Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) responds to concerns expressed by the police about the availability of certain types of machetes and large outdoor - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) zombie-style machete”does not include tools traditionally used in agriculture, farming, gardening or outdoor - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Similarly, education and youth services have been denuded in the past 14 years, which has weakened our - Speech Link
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to support local partnerships between schools and youth organisations to support educational enrichment work in schools.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Enrichment programmes encompass a wide range of activities, including sports, art, drama, outdoor experiences, debating, volunteering, business, tech or cooking. These activities can have a significant positive impact on young people, including on their academic progress and wellbeing and the department is committed to ensuring young people have access to high quality extra curricular opportunities.
Schools are best placed to understand and meet the specific needs of their pupils, and have flexibility to decide what range of extra curricular activities to offer. However, the department does support a range of initiatives to expand access to high quality extra curricular activities through schools, such as working with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to offer the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to all state secondary schools in England.
The Shared Outcomes Fund was originally set up in 2019 to incentivise departments to work collaboratively across challenging policy areas to deliver better value for citizens. In the Third Round of HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund the Department for Education and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was were awarded a total of £3.4 million for the delivery of the Enrichment Partnerships Pilot (EPP), more information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shared-outcomes-fund-round-three. The EPP aims to improve the enrichment offer of up to 200 secondary schools in Education Investment Areas, testing whether greater coordination locally can enhance school enrichment offers, develop local partnerships and promote greater collaboration between schools on extra curricular activities.
The government has also invested £289 million to support the expansion of wraparound childcare for primary school children in England. Schools’ enrichment and extra curricular offers may interact with, complement and support the delivery of wraparound childcare provision. The department is supporting and encouraging schools to continue to offer enrichment and extra curricular activities and to consider how these activities can be delivered in a way that supports working parents. This may include working with local private providers who can support schools to deliver activities in a regular and reliable way.
Written Evidence Jan. 19 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: providers, active campaigners on housing and planning matters, or specialists in heritage skills and education
Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) Education is a key factor in the prevention of livestock worrying incidents, and the Scottish outdoor - Speech Link
2: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) Stakeholders including NFU Scotland and Scottish Land & Estates have called for a change to the outdoor - Speech Link
3: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) We want to encourage more people to follow and adhere to the Scottish outdoor access code, especially - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 01 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: Regents Park – and therefore: -Year 4, the whole class relocate to rural Surrey for three days of outdoor
Written Evidence Nov. 28 2023
Inquiry: Education and Careers in Land-based SectorsFound: ECL0047 - Education and Careers in Land-based Sectors Social Farms and Gardens Written Evidence
Written Evidence Jan. 19 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: Candidate at University of Reading) [CBE 027] We are a group of academics who research children’s outdoor
Asked by: Geraint Davies (Independent - Swansea West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children in school are not exposed to high levels of air pollution.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department has published the Building Bulletin 101, which provides non-statutory guidance on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-bulletin-101-ventilation-for-school-buildings.
Local outdoor air quality is the responsibility of local authorities who should prepare air quality action plans to ensure the level of pollutants is reduced. In January 2019, the government published the Clean Air Strategy setting out plans to deal with all sources of pollution. This is accessible at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-air-strategy-2019.
Guidance on good estate management for ventilation in schools is available at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/good-estate-management-for-schools/health-and-safety.
Asked by: Geraint Davies (Independent - Swansea West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has taken recent steps with (a) Health Education England and (b) Royal Colleges to provide information to health professionals on treating people who are vulnerable to the health effects of air pollution.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence includes recommendations on advice health professionals can give to people who may be particularly affected by poor outdoor and indoor air quality. The guidance is available at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng70
Standards for education and training of healthcare professionals are the responsibility of the independent statutory regulatory bodies. The Department engages regularly with health professional bodies, but it would not be appropriate for the Government to intervene in the design of standards of proficiency or the design of curricula. This is to respect the independence and expertise of regulators and universities in designing standards and curricula that ensure public safety.
The Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022 focused on air pollution and includes an assessment of the evidence on health risks associated with poor air quality. The report is available at the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2022-air-pollution