To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of further education colleges losing their allocation of non-levied apprenticeship funding on (1) local employers, and (2) existing, and (3) potential, local apprentices.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many further education colleges lost their allocation of non-levied apprenticeships funding in the recent Education and Skills Funding Agency procurement process; and in which regions were those colleges.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether proposed changes to who can object to school admissions arrangements will have a disproportionate effect on parents from low income backgrounds.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that schools whose admission arrangements were found by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator to have contravened the School Admissions Code have now changed their arrangements so as to ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that care leavers' entitlement to a local authority bursary when attending university is extended to care leavers undertaking an apprenticeship.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what additional support and resources will be provided to maintained schools, free schools and academies to ensure that they are able to comply fully with the General Data Protection Regulation rules when those rules come i...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to prevent grammar schools opening annexes within another local authority area; and if so, what plans they have to do so.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to prevent grammar schools opening within local authorities where grammar schools do not currently exist; and if so, what plans they have to do so.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the comments by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 16 January 2017 (HL Deb, cols 22–3), what guidance will be issued to the Office for Students; whether that guidance will be published in the form of an annual letter...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time between the request for transfer of an unaccompanied minor under the National Transfer Scheme and the new local authority receiving that child.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied minors are currently waiting to be transferred through the National Transfer Scheme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which local authorities have agreed to take part in the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied minors.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied minors have been transferred through the National Transfer Scheme to date, broken down by receiving local authority.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time from arrival in the UK to starting full-time education for children resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of those children resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme to date are currently accessing education.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children under the age of 18 have been resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme to date, broken down by (1) region, and (2) local authority.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time from arrival in the UK to starting full-time education for children resettled under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of those children resettled under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme to date are currently accessing education.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children under the age of 18 have been resettled under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme to date, broken down by (1) region, and (2) local authority.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of state-funded schools that had cohorts that were at leat 20 per cent smaller in the January of year 11 than they had been at the start of year 7, in each of the past five academic year...