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46886

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date	03/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential role of the local offer in reducing the number of pupils with autism affected by official and unofficial exclusion.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	195296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>An interim evaluation of the school exclusions pilot, published in March 2013, found early indications of schools taking more responsibility for pupils at risk of exclusion, collaborating with each other and working in partnership with local authorities to improve alternative provision in their areas. Such approaches benefit all pupils vulnerable to exclusion, including those with autism.</p><p>The Department for Education has introduced wide ranging reforms through the Children and Families Act 2014 to improve provision and support for children and young people with special educational needs or a disability.</p><p>The Act requires local authorities to publish a local offer of services for children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) or a disability. The local offer will set out in one place information about provision families can expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have education, health and care (EHC) plans.</p><p>The local offer will provide children, young people and parents with clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the services and support available and how to access it, including that from schools.</p><p>It will make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving families and service providers in its development and review, enabling them to have a greater say in how services and support develop over time.</p><p>This should therefore have an important role to play in improving outcomes and reducing exclusions for children and young people with SEN, including those with autism.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 195295 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

46887

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the school exclusions pilot on pupils with autism.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	195295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>An interim evaluation of the school exclusions pilot, published in March 2013, found early indications of schools taking more responsibility for pupils at risk of exclusion, collaborating with each other and working in partnership with local authorities to improve alternative provision in their areas. Such approaches benefit all pupils vulnerable to exclusion, including those with autism.</p><p>The Department for Education has introduced wide ranging reforms through the Children and Families Act 2014 to improve provision and support for children and young people with special educational needs or a disability.</p><p>The Act requires local authorities to publish a local offer of services for children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) or a disability. The local offer will set out in one place information about provision families can expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have education, health and care (EHC) plans.</p><p>The local offer will provide children, young people and parents with clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the services and support available and how to access it, including that from schools.</p><p>It will make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving families and service providers in its development and review, enabling them to have a greater say in how services and support develop over time.</p><p>This should therefore have an important role to play in improving outcomes and reducing exclusions for children and young people with SEN, including those with autism.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 195296 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

45725

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve support for young people with caring responsibilities.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL6374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>Improving support for carers of all ages is a priority for this Government. That is why the Department for Education has provided over £2.7 million of funding to The Children's Society and Carers Trust over four years (2011-15) to work with local authorities and voluntary and community organisations to promote ‘whole family' approaches to supporting young carers and identify and share existing good practice.</p><p>The Department has also made significant changes to the law relating to young carers with effect from April 2015. Clause 96 of the Children and Families Act 2014 delivers four things:</p><ol><li>It consolidates and simplifies the legislation relating to young carers' assessments, making rights and duties clearer to both young people and practitioners</li><li>It extends the right to an assessment of needs for support to all young carers under the age of 18 regardless of who they care for, what type of care they provide or how often they provide it</li><li>It makes it clear to local authorities that they must carry out an assessment of a young carer's needs for support on request or when the need becomes apparent</li><li>It provides the appropriate links between children's and adults' legislation to enable local authorities to align the assessment of a young carer with an assessment of the person they care for.</li></ol><p>These changes will work with provisions in the Care Bill that also support the combining of children's and adult's assessments, and the forthcoming regulations on a whole family approach to assessing and supporting adults. Together they will provide a clear legislative framework that will support local authorities to consider the needs of the whole family, deliver coordinated packages of support and protect children and young people from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.</p><p>In addition, we will develop regulations and statutory guidance that will build on existing best practice to support local implementation. We plan to issue draft versions for consultation in spring 2014 and final versions in October 2014; six months before the changes will take effect. A decision on what additional implementation support is needed beyond March 2015 will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

45726

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pensioners received winter fuel payments in each of the parliamentary constituencies in the city of Manchester in (1) 2010–11, (2) 2011–12, and (3) 2012–13.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL6375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information is available: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

45727

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Kramer on 26 March (HL Deb, col 521–4), whether they plan to specify autism as a criterion in guidance to local authorities in their assessment on Blue Badge provision for people with disabilities and their carers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Uddin
uin	HL6376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have no plans to specify a particular medical condition, such as autism, as a criterion for eligibility for a Blue Badge. Medical conditions are not in themselves a qualification for a Blue Badge. Provided that an applicant has a permanent and substantial disability, a local authority's eligibility decision should be based on whether they are unable to walk or have very considerable difficulty walking, not on the presence or absence of any particular diagnosis or condition.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	1827 label Biography information for Baroness Uddin

45728

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Kramer on 26 March (HL Deb, col 521–4), whether they will consider replacing the Blue Badge scheme with two separate badges, and corresponding parking spaces, one for wheelchair users who need additional space and one for those who do not need additional space but require a convenient position.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL6377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have no plans to replace the existing Blue Badge Scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Provision of disabled parking bays on public highways is the responsibility of local traffic authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The dimensions of disabled parking bays are prescribed in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD). The range of sizes already gives authorities flexibility to accommodate the varying needs of disabled people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>TSRGD only applies to parking bays provided on the highway. The Department provides advice in ‘Inclusive Mobility: A Guide to Best Practice on Access to Pedestrian and Transport Infrastructure' on designing parking bays in off-street car parks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

45729

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the value of the financial settlement paid to the Department for Work and Pensions by Atos upon their withdrawal from the Work Capability Assessment Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2014 answer text <p>Information regarding the financial settlement between the Department and Atos Healthcare for early exit from the contract to deliver Work Capability Assessments is commercial in confidence.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 04/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

45731

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of people (1) displaced, and (2) facing a humanitarian crisis, in the northern Nigerian states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa as a result of the insurgency by Boko Haram; and what assessment they have made of the needs of those people for aid.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The UK Government supports the assessment of humanitarian needs in Northern Nigeria through OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Although figures are difficult to quantify, OCHA estimate 5.9 million people have been affected by the insurgency in northeast Nigeria and an estimated 350,000 people have been displacedsince May 2013, both within Nigeria and across the borders into Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Most displaced people are living in host communities, although around 5,000 are in camps. OCHA has assessed the priority needs of affected people as food, water, health and shelter.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

45736

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 26 March (WA 121), whether local education authorities are required to record details of children with disabilities as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
uin	HL6385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty to open and maintain a register of disabled children and young people under section 17 (part 1 schedule 2) of the Children Act 1989. This duty uses the Children Act definition of disability which differs from the Equality Act definition.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

45737

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether social services departments are required to maintain a record of children with disabilities who are subject to child protection investigation under the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
uin	HL6386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>Under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011, local authorities are required to publish information demonstrating compliance with the public sector equalities duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010. Whilst this information must include “information relating to persons who share a relevant protected characteristic who are affected by its policies and practices”, this does not specifically require the publication of information about children with disabilities who are subject to child protection investigations.</p><p>Local authorities are, however, required to report annually on the numbers of children in need who have a disability (as defined by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010) as part of the Children in Need Census data collection. This data is collected under section 83 of the Children Act 1989. As part of this collection, local authorities report on the number of children with disabilities who are subject to child protection investigations under section 47 of the Children Act 1989.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar