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HANSARDRelationship Education Lessons in SchoolsMy Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. On 25 February, the Government announced the new regulations and guidance on relationships education, relationships and…16 Jul 2019HANSARDMulti-academy TrustsMy Lords, the rather blithe dismissal of concerns by the Minister runs counter to the Public Accounts Committee, which reported six months ago that financial controls in schools…10 Jul 2019HANSARDMigrant Children: WelfareMy Lords, the consequences for children of the hostile environment created in a cold and calculated manner by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary are laid out in Project 17’s…09 Jul 2019HANSARDStatistics: AccuracyMy Lords, “lies, damned lies and statistics” is a phrase generally accepted to have been coined by a former Tory Prime Minister. Modern Tory Ministers seem to have misinterpreted…01 Jul 2019HANSARDEducation: Music A-levelMy Lords, despite what the Minister said, the Government’s commitment to music education is very much in question, not just because of the falloff in A-level entry that we have…24 Jun 2019HANSARDChildren’s Homes etc. Inspection Fees, Childcare Fees, Adoption and Children Act Register (Amendment) Regulations 2019My Lords, due to the announcement in Part 4 to close the national adoption register for England, these regulations are subject to a regret Motion in the name of the noble Lord,…18 Jun 2019HANSARDChildren’s Homes etc. Inspection Fees, Childcare Fees, Adoption and Children Act Register (Amendment) Regulations 2019That is exactly the point: some 257 matches were made in 2018-19, and hard-to-place cases are the ones that we are concerned about. The Minister has not so far mentioned…18 Jun 2019HANSARDSure StartMy Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. The IFS research demonstrates the critical role that Sure Start plays in children’s health as well as in their general…05 Jun 2019HANSARDCreative Industries: Apprenticeship LevyMy Lords, despite what the Minister said, the Government have raised the transfer rate. According to ScreenSkills, the skills body for the screen-based part of the creative…04 Jun 2019HANSARDSchools: British Sign LanguageMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Nicholson, spoke of course with great authority when she highlighted the gulf between the number of people in this country who are deaf or hard…22 May 2019HANSARDSchools: Free School MealsCan the Minister square his comment that all children are entitled to nutritious school meals with the fact that the Conservative Party’s 2017 manifesto committed to ending…22 May 2019HANSARDEducation: Climate Change ScienceMy Lords, the noble Lord commented on science and geography being taught in schools. Clearly that is not effective enough, because students in Oxford have started a national…16 May 2019HANSARDSchools: Adopted ChildrenMy Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Triesman for initiating this debate and for his powerful opening speech which, as he said, was informed by his personal experience…14 May 2019HANSARDApprenticeshipsMy Lords, one of the causes of the Government falling so far short of their laudable target of 3 million apprenticeship starts by next year is that not enough young people are…13 May 2019HANSARDChildren’s RightsMy Lords, the 2017 Conservative manifesto said: “Britain should be the best country in the world for children”. Yet, as other noble Lords have said, today the UNHRC’s…30 Apr 2019HANSARDEducation: Flexible Lifelong LearningMy Lords, the Government’s 2012 higher education funding reforms have resulted in a drop of something like 60% in part-time undergraduate study. The noble Viscount and indeed…24 Apr 2019HANSARDRelationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019I thank the Minister for that interesting description of the complaints procedure, but it was not the point that I raised. I was talking about the means available to parents of…24 Apr 2019HANSARDRelationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these regulations. Noble Lords have contributed to what I can fairly say has been a wide-ranging debate, and certainly a very…24 Apr 2019HANSARDSchools: StaffingMy Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply, but it is the usual mantra about more funding going into schools. That is, frankly, sophistry, because 91% of schools have suffered…04 Apr 2019HANSARDSchools: StaffingTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the decision by some teachers to take a 20 per cent pay cut in order to prevent staff redundancies in their…04 Apr 2019