Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) While households currently covered by the service should not be disadvantaged by the switch-off, energy - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) join me in congratulating Georgina on her award and on having brought comfort to so many parents and families - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) because that is how we will deliver the long-term change that our country needs and a brighter future for families - Speech Link
May. 01 2024
Source Page: Government To Lift Cap on Faith School PlacesFound: Faith groups run some of the best schools in the country, including in some of the most disadvantaged
Report May. 01 2024
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)Found: A lot of women go out to fish, and they come back to feed their families.
Found: sed on access and success and/or targets related to participation by those from low income or other disadvantaged
Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) At the moment, frankly, they are disadvantaged and are put through a series of hoops—if, indeed, they - Speech Link
2: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) All those have representation that they can afford, whereas the families and bereaved do not. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) We very much appreciate the effect this must have had on Mrs Hicks and other families affected. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Worse, the threats to the victims and their families of this scheme remain. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None It has a huge impact on preventable deaths, the economy, productivity and of course families and loved - Speech Link
2: None That creates damage for families, affects the productivity of the economy, impacts the NHS in a costly - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) Also, as school leaders we are looking after teachers, but we are caring for families as well. - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) is important that we do something about the fact that healthy life expectancy for those who are most disadvantaged - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None expected.For some young people, that non-acceptance existed not only at school but at home, with some families - Speech Link
2: None to the committee, show that three quarters of all suicides are by men and that people who live in a disadvantaged - Speech Link
3: None benefit from it.It is also remarkable that the DBI process is engaging people who are more socially disadvantaged - Speech Link
4: None Brazil showed that use of conditional cash transfers prevents suicide—it showed that providing money to families - Speech Link
5: None and supporting psychiatrists and aiming to improve outcomes for people with mental illness and their families - Speech Link
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of increases in the cost of living on the accessibility of higher education for students in Greater Manchester.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
The government publishes an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is each year to analyse the impact of changes to higher education (HE) student support in England on students with protected characteristics and those from low-income families. The EIA for the 2024/25 academic year was published on GOV.UK on 26 January 2024 and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-student-finance-2024-to-2025-equality-analysis.
The department has continued to increase maximum loans and grants for living and other costs for undergraduate and postgraduate students each year with a 2.8% increase for the current academic year, 2023/24, and a further 2.5% increase announced for 2024/25.
In addition, the department has frozen maximum tuition fees for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years. By 2024/25, maximum fees will have been frozen for seven successive years. The department believes that the current fee freeze achieves the best balance between ensuring that the system remains financially sustainable, offering good value for the taxpayer, and reducing debt levels for students in real terms.
The government understands the pressures people have been facing with the cost of living and has taken action to help. The department has already made £276 million of student premium and mental health funding available for the 2023/24 academic year to support successful outcomes for students including disadvantaged students.
The department has also made a further £10 million of one-off support available to support student mental health and hardship funding for 2023/24. This funding will complement the help universities are providing through their own bursary, scholarship and hardship support schemes. For this financial year, 2024/25, the department has increased the Student Premium (full-time, part-time, and disabled premium) by £5 million to reflect high demand for hardship support. Further details of this allocation for the academic year 2024/25 will be announced by the Office for Students (OfS) in the summer.
Overall, support to households to help with the high cost of living is worth £108 billion over 2022/23 to 2024/25, an average of £3,800 per UK household. The government believes this will have eased the pressure on family budgets and so will in turn enable many families to provide additional support to their children in HE to help them meet increased living costs.
English domiciled 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged areas are now 74% more likely to enter HE than they were in 2010, and the department is working to close the disadvantage gap with our access and participation reforms.
The department has tasked the OfS to include support for disadvantaged students before entry to HE in new access and participation plans. Providers should be working meaningfully with schools to ensure that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are encouraged and supported to achieve the highest possible grades and follow the path that is best for them, whether that be an apprenticeship or higher technical qualification, or a course at another university.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support the early learning and development of children at home.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department is investing over £300 million to enable 75 local authorities to create family hubs, and to improve vital services to give every baby the best start in life, including support for parenting, perinatal mental health and parent infant relationships, and infant feeding. An additional £29 million has been made available to these local authorities to improve early language development, by supporting parents to help their children learn at home through the provision of evidence-based support with home learning.
In January 2024, the department launched a national campaign ‘Little Moments Together.’ It offers free resources and advice for parents to enhance children’s language and communication development on the NHS Better Health Start for Life website at: https://www.nhs.uk/start-for-life/early-learning-development/. The department’s focus is on educating parents about brain development in the first five years of life, and the crucial role they play. The campaign encourages parents to chat, play, and read more with their children, suggesting ways to fit opportunities into their busy schedules in and around the home. The ‘Little Moments Together’ campaign can be viewed online at: https://campaignresources.dhsc.gov.uk/campaigns/better-health-start-for-life/better-health-start-for-life-home-learning-environment-2024/.
In addition, the department is working with early years national voluntary and community sector partners, including the National Literacy Trust, to assist family hubs to deliver home learning support to disadvantaged and low-income families. The department has provided £4.5 million in grant funding for partners to develop resources using the ‘Little Moments Together’ campaign messaging, offer peer-led activities directly to parents, and to engage with disadvantaged groups locally on home learning through the developing family hub networks.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) groups becoming even more disadvantaged and deprived. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Lincoln (Bshp - Bishops) The recent Hidden Hardship report noted that disadvantaged young people in remote rural areas are 50% - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) They are now claimed by more than 2 million of the most disadvantaged pupils. - Speech Link