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• Reference: 2023/1035
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. In a letter to London Council leaders about your Free School Meals programme, dated 20 February, you said that “my officers are working with partners to design a mechanism for delivering the funding to you and your schools in a way that builds upon existing processes for school meals funding.” Given that the GLA is not involved in the existing processes that satisfy the Education Act 1996, which are...

• Reference: 2023/1036
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. Can you compel schools and councils (a) to accept the money you are offering for free school meals, and (b) to spend it on extending free school meals? If so, what is the legal basis for this power?

• Reference: 2023/1037
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. When will schools receive funding for free school meals from your scheme for 2023-24, will the funding be supplied as a block or in relation to monthly or other outturns, and will it be provided in advance or in arrears?

• Reference: 2023/1038
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. The current funding only covers the academic year of 2023/2024. What can schools expect from you for 2024/2025?

• Reference: 2023/1039
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. Poverty does not end at primary school. What support are you giving to children in secondary schools?

• Reference: 2021/3599
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

It is essential that mental health support is linked to ongoing work on knife crime prevention and work programmes discouraging young Londoners from joining gangs. Please provide details of how the Violence Reduction Unit is working with the NHS and other health partners in this area.

• Reference: 2021/3601
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime recently said MOPAC is working with boroughs to ensure better tracking of children in care who move across boroughs. Please provide more details on this joint work and how you are working with all partners to ensure no children in care across London are unaccounted for, especially those in semi-independent accommodation.

• Reference: 2021/1361
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

There are many valuable youth projects across London, but many of these are small scale or struggle with access to funding. Will you look at working with boroughs and others to establish a central organising body for after school youth activities and opportunities across London, which can not only organise and promote youth activities but also support community groups, schools and other organisations to access funding and promote and advertise the work they are doing?

• Reference: 2021/0442
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 25 February 2021

What provision are you making in your Adult Education Budget for the improvement of online literacy skills – crucially, empowering people to use a wide range of online platforms and teaching key skills including how to report hate online?

• Reference: 2020/2141
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 July 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting our economy in unprecedented ways, with many people losing their jobs. How are you working to use your adult education budget to best support those who are having to change careers during this difficult period?