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Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
New Petitions - Wed 01 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) for choices and changes, substance misuse, relationships, sexual health and parenthood and financial literacy - Speech Link

Select Committee
Centre for Policy Studies, University of Oxford, and City, University of London

Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024

Inquiry: The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Communications and Digital Committee

Found: We talked years ago and are probably still talking about media literacy initiatives, because ultimately

Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Lifelong Learning and Skills Directorate

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: Scottish Government response to the report of the Independent Commission for the Land-based Learning Review
Document: Scottish Government response to the report of the Independent Commission for the Land-based Learning Review (PDF)

Found: Recommendation 2 Establish clear progressive experiences for nature -based learning and climate literacy

Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Scottish Languages Bill
Apr. 30 2024
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A briefing on the Scottish Languages Bill. This briefing explores the current policy landscape for the support of Gaelic and Scots and then explores the provisions of the Bill.

Found: and mediaScottish Languages Bill, SB 24-21 EN 20•availability of materials for language education and literacy

Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Scottish Leids Bill
Apr. 30 2024
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A briefin on the Scottish Leids Bill. This briefin gangs intae the policy launscape fur the uphaudin o Gaelic and Scots the noo, syne the provisions o the Bill.

Found: leid is yaised) •reponse tae new domains and media •availability o materials fur leid education and literacy

Written Question
Pre-school Education
Tuesday 30th April 2024

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.

Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) health support and guidance after a terminal diagnosis, and“establish a national strategy for death literacy - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) It is often about poor death literacy. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) The report’s recommendation 5 was a request for a national strategy for death literacy. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) report that the programme of Sure Start paid for itself with better GCSE results, improved skills in literacy - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) It said that phonics would not work, that our literacy drive was “dull”, and that free schools were “ - Speech Link
2: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) Friend will be aware of my campaign to improve literacy across the country by improving children’s access - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) resources for parents to encourage a positive culture of reading at home, and we also fund the National Literacy - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 29 2024

Source Page: Rwanda: country policy and information notes
Document: (PDF)

Found: English was the most common additional language, with a literacy level in Kigali of 38% (in Rwanda