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523863

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date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action, if any, they have taken during the last 12 months in relation to the fraud allegations at the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation academy chain.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>During the last 12 months, the fraud allegations at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Federation academy trust chain have been reviewed as a criminal investigation since first reported to the police in October 2012 by this multi-academy trust. The criminal case against the perpetrator of the fraud began week commencing 6 June at Woolwich Crown Court.</p><p> </p><p>The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has engaged with the Trust from the outset and immediately requested that the Trust assess financial systems and risks. The Trust carried out an independent and thorough review of its internal control procedures and reported on this to the EFA. The Trust has taken all the appropriate action since the issue was first identified and the remaining key actions now rest with the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.</p><p> </p><p>Academies and free schools face tighter financial scrutiny than local authority maintained schools. They must publish annual, independently-audited accounts, of which there is no equivalent requirement on maintained schools. We take swift action whenever we identify financial irregularities.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/06/2016 12:21:23 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

523868

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many county councils have closed down their children's centres.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act 2006 to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Local authorities must also consult fully before any significant changes are made to children’s centre services.</p><p>All 27 county councils in England have children’s centre sites open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network.</p><p>According to data supplied to the department by local authorities, at end May 2016, eight county councils had closed some sites within their children’s centre networks.</p><p>An independent survey carried out by the national children’s charity, 4Children (published October 2015) estimated more than a million children and families were using children’s centres.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 29/06/2016 14:36:31 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

523894

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to require Ofsted inspectors to judge whether the work of mainstream Christian churches with young people, either directly or through approved Christian organisations which specialise in working with young people, in activities such as holiday Bible clubs, church weekends, and summer camps, is in accordance with a "British Values" test; and if so, when such plans would be introduced.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawhinney
uin	HL565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to safeguarding all children and protecting them from the risk of harm and extremism, including in out-of-school settings.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister announced plans to introduce a new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings – such as supplementary schools and tuition centres – which teach children intensively, on 7 October 2015. These were confirmed in the Government’s Counter-Extremism Strategy which was published on 19 October. These plans to regulate out-of-school settings which teach children intensively were set out in the call for evidence which ran for 6 and a half weeks between 26 November and 11 January.</p><p> </p><p>We are not proposing to regulate settings teaching children for a short period every week, such as Sunday schools or the Scouts, or one-off residential activities, such as a week-long summer camp. We are looking specifically at settings providing intensive education outside school where children could be spending more than six hours a week.</p><p> </p><p>The call for evidence sought views on the appropriateness of seeking to prohibit teaching which undermines or is incompatible with fundamental British values. Now that the call for evidence has closed, we are considering carefully the responses received as we develop the proposals further.</p><p>We will be publishing our response to the call for evidence and setting out the next steps on the proposals in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/06/2016 12:18:41 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	121 label Biography information for Lord Mawhinney

522906

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they intend to take about the reported proposal by Dean Trust to educate children with special educational needs and disability who have been admitted to one of its schools at another of its schools six miles away.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for drawing up Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and are responsible for making sure the special educational provision set out in them is delivered, including admission to the named school. Once named in a final EHCP, a school is obliged to admit the child or young person. Should a school fail to meet this duty the Department can direct them to do so.</p><p>We are aware of concerns raised by parents and others about The Dean Trust’s proposal that pupils due for admission in September 2016 who have an EHCP which names Ashton on Mersey School should be educated at Broadoak School. We are determined to support the parties to satisfactorily resolve the situation regarding the currently affected pupils as well as in the longer term, and ensuring that the legal rights of families are enforced. For that reason officials will be meeting with the authority and trust on 20 June. Our priority is ensuring that the transition from primary to secondary school for pupils is as smooth as possible.</p><p>We are also determined to ensure that all schools are mindful of their responsibilities towards their pupils and act in accordance with the Children and Families Act 2014 and the statutory Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice in ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs. All schools should also act in line with their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010, which in part 6 states that the responsible body of a school must not discriminate against a child or young person: in the arrangements it makes for deciding who is offered admission; the terms on which admission is offered; nor, by not admitting.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/06/2016 12:19:47 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

523018

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of qualified early years teachers in nurseries.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The department delivers early years initial teacher training places through the National College for Teaching and Leadership. There are four training routes available: undergraduate, assessment only, graduate entry and graduate employment based. To encourage take up, the Department funds course fees, pays bursaries to eligible trainees on the graduate entry route and provides financial support to employers for those trainees on the graduate employment based route.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our thinking on the early years workforce strategy we will be considering how best to continue to grow the graduate workforce, including supporting improved career progression.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:27:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523019

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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 recent assessment she has made of the level of affordability of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government uses a range of information from a number of different sources to consider the affordability of childcare, including: our ‘Childcare and early years survey of parents’ (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013</a>), independent surveys, such as the Family and Childcare Trust Annual Childcare Cost Surveys (<a href="http://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015" target="_blank">www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015</a>), and the recent House of Lords Select Committee’s report on affordable childcare – to which we responded on 17 December 2015 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report</a>).</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting hard-working parents with the costs of childcare and to make it more affordable. That is why we will be investing an extra £1 billion per annum by 2019-20 to help hardworking families with the cost of childcare. Since 2008 nursery costs have been increasing well above inflation, but the latest survey from the Family and Childcare Trust suggests that the nursery costs of childcare in England for both under and over two-year-olds have remained largely flat across all settings in the last year.</p><p> </p><p>We are already funding 15 hours a week of free early education for all three- and four-year-olds and for disadvantaged two-year-olds – this saves families around £2,500 per child per year. From September 2017, we will go further, delivering an additional 15 hours of free childcare for the working parents of three- and four-year olds (with early implementation in some areas from September 2016) – worth around another £2,500 per child per year. We also continue to invest in the Early Years Pupil Premium.</p><p> </p><p>We are also introducing Tax-Free Childcare from early 2017, under which around 2 million families could benefit by up to £2,000 per child per year or £4,000 per child per year if a child is disabled.</p><p> </p><p>For working parents on low and middle incomes, working tax credit pays up to 70% of their childcare costs and, as of April 2016, this has increased to 85% under Universal Credit. This support will be available, for the first time, to those working fewer than 16 hours per week.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:29:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523020

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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 steps she has taken to implement the provision of 15 additional hours of free childcare for working parents provided for under the Childcare Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>At the 2015 Spending Review, the Government announced that we would provide £300 million for a significant uplift to the rate paid for the free childcare entitlements for two-, three- and four-year-olds from 2017-18. Together with the funding announced at last summer’s Budget, we will be investing over £1 billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund our commitments on the entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>The Childcare Act, which provides the legal framework for the extended entitlement, received Royal Assent in March. We also announced in February the eight early implementer local authorities which will offer the extended free childcare entitlement from September 2016. This means around 5,000 children will be able to benefit from 30 hours of high-quality free childcare places a year earlier than planned.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also consulting on key elements of the operation and delivery of the extended free entitlement. This includes how the entitlement will be delivered, and how it will meet and be responsive to the needs of working parents. To date we have received over 1000 responses from a wide range of childcare providers, local authorities and provider organisations. We will use these views to inform our thinking as we move to delivering the 30 hours policy. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:26:18 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523023

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to close attainment gaps within schools in the north of England that are rated good or outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	39369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s recent White Paper, <em>Educational excellence everywhere</em>, sets out the action we are taking to support all pupils to reach their full potential and close the gaps in attainment that exist between different groups.</p><p> </p><p>The gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is closing at both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4. Our protection of the pupil premium at current rates for the remainder of the Parliament will help schools to build on this success. In 2015-16 we provided schools in the north of England with £768 million of pupil premium funding. We are supporting schools to make more effective use of the pupil premium, including by appointing a teaching school in each region to champion the use of the pupil premium. These schools will train successful school leaders to review the way schools are using the pupil premium and to act as regional hubs for effective practice.</p><p> </p><p>Schools will continue to be held to account for the standard of education they provide for all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, through performance tables and Ofsted inspection. Our new headline measure of school performance, Progress 8, will encourage schools to push every child to achieve their best. The results of disadvantaged pupils will be reported separately in the school performance tables, ensuring a focus on the attainment of this group. In line with our high expectations for all pupils, performance data will emphasise the difference between disadvantaged pupils in the school and other pupils nationally, rather than focussing on gaps within the school. Data on the performance of disadvantaged pupils will feed into the risk assessment process that Ofsted uses to assess whether good and outstanding providers have declined since their last inspection. This will inform Ofsted’s prioritisation of short inspections for good schools and the identification of any concerns about outstanding schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/06/2016 15:31:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

522503

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 guidance her Department provides on the level of fees a local authority may charge to administer the per nursery pupil payment for the provision of 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	39273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are permitted to make deductions for administration costs from their Dedicated Schools Grant early years allocations. We expect local authorities to keep these costs to a minimum and are clear, in our Early Education and Childcare statutory guidance, that they should maximise the funding that is passed to providers. The rates of funding that local authorities pay to providers, as well as the amounts they retain centrally, are published in our early years funding benchmarking tool which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/06/2016 15:11:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

522516

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to provide support to parents of children experiencing emotionally-based school refusal.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	39083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>All children of compulsory school age are entitled to a full time education which is suitable to their age, ability, aptitude and any special educational needs they may have. Schools and local authorities are empowered to keep absences to a minimum and have measures available to support and promote good attendance.</p><p> </p><p>Where parents are struggling to get their child to go to school, the school and local authorities can provide support and work with families to improve their child’s attendance. The Department’s advice on school attendance sets out that a conversation between parents and the school is the first step. It also sets out how schools and local authorities can help with wider issues. This guidance can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence/help-with-getting-your-child-to-go-to-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence/help-with-getting-your-child-to-go-to-school</a></p><p> </p><p>Where there is an underlying mental health issue, such as a social anxiety disorder, schools should look to secure the right support. To help schools identify underlying mental health problems in young people, in June 2014, the Department issued advice on mental health and behaviour to ensure all young people get the help they need, which can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-and-behaviour-in-schools--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-and-behaviour-in-schools--2</a></p><p> </p><p>To secure specialist support where it is needed, the Government is making £1.4 billion available over the course of this Parliament to transform local children and young people’s mental health services to deliver more integrated and accessible services. We have also contributed to a £3 million joint pilot of single points of contact in schools and specialist mental health services to ensure students have timely access to appropriate specialist support where needed.</p><p> </p><p>We are also promoting support for parents on mental health. We continue to provide funding to Young Minds for their Parent Helpline. We have also funded the MindEd website to provide a new section for parents – the materials include information for parents on children who refuse to go to school and what steps to take, this information is attached.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 39084 question first answered 08/06/2016 15:09:48 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson attachment 1 file name 39083 and 39084 attachment.pdf title Info_for_parents_children_refuse_to_go_to_school
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley