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1568413

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Systems will work with schools to ensure that support is available for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL4892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care partnerships (ICPs) must set out how local authorities and integrated care board (ICBs) can meet these assessed needs in integrated care strategies. Statutory guidance states that these strategies should consider the health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and families and they should include a statement on how the arrangement of health and social care services can be closely arranged with health-related services such as education providers.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to ensure SEND duties receive sufficient focus in the ICB, NHS England statutory guidance will contain provision for the delegation of responsibility for these duties to ICB executive leads.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL4890 HL4893 question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1437495

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to raise awareness and understanding of pathological demand avoidance among health care professionals.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	133126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is a term used to describe complex or extreme behaviours seen in some autistic people and professional consensus on its status is still required. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline ‘Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recognition, referral and diagnosis’ recommends that during autism assessments, healthcare workers should consider PDA and make any appropriate referrals. The national autism strategy, published on 21 July 2021, aims to raise understanding of autism amongst health care professionals. We are developing and trialling the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in learning disability and autism, to ensure health and social care staff have the skills and knowledge to provide safe, compassionate and informed care.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 08/03/2022 14:46:57 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1358751

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Disabled Children’s Partnership Then There Was Silence, published on 10 September, which found that nearly three quarters of disabled children had seen their progress managing their condition regress during the pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL2949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>As part of COVID-19 recovery planning, we are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support.</p><p>The forthcoming Spending Review will set out the Government’s spending plans for health and social care for future years. We have announced an additional £5.4 billion for the National Health Service to support the COVID-19 response over the next six months. This includes £2 billion to reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children.</p><p>We welcome the findings of the five reports by the Disabled Children’s Partnership between February and September 2021 and we are considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disabled children and their families.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall grouped question UIN HL2947 HL2948 question first answered 21/10/2021 11:27:05 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1357932

	registered interest
	date	23/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Disabled Children’s Partnerships report entitled Then there was silence, published on 10 September 2021, what steps he has taken to reduce the time taken for assessments of children’s conditions that have led to needs not being identified.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	53848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 18/10/2021 09:11:22 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Baroness Keeley

1357447

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the backlog in needs assessments for disabled children.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	53299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to enhance the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations (2014) make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 18/10/2021 09:15:24 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1357289

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the backlog in needs assessments to ensure that disabled children can access the health support they need.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	52588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 18/10/2021 08:57:10 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1357330

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle backlog in needs assessments to ensure that disabled children can access effective health support.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	52629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 14/10/2021 09:16:21 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1138072

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what outcomes NHS England plans to achieve for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities during the lifespan of the NHS Long Term Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	275749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Aspirations for children and young people are set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the recently published Implementation Framework. Services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and learning disabilities and autism are separate workstreams under the new Children and Young People Transformation Board.</p><p>Funding to deliver the improvements set out in the Long Term Plan will be provided through clinical commissioning groups allocations and additional service development funding.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 275750 question first answered 15/07/2019 15:30:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1015519

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help health and social care providers to identify the special education needs of children in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	196291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires that clinical commissioning groups must work with local authorities in joint arrangements to support children and young people with special educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2016, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the inspector of health services, has joined with Ofsted in inspecting local areas on their effectiveness in fulfilling this joint commissioning duty, in addition to their role in inspecting health provision. All 152 local areas in England will be inspected over a period of five years, with written statements of action required where improvement is needed. Ofsted and the CQC have recently announced they will be revisiting all areas which had a written statement of action to ensure that necessary improvements have been made.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2018, NHS England published ‘Guidance for health services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)’ developed with the Department, intended to help health commissioners and providers tackle the challenges involved in implementing joint commissioning of services for children and young people with special educational needs, including how to participate in education, health and care assessment and planning.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2018 the Department announced that we would be consulting on proposals for mandatory learning disability training for all health and care staff, which would include the needs of all age groups.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2018 12:09:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

997660

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department allocated from the public purse to (a) NHS Learning Support Fund payments, (b) NHS Learning Support Fund Travel and Dual Accommodation Expenses payments, (c) NHS Learning Support Fund Child Dependants Allowance payments and (d) NHS Learning Support Fund Exceptional Support Fund payments for the period 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	185626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Learning Support Fund (LSF) is a demand-led budget with expenditure directly linked to the number of students who receive payment and how much each student receives. The following table shows expenditure on the LSF for the 2017/18 academic year. Academic years are not the same as the financial year. Departmental budgets are set on a financial year basis. The 2017/18 academic year comprises part of the 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years. Work is on-going with the university sector to ensure they continue to highlight the availability of the additional non-repayable funding that is available in England to Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional undergraduate students during their study.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LSF Element</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>Number of Approved Applications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel and Dual Accommodation Expenses</p></td><td><p>£1.7</p></td><td><p>7,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Child Dependants Allowance</p></td><td><p>£3.7</p></td><td><p>4,305</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exceptional Support Fund</p></td><td><p>£0.1</p></td><td><p>214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£5.5</p></td><td><p>11,941</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Business Services Authority</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 06/11/2018 11:05:52 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders