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date	18/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
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 help ensure the mental well-being of young people waiting for their GCSE results.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>It is up to schools to decide what continuing support to offer students waiting for results during the summer holiday.</p><p> </p><p>Where young people or parents are concerned about mental wellbeing they can seek support from providers of online, telephone and face-to-face mental health and wellbeing support. Local NHS services can provide information and advice on sources of support, including that offered by local authority and voluntary and community sector providers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/07/2018 14:39:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

943901

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support young people who wish to take more vocational GCSEs.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Schools are responsible for designing a broad and balanced curriculum that will allow students to fulfil their potential and move on to the next stage of education and training.</p><p>To support breadth in the curriculum, the Department has designed school accountability measures that recognise academic qualifications (GCSEs) as well as technical and vocational qualifications (primarily Technical Awards). The Progress 8 measure has an academic core, but also rewards pupils’ study of up to three approved Technical Awards.</p><p>The Department has reviewed the list of qualifications that count towards performance tables to ensure that all approved qualifications, including Technical Awards, are high quality and support students’ progression.</p><p>Technical Awards are high quality level 1 and 2 qualifications that provide 14-16 year olds with applied knowledge and practical skills not usually acquired through GCSEs. There are 57 Technical Awards currently approved for inclusion in the 2020 performance tables and for teaching from September 2018. To be included in performance tables, qualifications must meet strict requirements regarding their size, the use of external assessment and synoptic assessment, and their grading structure.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/07/2018 14:40:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

942933

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what advice his Department provides to local authorities on setting the criteria of who should be admitted into urgent social or foster care.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Children Act 1989 provides the framework for the English child protection system and sets the basic national threshold for statutory intervention in family life. The specific criteria are set by local authorities’ who have the overarching responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, and are best placed to set thresholds suited to the needs of local children and families. To support local areas and professionals in discharging their responsibility, the government issues statutory guidance on ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, which was updated earlier this month.</p><p>The ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ (2018) guidance is available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/722305/Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children_-_Guide.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/722305/Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children_-_Guide.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/07/2018 14:18:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

942948

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2018 to Question 155294 on Special Educational Needs: Inspections, if his Department will encourage Ofsted and HM Chief Inspector to include criteria more tailored to special schools in the new framework in September 2019 including (a) (i) parent and (ii) pupil satisfaction and (b) lower attendance expectations for poorly children.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department is committed to both equipping and incentivising all schools – including special schools - to improve the education of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s current school inspection handbook (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/725837/School_inspection_handbook_section_5-170718-v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/725837/School_inspection_handbook_section_5-170718-v2.pdf</a>), already provides for all school inspections, including special school inspections, to take account of the views of parents, staff and pupils using Ofsted’s Parent View system (<a href="https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/</a>) and online questionnaires.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is aware that some children will have periods of unavoidable absence due to ill health. If Ofsted inspectors have concerns about attendance, they will raise them directly with school leaders giving an opportunity for any additional information to be provided, including circumstances of pupils with good reason to be absent from school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/07/2018 12:58:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis