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registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Greater London
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 close the deprivation attainment gap in (a) Lewisham borough and (b) London.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	139551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The department recognises that children from poorer backgrounds may face additional challenges to realising their academic potential. £13 billion has been spent since 2011, with almost £2.5 billion this year alone, through the pupil premium to provide schools with extra resources to overcome barriers to learning that children from disadvantaged backgrounds can face. Since 2011 the attainment gap in England, as measured by the Attainment Gap Index, has narrowed by 10% at ages 11 and 16.</p><p> </p><p>Over 14,000 Lewisham pupils are eligible for support and last year their schools received more than £17 million through the pupil premium. In London over 373,000 pupils attracted the pupil premium, bringing an additional £437 million to their schools.</p><p>The department expects schools to use this extra funding effectively. Research indicates a personalised approach, based on proven effective practice, often narrows gaps through improved results. Support has been developed for school leaders in their decision-making; guidance published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and the on-line resources maintained by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) have been commissioned and the department has highlighted examples of effective practice through our national Pupil Premium Awards. The NFER guidance is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-the-attainment-of-disadvantaged-pupils" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-the-attainment-of-disadvantaged-pupils</a>.</p><p>The EEFs on-line resources can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-the-attainment-of-disadvantaged-pupils" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-the-attainment-of-disadvantaged-pupils</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/05/2018 15:57:19 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

889966

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Football
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of girls who play football in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	137018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The government is supporting the new Active Lives (Children and Young People) survey, which was rolled out to schools in September 2017. The survey is delivered by Sport England on behalf of the Department of Digital, Culture Media and Sport, Department of Education and Department of Health and Social Care. It will provide a world-leading approach to gathering data on how children aged 5-15 engage with sport and physical activity. Data will include girls’ participation in football. The first set of results is expected by January 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:26:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

889978

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the average weekly cost of a childcare place in (a) Lewisham, Deptford constituency, (b) Lewisham borough and (c) London in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	137030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The department collects and publishes data on the regional weekly cost of childcare through our regular ‘Childcare and early years survey of parents’. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:23:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

882296

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Absenteeism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of young women who were absent from school as a result of not being able to afford feminine hygiene products.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	135447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Our Sex and Relationships Education guidance encourages schools to make adequate and sensitive arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation. Schools are best placed to assess the needs of their pupils, have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available to pupils if they identify this as a barrier to attainment or attendance.</p><p> </p><p>We support schools in addressing the needs of disadvantaged pupils through the provision of the Pupil Premium, equivalent to almost £2.5 billion of additional funding this year alone. Moreover, as a government, in this round of the Tampon Tax Fund we will provide £1.5 million for the ‘Let’s Talk. Period.’ Project, which will distribute sanitary products to young women and girls in need across England.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to support disadvantaged pupils is based on robust evidence. We have sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and received a very limited response. As promised in the House, we have reviewed our absence statistics and our recently published analysis shows no evidence that period poverty has a significant nation-wide impact on school attendance. We do want to find out more; this is why we intend to place questions on these issues in the department’s 2018 surveys for pupils and senior school leaders.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 135325 question first answered 23/04/2018 16:40:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

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