HC Deb 09 February 1999 vol 325 cc192-3W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the work of the Training Advisory Group for the Education Welfare Service. [69623]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The Training Advisory Group for the Education Welfare Service has an important role to play in co-ordinating training provided for education welfare officers and dealing with related questions of professional development. The Department is one of a number of bodies represented on TAG and we are pleased to contribute to its work.

Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the projects which are funded by the School Inclusion: Pupil Support grant programme which relate(a) to an enhanced role for education welfare officers and (b) to all other objects. [69624]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The grant will support multiple projects in 134 local education authorities. Many of these involve enhanced roles for education welfare officers (EWOs), particularly as part of multi-disciplinary behaviour support teams. Given the large number of projects and the overlapping, often integrated, work of EWOs and other agencies, identifying and listing individual projects in the manner requested in the question would involve disproportionate cost.