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1082560

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to ensure more students are allocated places at their preferred schools.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	229215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>On Secondary National Offer Day on 1 March 2019, the vast majority of parents will have been offered a place at one of their preferred schools. The 2018 data showed that last year more than nine in ten pupils got a place at one of their top three choices, setting them on the path for a successful future. Standards have also risen since 2010 with 86% of schools now judged as good or outstanding, compared to 68% in 2010, meaning there are more good schools for parents to send their children to - and that is in part down to the Government’s reforms.</p><p>The vast majority of new places are being created in the best existing schools or through good new schools. Data show 91% of places added in 2016/17 were in good and outstanding schools. Overall, the Government is on track to create 1 million new school places this decade (2010 to 2020), the largest increase in school capacity in 2 generations.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/03/2019 17:44:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1082561

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to (a) increase school funding and (b) support secondary schools to reduce debts.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	229216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>Spending plans beyond 2019/20 will be set at next Spending Review and these decisions cannot be pre-empted. The Department is committed to securing the right deal for education and ensuring schools are able to plan their budgets effectively for future years.</p><p>While the core schools and high needs budget is rising from almost £41 billion in 2017/18 to £43.5 billion by 2019/20, the Department recognises the budgeting challenges schools face. That is why School Resource Management Strategy was published in August 2018, which sets out the support, current and planned, to help schools make the most of their available resources. The strategy can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-excellent-school-resource-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-excellent-school-resource-management</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/03/2019 17:43:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1082562

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress his Department has made in its review of student finance; and when he plans to report on that review to the House.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	229217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The review is making good progress.</p><p>The independent panel will report shortly. The government will then conclude the overall review later this year.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 11/03/2019 17:00:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1064094

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that under the comprehensive spending review at least the same level of revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is allocated to (a) the continuation of the healthy pupils capital fund and (b) other schemes for the improvement of children’s health.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	223505
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Budget 2016 announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The department will receive £575 million during the current Spending Review period. Funding for 2020-21 onwards will be considered at the next Spending Review.</p><p>£100 million of revenue generated from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is being used for the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund. This one-year fund for 2018-19 is intended to improve children’s and young people’s physical and mental health by enhancing access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions. These facilities include kitchens, dining facilities, changing rooms, playgrounds and sports facilities. There are no plans for the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund to continue beyond 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/02/2019 16:06:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 104190 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1054565

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Expenditure
	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 support local authorities who have overspent on SEND budgets.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	216360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that the high needs budget faces significant pressures. As you will be aware, we have announced that we will provide £250 million additional funding for high needs over this financial year and the next. This brings the total allocated for high needs to £6.1 billion in 2018-19 and £6.3 billion in 2019-20. This additional investment will help local authorities manage those cost pressures.</p><p>Alongside the announcement of this additional funding, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State set out other ways in which we are helping local authorities, schools and colleges support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-the-secretary-of-state-to-local-authorities" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-the-secretary-of-state-to-local-authorities</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working alongside local authorities to help them plan how best to use their high needs funding. As part of this, we have introduced a high needs benchmarking tool, where local authorities can compare their high needs spending. This can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-strategic-planning-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-strategic-planning-fund</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/02/2019 12:41:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1054566

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Expenditure
	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 total overspend of SEND budgets by local authorities in the financial year 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	216361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education collects information on local authority spending through the section 251 returns, which for 2017 to 2018 can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p>The department does not specifically collect information on where local authorities have overspent their high needs budgets. In 2018 to 2019, local authorities are obliged to pass at least 99.5% of their schools’ block funding, within the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), on to local schools; and since 2017 to 2018, have been obliged to pass at least 93% (95% in 2018 to 2019) of funding for 3 and 4 year olds to early years providers. Otherwise, local authorities are free to allocate their DSG, and in any one year may build up or draw down DSG reserves.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/02/2019 12:49:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1047708

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to ensure that 16 and 17 year olds in the care system are placed in suitable accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	212412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The majority of children in care aged 16 or 17 are either placed in foster care or live in a children’s home, both of which are regulated by Ofsted. However, the Children Act (1989) allows local authorities to use ‘other accommodation’ (such as supported lodgings; semi-independent accommodation; hostels; or foyers), if the local authority judges that the young person’s needs will best be met by this type of placement.</p><p> </p><p>In many cases, semi-independent accommodation provides an effective way for young people preparing to or leaving care to make a gradual transition to independence instead of placing them straight into an independent tenancy.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning a range of accommodation that meets the needs of young people in or leaving care and must ensure that accommodation used to house them is ‘suitable’. ‘Suitable accommodation’ is defined in Chapter 7 of the Children Act (1989) Volume 3 statutory guidance, which can be accessed at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397649/CA1989_Transitions_guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397649/CA1989_Transitions_guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>​The government ensures that local authorities are held to account for the quality of the accommodation they provide to care leavers through Ofsted inspections of children’s services and challenge poor practices when identified by Ofsted.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 212413 question first answered 29/01/2019 17:44:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1047709

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care: Housing
	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 viability of the current regulation of independent living arrangements for young people in the care system.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	212413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The majority of children in care aged 16 or 17 are either placed in foster care or live in a children’s home, both of which are regulated by Ofsted. However, the Children Act (1989) allows local authorities to use ‘other accommodation’ (such as supported lodgings; semi-independent accommodation; hostels; or foyers), if the local authority judges that the young person’s needs will best be met by this type of placement.</p><p> </p><p>In many cases, semi-independent accommodation provides an effective way for young people preparing to or leaving care to make a gradual transition to independence instead of placing them straight into an independent tenancy.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning a range of accommodation that meets the needs of young people in or leaving care and must ensure that accommodation used to house them is ‘suitable’. ‘Suitable accommodation’ is defined in Chapter 7 of the Children Act (1989) Volume 3 statutory guidance, which can be accessed at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397649/CA1989_Transitions_guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397649/CA1989_Transitions_guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>​The government ensures that local authorities are held to account for the quality of the accommodation they provide to care leavers through Ofsted inspections of children’s services and challenge poor practices when identified by Ofsted.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 212412 question first answered 29/01/2019 17:44:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1047710

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has made to support local authorities with the number of young people entering the care system.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	212414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an extra £410 million to address pressures on social care services, along with £84 million over five years to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families.</p><p>This builds on the £200 billion government has already made available to councils up to 2020 to provide services in the best interests of local residents, including those for children and young people.</p><p>In residential care we are investing part of our £200 million children’s social care innovation programme to three projects to increase councils’ capacity and ensure more young people can be matched to the right care placement. We have also recently provided grant funding to three local authorities to conduct feasibility studies into opening new secure provision to increase available capacity and continue to invest in the secure estate through our £40 million capital programme.</p><p>We will shortly be providing seed funding to fostering partnerships to increase sufficiency of foster parents. As part of our digital discovery, we are exploring whether, and how, digital solutions could help give a more accurate picture of fostering capacity both locally and nationally, to drive targeted recruitment and improve streamline vacancy management.</p><p>We know that local authorities have experienced an increase in the numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) who have particular care needs. That is why, in the 2017 UASC safeguarding strategy, we committed to providing 1,000 training places for foster carers and support workers who care for UASC. We commissioned the Refugee Council to deliver this training across England and training is now underway across the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/01/2019 17:40:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1027309

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	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 full-time equivalent staff in his Department work on (a) foster care, (b) residential care, (c) adoption and (d) kinship care including special guardianship.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	202840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>As at 6 December 2018, there were 38.4 full-time equivalent staff working in the departmental division (children in care and permanence) that is responsible for foster care, residential care, kinship care, adoption and special guardianship.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/12/2018 16:01:19 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes