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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Failed, humiliated and made to feel too much trouble for schools to look after—that is how one Derby mum says she and her son, who has cerebral palsy, felt when, after a staggering 14 months out of school, he was offered a school place that still did not meet his …..."
Baggy Shanker - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"T8. Earlier this year I met brilliant Derby apprentices at Alstom, who are building their futures as they build the future of our rail. However, persistently low start rates in the east midlands have left too many of our young people missing out on the opportunities that apprenticeships give. What …..."
Baggy Shanker - View Speech

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Written Question
Special Educational Needs: Teachers and Classroom Assistants
Monday 2nd December 2024

Asked by: Baggy Shanker (Labour (Co-op) - Derby South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2024 to Question 12858 on Special Educational Needs: Teachers and Classroom Assistants, if she will make it her policy to add (a) specialist support teaching assistants and (b) teachers of sensory impairment to the staff roles collected in the annual census.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

There are currently no plans to change the collected list of staff roles in the school workforce census.

Written Question
Special Educational Needs: Teachers and Classroom Assistants
Thursday 14th November 2024

Asked by: Baggy Shanker (Labour (Co-op) - Derby South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) specialist support teaching assistants and (b) teachers of sensory impairment with a full mandatory qualification in sensory impairment are employed in (i) England, (ii) Derbyshire County Council area and (iii) Derby City Council area; and what information on these roles is collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

Information on the school workforce in England is collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census each November and published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

Information on staff roles is collected in the annual census. The role categories collected do not identify specialist support teaching assistants or teachers of sensory impairment.