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HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords once again for their interest and probing. As my noble friend Lord Blunkett said, there is a shared commitment to ensuring that Skills England lives up to the…05 Feb 2025HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]I do not think that any of us here will make any further appearances on “Mastermind” with our specialist subject as the framework document for Skills England. Nevertheless, it is…05 Feb 2025HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, establishing Skills England is a manifesto commitment. The Prime Minister announced the creation of Skills England in July last year. He set out the Government’s…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationThe issues around citizenship, promoting engagement in our democracy and ensuring that young people feel it is worth their while are not served by using the Chamber in that way.05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationMy Lords, teaching about democracy and elections already forms a central part of the national curriculum for citizenship at key stages 3 and 4 and can be taught as a non-statutory…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationThe noble Lord is right about the challenge of engaging young people in politics—a challenge that rests with the political parties represented around this Chamber as well as with…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationMy noble friend is right that, although there are challenges, many schools and teachers are facilitating an enormous amount of knowledge, discussion and consideration of a wide…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationIt was a manifesto commitment of this Government to consider that. The evidence demonstrates that young people take on quite a lot of responsibilities at 16. Following on from the…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationMy noble friend makes a good point. That is part of what we have asked the curriculum and assessment review, which is currently in place, to consider. Critical thinking and the…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationThe ability to take part in citizenship education in both primary and secondary schools, as the noble Baroness says—of course, in secondary school it is a compulsory part of the…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationThe noble Baroness is not going to tempt me to suggest that we should have votes below the age of 16, but I agree that agency and being engaged broadly in social action as well as…05 Feb 2025HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationI do not agree with the noble Baroness. This Government were right to remove the single headline measure, which was low information and had high stakes for schools, and to embark…05 Feb 2025HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, for his amendments and for the conversations we have had about the reasoning behind them, which I accept. We had a meeting with…05 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsAs the noble Baroness knows, there is strong guidance to schools to develop appropriate policies with respect to smartphones —in my view, ensuring that children do not have access…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsThe right reverend Prelate makes an important point about the challenges for schools in rural areas to access the mental health support that we will make available. He identified…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsThe noble Baroness makes an important point about the support available to children at the very earliest age. This and developing the healthiest generation of children are key…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsThe noble Lord makes some important points, based of course on his long experience of supporting families to support their children. I am clear that clinical support should be…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsI am afraid that I think it is important that we maintain both the check on students’ progress and the accountability for our schools that key stage tests enable us to have. So,…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsMy Lords, this is a particularly pertinent Question as it is Children’s Mental Health Week. The Government are committed to setting every child up for the best start in life and,…04 Feb 2025HANSARDPrimary Schools: Mental Health ProblemsThe noble Lord is right that a key part of our special educational needs and disabilities programme needs to be to ensure that teachers have the continuing professional…04 Feb 2025