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- Written Answers — Education: Childminding (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: At present we do not have any plans to offer financial incentives to encourage the formation of childminder agencies. We have received support from a number of organisations and individuals for the introduction of 'childminder agencies', including the members of our Task and Finish Group, and Her Majesty's chief inspector. In relation to pilot schemes for childminder agencies, we have...
- Written Answers — Education: Children: Day Care (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: In 'More great childcare', published on 29 January, the Government announced its intention to amend the staff:child ratios as set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework from September 2013. The Government consulted on the qualifications required to enable settings to take advantage of the new ratios in a public consultation which closed at the end of March. We have spoken to a...
- Written Answers — Education: Children: Day Care (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: I have regular conversations with Her Majesty's chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, on this and other issues. Sir Michael has made clear that Ofsted considers highly qualified staff to be critical to ensuring high quality early years provision. In an article published in 'Nursery World' on 25 February 2013, Sir Michael said, "The facts are clear—highly skilled adults do a great deal...
- Written Answers — Education: Children's Centres (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education collects information on the provision of child care through the annual Childcare and Early Years Provider Survey. This survey does not report the number of children's centres employing early years professionals. It does provide estimates for the proportion of staff who are early years professionals employed by children's centres which provide full day care. The...
- Written Answers — Education: Curriculum (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: We will publish an equalities impact assessment for the new national curriculum, alongside our consultation on the draft statutory Orders that will implement the new programmes of study, in the summer.
- Written Answers — Education: Curriculum (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: We are currently considering the outcome of the consultation on draft programmes of study which closed on 16 April 2013. We plan to publish revised versions of the programmes for consultation on the draft statutory orders in the summer. The final versions will be published in the autumn once the necessary parliamentary processes are complete. Schools will start teaching the new programmes of...
- Written Answers — Education: Departmental Responsibilities (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: As part of the Department review we have examined all areas of the Department's business to make sure that our resources are properly focused on ministerial priorities, and explored work which can be stopped, scaled back, or done differently. We will continue to do this on a regular basis as part of our commitment to reduce our administration budget, and to make sure that we continue to...
- Written Answers — Education: Education: Assessments (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: We aim to publish the consultation on primary assessment and accountability under the new National Curriculum by the end of the summer term. The first new statutory assessments of the new National Curriculum will be in 2016. In advance of the consultation, we are continuing discussions with publishers, educational suppliers and representative bodies, to make sure that appropriate support is...
- Written Answers — Education: Pre-school Education (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The consultation on proposed changes to the role of the local authority in the delivery of funded early education, and in securing information advice and training for child care providers, closed on 6 May 2013. The Department received a large number of responses from a range of organisations, which it is currently analysing. The Government will publish its response to the consultation in due...
- Written Answers — Education: Pre-school Education (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The average (mean) number of hours per week of funded early education received by three and four-year-olds in each of the last four years is given in the table. Information on funded hours is collected through the Early Years Census and School Census. The Department collects and funds local authorities based on the number of funded hours a child receives during the census week. A figure is...
- Written Answers — Education: Pupil Exclusions (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education is currently considering the Children's Commissioner's report, They Go The Extra Mile. A formal response to the recommendations made to the Department will be issued soon.
- Written Answers — Education: School Meals (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: Monitoring of the take up of school meals is being considered as part of the School Food Plan, which is currently being prepared by the independent school food reviewers, Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent. Once the reviewers have completed the Plan, we will consider any recommendations they make on this issue.
- Written Answers — Education: Schools (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: This information is not held centrally. Therefore to provide this information would incur disproportionate cost.
- Written Answers — Education: Schools (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The first new GCSEs and A-levels will be introduced from September 2015, which allows schools to see the full picture of academic qualification reform, alongside curriculum and accountability reform, at one time. We believe this will help schools plan. To support preparation, we expect specifications for the new qualifications to be available to schools from September 2014. To minimise the...
- Written Answers — Education: Scotland (16 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
- Written Answers — Education: Buildings (15 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies leased the following properties in central London during the financial years 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Total running costs (£) Central London properties 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Lease end Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, SWIP 3BT (DFE) 15,808,941.00 15,351,301.00...
- Written Answers — Education: Children's Centres (15 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education collects information on the provision of child care through the annual Childcare and Early Years Provider Survey. This allows an estimate to be made of the number of Sure Start children’s centres providing full day care provision on site. Estimates from the survey show that in 2010 the number of children’s centres providing on-site full day care was...
- Written Answers — Education: Children's Centres (15 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The Department collects information on the provision of child care through the annual Childcare and Early Years Provider Survey. This survey does not report the number of children’s centres employing qualified teachers. It does provide estimates of the proportion of staff who are qualified teachers in children’s centres which provide full day care. The estimates as a percentage by...
- Written Answers — Education: Climate Change: Curriculum (15 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: The Government's intention is not to remove climate change from the national curriculum, but rather to bolster pupils' understanding of this important issue. The new national curriculum will ensure that pupils develop an understanding of the key concepts that underpin the study of climate change in both science and geography. In geography, pupils will develop an evidence-based understanding...
- Written Answers — Education: Curriculum (15 May 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: Draft programmes of study for citizenship, computing and physical education at key stage 4 were published for consultation on 7 February 2013. At the same time draft programmes of study for English, mathematics and science at key stage 4 were also published for information. We plan to undertake formal consultation on draft programmes of study for these subjects in the autumn and finalise...