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• Reference: 2023/1234
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

In January 2022, London’s Child Obesity Taskforce transitioned into the Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight. How has the group’s approach changed to consider improving the health of: a) underweight children, and b) young people living with eating disorders, and to what extent does it consider the importance of mental health to children’s healthy weight?

• Reference: 2023/1235
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

In the context of your plans to fund free school meals for all primary school children, and given the detrimental health and environmental impacts of meat, dairy and processed food consumption, what steps are you taking to encourage local authorities to prioritise the provision of good quality vegetables in school meals?

• Reference: 2022/1332
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

How many Safer Schools Officers are assigned to each secondary school in London? Could you provide details in table format with a breakdown of the total number of secondary schools and the total number of officers in each borough.

• Reference: 2022/1334
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

How many youth workers are based in schools across London, and do you have any plans to increase this number?

• Reference: 2022/0507
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 24 February 2022

At the People’s Question Time (PQT) meeting on 3 February 2022, you said that 86,000 young people had been helped by the Young Londoners Fund (YLF). Could you tell me: a) how much money from the YLF has been spent in each borough since the fund’s creation, and b) how many young people were helped in each borough?

• Reference: 2021/3562
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Redbridge MPS posted on Twitter on 19 July 2021 about a knife crime intervention at a school, with a photograph showing a display box of dangerous knives. Do you believe that displaying knifes to children and posting frightening images on social media deters young people from knife carrying?

• Reference: 2021/1026
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2021

A new report from the Department for Education shows that learning losses in schools that have many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds were around 50% higher than those schools with very few pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. How worried are you about this generation of disadvantaged Londoners being left behind?

• Reference: 2021/0784
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

In October, the Education Panel recommended that you should inform the Education Panel about ongoing or planned data collection to understand the effect of the COVID-19 school closures on education inequality in London, including the collection of ethnicity data. In your response, you stated that “My team will analyse DfE statistical publications and present London-level comparisons of specific groups. This analysis includes a range of characteristics, including differences in attainment and progress by ethnicity, free school meal eligibility and special educational need status”. What has your monitoring and analysis of this data revealed about the effect of COVID-19 school closures...

• Reference: 2021/0786
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

The Government does not record the data on the number of children and young people who are out of education due to long term medical conditions (aged 5-18). Will you write to the Secretaries of State for Health and Education to ask for this data for London?

• Reference: 2021/0787
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Due to the Government’s lack of support for young Londoners who have to miss education due to long-term illness or who are shielding from COVID, was the Mayor aware that charities such as Bright Futures UK have had to step in to ensure children are receiving the educational and well-being support they need? And can the Mayor offer his support to these organisations and ensure that our Government is giving them and local authorities the funding they need to deal with this important issue?