Lord Watson of Invergowrie

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the scope of the Independent review of children’s social care includes consideration of possible changes to the service and protection rights of children and families provided under the Children Act 1989.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many parents who have been unable to resolve the issue of excessive school uniform costs with schools directly have raised that issue with the Department for Education in each of the last three academic years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Berridge on 16 March (HL13849), for what reasons they redacted the section entitled ‘Terms of Reference and ways of working’ in the contract of the chair of the independent review ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the outcome of their review of the support available to young people with special educational needs and disabilities, announced in September 2019.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to permit the Open University to offer initial teacher training courses.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made on their consultation on elective home education.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria were used to select the Experts by Experience Group for the independent review of children’s social care; who assessed the applications; and who comprised the interview panel for those shortlisted for intervie...

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to reply to the joint letters of 5 and 18 February sent by Article 39 to the Secretary of State for Education concerning the independent review of children’s social care.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many days per week the Chair of the independent review of children’s social care has been contracted to work; and what is his remuneration.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the staff comprising the secretariat of the independent review of children’s social care were recruited (1) from within the Department for Education, or (2) externally.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Department for Education's 2018 guidance Charging for school activities, whether “other equipment” includes (1) laptops, (2) broadband, and (3) data, where the guidance states “school governing bodies and lo...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the National Day Nurseries Association Early Years Funding 2019/20: Underspends and contingency budgets one year on, published in February; and in particular, its finding that...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they have put in place to ensure that any unregistered religious schools which do not allow pupils to use technology cannot use exceptions pertaining to vulnerable children in the regulations in place to addre...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the ability of unregistered out-of-school settings providing religious tuition to children to adhere to restrictions in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of unregistered schools continuing to operate whilst restrictions in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic are ongoing; and what plans they have to prevent the operation of such s...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have received from Ofsted about changing legislation to ensure that out-of-school settings providing a religious or narrow curriculum can only operate legally if they are registered with the Depart...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to establish a Department for Education Mental Health Action Group.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their White Paper Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth, published on 21 January, whether they have appointed a bill team to work on the primary legislation they intend to introduce to im...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking in relation to the underspending by local education authorities of funding earmarked for children’s early education and care which has been instead channelled into other areas of education spendi...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to support district councils (1) to provide, and (2) to protect, leisure services during the COVID-19 pandemic.