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Vicky Ford: Until the end of the summer term, schools could continue to make payments to suppliers under the provisions of the Cabinet Office guidance for public bodies in ‘Procurement Policy Note 02/20’ and ‘Procurement Policy Note 04/20’ if they considered it appropriate in order to maintain delivery of critical services. These are available here:...
Nigel Adams: ....5% identified as BAME.With regard to socio-economic background, 100% of outreach work (undertaken by the FCDO's legacy departments, FCO and DFID, pre-Covid-19), was targeted at non-selective state schools with above average levels of Free School Meals/low levels of attainment. Further details of measures to promote socio-economic diversity are captured in the Social Mobility Foundation...
Layla Moran: ...of someone we often see blighted by coronavirus in the news. He told me: “for the last nine months I haven’t been able to leave my house due to long effects of covid. I haven’t cooked all my meals for one whole day once since the end of February, everything small is a major task. I can’t walk more than 100 metres without suffering.” The evidence of children getting long covid is...
Free School Meals: Food Parcels - Private Notice Question
Jacob Rees-Mogg: ...day (14th allotted day). There will be a debate on a motion relating to universal credit and working tax credit, followed by a debate on access to remote education and the quality of free school meals. Both debates will arise on a motion in the name of the official Opposition. Tuesday 19 January—Consideration of Lords amendments to the Trade Bill, followed by consideration of Lords...
Nick Gibb: ...online social care services, including securing 1.3 million laptops and tablets for disadvantaged children and young people. This includes over 700,000 laptops and tablets that were delivered to schools, trusts and local authorities by 11 January. The Department has estimated the need for devices and internet connectivity by using data on the number of pupils eligible for Free School...
Matt Western: .... I shall not go through the individual contributions, but I reiterate my thanks for Members’ participation and for so many important points. I will perhaps summarise just two areas. On free school meals, I understand the Minister’s point about Chartwells and the meeting that took place yesterday, but when businesses apologise, those apologies can be cheap. There are serious amounts of...
Tom Hunt: I very much welcome the fact that the equality agenda will be looking beyond simply protected characteristics. One key problem has been white pupils eligible for free school meals and how they have underperformed academically compared with other low income groups. Does the Minister feel that the equality agenda we have been working with, which has been almost exclusively focused on protected...
Keir Starmer: ...and the economy, yet we ended 2020 with the highest death toll in Europe and the deepest recession in any major economy, so that just is not a good enough answer. I want to turn to the latest free school meals scandal. We have all seen images on social media of disgraceful food parcels for children, costed at about £5 each. That is not what the Government promised. It is nowhere near...
Alex Norris: ...Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Department has made of the effect of the UK failing to agree a deal on the future relationship with the EU on food pricing on the provision of school meals.
Vicky Ford: Nurseries, childminders and pre-schools, who have provided crucial support throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, are now more vital than ever. We have provided extra security to nurseries and childminders that are open by paying local authorities for the autumn term for childcare places at the level we would have funded before COVID-19 – regardless of how many children were attending. Early...
Baroness Williams of Trafford: .... â¯The Government has provided an unprecedented package of support to councils to help their communities through this pandemic. We have also temporarily extended the eligibility criteria for free school meals in England to support some families with NRPF, in recognition of the difficulties they may be facing during these unique times. Migrants with leave under the Family and Human Rights...
John Mason: It seems that there have been problems in England with the free school meal parcels that children have been getting if they are not in the school building, and there has been an apology from the supplier. Can the Deputy First Minister assure us that low-income families in Scotland are getting sufficient nutritious food?
Sir David Amess: ...be right. With no signs of when pubs and restaurants will be able to reopen, we must make sure that hospitality businesses are given targeted support. With the return to remote learning for most school pupils, it is vital that the most vulnerable students are supported. I have been contacted by a number of constituents expressing their concerns about the safety of nursery schools and other...
Sir David Amess: ...be right. With no signs of when pubs and restaurants will be able to reopen, we must make sure that hospitality businesses are given targeted support. With the return to remote learning for most school pupils, it is vital that the most vulnerable students are supported. I have been contacted by a number of constituents expressing their concerns about the safety of nursery schools and other...
Munira Wilson: ..., and I am grateful to my many constituents for signing the petition—I believe Twickenham was about 13th on the list of signatories. Like many other Members, I have received many emails from school staff and early years staff urging me to participate in this debate and to press for the prioritisation of those staff. One thing that strikes me is that a number of the staff—I very much...
Rupa Huq: ...screens to create a covid-secure environment, all seemingly now for nothing. These people are famed for hard work and resilience, but they cannot run on empty, and no one clapped when they provided meals for NHS staff or for children, outside of the Government’s initial, cruel insistence that they would not run the free school meals scheme in the holidays. Coronageddon should not...
Vicky Ford: ...to arrange childcare provision through a range of settings, providing valuable support to families on lower incomes and giving them the opportunity to access rewarding activities alongside healthy meals over the school holidays.
Tulip Siddiq: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure that pupils entitled to (a) benefits-related free school meals and (b) universal infant free school meals continue to receive support during the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown; and what plans he has to re-introduce the national free school meal voucher scheme.
Baroness Berridge: My Lords, first, I pay tribute to all the staff who are making provision available to pupils in our schools and to those who are remote learning. In response to the questions asked by the noble Lord, Lord Watson, first, in relation to for the timing of the decision to close schools, obviously we made it very clear that that would be a last resort. The pace of the spread of the disease was...