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Written Question
Children: Hearing Impairment
Monday 18th January 2021

Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that education settings have supply of clear face coverings to support communication with deaf students during the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Vicky Ford

Some individuals are exempt from wearing face coverings, including those who are speaking to or providing assistance to someone who relies on lip reading, clear sound or facial expression to communicate, or those who cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering because of a physical or mental illness or impairment or disability. No one should be excluded from education on the grounds that they are not wearing a face covering. Guidance on individuals who are exempt from wearing face coverings can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own.

Written Question
Young People: Disability
Monday 11th January 2021

Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to improve supported internship schemes for disabled young people.

Answered by Vicky Ford

Supported internships are a key part of our offer to support young people with SEND into employment. Since its introduction, the Supported Internships programme has grown year on year. The most recent report in January 2020 showed that 2,231 young people with Education Health Care plans were undertaking Supported Internships, an increase from 1,646 from the same time in 2019 and 1,186 in 2018.

We anticipate that the COVID-19 outbreak is likely to negatively impact this growth. Department officials are looking into how we can sustain and strengthen the Supported Internship Programme, which we know will be all the more important in light of the challenges to the labour market brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak.

In September 2019 we launched a review of SEND policy, which includes looking at how we can provide the highest quality support that enables children and young people with SEND to thrive, prepare for adulthood, and secure high quality outcomes. Officials from across the government are working to inform the development of the National Strategy for Disabled people, in particular consideration of what more can be done to support young people with SEND to prepare for and successfully transition to adulthood, including employment.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Covid-19: Educational Settings

"Many of my university student constituents have contacted me because they are desperately worried about the impact that covid restrictions are having on their learning, research, educational success, future careers, finances and mental health and wellbeing. Does the Secretary of State believe it is fair for them to continue to …..."
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Written Question
Classroom Assistants: Pay
Thursday 10th December 2020

Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 7 September 2017 to Question 8320, on classroom assistants: average earnings, if he will provide the same salary data for (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The attached table shows the average salary for all full-time general teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants and all teaching assistants in local authority maintained schools, academy schools and free schools in England, as at November each year.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming the funding of healthcare higher education in England. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Nursing and midwifery students are required to undertake 2,300 hours of clinical placement to qualify. Maintenance grants were reintroduced in England in September, but those student nurses and midwives who just graduated or who are about to, and who stepped up in the first wave of the pandemic despite the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Union Learning Fund

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the future of the Union Learning Fund.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. Paul Glover works as a refuse driver in Nottingham. He struggled with dyslexia at school and left without any qualifications. At work in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Union Learning Fund

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Union Learning Fund

"I cannot decide if the Minister actually believes a word of the speech she has just delivered. It is as if she was not listening to a single one of the contributions that we heard.

We know that Unionlearn is not primarily about delivering courses. It is about connecting people …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Sep 2020
Students’ Return to Universities

"As the Secretary of State said, most university courses this academic year will now involve a blend of online and face-to-face teaching, but it is clear that those proportions might change in response to circumstances. An informal survey conducted by Disabled Students UK shows that changing learning set-ups can cause …..."
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