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709658

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been (a) put on a child protection plan and (b) put back on a child protection plan within two years of coming off such a plan in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	67371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The number of children who have been placed on a child protection plan in each of the last five years is available in table A2 of the annual Children In Need statistical publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2015-to-2016</a></p><p>We do not hold information in the requested format on the number of the children who came back onto a child protection plan within 2 years of coming off one.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 14/03/2017 16:20:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

694223

registered interest
date	24/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve child protection for families where there are allegations of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	65513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to delivering long term, sustainable improvements to the children’s social care system. <em>Putting Children First: Delivering our vision for excellent children’s social care </em>(July 2016) sets out the government’s reform programme for children’s social care in England for the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises the life changing impact domestic abuse can have on the lives of children. That is why we have expanded the Troubled Families Programme until 2020 to work with an additional 400,000 families, including those affected by domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s <em>Violence Against Women Strategy</em> (April 2016), stresses the importance of taking an integrated whole-family approach to addressing and stopping violence and abuse. The government has provided £2m in funding to support new models developed by Safelives and Women’s Aid to identify and support victims and their families at an earlier stage and provide effective wrap-around support.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education is funding four grants, totalling around £900,000, from 2016 to March 2018 to Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations working on issues concerning domestic abuse. Further details of the VCS grants can be found here; https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-backs-projects-to-help-safeguard-vulnerable-children</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 07/03/2017 16:02:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

657813

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help local social services to develop primary prevention strategies to reduce child maltreatment; and what discussions she has had with those services on involving other services in the development of those strategies.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	57412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s statutory guidance <em>Working Together to Safeguard Children</em>, revised last year, is crystal clear about the importance that we attach to preventative services. Providing help early, before issues and problems escalate, is more effective in promoting the welfare of children than reacting later.</p><p> </p><p>The <em>Working Together </em>guidance sets out that local agencies should work together to put processes in place for the effective assessment of the needs of individual children who may benefit from early help services. It is right that decisions about the provision of services, including preventative, early help services, are taken locally by agencies that are best placed to plan provision, taking account of local needs and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Children and Social Work Bill, the Government is introducing a stronger but more flexible statutory framework that will support local partners to work together more effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. The new framework will allow the safeguarding partners – namely health services, the police and the local authority – much greater freedom to make decisions themselves as to who they work with and how best to arrange their services to improve the outcomes for children in their area. The new arrangements are based on the findings of the Wood Review, published in May 2016, which included extensive consultation with the sector.</p><p> </p><p>In 2013 the government set up the Early Intervention Foundation, funded by the Department for Education, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Health, and the Department for Communities and Local Government. It operates independently of central government, to establish a robust evidence base for what approaches work best in early intervention and to support commissioners in implementing early intervention programmes and practice in their local areas.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also setting up a new What Works Centre for children’s social care. The What Works Centre will focus on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable children and their families. It will identify best practice in supporting children suffering from, or at risk of, abuse and/or neglect. The WWC will be able to build a truly comprehensive picture of what excellence looks like by looking at both effective interventions and practice systems. We expect the WWC to work in close partnership with the sector and bring new and innovative approaches to gathering, disseminating and embedding its findings, drawing on lessons from a wide range of interventions – including reviews of serious cases and our Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last two years the Government has invested over £100 million in 53 projects through the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme. The programme is supporting local authorities and other organisations to develop new approaches in children’s social care, including preventing child maltreatment. In April this year we committed a further £200m to support innovation and improvement over the next four years.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/12/2016 14:01:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

649410

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance the Government has issued to the police and local authorities to improve how they share information with each other for the purposes of (a) safeguarding of children and (b) other matters relating to public protection; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	55831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Proportionate and timely information is key to keeping children safe. In 2015, the Government published two key documents to support local practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers. These are: ‘Information Sharing: advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services’, which sets out how information should be shared between the local authority, police and indeed other agencies, and ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’.</p><p> </p><p>These documents were published as part of a package alongside other key documents, including ‘What to do if you're worried a child is being abused’ and ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. Both documents make clear that if a child is at risk of harm or abuse, practitioners should share information.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 06/12/2016 15:26:02 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

573419

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
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 prevent self-employed adults with violent convictions providing extracurricular classes or sessions to children for sports or activities which have no governing body.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	44157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>Schools are aware of their responsibilities in ensuring that any self-employed individual who is providing extra-curricular classes or sessions on their behalf has been subject to the necessary and appropriate checks, which could include checking individual status with the relevant sports or activity governing body.</p><p> </p><p>If those checks reveal convictions for violence the school will then determine the appropriateness or otherwise of allowing that individual to continue to provide classes or sessions.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 45910 45985 question first answered 15/09/2016 13:45:19 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

542152

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to release local authority children's services departments from their safeguarding children responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	43763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>There are no plans to release local authority children’s services departments from their safeguarding responsibilities. The Children and Social Work Bill proposes a power for local authorities to test different ways of working. This power is not about questioning the fundamentals of what local authorities need to do in relation to children’s safeguarding, but about exploring how things could be done better. We are seeking to create a controlled, time-limited space to test new ways of working before seeking to make any wider changes to the legislative framework. Accountability for safeguarding will remain the same even if exemptions are being tested.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2016 16:22:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

542153

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications of the provisions in clause 15 of the Children and Social Work Bill for strengthening safeguarding responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	43762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Clause 15 of the Children and Social Work Bill is key to bringing about the changes proposed by Alan Wood in his review of the role and function of Local Safeguarding Children Boards. The review’s recommendations, which we accepted, were to replace the existing Local Safeguarding Children Board structure with a stronger but more flexible framework for multi-agency working in local areas. We believe that this stronger framework and flexibility, as set out in clause 15, will improve outcomes for children and their families and enable the effective sharing of information which is so fundamental to safeguarding children.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2016 16:22:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

515903

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether professionals who work with children, such as social workers and teachers, are legally required to leave their professions if they continue to live, or resume living, with a convicted sex offender to whom they are married, or with whom they have had children who are no longer minors, after that offender has served a custodial or community sentence.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL7969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Arrangements within the Childcare Act 2006 and the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009 disqualify a person from providing, working in, or managing childcare provision on the grounds that a person in their household has committed a relevant offence. A number of the qualifying offences are of a sexual nature.</p><p>A person disqualified from working in any childcare setting for these reasons is able to apply to Ofsted for a waiver against disqualification. Where a waiver is granted the disqualified person is permitted to work in childcare.</p><p>The Department publishes guidance (attached) to assist schools, childcare providers and those working in childcare and help them understand the arrangements.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash attachment 1 file name HL7969 Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.pdf title Disqualification under the childcare act 2006 2 file name HL7969 Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage.pdf title Statutory framework for the early years foundation question first answered 10/05/2016 14:57:12 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

512531

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
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 children were subject to child protection procedures in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The requested information can be found within table A2 of the ‘Characteristics of children in need: 2014 to 2015’ statistical first release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2014-to-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:47:13 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

444622

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will commission research on the (a) reasons for and (b) effects of the different thresholds for investigations to be initiated under section 17 and section 47 of the Children Act 1989.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	22295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>Sections 17 and 47 of the Children Act 1989 have different purposes. Section 17 defines a child as being “in need” if they are unlikely to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services by the local authority, or their health and development are likely to be impaired (or further impaired), without the provision of such services, or they are disabled. Under this section, local authorities are required to provide a range and level of services appropriate to those children’s needs.</p><p>Section 47 places a duty on local authorities to make enquiries to decide whether and what action should be taken to safeguard the child from “significant harm”. This is the point at which compulsory intervention in a child’s life is justified.</p><p>Each local authority will interpret the definitions at Section 17 and Section 47 and set local thresholds, agreed by Local Safeguarding Children Boards, through their statutory function under the Children Act 2004, in discussion with all partners. This function is set out in Regulation 5 of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards Regulations 2006, as follows:</p><p>1(a) developing policies and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area of the authority, including policies and procedures in relation to:</p><p>(i) the action to be taken where there are concerns about a child’s safety or welfare, including thresholds for intervention;</p><p>This is also set out in the <em>Working Together to Safeguard Children</em>, 2015 statutory guidance. Ofsted looks at thresholds as part of its inspection process and considers whether the levels set locally are appropriate. It expects good Local Safeguarding Children Boards to monitor and understand the application of thresholds locally.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/01/2016 17:56:06 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 39687 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead