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The Minister has partly answered my supplementary. Does he think that he will get the support of his Executive colleagues to increase his budget, considering that so many in the House, from all parties, have put pressure on him to do so?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Budget
I thank the Member for that question. My Department's budgetary position, prior to the allocation of additional funding from the financial package that the Treasury announced, was that the resource DEL budget bottom line was £2·582 billion. There were further allocations as part of the financial package. They came to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Budget
Yes. I will host a joint education meeting of my counterparts from the devolved Parliaments. Arrangements are being made for that to take place in, I think, April so that we can share best practice. Certainly, I will do that through my engagement with colleagues in other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Secretary of State for Education: Engagement Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Secretary of State for Education: Engagement
I thank the Minister for his answer. Minister, are there also plans to meet the Scottish and Welsh Education Ministers?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Secretary of State for Education: Engagement Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Secretary of State for Education: Engagement
I will engage with and speak to the UK Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan, later this week and will have an opportunity not only to highlight some of the issues that we have talked about today but to raise the issues contained in the Safeguarding the Union agreement that my party secured with the UK…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Secretary of State for Education: Engagement Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Secretary of State for Education: Engagement
I am happy to meet schools. There is an extensive list of schools that have asked to meet me, and colleagues in the House have asked me to engage on different projects. It is my intention to be as accessible as possible to Members and across the Department of Education's responsibilities, including by engaging with…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Fresh Start Funding Withdrawal Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Fresh Start Funding Withdrawal
I thank the Minister for his answer. What is his assessment of how the funding reallocation will affect the completion dates and timelines for these schools? Will he commit to meeting some of the principals to discuss the issues further?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Fresh Start Funding Withdrawal Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Fresh Start Funding Withdrawal
I cannot give that commitment, but I can give a commitment to my determination to make every representation possible with the United Kingdom Government that they should honour what they announced in 2018 in relation to the increased cost associated with those projects. I will also make an ambitious capital bid, which…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Fresh Start Funding Withdrawal Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Fresh Start Funding Withdrawal
Following public consultation on the draft new SEN regulations and code of practice in 2021, several changes have been made to both documents to take on board the views of those who responded. The new regulations are in the final stages of drafting and, once all the necessary approvals are in place, they will be…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs
When does the Minister think the new special educational needs framework will be fully implemented?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs
I thank the Member for raising that point. In October 2023, following what happened in the previous academic year, a strategic placement group was established in the Department. That group meets every week and has deputy permanent secretary-level engagement. The new post of director of special educational needs…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs
Will the Minister give assurances to pupils and parents that, at the start of the academic year in September, children with special educational needs will not still be sitting unaware of what school they are going to, as has happened in previous years?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs
The Department of Education and the Education Authority embarked on an end-to-end review of special educational needs in early 2023 to examine the entire special educational needs system from a policy perspective and ensure that delivery and outcomes are in line with objectives and policy intent. Phase 1 of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: End-to-end Review of Special Educational Needs
That will be dependent on Executive approval and the availability of funding. Options will be set out in the scoping study. Decisions taken on those options will impact on the speed of transition to a standardised session length. Some preschool settings will be in a position to transition to the standardised session…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
How long will it take for all sessions to move to 22·5 hours?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
The Member raises a point that has already been highlighted to me by childcare providers, which is that the ability to attract and retain people in the workforce is a challenge. That needs to be taken into account in what we are trying to achieve. There is a childcare strategy stakeholder engagement forum, and I will…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
Knowing the issues with the workforce in early years settings, has the Minister considered a workforce strategy as part of that engagement with childcare settings?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
The full, detailed costs of standardisation will depend on a range of factors, on some of which decisions have yet to be taken. It will also be informed by the scoping study that is due to report at the end of March. I will engage with Executive colleagues on that in due course. In order to give a figure to the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
Thank you, Minister, for your answer. Given the advancement of the plans that you have outlined to the House, what are the capital investment needs for those preschool settings in order to facilitate the meeting of those requirements?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
There has been significant engagement with stakeholder groups and preschool settings on the standardisation of preschool sessions as part of the wider early learning and childcare strategy engagement. A stakeholder engagement forum was established in autumn 2022 to ensure maximum engagement and to assist with the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Preschool Education Expansion Programme
It is planned that an options paper will be available for my consideration by the end of April. Following consideration of that, I will decide on the scope and priority of an implementation plan in the light of the wider financial pressures and constraints under which the Department is operating.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations
Is there a timescale for the implementation of the report's recommendations?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations
The Member is right to raise those concerns, particularly in areas where there is multiple deprivation for those who come from a more disadvantaged background. There needs to be the support in those areas to give children the opportunities to flourish and reach their full potential that children have in other parts of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations
At the launch of the independent review of education's report, the chair of the panel, Keir Bloomer, conceded to me that the education system here lags way behind the education system in the South in educational attainment. What will the Minister do to address the high levels of educational underachievement in this…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations
On day 1 in the Assembly, I made a ministerial statement to the House that set out my ambitious capital plans for the Department. I said that I would be bidding for £528 million. That is more than double the capital spend that has ever been carried out by the Department of Education. I have an Executive paper for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Review of Education: Recommendations
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