Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Sep 2015
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"As part of the Prime Minister’s renegotiation, and as he visits various European capitals, he presumably has a list of reforms that he wants enacted. How many directly relate to business?..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Jun 2015
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"May I congratulate the Minister on his reappointment? I remind him that this is not just investment in buildings, but the facilities around buildings. Last Friday, I accepted a petition from 300 parents of the Krishna Avanti school and St Paul’s Catholic school about the lack of crossing facilities in …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jan 2015
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"10. What recent assessment she has made of the role of faith schools; and if she will make a statement...."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jan 2015
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"As the Secretary of State knows, Leicester has the Hindu Krishna Avanti school, Madani Muslim school and the Falcons school, which she opened very recently. They all provide an excellent education for local children. I am sure that today many of them, as part of their duties, will be painting …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2014
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"May I, through the Minister, thank the Secretary of State and the Minister for free schools, Lord Nash, for their visit to the Falcons school in Leicester? I know that they enjoyed their visit. We were disappointed not to see the Minister there as well. I know that, apart from …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Oct 2014
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"I was late for the start of questions because I was attending the opening day of the Sikh faith school in Leicester. May I thank the Minister for all the support that she and Lord Nash, the Minister in the other place have given to the school, and may I …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2014
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"I also congratulate the Minister. If he has been boiled twice, I wonder what happened to the other vegetables.
I am a firm supporter of free schools. As the Minister knows, the first Sikh free school will open in September this year. I congratulate the Secretary of State, whose constituency …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Jun 2014
British Values: Teaching
"I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing the debate. I represent the most diverse city in Europe. The ethnic minority population of Leicester has now passed 50%. Does he agree that British values may mean something different in Leicester from what they mean in Southampton, London or, for example, …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2014
Birmingham Schools
"I have no objection to no-notice inspections. They have worked in other areas. Will the Secretary of State confirm that there is no evidence before him of this kind of activity taking place in other areas of the country, and that his support of faith schools remains unshakeable? May I …..."Keith Vaz - View Speech
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Written Question
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Tuesday 6th May 2014
Asked by:
Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the emails sent by his Department to schools on 3 April 2014 setting out guidance on keeping children safe have not been opened by the recipient to date.
Answered by Edward Timpson
On 3 April the Department for Education published updated statutory guidance on safeguarding, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education'. On the same day, we emailed all headteachers a letter from the Secretary of State drawing their attention to the guidance. We will be publishing this on the website in due course.
The letter was emailed to 31,660 addressees in 25,035 schools. As of 30 April, 13,285 (43.1%) recipients had opened the email, and 9,402 (30.5%) recipients had clicked through to the guidance on safeguarding.
Other records show that the guidance has been seen by a greater number of people. Between 3 and 29 April the web page hosting the guidance received 65,729 page views. The Department also published 5 tweets in support of the publication. These achieved a total reach of 639,315, and the embedded links were clicked 755 times.
The guidance will also be highlighted in the summer term 2014 schools' email and Need to Know timelines that will be sent to all schools in May. Schools can also access relevant information through social media, and messages from the Education Funding Agency and the National College for Teaching and Leadership. The Department also sends regular emails to all local authorities.
Officials have also promoted the guidance through various stakeholder groups that work with the Department, including the Headteacher Reference Groups and the Education Forum; members of the latter include chairs of local safeguarding children boards. And they have written to head and teacher unions who met Ministers in January to discuss female genital mutilation and broader safeguarding issues.