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	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption and Foster Care
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to commission a review of adoption and fostering policy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL11226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Since 2010 we have taken significant steps to review and reform the way that fostering and adoption services are delivered.</p><p><strong><br> </strong>In 2016 ‘Adoption: a vision for change’ was published which set out the government’s plans to address challenges in the adoption system over the following four years.</p><p>In July 2018 we published ‘Fostering better outcomes’ which set out the government commitments to improve the fostering system, in response to the Education Select Committee report into fostering and ‘Foster care in England’, an independent review published in January 2018.</p><p>We are committed to delivering the commitments set out in these reports, in order to help us to drive improvements across children’s social care<em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 14/11/2018 15:39:33 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

767902

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the loss of EU funding available for cultural and adult education programmes after the UK leaves the EU, whether they are reducing the amount of funds available each year to local communities for the provision of such programmes; and, if so, by how much.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	uin	HL1821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government will guarantee funding for structural and investment fund projects which are signed before the UK leaves the EU, if they represent good value for money, and if they are in line with domestic strategic priorities. This includes schemes which continue beyond the departure from the EU.</p><p>As part of our preparations for exiting the EU, we are assessing the impact of EU funds and programmes. The replacement of EU funds following the guarantee period will be based on UK strategic priorities and decisions will be taken in light of other domestic spending priorities.</p><p>Leaving the EU means we will look to take decisions for policy objectives previously targeted by EU funding. Over the coming months, the government will consult closely with stakeholders to review all EU funding schemes in the current round, to ensure that any ongoing funding commitments best serve the national interest, while ensuring appropriate certainty.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 24/10/2017 16:55:53 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

768542

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to establish an independent inquiry into variation in access to children's services across England and the consequent impact on outcomes for vulnerable children; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Lord Judd
	uin	HL1896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>Under the Children Act 1989, local councils have responsibility to provide services for the purposes of safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. It is important that every local council has clear criteria for taking action and providing help across the full continuum of need. Local Safeguarding Children Boards (and their replacements under new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements) should agree with the local council and their partners what services are to be commissioned and delivered so that the right help is given to children at the right time.</p><p>The government is supporting best practice, for example, through the dissemination of learning from the £200 million Social Care Innovation Fund, through which we have invested £5 million specifically to test targeted support to improve outcomes for children in need. In future, the new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care will become the first port of call for evidence and latest research on the impact of government programmes, helping to inform local service design.</p><p>The government does not have plans to establish its own independent inquiry into children’s social care but we are engaging with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s newly announced inquiry into thresholds for children’s social care, a follow up to their ‘No Good Options’ report of March 2017. We will consider the inquiry’s findings in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/10/2017 15:04:54 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

768552

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 19 September (HL1491), when they anticipate a suitable legislative opportunity will arise to put the guidance on school uniform policies on a statutory footing.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL1903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>We intend to put the school uniform guidance on a statutory footing when a suitable legislative opportunity arises. No education bill was announced in the most recent Queen’s speech, which set out the proposed legislative programme for this session of Parliament. We therefore anticipate that the next opportunity to consider a suitable slot for this measure will be in the second session of this Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/10/2017 10:48:17 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

768574

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Out-of-school Education: Islam
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Nash on 13 September (HL1358 and HL1359), what concerns caused the then Prime Minister in 2015 to consider the need to regulate madrassahs; and how a local authority is to establish whether children may be at risk in such settings if they have no powers of entry or intervention in such establishments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL1922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a Counter Extremism Strategy in 2015, which set out plans to introduce a new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings – such as supplementary schools, tuition centres and madrassahs. The Strategy recognised that most of these settings can provide useful support to children, but also noted that the lack of oversight of these settings, and limited information about the practices within them, illustrating the risks of them being exploited by extremists.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils have an overarching responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, regardless of where they are educated. It is for them to assess whether the threshold for intervention is met in the case of an individual child taking account of the impact and influence of environmental factors. However, wherever local councils have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm they are under a duty to investigate. Local councils should make whatever enquiries necessary to decide what, if any, action to take to safeguard or promote the child’s welfare. The police can, of course, investigate any reports that a crime has been committed in an out-of-school education setting.</p><p> </p><p>National statistics are not held on the number of madrassahs or children attending them but we are working closely with local councils to improve our understanding of the range of out-of-school education settings.</p><p> </p><p>Children are not required to attend school. Parents have a right to educate their children at home but must provide a suitable full-time education if the child is of compulsory school age. Parents who home educate must ensure that their child receives efficient, full-time education suitable to the child's age, ability and aptitude, and any special educational needs the child may have. They are not, however, required to, observe school hours, days or terms.</p><p> </p><p>Parents are not obliged to provide the teaching themselves and may access services from other providers, including out-of-school education settings, but the responsibility for ensuring that their child receives a suitable education and is properly safeguarded, remains with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department ran a call for evidence on out-of-school education settings, inviting interested education providers, local councils, other organisations and individuals to help us broaden our evidence base. We will publish our analysis of responses in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All schools have a duty to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We are supporting schools to meet their obligations to protect pupils from radicalisation, and to help them build pupils’ resilience to extremism through knowledge and critical skills so they can question information, weigh arguments, and make reasoned judgments.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted have strengthened their inspection frameworks so that inspectors assess how well schools protect pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, and promote fundamental British values.</p><p> </p><p>We work closely with Ofsted to investigate allegations of extremism in schools and take appropriate action to ensure pupils are safeguarded from extremist and intolerant views.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL1923 HL1924 HL1925 HL1926 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:39:49 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

768575

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Out-of-school Education: Islam
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many madrassahs there are in England; (2) how many hours a week children may spend in such institutions; (3) whether attendance at a madrassah during school hours can justify a child's non-attendance at school; and (4) whether parents who send children to a madrassah can combine this with home tuition to avoid normal school attendance.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL1923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a Counter Extremism Strategy in 2015, which set out plans to introduce a new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings – such as supplementary schools, tuition centres and madrassahs. The Strategy recognised that most of these settings can provide useful support to children, but also noted that the lack of oversight of these settings, and limited information about the practices within them, illustrating the risks of them being exploited by extremists.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils have an overarching responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, regardless of where they are educated. It is for them to assess whether the threshold for intervention is met in the case of an individual child taking account of the impact and influence of environmental factors. However, wherever local councils have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm they are under a duty to investigate. Local councils should make whatever enquiries necessary to decide what, if any, action to take to safeguard or promote the child’s welfare. The police can, of course, investigate any reports that a crime has been committed in an out-of-school education setting.</p><p> </p><p>National statistics are not held on the number of madrassahs or children attending them but we are working closely with local councils to improve our understanding of the range of out-of-school education settings.</p><p> </p><p>Children are not required to attend school. Parents have a right to educate their children at home but must provide a suitable full-time education if the child is of compulsory school age. Parents who home educate must ensure that their child receives efficient, full-time education suitable to the child's age, ability and aptitude, and any special educational needs the child may have. They are not, however, required to, observe school hours, days or terms.</p><p> </p><p>Parents are not obliged to provide the teaching themselves and may access services from other providers, including out-of-school education settings, but the responsibility for ensuring that their child receives a suitable education and is properly safeguarded, remains with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department ran a call for evidence on out-of-school education settings, inviting interested education providers, local councils, other organisations and individuals to help us broaden our evidence base. We will publish our analysis of responses in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All schools have a duty to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We are supporting schools to meet their obligations to protect pupils from radicalisation, and to help them build pupils’ resilience to extremism through knowledge and critical skills so they can question information, weigh arguments, and make reasoned judgments.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted have strengthened their inspection frameworks so that inspectors assess how well schools protect pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, and promote fundamental British values.</p><p> </p><p>We work closely with Ofsted to investigate allegations of extremism in schools and take appropriate action to ensure pupils are safeguarded from extremist and intolerant views.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL1922 HL1924 HL1925 HL1926 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:39:49 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

768576

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Out-of-school Education: Islam
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimates they have made of the number of children attending madrassahs; and whether this number is increasing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL1924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a Counter Extremism Strategy in 2015, which set out plans to introduce a new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings – such as supplementary schools, tuition centres and madrassahs. The Strategy recognised that most of these settings can provide useful support to children, but also noted that the lack of oversight of these settings, and limited information about the practices within them, illustrating the risks of them being exploited by extremists.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils have an overarching responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, regardless of where they are educated. It is for them to assess whether the threshold for intervention is met in the case of an individual child taking account of the impact and influence of environmental factors. However, wherever local councils have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm they are under a duty to investigate. Local councils should make whatever enquiries necessary to decide what, if any, action to take to safeguard or promote the child’s welfare. The police can, of course, investigate any reports that a crime has been committed in an out-of-school education setting.</p><p> </p><p>National statistics are not held on the number of madrassahs or children attending them but we are working closely with local councils to improve our understanding of the range of out-of-school education settings.</p><p> </p><p>Children are not required to attend school. Parents have a right to educate their children at home but must provide a suitable full-time education if the child is of compulsory school age. Parents who home educate must ensure that their child receives efficient, full-time education suitable to the child's age, ability and aptitude, and any special educational needs the child may have. They are not, however, required to, observe school hours, days or terms.</p><p> </p><p>Parents are not obliged to provide the teaching themselves and may access services from other providers, including out-of-school education settings, but the responsibility for ensuring that their child receives a suitable education and is properly safeguarded, remains with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department ran a call for evidence on out-of-school education settings, inviting interested education providers, local councils, other organisations and individuals to help us broaden our evidence base. We will publish our analysis of responses in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All schools have a duty to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We are supporting schools to meet their obligations to protect pupils from radicalisation, and to help them build pupils’ resilience to extremism through knowledge and critical skills so they can question information, weigh arguments, and make reasoned judgments.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted have strengthened their inspection frameworks so that inspectors assess how well schools protect pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, and promote fundamental British values.</p><p> </p><p>We work closely with Ofsted to investigate allegations of extremism in schools and take appropriate action to ensure pupils are safeguarded from extremist and intolerant views.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL1922 HL1923 HL1925 HL1926 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:39:49 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

768577

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Out-of-school Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Nash on 13 September (HL1358 and HL1359), whether they intend to publish a summary of the evidence they have received following their call for evidence on a possible new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings; and whether this evidence suggests concern about the impact of madrassahs on children's welfare.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL1925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a Counter Extremism Strategy in 2015, which set out plans to introduce a new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings – such as supplementary schools, tuition centres and madrassahs. The Strategy recognised that most of these settings can provide useful support to children, but also noted that the lack of oversight of these settings, and limited information about the practices within them, illustrating the risks of them being exploited by extremists.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils have an overarching responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, regardless of where they are educated. It is for them to assess whether the threshold for intervention is met in the case of an individual child taking account of the impact and influence of environmental factors. However, wherever local councils have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm they are under a duty to investigate. Local councils should make whatever enquiries necessary to decide what, if any, action to take to safeguard or promote the child’s welfare. The police can, of course, investigate any reports that a crime has been committed in an out-of-school education setting.</p><p> </p><p>National statistics are not held on the number of madrassahs or children attending them but we are working closely with local councils to improve our understanding of the range of out-of-school education settings.</p><p> </p><p>Children are not required to attend school. Parents have a right to educate their children at home but must provide a suitable full-time education if the child is of compulsory school age. Parents who home educate must ensure that their child receives efficient, full-time education suitable to the child's age, ability and aptitude, and any special educational needs the child may have. They are not, however, required to, observe school hours, days or terms.</p><p> </p><p>Parents are not obliged to provide the teaching themselves and may access services from other providers, including out-of-school education settings, but the responsibility for ensuring that their child receives a suitable education and is properly safeguarded, remains with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department ran a call for evidence on out-of-school education settings, inviting interested education providers, local councils, other organisations and individuals to help us broaden our evidence base. We will publish our analysis of responses in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All schools have a duty to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We are supporting schools to meet their obligations to protect pupils from radicalisation, and to help them build pupils’ resilience to extremism through knowledge and critical skills so they can question information, weigh arguments, and make reasoned judgments.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted have strengthened their inspection frameworks so that inspectors assess how well schools protect pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, and promote fundamental British values.</p><p> </p><p>We work closely with Ofsted to investigate allegations of extremism in schools and take appropriate action to ensure pupils are safeguarded from extremist and intolerant views.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL1922 HL1923 HL1924 HL1926 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:39:49 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

768579

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: National Identity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take following the recent concerns expressed by the Head of Ofsted about children being brought up in environments actively hostile to British values; and whether they consider that those concerns apply both to registered and unregistered schools, and other educational settings such as madrassahs.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL1926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a Counter Extremism Strategy in 2015, which set out plans to introduce a new system of oversight for out-of-school education settings – such as supplementary schools, tuition centres and madrassahs. The Strategy recognised that most of these settings can provide useful support to children, but also noted that the lack of oversight of these settings, and limited information about the practices within them, illustrating the risks of them being exploited by extremists.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils have an overarching responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, regardless of where they are educated. It is for them to assess whether the threshold for intervention is met in the case of an individual child taking account of the impact and influence of environmental factors. However, wherever local councils have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm they are under a duty to investigate. Local councils should make whatever enquiries necessary to decide what, if any, action to take to safeguard or promote the child’s welfare. The police can, of course, investigate any reports that a crime has been committed in an out-of-school education setting.</p><p> </p><p>National statistics are not held on the number of madrassahs or children attending them but we are working closely with local councils to improve our understanding of the range of out-of-school education settings.</p><p> </p><p>Children are not required to attend school. Parents have a right to educate their children at home but must provide a suitable full-time education if the child is of compulsory school age. Parents who home educate must ensure that their child receives efficient, full-time education suitable to the child's age, ability and aptitude, and any special educational needs the child may have. They are not, however, required to, observe school hours, days or terms.</p><p> </p><p>Parents are not obliged to provide the teaching themselves and may access services from other providers, including out-of-school education settings, but the responsibility for ensuring that their child receives a suitable education and is properly safeguarded, remains with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department ran a call for evidence on out-of-school education settings, inviting interested education providers, local councils, other organisations and individuals to help us broaden our evidence base. We will publish our analysis of responses in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All schools have a duty to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We are supporting schools to meet their obligations to protect pupils from radicalisation, and to help them build pupils’ resilience to extremism through knowledge and critical skills so they can question information, weigh arguments, and make reasoned judgments.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted have strengthened their inspection frameworks so that inspectors assess how well schools protect pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, and promote fundamental British values.</p><p> </p><p>We work closely with Ofsted to investigate allegations of extremism in schools and take appropriate action to ensure pupils are safeguarded from extremist and intolerant views.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL1922 HL1923 HL1924 HL1925 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:39:49 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

768580

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Out-of-school Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Nash on 18 September (HL1354, HL1355, HL1356 and HL1357), whether they will consider collecting data on unregistered schools; what assessment they have made of Ofsted's estimate that 6,000 children are being educated in such schools; and why no prosecutions have been made of those found by Ofsted to be operating such schools when it is a criminal offence to do so.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL1927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>Data on unregistered schools would be for Ofsted to collect, as it has the powers to investigate the criminal offence of operating an unregistered independent school. However, as Lord Nash explained in his previous answer, Ofsted will publish its next annual report later this year, which we understand will contain their latest data.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to distinguish between unregulated settings and unregistered schools. It is a criminal offence to operate an unregistered independent school (that is to say, full-time independent schools which meet the criteria to register but have not done so). Unregulated settings that are not schools, such as part time settings for example, are not unregistered schools. We do not believe that the number of children being educated in unregistered schools is as high as may previously have been thought. Ofsted did not include in last year’s report a figure for the number of children in the unregistered schools that they had discovered.</p><p> </p><p>Of the cases that Ofsted has investigated, nearly all have ceased to operate unlawfully. Ofsted are continuing to investigate a small number of cases that have not yet complied and we are continuing to work closely with Ofsted on these cases.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/10/2017 10:52:27 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner