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date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to prevent any further closures of Sure Start Children’s Centres.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>It is up to local authorities to decide how to organise and commission services from children’s centres in their areas. They are best placed to understand local needs and the different ways they can be supported locally. Local authorities must demonstrate that they have devised ways to ensure that services continue; what matters is the quality and impact of services, and how local needs are being supported.</p><p> </p><p>We are clear in statutory guidance that there is a presumption against closure, and local authorities have a duty to consult where changes are planned to local children’s centre provision.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/06/2015 16:39:58 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

348504

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role Sure Start Children’s Centres will play in the implementation of their policy to double free childcare for working parents of three and four year-olds.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>We expect to consult on the extended entitlement for three- and four-year-old children of working parents; and we will consider the role that Sure Start Children’s Centres might play. Further details will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/06/2015 16:41:05 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

348594

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Torbay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to the local council in Torbay to improve the supply and quality of local school places.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	1109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area, and supporting them in doing so is one of this government’s top priorities.</p><p> </p><p>Basic need funding is allocated to local authorities to support them in their work creating new school places. We use data provided by authorities to ensure funding is targeted according to levels of need in each area. Torbay has received £6 million of basic need funding for 2011-15, helping to create 147 new school places by the end of the academic year 2014-15, with many more in the pipeline. The 2015-18 basic need funding allocation for Torbay is £10 million.</p><p> </p><p>The previous government published the first primary basic need scorecards to hold local authorities to account for the quality of the places they create. Torbay’s scorecard showed that as of summer 2013, 94% of primary places were created in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 11/06/2015 11:11:13 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

348610

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Bullying: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what training is offered to teachers and educational providers providing support to young people in dealing with (a) cyber-bullying, (b) trolling, (c) sharing information online and (d) other social media issues.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	1154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>All teachers are expected to meet the Teacher Standards, which require them to be able to ‘manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment’ and establish ‘a safe and stimulating environment for students, rooted in mutual respect’. Providers of initial teacher training, headteachers and teachers are best placed to determine the types of training and development that will help teachers to meet these standards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is clear that there is no place for any form of bullying in our schools. To help schools tackle bullying the department has issued advice and case studies on preventing and tackling all forms of bullying, including online bullying. We have also issued advice on supporting bullied children’s social, emotional and mental health, and separate advice for parents on how to spot signs that their child is being cyberbullied and what to do if it happens. This advice is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department is providing £3.3 million this year to various anti-bullying charities to tackle all forms of bullying in school, on top of the £4 million provided in 2013-15. One of these charities, the National Children’s Bureau, has produced cyberbullying advice for teachers on supporting pupils with a special educational need and/or disability and we link to this in our advice. Furthermore, the department has spent over £3.5 million on programmes to support teachers to deliver the new computing curriculum. Some of these programmes include e-safety content alongside developing teachers’ knowledge and skills in computer science.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/06/2015 10:18:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson