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  • London Schools Excellence Fund

    • Reference: 2013/3535
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 23 October 2013
    In your own words, the London Schools Excellence Fund is spending £24 million on high performing schools. What are you doing to help schools which are not performing as well?

  • Childcare in the Education Inquiry

    • Reference: 2013/3536
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 23 October 2013
    The Health and Public Services Committee (as it was then known) recommended that early education and childcare be part of your Education Inquiry. Why did you reject this?

  • Childcare Assessment

    • Reference: 2013/3538
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 23 October 2013
    Will you consider commissioning the GLA's Data Management and Analysis Group to create a London-wide assessment of supply and demand for childcare?

  • Pupil Increase

    • Reference: 2013/3539
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 23 October 2013
    According to London Councils, pupil numbers in London will have increased by 90,000 by 2016. How have you been preparing for this?

  • Term Times

    • Reference: 2013/3540
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 23 October 2013
    Many educational leaders fear that the ability in 2015 for schools to set their own term times, instead of local authorities, will only add to parents' childcare difficulties. This is why the Welsh government has taken steps to harmonise school holidays in Wales. Do you agree London school term times should also be harmonised? If not, why not?

  • GLA Employment and Skills Programme

    • Reference: 2013/2868
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 11 September 2013
    The final report of the Olympic Jobs Evaluation, carried out by SQW, stated that the GLA Employment and Skills Programme 'could be better targeted on ... long-term economically inactive residents. By doing so, it might be able to reduce the amount of deadweight that seems to have been associated with the support.' Can you clarify this statement, as well as how similar programmes will now be better targeted in future?

  • Delivering the Early Education Pledge:

    • Reference: 2013/0082
    • Question by: Stephen Knight
    • Meeting date: 30 January 2013
    Will you lobby the government to secure capital funding to support local authorities as they implement the free early education offer for two-year-olds?