§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the additional workload for teachers and heads arising from the new statutory requirement to(a) publish a race relations policy, (b) collect data on pupil performance, admissions and discipline by racial group, (c) analyse data on the criteria in (b) and (d) assess and monitor the data which have been collected and analysed. [60513]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisNo such estimates have been made. Schools have been required to collect data on the ethnicity of pupils since 1989, and should already have an equal opportunities policy. This Department has encouraged schools to make more flexible use of administrative and support staff to collect, monitor and analyse data relating to pupils, and we have increased the number of support staff by 78,900 to 213,000 in order to reduce the time teachers spend on non-teaching tasks.
§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what action the Government will take in respect of schools which do not have a written statement of race relations policy in place by 31 May. [60511]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe Commission for Racial Equality will be responsible for ensuring that schools comply with the requirement to have a written race equality policy by 31 May. It was given this power by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of(a) number and (b) percentage of (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools which will have a written statement of the race relations policy by 31 May. [60512]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisNo such estimates have been made. Under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, all schools are required to have in place by 31 May a written race equality policy and measures for both assessing and monitoring the impact of all their policies—including their race equality policy—on pupils, staff and parents from different ethnic groups.