Written question asked by Henry Smith (Conservative) on Monday, 1 November 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 3 November 2010. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Monday, 22 November 2010 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Teaching Methods

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will ensure that his Department continues to provide support for teacher training and evaluation for the Every Child a Reader and Every Child Counts programmes for the purposes of enabling schools to continue to access these programmes after 2011; and if he will allocate funding for (a) the training of specialist teachers to deliver these programmes and (b) the continuation of evaluation studies in respect of these programmes by the Institute of Education and Edge Hill University after 2011.

Answer: For those children that fall behind in literacy and numeracy, the Government have committed to fund the Every Child suite with £89 million for 2010-11.All three programmes are currently undergoing robust independent evaluations, to report in late 2010-early 2011, which will give a substantive view of the impact of the programmes.We are currently working through proposals for literacy and numeracy intervention beyond September 2011, which is subject to final decisions following the spending review, and will set out these proposals in the forthcoming Schools White Paper.

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