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971733

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Work: Higher Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2018 to Question 169504, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of youth work courses offered by higher education institutions; and what steps he is taking to encourage more students to take up those courses in higher education.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	173634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Higher education institutions (HEIs) are independent and have autonomy over which courses to deliver (such as Youth Work courses). It is the government’s role to help ensure that the higher education (HE) sector as a whole is responsive to, and able to, deliver demand for HE provision.</p><p>Whilst we do not hold accurate course figures, first degree entrants into Youth Work studies at UK HEIs have decreased by 26% between the period 2013 to 2014 and the period 2016 to 2017.</p><p>Through our regulatory reforms, we have established the Office for Students (OfS). This is a new regulator for the HE sector, and it has student choice at the heart of its agenda. OfS has introduced tools like the Teaching Excellence and Students Outcomes Framework and Longitudinal Education Outcomes data. These tools will put more information into the hands of prospective students. They will also allow students to better understand which course is right for them and the outcomes delivered by various courses at different institutions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/10/2018 15:49:55 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1565460

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Training Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how graduates of the Youth Training Scheme can access records of their qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	120021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The Youth Training Scheme, introduced in 1983, was managed by the Manpower Services Commission and then Training and Enterprise Councils in 1989 when it became Youth Training.</p><p>The department does not hold any records of participants on the scheme. Where an individual may know the qualification they undertook, the best course of action would be for them to contact the relevant awarding organisation.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 18/01/2023 13:19:22 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

852591

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Social Action Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Independent review of Full-Time Social Action, published in January 2018, what plans he has to discuss the recommendations made in that review with the Minister for Sport and Civil Society.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	130587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The department has read the Independent Review of Full-Time Social Action with interest. We look forward to discussing the recommendations with relevant ministers in due course.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 09/03/2018 10:18:30 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1170638

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Endowment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the promotion of the Youth Endowment Fund to (a) schools and (b) providers of alternative education that are eligible to apply to that fund.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	3184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a £200 million investment targeted at developing early intervention projects over 10 years to prevent young people from becoming involved in crime and serious violence, including reoffending. The fund is working with local communities to guarantee support reaches those at greatest risk. This could include issues such as children who may not be engaged with education. Through the first grant round in 2019, the YEF identified 23 successful applicants. These projects range from intensive family therapy to school mentoring programmes. The YEF will advertise future funding rounds, as well as offer regional and national events for prospective applicants when funding rounds open. The department will work with the Home Office to ensure that appropriate future rounds are publicised to all eligible bidders. More information on future rounds as well as how to apply for grants can be found on the YEF website: <a href="https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 22/01/2020 15:59:49 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1463587

	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
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason children and young people who present as causing serious risk to themselves or others are placed in police cells.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>Children may be placed in police cells for several reasons, on which we do not hold data. However, the police, children’s social care, legal advisers, Crown Prosecution Service, and the youth justice system should work together to ensure that the time a child spends in police cells is reduced to the minimum.</p><p>Police custody is governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Codes of Practice, which makes it clear that children and young people are a protected group with specific vulnerabilities. The local authority has a duty (discharged by its youth justice services) to provide all under 18-year-olds with an appropriate adult. In addition to protection under domestic law, their treatment in detention is governed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child, which the UK has signed and ratified.</p><p>The department’s statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) sets out a framework for the three local safeguarding partners (including the police) to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and meet their needs. This guidance is clear that children who are offenders (or alleged offenders) are entitled to the same safeguarding as other children and due regard should be always given to their welfare. The full guidance can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2</a></p><p>The fact that a child has been taken into police custody may indicate a wider safeguarding risk in their life which requires input from other agencies. The police’s Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme, funded by the Home Office, identifies, and shares best practice across forces in responding to incidents involving vulnerable children.</p><p>The ideal situation is to prevent children coming into the justice system. Turnaround is a new £60m youth early intervention programme led by the Ministry of Justice. Building on the success of the Government’s Supporting Families programme, Turnaround will provide funding for youth justice teams to intervene earlier, working with children to address their needs and build on their strengths and help them access support to turn their lives around.</p><p>Where accommodating a child or young person in a specialist unit is appropriate, this should be actioned as soon as possible. Legislation introduced in 2017 banned the use of police cells as a place of safety for children in mental health crisis under the Mental Health Act 1983.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 3676 question first answered 25/05/2022 13:53:09 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1687082

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many minors in care have been taken into custody in the last 12 months; and how many children who have lived in care are currently serving a custodial sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	12873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The department recognises that children in care are more likely than their peers in the general population to have contact with the criminal justice system. That is why, in 2018, the department published a joint national protocol with the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), on reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of looked after children and care leavers. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-protocol-on-reducing-criminalisation-of-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-protocol-on-reducing-criminalisation-of-looked-after-children</a>. Since its publication, the proportion of children in care aged 10 to 17 who are charged with an offence or receive a caution has reduced from 3% in 2019 to 2% in 2023.</p><p>Latest data for the year ending March 2023 also show that 3% of care leavers age 19 to 21 were in custody. This figure has remained the same for the last five years.</p><p>All care leavers are entitled to a Personal Adviser to support them in making the transition from care to independence. Personal Advisers are required to keep in touch with the young person, work with them to develop a mandatory pathway plan and to advocate on behalf of the young person. If a care leaver receives a custodial sentence, their Personal Adviser is still expected to keep in touch, through visiting the young person in prison, and to maintain the young person’s pathway plan.</p><p>Through the care leaver Ministerial Board, the department is working closely with MoJ to improve support and outcomes of care-experienced people in the criminal justice system. MoJ is currently updating its strategy for people with care experience, to ensure that their time in the criminal justice system is used to support them to lead crime-free lives. MoJ is aiming to publish this strategy in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 12875 question first answered 12/02/2024 15:48:54 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1687085

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to provide rehabilitation support to children who have lived in care who are in police custody or serving custodial sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	12875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The department recognises that children in care are more likely than their peers in the general population to have contact with the criminal justice system. That is why, in 2018, the department published a joint national protocol with the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), on reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of looked after children and care leavers. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-protocol-on-reducing-criminalisation-of-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-protocol-on-reducing-criminalisation-of-looked-after-children</a>. Since its publication, the proportion of children in care aged 10 to 17 who are charged with an offence or receive a caution has reduced from 3% in 2019 to 2% in 2023.</p><p>Latest data for the year ending March 2023 also show that 3% of care leavers age 19 to 21 were in custody. This figure has remained the same for the last five years.</p><p>All care leavers are entitled to a Personal Adviser to support them in making the transition from care to independence. Personal Advisers are required to keep in touch with the young person, work with them to develop a mandatory pathway plan and to advocate on behalf of the young person. If a care leaver receives a custodial sentence, their Personal Adviser is still expected to keep in touch, through visiting the young person in prison, and to maintain the young person’s pathway plan.</p><p>Through the care leaver Ministerial Board, the department is working closely with MoJ to improve support and outcomes of care-experienced people in the criminal justice system. MoJ is currently updating its strategy for people with care experience, to ensure that their time in the criminal justice system is used to support them to lead crime-free lives. MoJ is aiming to publish this strategy in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 12873 question first answered 12/02/2024 15:48:54 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1273098

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Clubs: Coronavirus
	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 enable youth clubs to re-open to support vulnerable young people during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Gullis
	uin	133266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>Ensuring continued access to support services and education for vulnerable children and young people remains a priority for the government. As such we have ensured that essential youth services, such as one-to-one youth work and support groups, are able to continue for the duration of the national lockdown, and that vulnerable children can continue to access childcare and other out-of-school activities (including wraparound care) during the national lockdown.</p><p>We will shortly be updating our guidance for providers of after-school and holiday clubs and other out-of-school settings on the measures providers should put in place if they continue to offer face-to-face provision for the eligible children during the national lockdown, to ensure they are operating as safely as possible. This is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protective-measures-for-holiday-or-after-school-clubs-and-other-out-of-school-settings-for-children-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak/protective-measures-for-out-of-school-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protective-measures-for-holiday-or-after-school-clubs-and-other-out-of-school-settings-for-children-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak/protective-measures-for-out-of-school-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak</a>.</p><p>We are acutely aware of the impact that the COVID-19 outbreak has had on young people and the vital role our youth services play. That is why more than £60 million of the unprecedented £750 million package for the voluntary and charity sector has been directed towards organisations supporting children and young people. More recently, a £16.5 million ‘Youth Covid-19 Support Fund’ has been announced, which will protect the immediate future of grassroots and national youth organisations across the country. A link to the article can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-165-million-youth-covid-19-support-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-165-million-youth-covid-19-support-fund</a>. This is on top of £200 million government investment in early intervention and prevention support initiatives to support children and young people at risk of exploitation and involvement in serious violence, through the ‘Youth Endowment Fund’.</p><p>In addition, the ‘Youth Investment Fund’ remains a manifesto commitment for transformative levelling up across the country over the course of the parliament. In the recently announced Spending Review, £30 million of this was committed as capital investment for the 2021/22 financial year. This will provide a transformational investment in new and refurbished safe spaces for young people, so they can access support youth workers, and positive activities out of school, including sport and culture.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 15/01/2021 13:35:54 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4814 label Biography information for Jonathan Gullis

1401531

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Centres: Ventilation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of CO2 monitors offered to youth clubs; and what proportion of those monitors are still to be delivered.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	100626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has now delivered over 353,000 CO2 monitors to over 99% of eligible maintained schools, further education colleges, and the majority of early years providers. Special schools and alternative provision education providers were prioritised, given their higher than average number of vulnerable pupils. Deliveries to these providers are now complete. Final deliveries to providers will be made shortly.</p><p>All education providers should receive approximately one CO2 monitor per two teaching rooms. The monitors are portable and so they can be moved around to test their full estate. Feedback from education providers is that they are finding the monitors helpful to manage ventilation and, in the majority of settings, existing ventilation measures are sufficient.</p><p>The private sector is autonomous, and it is up to individual providers to decide on whether they want to purchase CO2 monitors. There is no mandate from government to do so. Youth clubs were not included in the rollout of CO2 monitors as youth clubs are autonomous and able to determine their own arrangements to keep young people and staff as safe as possible.</p><p>Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, the department has emphasised the importance of ventilation and had supplied guidance to education providers on ventilation requirements.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 100625 100627 question first answered 13/01/2022 16:31:02 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1402040

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Youth Centres: Carbon Dioxide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of (a) youth clubs and (b) rooms in youth clubs that have a CO2 monitor.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	101862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood to the answer I gave on 13 January 2021 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-01-10/100625" target="_blank">100625.</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 101795 101796 101797 101798 question first answered 14/01/2022 10:43:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes