Lord Watson of Invergowrie

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve access to higher education and employment opportunities for young carers.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help local authorities and schools regularly to monitor and support the attendance of young carers.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many sessions each local authority-maintained school and each Academy school provided education in the 2022–23 school year; and what was the proportion of Academies that provided fewer than 380 sessions in that year.

To ask His Majesty's Government, for each Academy Order made between 1 January 2024 and 30 November 2024 under section 4(A1) of the Academies Act 2010, whether they will list (1) the name of the school, (2) the school's unique reference number (URN), (3) ...

To ask His Majesty's Government what investment has been made in secondary school libraries in England over the past fifteen years.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many school libraries and school librarians there are in England; and how those figures compare with the figures for 2010.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the University of Manchester article, "Modern slavery and digital technology in ‘Fast Fashion’: the transparency dividend", published on 8 July, and, in particular, the need for businesses ...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage businesses to use digital technology in complying with modern slavery legislation.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendations contained in the Place2Be report School for all: solutions for school attendance, published in September.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for mental health support teams in schools to include a specialist child counsellor.

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their anticipated timescale for rolling out mental health support teams to every school and college.

To ask His Majesty's Government what data they have on the impact of mental health support teams on (1) improving pupil mental health, and (2) improving teacher mental health.

To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish Sir David Bell's review of early years provision.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have regarding the rollout of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 25 July (HLWS20), who will undertake the review of reforms of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below; and how they intend to seek the views of those cur...

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to fund the national roll-out of mental health support teams across all schools and colleges in England.

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the reasons for administering the Nursery Milk Scheme to children only until their fifth birthday rather than until the end of the academic year in which that birthday falls.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to ratify imminently Optional Protocol 3 to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child relating to a communications procedure; and if not, why.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the survey results published by Schools Week on 21 February which found that the rate at which children left the classroom for home education in 2022–23 showed a 12 per cent increase on 202...

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of The National Parent Survey, published by Parentkind on 4 December 2023.