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The article presents various published policy papers as of November 2022. It includes response to a report on hotels for housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, March to May 2022; Schools Bill: Regulation of Academies and Trusts by Heather Evennett; and Student Support for Undergraduates Across the United Kingdom by Joe Lewis and all.

The article offers information on policy papers published over the last week as of June 2, 2020, related to education system in Great Britain. It further discusses House of Commons Library briefing on the different types of financial assistance available to postgraduate students in England; impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on separated families, maintenance arrangements and access to children; and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education while closing schools.

The author comments on the British government's ambition to create an education system that offers all children, whatever their background, with schooling that will aid them attain their potential. He says that the intention that selective schools should sponsor a non-selective school, or that an independent school would give greater benefit to ordinary families by setting up a free school is not probably to expand the number of good school places available to all families.

The article reports that Great Britain government is planning to introduce Phonics Screening Check in 2021 for Year 1 children for undertaking testing in current circumstances during the COVID 19 pandemic. It mentions that results on the check have come to be treated as a measure of a school's success in teaching children to read by Department of Education and by Office for Standards in Education when inspecting schools.

The article reports on the impact of mass school closures on COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include the role of children in transmission is likely to be smaller; the role of social distancing and safety measures such as the use of sanitizers for infection prevention; and the reduction of burden on health care and social workers.

The article offers information on the advice of Great Britain Government to schools in England on COVID-19 pandemic. It further discusses documents of advice to education settings in England, Great Britain; information for parents and carers about the wider opening of nurseries, schools & colleges, transport, attendance, free school meals and remote education; and guidance for Tier 4 sponsors, migrants and short-term students on temporary concessions in response to the outbreak of coronavirus.

The article discusses written questions answered in the British Parliament. Topics discussed include response of Robert Goodwill to the question by Angela Rayner on funding for education through the regional academy growth fund, funds allocated to English for Speakers of Other Languages and assessment of trends in the level of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools.

The article offers information on government guidance for re-opening of schools in Scotland, Great Britain. Topics discussed include education authorities and schools work in partnership with trades unions, staff, parents and children to develop local plans; physical distancing of 2 meters for staff and pupils; and use of alternative facilities to bring as many children back on a safe, phased basis as possible while maintaining a positive learning environment.

The article offers information on an oral question debate held at the House of Lords in Great Britain on January 24, 2018. Topics at the debate includes the steps that the government has taken to protect out-of-school children, the need for local authorities to comply with the Education Act 2002, and unregistered schools. Also discussed are the increasing number of children who are not attending school and support for parents who homeschool their children.

The article presents views of various people on the expected conversion of Great Britain's schools in academies. It include country's Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board and Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Other topics discussed include underperformance of certain schools and role of local authority in managing schools.