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• Reference: 2024/1023
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 March 2024

A previous Apprenticeship Grant for Employer Schemes led to a 21 per cent surge in apprenticeship starts during the Covid-19 crisis. With a correlation between a drop in apprenticeship starts in London and the reduction in financial incentives - and given the core Adult Education Budget is £346.3 million for 2024/25 - will you reintroduce the £3,000 apprenticeship incentive in London for under 25s?

• Reference: 2023/1798
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

Will you work with the Government to provide a data tool to closely monitor how many 16-19 year old Londoners are NEETs, as per Harriet Sergeant, Ghost Children articles. Do you have figures for 2016-22 and if so, could you please provide these?

• 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: 2023/1453
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Given your stated commitment to early years and work on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), why do you think the number of children in care going on to be adopted is the fewest since the year 2000, and will you ask your Public Health Team to work with London Boroughs to improve matters? Please provide the latest figures from 2016 to date if you hold them.

• Reference: 2022/3140
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Are you aware of the Children’s Commissioner’s Part 1 ‘Family Review’ report, if so, what implications do you think it will have for families in London?

• Reference: 2022/3141
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 15 September 2022

Do you think the Children’s Commissioner’s report will have any implications on any Mayoral policies, particularly those relating to health inequalities?

• Reference: 2022/1718
• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 19 May 2022

Have you or will you meet with Josh MacAlister, the author of the forthcoming review on children’s care, given that you co-convene the London Local Authority Network for Care Leavers? What are the specific implications of his review for London? Please be specific.

• 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?