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1111033

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the 192 shared accommodation rates of local housing allowance have been uprated as a result of the targeted affordability fund in each year since this was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	243316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p><strong>The information requested is in the table below.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Shared Accommodation Rates</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>22 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>60</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>87</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>45%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/04/2019 14:47:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1111043

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Impact Assessment for the extension of the Shared Accommodation Rate to 25-34 year-olds, how many claimants were affected; and what assessment she has made of the effect of that extension on the average weekly income since January 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	243318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of households aged 25-34 who are entitled to the Shared Accommodation Rate is available on Stat-Xplore from January 2013 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>An independent evaluation of the 2011/12 Local Housing Allowance reforms including the changes to the Shared Accommodation Rate was published in 2014 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-monitoring-the-impact-of-changes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-monitoring-the-impact-of-changes</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/04/2019 12:13:52 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1463475

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the proposal in the SEND Review to provide a tailored list of settings for parents of children with disabilities, what steps the Government plans to take to help ensure that that proposal does not affect choice of support for children, particularly those with complex disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	3590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The SEND and AP green paper sets out the government's proposals to improve the outcomes and experiences of children and young people with SEND and their families. The proposals aim to drive national consistency in how needs are assessed, identified, and met across education, health and care through the introduction of national standards. These standards are intended to set out the full range of support for meeting all needs, including those of children and young people with more complex needs. The standards will also include guidance and best practice on reasonable adjustments for disabled children.</p><p>As part of our proposals, our aim is to provide parents and carers with a clearer understanding of the support that should be available to meet their child’s needs and support them to make an informed choice about which education provider they would like their child to attend. Where specialist provision is required, the department is consulting on proposals for a simplified process where parents and carers will be supported to express an informed preference for a suitable placement from a tailored list of providers that are appropriate to meet their child’s needs. The expectation is that all schools on the list will be able to meet the child’s special educational needs as identified in their education health and care needs assessments. This aims to give parents and carers clarity on what is available locally which may still include mainstream, special, independent or out of borough provision where appropriate in order to meet the child’s needs. Our intention is that this will lead to greater transparency about what is available for children and young people in their local school and greater clarity about how it can be provided. The department also aims for this to improve the choice offered to parents and carers by suggesting options they may not have otherwise considered.</p><p>All of the proposals within the green paper are currently open to a full public consultation and the department will be listening carefully to all views expressed to ensure policies secure the departments ambitions to improve outcomes and parental confidence in the system. The department is committed to ensuring everyone has the opportunity to take part in the consultation and encourages everyone to do so.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 3592 3795 question first answered 24/05/2022 12:52:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1377848

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on women of the policy of forced adoption during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
	tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
	uin	73855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The government has great sympathy for those affected by historical adoption practices. Our hearts go out to the parents and children of those involved. Although from a modern perspective these practices are clearly wrong, they took place at a time when society shared very different values.</p><p><br> Thankfully society today takes a very different attitude to single parents. Lessons of the time have been learned and led to significant changes to legislation and practice. Single parents are now supported to help ensure that children and their families stay together, and children are only removed permanently by a court, without the consent of the parents, if it is satisfied that the child is suffering significant harm or is likely to suffer significant harm.</p><p> </p><p>Parents now have legal representatives appointed to support them, to ensure their views are heard and that evidence put forward can be challenged. In addition, NHS maternity services now have robust policy guidance and processes in place to safeguard care for vulnerable women and babies.</p><p> </p><p>A range of help and support is available for those affected by historical adoption practices. For example, they can access intermediary services, provided by local authorities, voluntary adoption agencies and registered adoption agencies, to help them trace their birth children or birth parents and establish whether contact is possible. Birth relatives and adopted adults can also add their details to the Adoption Contact Register at the General Register Office to find a birth relative or an adopted person.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that none of the above can change the heartbreak and impact of things done in the past and repeat again our deepest sympathy for all those affected.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/11/2021 12:25:45 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1378444

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	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 adequacy of the adoption letterbox contact system; and what steps he is taking to improve the experience of communication between adoptive and birth families.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	75070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2021 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes “Assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.”</p><p>As set out in our recently published ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’ we will be working with local authorities and regional adoption agencies to improve support around contact with birth relatives, including that which has started via social media. Further information on this can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-strategy-achieving-excellence-everywhere" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-strategy-achieving-excellence-everywhere</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/11/2021 15:18:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1388091

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of adoption placements which have been unsuccessful in England in 2020-21 by region.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	93829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The department does not hold information on all adoption breakdowns. We do hold information on the numbers of children who return to care who had had a previous permanence arrangement.</p><p>Figures by region on the number of children who started to be looked after who had a previous permanence arrangement under an adoption order, are shown in the table. National figures are available in table C1 of the statistical release Children Looked After in England (including Adoption) year ending 31 March 2021 at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions</a>.</p><p>National figures showing the reasons why a child changed placement from a fostering arrangement during a year are also available in the same statistical release in table B4 via the above link. The figures in the attached table show this breakdown by region.</p><p>There are many factors that contribute to instability and placements ending in an unplanned way. Since April 2015 we have been collecting the ‘reason for placement changes’ as part of the children looked after data return submitted by local authorities. This helps us to better understand why children move, at a national and local level. However, it is not possible to make a full interpretation of whether these placements were successful or not from the categories described.</p><p>Some placement moves are necessary, particularly when part of a plan to find a longer term or permanent home for a child. Planned moves are often in the best interests of the child - a first placement may be organised at short notice due to an emergency and may not be a perfect fit, or a child may need a short-term placement for specialist care.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 93828 question first answered 06/01/2022 17:10:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince attachment 1 file name 93828_93829_looked_after_children_fostered_adopted.xls title 93828_93829_table
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1400334

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to make it mandatory for every adopted child to have a long-term, costed and deliverable support plan in place at adoption.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	98979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Our national adoption strategy ‘Achieving Excellence Everywhere’, published in July 2021, makes clear our ambition to support regional adoption agency leaders to ensure that support for adopted children and families is provided throughout childhood and in the transition into adulthood, whenever it is required. We recognise the importance of such support plans being in place even before the child moves into their adoptive family.</p><p>The adoption strategy focuses on the clear need to find families for children, not children for families, and for recruitment campaigns to focus particularly on seeking adopters for those children who often wait the longest. The strategy also sets out a range of ways to improve matching. As well as promoting existing methods and tools to secure matches for children without delay, we want to see new processes and procedures put in place to speed up the sharing of adopters across regions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98980 question first answered 11/01/2022 14:28:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1400335

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that every local authority has a published (a) strategy on how it identifies at the earliest stage children who are likely to wait longer for adoption and (b) process for seeking to match those children with a family in a timely manner.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	98980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Our national adoption strategy ‘Achieving Excellence Everywhere’, published in July 2021, makes clear our ambition to support regional adoption agency leaders to ensure that support for adopted children and families is provided throughout childhood and in the transition into adulthood, whenever it is required. We recognise the importance of such support plans being in place even before the child moves into their adoptive family.</p><p>The adoption strategy focuses on the clear need to find families for children, not children for families, and for recruitment campaigns to focus particularly on seeking adopters for those children who often wait the longest. The strategy also sets out a range of ways to improve matching. As well as promoting existing methods and tools to secure matches for children without delay, we want to see new processes and procedures put in place to speed up the sharing of adopters across regions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98979 question first answered 11/01/2022 14:28:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1402674

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to involve people with lived experience in the Adoption Strategy review of contact arrangements between adopted children and birth parents.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	103627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.</p><p>As set out in our recently published ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’ we will be working with local authorities and regional adoption agencies to improve support around contact with birth relatives, including letterbox contact. This will include working closely with birth parents and those with lived experiences. More details on how funding from the Spending Review will be used will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 103626 103628 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:23:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1402675

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	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 adequacy of the support available to adoptive families and birth parents engaging in letterbox contact.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	103628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.</p><p>As set out in our recently published ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’ we will be working with local authorities and regional adoption agencies to improve support around contact with birth relatives, including letterbox contact. This will include working closely with birth parents and those with lived experiences. More details on how funding from the Spending Review will be used will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 103626 103627 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:23:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq