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• 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?

• Reference: 2021/0788
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

What conversations have you had with providers about the changes to your Adult Education Budget and how this will impact them?

• Reference: 2021/0789
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

What conversations are you having with providers about courses to focus on getting young Londoner’s into “good work” to aid London’s recovery?

• Reference: 2021/0790
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Your Adult Education Budget caters for those aged 19+. Are you concerned about those Londoner’s aged 16-19 falling through the cracks of the pandemic and if so, what are you doing as Mayor to support them?

• Reference: 2021/0791
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Your Adult Education Recovery Fund is being launched this month. A) How long before applicants are notified of successful funding? And B) when will providers receive this funding?

• Reference: 2021/0792
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

What work is the London Curriculum doing to ensure teaching of the “Black Curriculum” is included by schools in online lessons during lockdown?

• Reference: 2021/0793
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

Will you be continuing to fully fund year-long level 3 qualifications for unemployed Londoners and those in low pay?