2nd Report - Holocaust education

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government welcomes the Committee's report and states that it is "committed to continuing to support and fund Holocaust education", responding to the recommendations by describing existing funded programmes rather than announcing new measures.

• On teacher training, it notes that it has funded UCL's Centre for Holocaust Education since 2008, with funding "doubled to £500,000 from 2013-14", and says the Centre "will continue to develop" its approach for mixed subject groups.
• On Auschwitz visits, it says it funds the Holocaust Educational Trust's 'Lessons from Auschwitz' project, with "a further grant of £1.85m" awarded for 2016-17, and that schools "can also arrange their own visits to other sites if they choose".
• On survivor testimony, it states the Prime Minister accepted the Holocaust Commission's recommendations "in full", and that over 100 testimonies will have been recorded "by the time the project is complete (around September 2016)".
• On academies, it says they are "required, like all schools, to teach a broad and balanced curriculum" and that Ofsted has written to inspectors about funded Holocaust education work. On cross-curricular teaching, it says it is "for teachers to decide whether and how to do this".

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