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910381

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Autism: Barnsley
	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 ensure that people in Barnsley with severe autism have local access to specialist schools and services without having to travel to Wakefield or Rotherham for such school and services.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	147447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities must ensure there are sufficient good school places for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities. If a local authority identifies a shortage of special school places for children and young people in its area, resulting in a significant number having to travel a long way to access an appropriate placement, it will need to consider creating or expanding specialist provision, either attached to mainstream schools or in special schools.</p><p>The department has allocated £215 million of capital funding (over and above basic need funding) to help build new places at mainstream and special schools, and to improve existing places to benefit current and future pupils. Local authorities, through consultation with local stakeholders, should decide how best to spend their allocation to meet local needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:16:55 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

910382

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Autism: Barnsley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that specialist schools in Barnsley have sufficient resources to teach people who have severe autism.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	147448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the challenges that special schools face supporting pupils with high levels of need, that is why base funding is set at a much higher level of £10,000 per place. On top of this, local authorities provide top up funding to reflect additional need in respect of individual pupils. The level of the top-up funding is a matter for agreement between the local authority and the school, and we do not prescribe in detail how local authorities should allocate their high needs funding.</p><p> </p><p>To assist local authorities in making sure that special schools have sufficient resources, in 2018-19 we have provided Barnsley with £21.9 million in high needs funding, 3.1% more than they planned to spend in 2017-18. These allocations can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:20:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

922102

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Visual Impairment
	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 improve the provision of education services for visually impaired children.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	152182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>We want all children, no matter what their special educational need (SEN) or disability, including those with visual impairment, to be able to reach their full potential and receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. That is why we have put in place the significant reforms, through the Children and Families Act 2014, which introduced Educational, Health and Care plans for those that require them, and a real focus on outcomes and transition to adult life.</p><p> </p><p>The supporting statutory guidance, the special educational needs and disability (SEND) Code of Practice, (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25</a>), makes it clear that all children and young people with special educational needs and disability, including those with visual impairment, must be supported to achieve the good outcomes they deserve.</p><p> </p><p>The framework of core content for Initial Teacher Training sets out that providers should ensure that trainees are equipped to identify the needs of all pupils, and make provision for them, including seeking the advice of colleagues with specialist knowledge and experience. Teachers should be able to recognise signs that may indicate SEND, and support common educational needs through review of their teaching, making adjustments to overcome any barriers to progress and ensuring that pupils with SEND are able to access the curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently announced £3.4 million funding over 2018-2020, for the SEND schools’ workforce contract, which will be delivered by the Whole School SEND consortium, led by the National Association for Special Educational Needs. The SEND schools’ workforce contract aim is to embed SEND within the school led system of School Improvement in order to equip the workforce to deliver high quality teaching across all types of SEND. The programme of work will: drive education institutions to prioritise SEND; equip schools to identify and meet their training needs in relation to SEND; build the specialist workforce and identify and respond to any gaps in the training and resources available to schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 14/06/2018 16:34:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

922320

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support provided to single parents to cover the cost of childcare in the school holidays.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	152769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>By 2019-20, the government will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support – a record amount - to help with the costs of childcare, including childcare in the school holidays.</p><p> </p><p>A single parent is able to access the 30 hours free childcare entitlement if they are earning at least the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage for 16 hours a week. This entitlement is available across 38 weeks of the year. However, the entitlement can be “stretched” by taking fewer hours per week over more than 38 weeks of the year to cover term-time and the school holidays, for example 23 hours for 48 weeks of the year. Furthermore, parents are able to use Tax-Free Childcare to support them with paying for childcare support during the school holidays.</p><p> </p><p>We have already increased the level of support for childcare within Universal Credit (UC) from 70% to 85% of eligible childcare costs; its highest ever level. This is more generous than the support available to people on legacy benefits.</p><p> </p><p>This gives parents, including single parents, up to a maximum of £646.35 per month for one child and £1108.04 per month for two or more children. UC childcare costs are assessed monthly, meaning that where claimants experience a change in their childcare costs, for example an increase during the school holidays, UC childcare costs can increase (up to the maximum award) to meet the household’s needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/06/2018 13:27:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

923520

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Early Intervention Grant
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to increase council funding for early years intervention.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	153278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review made available more than £200 billion until 2020 for councils to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services.</p><p>In addition, by 2019-20 we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support. This is more than any other government and this government support will make childcare more affordable and more accessible.</p><p>Furthermore, in our ambitious plan ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’ that the Department published in December 2017, we committed to a £100 million investment to help close the gap between disadvantaged children and their peers.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the next spending review will be in 2019. This will, as normal, consider all elements of government spending, including local government funding and funding for early intervention.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/06/2018 16:31:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 64158 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

924056

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2018
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking with the Department of Health and Social Care to improve outreach methods for parents and children in need of early intervention services.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	153830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>The department is taking a number of steps with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) aimed at improving outreach methods for parents and children in need of early intervention services.</p><p>Statutory guidance 'Working Together to Safeguard Children' is clear that local areas should have a comprehensive range of effective, evidence-based services in place to address assessed needs early. So we are introducing new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, which put responsibility jointly on local authorities, health and police to put in place services that meet the needs of children and families locally. In making their local arrangements, the safeguarding partners should agree with other relevant agencies the levels for the different types of assessment and services to be commissioned and delivered – which could include outreach services. In implementing these new arrangements, my department is working closely with the DHSC, as well as the Home Office.</p><p>On 4 December 2017 the government published the 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision' green paper. It sets out our ambition to go further to ensure that children and young people showing early signs of distress are always able to access the right help, in the right setting, when they need it. There is clear evidence that schools and colleges can, and do, play a vital role in identifying mental health needs at an early stage, referring young people to specialist support and working jointly with others to support young people experiencing problems. We will fund new mental health support teams to provide specific extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help, supervised by NHS children and young people’s mental health staff, whose work will be jointly managed by schools and the NHS.</p><p>My department is also working with Public Health England (an executive agency of DHSC) to help fulfil its ambition in 'Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential', published in December 2017, to close the word gap in the early years. This includes work to trial an early language assessment tool and deliver training and guidance for health visitors on early speech, language and communication needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/06/2018 15:44:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

927006

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to introduce measures to ensure the parity of special educational needs provision between the North and the South.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	155292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to work with parents, young people, and providers to keep the provision for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities under review, including its sufficiency.</p><p>There is a presumption in law that children and young people should be educated in mainstream settings unless the local authority concludes they require more specialist provision following a statutory Education, Health and Care assessment (EHC). In January 2018, 34.8% of children and young people with EHC plans were placed in maintained special schools.</p><p>Local authorities are also able to commission new schools (both special and mainstream) via the free school presumption route, drawing on the basic need and special provision capital funding sources. The department has allocated £265 million of capital funding (over and above basic need funding) to help build new places at mainstream and special schools, and to improve existing places to benefit current and future pupils. We have given local authorities a more proactive role in commissioning new special free schools, and since March we have announced 15 projects which are being taken forward.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 155293 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:24:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

927007

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the mandatory introduction of a special educational needs school in each local authority to cater for young people who struggle in mainstream education.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	155293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to work with parents, young people, and providers to keep the provision for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities under review, including its sufficiency.</p><p>There is a presumption in law that children and young people should be educated in mainstream settings unless the local authority concludes they require more specialist provision following a statutory Education, Health and Care assessment (EHC). In January 2018, 34.8% of children and young people with EHC plans were placed in maintained special schools.</p><p>Local authorities are also able to commission new schools (both special and mainstream) via the free school presumption route, drawing on the basic need and special provision capital funding sources. The department has allocated £265 million of capital funding (over and above basic need funding) to help build new places at mainstream and special schools, and to improve existing places to benefit current and future pupils. We have given local authorities a more proactive role in commissioning new special free schools, and since March we have announced 15 projects which are being taken forward.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 155292 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:24:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

928693

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will meet representatives of the National Deaf Children's Society to discuss funding for deaf children's education.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	156429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>In relation to meeting with representatives of the National Deaf Children’s Society, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 June 2018 to Question UIN <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-22/146815/" target="_blank">146815</a>.</p><p>My officials will be in touch with the National Deaf Children’s Society in due course to discuss their recent report on local authority funding.</p><p>In relation to assessing the recent changes in funding by local authorities to deaf children's education on the provision of such education, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 June 2018 to Question UIN <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-06-11/152124/" target="_blank">152124</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 156430 question first answered 26/06/2018 16:55:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

928695

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
	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 effect of recent changes in funding by local authorities to deaf children's education on the provision of such education.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	156430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>In relation to meeting with representatives of the National Deaf Children’s Society, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 June 2018 to Question UIN <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-22/146815/" target="_blank">146815</a>.</p><p>My officials will be in touch with the National Deaf Children’s Society in due course to discuss their recent report on local authority funding.</p><p>In relation to assessing the recent changes in funding by local authorities to deaf children's education on the provision of such education, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 June 2018 to Question UIN <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-06-11/152124/" target="_blank">152124</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 156429 question first answered 26/06/2018 16:55:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis