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825410

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: 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 has taken to raise awareness of schools of their duty to protect and enable pupils with medical conditions.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	123553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of supporting pupils at school with medical conditions. Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 introduced a duty that requires governing boards to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions. Most schools manage these issues well and take their responsibilities towards pupils with such conditions seriously, making sure that the medical needs of their pupils are being met.</p><p>The department works with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to raise awareness of the duty, and recently promoted it through the department’s social media channels.</p><p>Governing boards should ensure that schools develop a policy for supporting pupils with medical conditions that is reviewed regularly and is readily accessible to parents and school staff. We keep the guidance under review, including in the context of school awareness, and the role it plays in securing accessibility of school policies.</p><p>This guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123554 question first answered 26/01/2018 11:57:10 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

825411

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to require all maintained schools to have a medical conditions policy and to display such a policy publicly on their school website; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	123554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of supporting pupils at school with medical conditions. Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 introduced a duty that requires governing boards to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions. Most schools manage these issues well and take their responsibilities towards pupils with such conditions seriously, making sure that the medical needs of their pupils are being met.</p><p>The department works with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to raise awareness of the duty, and recently promoted it through the department’s social media channels.</p><p>Governing boards should ensure that schools develop a policy for supporting pupils with medical conditions that is reviewed regularly and is readily accessible to parents and school staff. We keep the guidance under review, including in the context of school awareness, and the role it plays in securing accessibility of school policies.</p><p>This guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123553 question first answered 26/01/2018 11:57:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

825415

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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, with reference to section 1(1) of the Childcare Act 2016, what steps he is taking to ensure that childcare is available free of charge for disabled three and four-year-old children for a period equivalent to 30 hours in each of 38 weeks in any year.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	123739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for St Helens and Whiston, to the answer I gave on 19 January 2018 to Question 122942: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-01-16/122942/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-01-16/122942/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2018 17:13:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

825435

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to provide updated funding formulas for maintained nursery schools.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for funding maintained nursery schools in their area. We are providing supplementary funding of approximately £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect maintained nursery school funding until 2019-20. Budgets after 2019-20 will be set at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2018 13:25:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

825463

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with (a) the Department for Health, (b) school leaders, (c) teaching unions and (d) other professional bodies on the conclusion of the Ofsted Care Quality Commission report, C Report, Local area SEND inspections: one year on, regarding the adequacy of the knowledge and skills of school staff to identify accurately children and young people that need further assessments.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	123604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>Ministers from the Department for Education (DfE) have written to all local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) whose areas have been inspected under the Ofsted/Care Quality Commission (CQC) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) inspection framework; and have written again, after 12 months, to those areas identified by the inspections as having significant weaknesses. These letters follow up the key points raised in the inspection reports, a summary of which is reflected in the one year on report.</p><p> </p><p>The government has provided, since April 2014, over £300 million to support local authorities, working with their partners, including health and schools, to implement the SEND reforms; and we are in the process of procuring further support for 2018-2020.</p><p> </p><p>We have funded training and a SEND leadership programme to support local authorities and health services to deliver their SEND services, which included training on joint commissioning. To improve the knowledge and skills of school staff on good SEND practice we have funded a school improvement programme. This includes a ‘what works’ resource, drawing on evidence-based practice on SEND in good and outstanding schools and colleges.</p><p> </p><p>Where local area performance, such as the commissioning of services, is a particular concern, officials from the DfE working closely with partners, including Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, have engaged with local areas to provide support and challenge, and have seen a proactive and positive response.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123606 123617 question first answered 26/01/2018 12:44:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

825465

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to implement the recommendations of the Ofsted Care Quality Commission report, Local area SEND inspections: one year on, published in October 2017, on commissioning of health services for young people up to the age of 25.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	123606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>Ministers from the Department for Education (DfE) have written to all local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) whose areas have been inspected under the Ofsted/Care Quality Commission (CQC) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) inspection framework; and have written again, after 12 months, to those areas identified by the inspections as having significant weaknesses. These letters follow up the key points raised in the inspection reports, a summary of which is reflected in the one year on report.</p><p> </p><p>The government has provided, since April 2014, over £300 million to support local authorities, working with their partners, including health and schools, to implement the SEND reforms; and we are in the process of procuring further support for 2018-2020.</p><p> </p><p>We have funded training and a SEND leadership programme to support local authorities and health services to deliver their SEND services, which included training on joint commissioning. To improve the knowledge and skills of school staff on good SEND practice we have funded a school improvement programme. This includes a ‘what works’ resource, drawing on evidence-based practice on SEND in good and outstanding schools and colleges.</p><p> </p><p>Where local area performance, such as the commissioning of services, is a particular concern, officials from the DfE working closely with partners, including Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, have engaged with local areas to provide support and challenge, and have seen a proactive and positive response.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123604 123617 question first answered 26/01/2018 12:44:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

825478

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to meet the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to discuss the recommendations of the Ofsted Care Quality Commission Report, Local area SEND inspections: one year on, published in October 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	123617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>Ministers from the Department for Education (DfE) have written to all local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) whose areas have been inspected under the Ofsted/Care Quality Commission (CQC) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) inspection framework; and have written again, after 12 months, to those areas identified by the inspections as having significant weaknesses. These letters follow up the key points raised in the inspection reports, a summary of which is reflected in the one year on report.</p><p> </p><p>The government has provided, since April 2014, over £300 million to support local authorities, working with their partners, including health and schools, to implement the SEND reforms; and we are in the process of procuring further support for 2018-2020.</p><p> </p><p>We have funded training and a SEND leadership programme to support local authorities and health services to deliver their SEND services, which included training on joint commissioning. To improve the knowledge and skills of school staff on good SEND practice we have funded a school improvement programme. This includes a ‘what works’ resource, drawing on evidence-based practice on SEND in good and outstanding schools and colleges.</p><p> </p><p>Where local area performance, such as the commissioning of services, is a particular concern, officials from the DfE working closely with partners, including Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, have engaged with local areas to provide support and challenge, and have seen a proactive and positive response.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123604 123606 question first answered 26/01/2018 12:44:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

825492

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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, how much money his Department has allocated to the Partners in Practice programme.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	123631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>There are currently seven Partners in Practice. These authorities are: Achieving for Children (Richmond and Kingston), Hampshire, Islington, Lincolnshire, Leeds, North Yorkshire, and Triborough (Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham). The Department for Education has invested £47 million into these seven Partners in Practice from 2016-20.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, ministers have committed up to £20 million for improvement work for children’s social care for 2018-20. A proportion of this funding will fund the expansion of the programme with more local authorities joining the Partners in Practice programme from April 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2018 17:30:26 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

825547

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether local authorities can use the Special Provision Capital Fund to purchase radio aids for use by pre-school age deaf children.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	123684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The government has committed £215 million of capital funding to help local authorities create new school places and improve existing facilities for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, in consultation with parents and providers. The funding is not intended for individual equipment, however this capital is not ring-fenced and local authorities can use it as they see fit to improve special provision for children and young people with education, health and care (EHC) plans.</p><p>The government has a range of funding available for local authorities to support early years providers and families of children with special educational needs and disabilities. This includes high needs funding, which can be spent on services for children under compulsory school age, regardless of whether they have an EHC plan.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/01/2018 12:00:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

825549

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Hartlepool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Hartlepool were eligible for free school meals before the introduction of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mike Hill
uin	123685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not differentiate between pupils eligible for free school meals under the pre-Universal Credit free school meals system and those that have become eligible since Universal Credit has been introduced. The number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the file “Underlying data: SFR28/2017” in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release.</p><p> </p><p>For 2017, the information is available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information for earlier years is available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/01/2018 14:55:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4644 label Biography information for Mike Hill