Biography
Baroness Garden of Frognal has engaged primarily through debate speeches on education and skills topics, including qualifications frameworks, language learning, and independent schools funding, with a particular emphasis on how education can support social mobility and personal development. She contributed to committee work on social mobility policy, where the group defined the concept as ensuring outcomes are not determined by circumstances of birth. Her contributions reflect longstanding interests in education policy rather than the three specified health and social care topics.
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“…Government introduced T-levels under the misapprehension that changing “vocational” to “technical” would, at a stroke, raise their status. T-levels are beginning to be understood and there is some encouraging take-up, but why introduce V-levels when existing provision covers the same fields? We plead with the Governmen…”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism369th of 89910.0
- Heart disease & stroke319th of 3982.5
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“…own to deliver work-based standards and comparable outcomes for progression? This is particularly important for SEND learners and disadvantaged students, many of whom may have talents in creativity far in excess of their abilities in other subjects.”
Creative Industries: Qualifications · 2026-07-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I confess that I had to do compulsory ballet when I was a little, round, fat six year-old, so I am not in the elite. As well as the Central School of Ballet, a great number of small, specialist performing arts providers, highly regarded internationally, send their overseas students there.”
Ballet · 2026-04-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ing new, rather than refurbish the existing? We also note that overly prescribed content will not support those SEND learners who currently thrive under a flexible, adaptable and practical-based curriculum.”
Curriculum and Assessment Review · 2026-03-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We need solutions. We rely heavily on international recruitment, yet put barriers in the way, as the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, set out. Bursaries have been reduced and the difficulty of getting visas has prevented possible teachers getting jobs.”
Schools and Universities: Language Learning · 2026-01-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ome are home-educated but find colleges can enhance their homeschooling, and there are any number of those with special educational needs and disabilities and those who have become disengaged from mainstream education who find their way to college. FE has always welcomed practitioners.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-05-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
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