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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: 2020/3231
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 17 September 2020

What can be done to support students impacted by the exams fiasco in London, particularly BTEC students who it seems were forgotten by the government?

• Reference: 2019/21004
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 19 December 2019

Are you able to support special needs education (SEN) pupils in London who attend mainstream schools that don’t have the resources to support their full-time education? Do you know the extent of this problem across London schools and how the schools can have adequate resources to help appropriate SEN support / full-time education?

• Reference: 2019/9308
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

The National Education Union has described behaviour policies in schools in England as “damaging to pupil mental health.” There are concerns around behaviour policies such as prolonged isolation periods in our schools and its effects on young people, especially given the state of childhood mental health services. What can be done to ensure there is enough level of oversight of behavioural policies in London schools?

• Reference: 2019/9310
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 16 May 2019

The London Assembly’s ‘Preventing secondary school exclusions’ report has found that the number of children being excluded from secondary schools in London has gone up for the past three years. The report also stated that exclusions correlate with later violence or criminal activity. A study of UK prisoners found that 63% had been temporarily excluded and 42% permanently excluded at school. Given the rise in exclusions and the above correlation: What are you doing to support London schools and pupils in relation to the rise in exclusion rates? How does tackling expulsion rates fit into your Knife Crime Strategy?