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904652

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for the publication of the next statistical set on early years provision for children under five years in the local-authority-maintained, private, voluntary and independent sectors in England.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	144291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Provision for children under five years of age in England - January 2018’ statistical publication will be released within the next three months.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the National Statistics code of practice, the specific release date will be announced at least four weeks in advance of publication at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/05/2018 16:13:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

890538

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of eligible two year old children receive 15 hours of free early years education each week.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	137633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>This is publically available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/04/2018 13:47:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

882415

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	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential, what estimate he has made of the potential effect that increasing the number of early years practitioners in private, voluntary and independent nurseries will have on closing the early word gap.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	135477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>In our ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’ publication we set out our ambition to close the word gap in early years between disadvantaged children and their peers. This included actions to improve the quality of early years provision but did not include a commitment to increase early years practitioner numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The regulatory standards for registered providers caring for children from birth to five are set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework, including the staff: child ratios and qualification levels for staff. It is a matter for private, voluntary and independent nurseries, as the employers of early year practitioners, to decide the staffing levels they wish to employ within the statutory guidelines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:56:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

864357

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been (a) made available and (b) to which organisations to support early years settings on (i) SEND, (ii) speech and language development and (iii) effective business management; and how many early years staff have taken part in continuing professional development in each of those areas since grants were made available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	132841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>From January 2017 to March 2018 we awarded grant funding to the following organisations.</p><p> </p><p>On special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), we allocated £316,500 to NASEN to produce an online training package, tailored to meet the needs of a broad range of settings. We also awarded £275,030 to Pen Green to promote the model of specialist nursery schools to work directly with local early years settings in the private, voluntary and independent sector.</p><p> </p><p>On speech and language development, Home Start UK was allocated a grant of £403,880 to pilot the ‘word pedometer’ developed by the US based LENA research foundation to provide disadvantaged families with coaching from trained home visiting volunteers to increase the quantity and quality of language interaction with babies and children under the age of three.</p><p> </p><p>The Institute of Wellbeing was allocated a grant of £450,000 with a focus on raising awareness on the benefits of early education, home learning environment and 2YO programme. Activities include a targeted outreach for black and minority ethnic families unlikely to access statutory services, online-accredited CPD practitioner training to 'improve equality and inclusive practice and development of culturally tailored eLearning home learning environment parenting programme ‘Giving your child the right start’ to support speech, language and development.</p><p> </p><p>A consortium of four organisations led by the National Literacy Trust was allocated a grant of £429,998. This grant funding breaks down as follows:</p><p> </p><p>National Literacy Trust was allocated £153,330 to support disadvantaged children and families eligible for the two-year-old programme and strengthen the home learning environment with a programme called Early Words Together at Two.</p><p> </p><p>National Children’s Bureau was allocated £138,332 to support disadvantaged families to develop a positive home learning environment and to develop young children’s literacy skills using an adapted model of REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy).</p><p> </p><p>Peeple and Foundation Years Trust were allocated a total of £138,366 to support disadvantaged children to engage parents in their children’s learning in the home and add value to the two-year old programme using the Peep Learning Together programme.</p><p> </p><p>On effective business management, we allocated £268,544 to National Day Nurseries Association to develop a dedicated online resource to support nurseries to operate sustainably.</p><p> </p><p>We allocated £398,909 to Action for Children to continue their work on creating Childminder Agencies, and £385,975 to PACEY to support childminders to expand their businesses to provide sufficient, financially viable, high quality free early years education places for disadvantaged two-year-olds; and three and four-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to confirm the total number of early years staff taking part in continuing professional development.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/03/2018 14:58:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

843886

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) two (b) three and (c) four year olds have attended maintained nursery schools in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	128301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Information about schools and pupils is published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data for each school is available under ‘Underlying data: SFR28/2017’ of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained within the sub file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by phase-type grouping, including state-funded nursery (column N), and full age breakdown (columns AC to AI, BA to BG, BY to CE, CW to DC).</p><p> </p><p>Information about earlier years can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://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 27/02/2018 17:13:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

838080

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of early years education and childcare settings have been sold and purchased by a new owner in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	127083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally by the Department for Education or by Ofsted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 14:58:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

824423

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of early years settings are accessible for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>There is a duty on early years providers in the Equality Act 2010 to not discriminate against children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or whose parents have SEND. Employers must make reasonable adjustments to make sure workers with disabilities are not substantially disadvantaged when doing their jobs.</p><p> </p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework requires all early years providers to have in place arrangements to identify and support children with SEND and to promote equality of opportunity for all the children in their care. We also have a range of measures put in place to ensure that local areas can put the right support in place for children with SEND and their families to access early education, including the Disability Access Fund, and the SEN Inclusion Fund.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2018 17:56:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

819955

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
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 role of maintained nursery schools in tackling educational inequalities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	122027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) are commonly located in disadvantaged areas and all but one is rated good or outstanding by Ofsted. We are providing around £60 million a year of supplementary funding to enable local authorities to maintain funding rates for MNS until at least 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:39:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones