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Lords debate on motion to call attention to the Government's Children's Plan (Cm 7280) and its implications for equality of opportunity. Motion withdrawn.
Lords debate on motion to call attention to the Government's Children's Plan (Cm 7280) and its implications for equality of opportunity. Motion withdrawn.
Lead member
Baroness Massey of Darwen
Answering member
Lord Adonis
Department
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Debates
Subjects
Disability; Children; Assessments; Children in care; Children's rights; Autism; Child rearing; Equality; Health; Dyslexia; Protection; Parents; Pre-school education; Playgrounds; Standards; Schools; Special educational needs; Respite care; Literacy; Numeracy; Speech and language disorders
Date
8 May 2008
Reference
701 c679-721
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of organisations delivering one-to-one literacy support in primary schools; and what role these organisations will play in delivering literacy support under the personalised learning agenda.
asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of organisations delivering one-to-one literacy support in primary schools; and what role these organisations will play in delivering literacy support under the personalised learning agenda.
Asked by
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
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Answered
Answered on
25 July 2007
Most one-to-one support is provided directly by maintained schools. It is up to individual schools to decide whether it will be most effective to work with external organisations to provide additional support.
The department’s review of early intervention schemes, What Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties: The Effectiveness of Intervention Schemes, provides schools with the information that they need to make informed decisions about which interventions will best suit the needs of their pupils. An updated and expanded edition will be published later this year.
The department is also working with the KPMG Foundation and the Institute of Education to plan the delivery of the national rollout of the Every Child a Reader programme to help children who will benefit most from intensive literacy support.
Subjects
Primary education; Literacy
Date
25 July 2007
Reference
4969; 694 c100-1WA
House
House of Lords
Lords debate on motion to call attention to the development of the United Kingdom's skills base. Motion withdrawn.
Lords debate on motion to call attention to the development of the United Kingdom's skills base. Motion withdrawn.
Lead member
Lord Leitch
Answering member
Lord Adonis
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Debates
Subjects
Apprentices; Adult education; Higher education; Learning disability; Qualifications; Training; Vocational guidance; Trade unions; Skilled workers; Vocational education; Literacy; Basic skills; Numeracy; Skills in the UK Independent Review; Train to gain programme; National skills academies; UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Date
28 June 2007
Reference
693 c698-744
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the use of information communication technology in schools to support children with literacy and personalised learning.
asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the use of information communication technology in schools to support children with literacy and personalised learning.
Asked by
Baroness Verma
(Conservative)
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
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Answered
Answered on
12 June 2007
The weight of evidence shows that effective use of ICT can support both literacy and more personalised learning. This is reflected in Christine Gilbert's 2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group (published January 2007). Use of ICT has the potential to broaden the range of learning resources, increase the pace of lessons and feedback, promote home-school links and support better collaborative learning.
In the past five years there have been 10 in-depth studies which have assessed the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in schools to support children with literacy and personalised learning. We will place copies in the House of Lords Library. These are:
Evaluation of the Primary Schools Whiteboard Expansion Project (Somekh et al, not yet published);
The Interactive Whiteboards, Pedagogy and Pupil Performance Evaluation: An Evaluation of the Schools Whiteboard Expansion Project: London Challenge (Moss et al 2007);
Embedding ICT in the Literacy and Numeracy Strategies (Higgins et al 2005);
Becta E-Learning in Schools Survey (Kitchen et al, not yet published);
The Impact of Broadband in Schools (Underwood et al 2005);
An Investigation of Personalised Learning: Approaches used by Schools (Sebba et al 2007);
Impact 2007: Personalising Learning with Technology (Underwood et al, not yet published);
Evaluation of the ICT Test Bed Project: Final Report (Somekh et al, not yet published);
Children and Young People's Home Use of ICT for Educational Purposes: The Impact on Attainment at Key Stages 1-4 (Valentine et al, 2005); and
ImpaCT2: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Pupil Learning and Attainment (Harrison et al, 2002).
Subjects
ICT; Schools; Research; Literacy
Date
12 June 2007
Reference
4088; 692 c247WA
House
House of Lords
Lords question for short debate on what plans they have to develop the education of young people in custody.
Lords question for short debate on what plans they have to develop the education of young people in custody.
Lead member
Baroness Massey of Darwen
Answering member
Lord Adonis
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Questions for short debate
Subjects
Curriculum; Education; Special educational needs; Training; Young offenders; Vocational education; Secure accommodation; Literacy; Secure training centres; Numeracy; Young offender institutions
Date
8 May 2007
Reference
691 c1337-55
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, as I indicated, we have been backing it with £4.5 million, in partnership with others making £10 million for that initiative. We are looking at the results with great care. We have a spending review coming up and in that we will look at whether it is possible to take further work forward in that area. The noble Baroness is absolutely right: too few 11 year-olds are still not up to standard in reading. They start to fall behind in the very earliest days of primary school; they can largely be identified at the age of six; and they need intensive support. However, I add that if we got the teaching of reading better across all primary schools from the moment that children start in them, which is what we are seeking to do with greater attention to synthetic phonics, fewer would fall behind by the age of six in the first place.
My Lords, as I indicated, we have been backing it with £4.5 million, in partnership with others making £10 million for that initiative. We are looking at the results with great care. We have a spending review coming up and in that we will look at whether it is possible to take further work forward in that area. The noble Baroness is absolutely right: too few 11 year-olds are still not up to standard in reading. They start to fall behind in the very earliest days of primary school; they can largely be identified at the age of six; and they need intensive support. However, I add that if we got the teaching of reading better across all primary schools from the moment that children start in them, which is what we are seeking to do with greater attention to synthetic phonics, fewer would fall behind by the age of six in the first place.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. However, I remind him that for the past two years key stage 2 results for children at the end of primary school have not met government targets. Does he agree that the Every Child a Reader initiative, in which children aged six who are not readers are targeted and can catch up by as much as21 months in as little as four to five months, is one worth backing and that the Government should put long-term money into?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c957-8
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, a largely positive assessment of the first year of the Every Child a Reader initiative was published on 7 November, and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House. The Government have provided the Every Child a Reader project with£4.55 million on top of the substantial additional resources available for literacy support through rising school budgets and the primary literacy strategy.
My Lords, a largely positive assessment of the first year of the Every Child a Reader initiative was published on 7 November, and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House. The Government have provided the Every Child a Reader project with£4.55 million on top of the substantial additional resources available for literacy support through rising school budgets and the primary literacy strategy.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c957
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the budgets of primary schools are rising steadily year on year. There is a national average increase of about 5 per cent in real terms in primary school budgets this year so, for the most part, the issue is not a shortage of resource for primary schools but the deployment of teachers. It is particularly vital to see that they have the properly trained teachers at the right level in the school. I do not believe that any primary school can legitimately say that an absence of resource is the reason why they teach inadequately in year 6.
My Lords, the budgets of primary schools are rising steadily year on year. There is a national average increase of about 5 per cent in real terms in primary school budgets this year so, for the most part, the issue is not a shortage of resource for primary schools but the deployment of teachers. It is particularly vital to see that they have the properly trained teachers at the right level in the school. I do not believe that any primary school can legitimately say that an absence of resource is the reason why they teach inadequately in year 6.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Laidlaw
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, at a secondary school with which I am associated, no less than 40 per cent of the children entering the school read inadequately and have to have foundation classes. I am told by the primary school teachers that this is because they have insufficient teachers in year 6. Will more funding be available for primary schools to increase the number of teachers or teaching assistants for year-6 reading adequacy?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c960
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, it certainly indicates that schools are falling down on the job. That has been a big historic problem with our school system; far too many children, particularly the sorts of children going on into young offender institutions whom the noble Lord mentioned, are not being properly taught in schools. I completely agree; but it is not simply the responsibility of the speech and language services to put that right. It is a basic function of every primary school in the country that its teachers should be effective at teaching children to read. If we get that right, we do not need these remedial and catch-up services later on in the system.
My Lords, it certainly indicates that schools are falling down on the job. That has been a big historic problem with our school system; far too many children, particularly the sorts of children going on into young offender institutions whom the noble Lord mentioned, are not being properly taught in schools. I completely agree; but it is not simply the responsibility of the speech and language services to put that right. It is a basic function of every primary school in the country that its teachers should be effective at teaching children to read. If we get that right, we do not need these remedial and catch-up services later on in the system.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Avebury
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, my question is further to that asked by the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham. If a very high proportion of youngsters coming into the young offender institutions are suffering from speech, language and communications difficulties, does that not indicate that the schools are falling down on the job and that they really need to reinforce the number of speech and language therapists whom they employ?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c960
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, speech and language services themselves are the responsibility of primary care trusts. They are a health service. Of course, a lot of professionals associated with the teaching of speech and language will in fact be part of the education service and will be located in schools.
My Lords, speech and language services themselves are the responsibility of primary care trusts. They are a health service. Of course, a lot of professionals associated with the teaching of speech and language will in fact be part of the education service and will be located in schools.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Ramsbotham
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, some three weeks ago, we discussed the question of speech and language therapists in relation to getting young offenders prepared and ready for education. It was declared that they have a tremendous role in getting hold of children at the age of five and preparing them for education. We were told that responsibility for funding those people rested with primary care trusts. Who is responsible for funding the provision of speech and language therapists for children in school before they enter education and at the basic stages of primary school?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c959
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I do not have that precise proportion to hand, but I will write to the noble Baroness.
My Lords, I do not have that precise proportion to hand, but I will write to the noble Baroness.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Sharples
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, what proportion of children have English as their second language?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c959
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, we are making a very big investment in adult basic skills to meet precisely the urgent concern that the noble Baroness has rightly highlighted. That has produced a very significant decrease in the number of adults without literacy skills. Those courses in basic literacy are available free of charge to parents, many of them provided by further education colleges in partnership with schools, so it is possible to provide literacy support for the parents directly alongside support for the children.
My Lords, we are making a very big investment in adult basic skills to meet precisely the urgent concern that the noble Baroness has rightly highlighted. That has produced a very significant decrease in the number of adults without literacy skills. Those courses in basic literacy are available free of charge to parents, many of them provided by further education colleges in partnership with schools, so it is possible to provide literacy support for the parents directly alongside support for the children.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Morris of Bolton
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, what is being done to address the problem of the 4 million adults in the UK who still do not have the literacy skills expected of an 11 year-old? Given that many of those people will be parents, how can they read to their children—probably the most important one-to-one relationship—if they cannot read themselves?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c958
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, we believe that the early results of the Every Child a Reader programme are promising, in precisely the way that the noble Baroness set out. The track record of Reading Recovery is strong, with about 80 per cent of children who complete the programme achieving national targets a year later. The early results of the latest pilot programme that we are taking forward show an average gain of 21 months in the reading age over four to five months of teaching. However, it is a very expensive programme—it costs about £2,500 per child—and we have to weigh up the gain with the expense in terms of the other sources of funding and support available to schools directly.
My Lords, we believe that the early results of the Every Child a Reader programme are promising, in precisely the way that the noble Baroness set out. The track record of Reading Recovery is strong, with about 80 per cent of children who complete the programme achieving national targets a year later. The early results of the latest pilot programme that we are taking forward show an average gain of 21 months in the reading age over four to five months of teaching. However, it is a very expensive programme—it costs about £2,500 per child—and we have to weigh up the gain with the expense in terms of the other sources of funding and support available to schools directly.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Howe of Idlicote
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, was the Minister as impressed as I was by the really quite significant improvement in the children least able to read, as a result of the personal input of the Reading Recovery teachers? Not only that, which was impressive enough, but their employment had a much wider effect on the abilities of other children to progress in other literary areas. What lesson does that point to for the future deployment of skilled teachers?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c959-60
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I am not aware of a specific evaluation that links the two—that links learning of a second language with learning of the first language—but, as the noble Baroness will be aware, it is our policy to make teaching of second languages universally available in primary schools. We have significantly increased the proportion of primary schools where a second language is now being taught and, as she will be aware, our policy is that by 2012 that should be an entitlement in all primary schools across England.
My Lords, I am not aware of a specific evaluation that links the two—that links learning of a second language with learning of the first language—but, as the noble Baroness will be aware, it is our policy to make teaching of second languages universally available in primary schools. We have significantly increased the proportion of primary schools where a second language is now being taught and, as she will be aware, our policy is that by 2012 that should be an entitlement in all primary schools across England.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, have the Government evaluated the benefit to communication skills of children in primary school learning a second language and the effect of those increased communication skills on their ability then to learn to read?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c958
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I believe that could well be the case.
My Lords, I believe that could well be the case.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, does the Minister not agree that it is well worth spending £2,000 on a six year-old if you are not going to have to spend £60,000 on him when he is 16 and in a young offender institution?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c960
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, we are not talking only about commercial phonics packages. The advice issued by my department in the primary national strategies has intensive support. For example, the Playing with Sounds handbook is available free of charge to all schools. The noble Baroness is right to say that, ultimately, it must be down to the professional judgment of the teacher, but teachers look to us for advice and guidance. We give strong advice and guidance based on best practice in the teaching of reading. Advice that we have received from Ofsted and other experts in the field points strongly to the relevance and importance of synthetic phonics as the first and fast way to teach children to read.
My Lords, we are not talking only about commercial phonics packages. The advice issued by my department in the primary national strategies has intensive support. For example, the Playing with Sounds handbook is available free of charge to all schools. The noble Baroness is right to say that, ultimately, it must be down to the professional judgment of the teacher, but teachers look to us for advice and guidance. We give strong advice and guidance based on best practice in the teaching of reading. Advice that we have received from Ofsted and other experts in the field points strongly to the relevance and importance of synthetic phonics as the first and fast way to teach children to read.
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Walmsley
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, does the Minister agree that children should have an appropriate level of verbal communication before they can be expected to deal with systematic phonics? Does he therefore agree it should be the teacher who decides what kind of teaching to use to teach children to read in the very early stages, rather than restricting teachers to a very limited range of commercial phonics packages?
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c958-9
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
Whether the results of the 2005–06 evaluation of the Every Child a Reader initiative are yet available; and whether extra support is now being given to primary schools to help pupils catch up before the transition to secondary school.
Whether the results of the 2005–06 evaluation of the Every Child a Reader initiative are yet available; and whether extra support is now being given to primary schools to help pupils catch up before the transition to secondary school.
Asked by
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
For answer on
4 December 2006
Answered on
4 December 2006
My Lords, a largely positive assessment of the first year of the Every Child a Reader initiative was published on 7 November, and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House. The Government have provided the Every Child a Reader project with£4.55 million on top of the substantial additional resources available for literacy support through rising school budgets and the primary literacy strategy.
Subjects
Finance; Pupils; Primary education; Reading; Literacy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
687 c957
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 6 November (WA 91–2) on the skills of prisoners on reception into prisons in 2002–03, what were the skills of those prisoners on leaving prison.
asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 6 November (WA 91–2) on the skills of prisoners on reception into prisons in 2002–03, what were the skills of those prisoners on leaving prison.
Asked by
Lord Beaumont of Whitley
(Green Party)
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
4 December 2006
No process was in place for tracking progress by individual prisoners in 2002-03 so the information requested is not available.
Subjects
Prisoners; Literacy; Numeracy
Date
4 December 2006
Reference
360; 687 c107WA
House
House of Lords
What is the current population of young offenders and other prisoners assessed on reception into prison as having literacy and numeracy skills below level 1 in (a) 2003-04; (b) 2004-05; and (c) 2005-06.
What is the current population of young offenders and other prisoners assessed on reception into prison as having literacy and numeracy skills below level 1 in (a) 2003-04; (b) 2004-05; and (c) 2005-06.
Asked by
Baroness Williams of Crosby
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 November 2006
The information requested by the noble Baroness will be held by individual establishments but is not gathered centrally and could be collated only at disproportionate cost. In financial year 2002-03,39.9 per cent of prisoners screened at induction had reading skills below level 1 and 42.9 per cent had numeracy skills below level 1.
Subjects
Prisoners; Young offenders; Literacy; Numeracy
Date
6 November 2006
Reference
7995; 686 c91-2WA
House
House of Lords
How many of those serving sentences in HM Prisons in England and Wales on the nearest convenient date (a) have been assessed as having educational needs; (b) have been assessed as having, in particular, basic literacy and numeracy needs; (c) have been assessed as being unable to read; (d) have...
How many of those serving sentences in HM Prisons in England and Wales on the nearest convenient date (a) have been assessed as having educational needs; (b) have been assessed as having, in particular, basic literacy and numeracy needs; (c) have been assessed as being unable to read; (d) have...
Asked by
Lord Ramsbotham
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Adonis
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
18 April 2006
The information required is not yet collected centrally,
though it is held by establishments across the country in varying degrees of detail. The collection and transfer of learner data is a key area for improvement in the new Offender Learning and Skills Service as set out in the Green Paper Reducing Re-offending through Skills and Employment (December 2005).
Subjects
Custodial treatment; Education; Prisoners; Prisons; Special educational needs; Literacy; Numeracy
Date
18 April 2006
Reference
4662; 680 c204-5WA
House
House of Lords