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864328

	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	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What the average proportion of children in mainstream education who were diagnosed with special educational needs or disability was in each year between 2010 and 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	132812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is in the public domain. We publish the number and proportion of pupils with special educational needs, including those who are also eligible for and claiming free school meals in England in the annual ‘Special educational needs in England’ statistical release which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen</a>.</p><p>We publish results from the Children in Need census in the annual ‘Characteristics of children in need’ statistical release which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need#characteristics-of-children-in-need" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need#characteristics-of-children-in-need</a>.</p><p>The number and proportion of children in need who have special educational needs are included in the Outcomes Tables, which were first published in 2012. We will publish the latest figures for 2017 on 28 March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 132811 question first answered 23/03/2018 14:58:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

904728

	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	Children: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing transition support for children in need.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	144402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to preparing vulnerable children for adult life and recognises the challenges and importance of transition. The statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children, makes it clear that when children on child protection plans reach the age of eighteen, local authorities should consider whether support services are still required. For children leaving care, the offer of support from local authorities now extends to twenty-five.</p><p>We are already delivering a major programme of reform, as set out in Putting Children First (2016). We are working to improve the quality of the workforce, develop and spread innovative practice, and improve the quality of local authority children’s services. We are also using the Department for Education’s Social Care Innovation Programme to trial programmes to improve the quality of support for adolescents.</p><p>On 16 March the government launched a review into the outcomes of children in need and opened a call for evidence. We will consider the full range of views we receive in response to the call for evidence, including any around transition support and the way this is planned by local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 143761 144977 question first answered 22/05/2018 16:56:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

864344

	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	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 page 17 of the Early Years workforce strategy 2017, what steps he has taken to engage the childcare sector in exploring ways to target support where it is most needed.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	132828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>We are considering the feasibility of a range of approaches to supporting graduates in the early years workforce – including in disadvantaged areas. This work is still underway and we will engage stakeholders when appropriate to inform this work.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/03/2018 16:20:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

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

864473

	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	Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autism and education in England 2017, published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism, if he will introduce a national autism and education strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	132956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>The department is considering it’s response to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism’s report 'Autism and education in England 2017', as well as Dame Christine Lenehan’s review of residential special schools, ‘Good Intentions, Good Enough?’. The department will also consider the outcome of the Bercow ten-years-on review of the provision of speech, language and communication needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/03/2018 16:29:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

867048

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
	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 primary school children were eligible for free schools meals in (a) 2009-2010, (b) 2013-2014 and (c) 2017-2018.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	133166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>For 2010, the number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals are 717,060 and 17.3%, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>For 2014, the number and percentage of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals are 755,485 and 17.0%, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>For 2017, the number and percentage of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals are 666,708 and 14.1%, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018’ statistical release will be released in June 2018, (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018</a>).</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/03/2018 16:12:26 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

867089

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the article in Nursery World, Colleges cause confusion by stating need for GCSEs, published on 19 March 2018, if he will publish the correspondence between his Department and the Association of Colleges of their duties in relation to early years recruitment.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	133207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Association of Colleges (AoC) does not have any duties in relation to early years recruitment.</p><p> </p><p>The article stated that the colleges with incorrect information have already corrected their websites. The department has written to the AoC to ask them to remind their members of the change in English and maths requirements for entry to level 3 early years job roles made in April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/03/2018 16:04:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

867111

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Funding boost to give more children healthy start to the day, published on 19th March 2018, whether the funding announced is additional to the £26 million of funding allocated for breakfast club provision in the tender published by his Department on 23 October 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	133229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The funding announced on the 19 March 2018 reflects that stated in the breakfast club tender, which was published on the 23 October 2017. We are investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,770 schools, with a focus on increasing provision for disadvantaged pupils. This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas. Further details about the funding split over the duration of the programme will be available in due course. We do not have an estimate of the number of children that will benefit from this funding as we do not yet know which schools will participate in the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 133230 133231 question first answered 26/03/2018 17:00:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

867112

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Funding boost to give more children healthy start to the day, published on 19 March 2018, how much of that funding will be spent in each of the next three years.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	133230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The funding announced on the 19 March 2018 reflects that stated in the breakfast club tender, which was published on the 23 October 2017. We are investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,770 schools, with a focus on increasing provision for disadvantaged pupils. This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas. Further details about the funding split over the duration of the programme will be available in due course. We do not have an estimate of the number of children that will benefit from this funding as we do not yet know which schools will participate in the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 133229 133231 question first answered 26/03/2018 17:00:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

867113

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Funding boost to give more children healthy start to the day, published on 19 March 2018, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children that will benefit from the funding.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	133231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The funding announced on the 19 March 2018 reflects that stated in the breakfast club tender, which was published on the 23 October 2017. We are investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,770 schools, with a focus on increasing provision for disadvantaged pupils. This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas. Further details about the funding split over the duration of the programme will be available in due course. We do not have an estimate of the number of children that will benefit from this funding as we do not yet know which schools will participate in the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 133229 133230 question first answered 26/03/2018 17:00:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner