Morrissey (Conservative - Beaconsfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has made for the roll out of the covid-19 vaccine in Buckinghamshire; and what the timetable is for that roll out.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The National Health Service (NHS) has a tried and tested track record for delivering vaccination programmes and is working with existing partners across the healthcare system to ensure the safe and effective deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine across every region of the United Kingdom.
Alongside local partners, the NHS has been working to ensure fair access and maximum uptake of the vaccine which is why it has developed three different models of delivery. Included in this are hospital hubs, local vaccination services and vaccination centres. More than 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK and hundreds more are opening shortly to take the total to over 1,000.
Asked by: Steve Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to covid-19 testing in Buckinghamshire.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We have established a regional testing site at South Second Street Car Park in Milton Keynes and a local testing site at The Gateway Car Park, Buckinghamshire Council in Aylesbury. Our laboratories are processing more than a million tests a week and are scaling up our testing capacity even further to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October, expanding our network of testing sites and laboratories as well as investing in new testing technologies.