• Reference: 2020/4355
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

More children are being taken out of school to be home-educated, particularly among families from minority ethnic communities, who are at greater risk from Covid and may be more fearful of catching it. Further to your Learning at Home platform earlier this year when schools were closed, what are you doing to ensure those children who remain home-schooled in London are still receiving a full education?

• Reference: 2020/4354
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

As so many AEB funded courses have moved online, (a) has the capacity of courses increased in any areas and (b) have you seen demand fall or increase?

• Reference: 2020/4353
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

As so many AEB funded courses are happening online, how have you changed your assessment of courses?

• Reference: 2020/4352
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Following your call for further devolution of funding and a return to 2008 levels, what conversations have you had with Government?

• Reference: 2020/4351
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Can you confirm how many applicants there were to Strand 2 of the COVID-19 AEB response fund and how many were successful?

• Reference: 2020/4350
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

Can you tell me how you have adapted your Adult Education programmes to ensure those hardest hit by the pandemic are not left behind?

• Reference: 2020/4349
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

How are you encouraging enrolment of BAME Londoners in your skills programmes?

• Reference: 2020/4348
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

How are you encouraging enrolment of Londoners with SEND needs in your skills programmes?

• Reference: 2020/4347
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

National Association of Head Teachers has warned that we may see a mass exodus of teachers post-covid as they are facing burn-out and unprecedented levels of stress. What work are you doing to support teachers in London?

• Reference: 2020/4346
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 December 2020

The recent report by the Black Curriculum says that the national curriculum ‘systematically omits' black British history. Given your work on the Black Curriculum, have you had conversations with the Education Secretary about this? If you haven’t, will you write to him?