- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the involvement of ministers is in matters relating to education services at the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre, as referred to by the Minister for Communities in the Parliament on 11 September 2003.
Answer
Scottish Executive ministers have raised with Home Office ministers theimportance of engaging Scotland’s school inspectors in the inspection ofeducation provision and standards at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre,and are in discussion with Home Office ministers on how the recommendations inthe recent HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Educationreports can be taken forward.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional support it will offer South Lanarkshire Council to provide education services for children detained at the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre if the Home Office allow the education of such children in mainstream schooling.
Answer
Such matters would be considered,as appropriate, within the context of our discussions with the Home Office aboutthe recommendations in the recent reports by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HMInspectorate of Education.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide additional resources for South Lanarkshire Council for translation, interpretation and close support for children detained at the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre if the Home Office allow the education of such children in mainstream schooling.
Answer
Such matters would be considered,as appropriate, within the context of our discussions with the Home Office aboutthe recommendations in the recent reports by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HMInspectorate of Education.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional pressures have been put on school staffing as a result of mentoring and supervising probationary teachers in the one-year probationary teacher system.
Answer
None. Probationer teachers havealways required support and mentoring, and this has traditionally been a responsibilityof all teachers. Since the introduction of the teacher induction scheme, with itsmore formalised mentoring regime, the Executive has made additional funding availableto local authorities towards the cost of mentoring. Local authorities receive 10per cent of a probationer teacher’s salary for each probationer they employ specificallyto contribute to mentoring costs.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the action referred to by the Minister for Communities in the Parliament on 11 September 2003 in relation to education services at the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre was.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-2655 today, which is available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what policy and practice issues relating to children, young people and education which impact upon the experiences of refugees in Scotland were identified by the children's services satellite group of the Scottish Refugee Integration Forum.
Answer
The information requested isgiven on pages 75 to 98 of Scottish Refugee Integration Forum, Draft SupportingDocument published by Astron in 2002, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’sReference Centre (Bib. number 24663).
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the McCrone agreement has had on the ability of schools to offer supported study and homework classes after the timetabled school day.
Answer
The teachers’ agreement ATeaching Profession for the 21st Century introduced a 35-hour working week,which will be combined with a class contact time restricted to a maximum of 22.5hours per week by August 2006. The use of the remaining time is subject to agreementat school level, including activities such as additional time for preparation andcorrection, parent meetings, curriculum development and additional supervised pupilactivity. This can include supported study programmes and homework classes.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of pupils in mainstream education are taking prescribed medication to control or modify their behaviour.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Prescription data collected centrally are not patient-specific and donot record the condition for which the medicine has been prescribed.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on faculty-style departments in secondary schools.
Answer
The agreement
A Teaching Professionfor the 21st Century provides for an improved and simplified career structurefor all teachers. The agreement also provides for local negotiation and enhancesthe flexibility to determine staffing issues at local level.
Within the framework of theagreement, it is therefore a matter for local authorities to decide what staffingstructures best suit their local needs. However, existing experience suggests thatfaculty-style departments are already working well in many schools, and can contributeto increasing both the quality of management resources and the teaching resourcesavailable within a school. As such, it would be inappropriate for the Scottish Executive to intervene.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been, and will be, carried out into the effects of supported study or homework classes.
Answer
In June 2001 the Department forEducation and Skills published a report entitled
The Impact of Study Supportcontaining the findings of a longitudinal study carried out by the Quality of EducationCentre at the University of Strathclyde. Four schools in Scotland were involved in the researchwhich found firm evidence in all the schools studied that pupils who participatein study support do better than would have been expected from baseline measuresin academic attainment, attitudes to school and attendance at school.
Arrangements are currently beingmade for an evaluation of the impact of the Executive’s Study Support programme.
