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Educational Institutions: Social Media |
| Question ID: |
1789727 |
| UIN: |
HL6276 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1463 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
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Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they issue guidance to schools and colleges regarding their use of social media channels, particularly the use of these to mark religious occasions and festivals. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-10 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
The department has not issued specific guidance for schools on the use of social media channels, although the department’s ‘Political impartiality in schools’ guidance makes the point that school-branded social media channels should not be partisan and sh... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |