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date	26/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that kinship carers receive adequate financial support.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	134169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>The government issued statutory guidance in 2011 for local authorities about supporting family and friends providing care for children who cannot live with their parents. The guidance makes it clear that children and young people should receive the support that they and their carers need to safeguard and promote their welfare. It explains that support, including financial support, can be provided under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989. There is no limit on the level of support, including financial support, that local authorities can provide. The local authority should have in place clear eligibility criteria in relation to the provision of support services.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/04/2018 11:56:10 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

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date	26/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Facial Disfigurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that (a) early years settings, (b) schools and (c) further education colleges take action against discrimination of pupils based on visible facial disfigurements.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	134193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework sets the regulatory standards for learning and development and safeguarding and welfare requirements for registered providers caring for children from birth to five. The EYFS Framework is mandatory for all early years providers to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. The EYFS seeks to provide equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice, ensuring that every child is included and supported.</p><p> </p><p>School Governing Boards’ duties towards those with disabilities (which may include those with facial disfigurements) are included in the Equality Act 2010: they must not discriminate against, harass or victimise disabled children and young people. All schools are legally required to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying among pupils. They have the freedom to develop their own anti-bullying strategies appropriate to their school but are held to account via Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p>Further Education Colleges are autonomous organisations, which are subject to the provisions on discrimination in the Equality Act. Matters of this nature would therefore be for individual colleges.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/04/2018 12:57:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

872349

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report of the Children’s Society, Crumbling Futures, published in March 2018, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that 16 and 17 year olds referred to children’s services are receiving (a) a full assessment of their needs and (b) adequate support.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	134263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>Our statutory guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, is clear that every child, up to the age of 18, who has been referred into local authority children’s social care should have an individual assessment to respond to their needs. Assessments should be carried out in a timely manner reflecting the needs of the individual child.</p><p>Local authorities have a duty to ascertain the child’s wishes and feelings and take account of them when planning the provision of services. Any provision identified as being necessary through the assessment process should, if the local authority decides to provide such services, be provided without delay.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/04/2018 12:12:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft