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416849

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what threshold for (a) individual and (b) household earnings she plans to introduce to determine eligibility for the Government's 30 hours free childcare scheme.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	8746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The new entitlement to 30 hours free childcare is intended to support working parents with the cost of childcare and enable them, where they want, to return to work or to work additional hours.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To meet the principle of designing a system that is simple for parents, the Government’s intention is that eligibility for 30 hours free childcare should broadly align with Tax-Free Childcare. In particular both parents, or the single parent in such households, will need to work the equivalent of 8 hours per week at the national minimum wage. Further detail on eligibility will be provided during passage of the Childcare Bill.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/09/2015 10:17:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

1547607

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, why she has decided to close the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	101801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>Since the formation of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board (ASGLB), the adoption and special guardianship landscape has changed significantly. The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care called for a reset of the whole system. As we move into a different phase of reform across the whole of children’s social care, it is the right decision to close the ASGLB, which has fulfilled its remit.</p><p>To drive improvements in adoption practice across the country, the department now has 32 Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs) working collectively and with the wider sector to deliver on the National Adoption Strategy, supported by £19.5 million in government funding. The department believes this is the right structure to deliver change.</p><p>The Care Review also recommends supporting a wider cohort of kinship carers. This recommendation goes beyond the scope and current remit of the ASGLB. The department is working up proposals around kinship care that fit with wider governance arrangements that are being developed to deliver the Care Review recommendations. The government’s implementation plan will be published early in the New Year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 07/12/2022 16:48:23 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1568225

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) Teachers of the Deaf, (b) Teachers for the Visually Impaired and (c) special educational needs coordinators are employed by schools (i) in and (ii) run by the (A) London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and (B) Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	126832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Information on the number of qualified teachers of the deaf or for the visually impaired is not collected by the department.</p><p>Information on the school workforce in England is collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census each November. Information is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>As at November 2021, the latest figures available, there were 57 special educational needs coordinators employed by state-funded schools in Richmond upon Thames local authority and 49 in Kingston upon Thames local authority. Figures by school type can be found in the table below.</p><p><strong>Headcount of special educational needs coordinators employed by state-funded schools, by local authority and school type</strong><strong> (</strong><strong>November 2021)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All state-funded schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Local authority maintained schools only</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 26/01/2023 12:30:04 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1568238

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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 the SEND improvement plan to be published by her Department later this month will be accompanied by an analysis of the additional workforce needed to implement proposals contained within it.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	126833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The department knows that children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) frequently require access to additional support from a broad specialist workforce across education, health, and care. The SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper published in March 2022, set out proposals to commission analysis to ensure that the needs of children and young people with SEND from the therapeutic and diagnostic workforce are supported through effective workforce planning.</p><p>The consultation for the SEND review closed on 22 July 2022. The department is currently reviewing the feedback received and using this, along with continued engagement with the system, to inform the next stage of delivering improvements for children, young people and their families.</p><p>The department is committed to publishing a full response to the green paper in an improvement plan early this year. We will continue to support the system in the immediate term to deliver change, improving the experience and outcomes for children and young people with SEND and those who need AP.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 26/01/2023 12:59:54 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1584606

registered interest
date	06/02/2023
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, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2023 to Question 126832 on Special Educational Needs: Greater London, what steps her Department is taking to assess the level of staff and resources that schools require to provide a full-time education to deaf and visually-impaired children.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	140375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including sensory impairment, receive the support needed to succeed in their education.</p><p>The department does not collect data on the number of sensory impairment qualified teachers working in state-funded schools. Local authorities in England are required to publish information on the availability of specialist services, and the support commissioned and provided for children and young people with SEND, including sensory impairment, in a local offer. To ensure local needs are met, they must work with children, young people and their families to develop this.</p><p>New national SEND and alternative provision (AP) standards were proposed in the SEND and AP Green Paper. These standards aim to make consistent the provision that should be made available across the country for every child and young person with SEND, including those with sensory impairments, acting as a common point of reference for every person in the SEND and AP system. They are intended to set out the full range of appropriate types of support and placements for meeting different needs. New local SEND and AP partnerships will carry out a comprehensive assessment of all types of need and existing provision across their local area and co-produce a Local Inclusion Plan with parents and carers that sets out how that need will be met, which will inform the local offer.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 140376 question first answered 13/02/2023 15:05:24 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1584608

registered interest
date	06/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Teachers
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 26 January 2023 to Question 126832 on Special Educational Needs: Greater London, if she will make it her policy to collect statistics on the number of (a) Teachers of the Deaf and (b) Teachers for the Visually Impaired working in state-funded schools in England in order to aid workforce planning.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	140376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including sensory impairment, receive the support needed to succeed in their education.</p><p>The department does not collect data on the number of sensory impairment qualified teachers working in state-funded schools. Local authorities in England are required to publish information on the availability of specialist services, and the support commissioned and provided for children and young people with SEND, including sensory impairment, in a local offer. To ensure local needs are met, they must work with children, young people and their families to develop this.</p><p>New national SEND and alternative provision (AP) standards were proposed in the SEND and AP Green Paper. These standards aim to make consistent the provision that should be made available across the country for every child and young person with SEND, including those with sensory impairments, acting as a common point of reference for every person in the SEND and AP system. They are intended to set out the full range of appropriate types of support and placements for meeting different needs. New local SEND and AP partnerships will carry out a comprehensive assessment of all types of need and existing provision across their local area and co-produce a Local Inclusion Plan with parents and carers that sets out how that need will be met, which will inform the local offer.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 140375 question first answered 13/02/2023 15:05:24 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1585461

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons her Department has changed the criteria on the latest date to commence training for the senior mental health lead training grant.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	142840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The department is committed to offering senior mental health lead training to all eligible schools and colleges by 2025. More than 10,000 schools and colleges have received senior mental health lead training grants so far, which includes more than 6 in 10 state-funded secondary schools. A further £10 million provided this year means up to two thirds of state schools and colleges can benefit by April 2023.</p><p>​In February 2023, the department announced that eligible schools and colleges are now able to use a grant to book courses that start before 31 July 2023, providing they claim their grant by 31 March 2023. The update to the guidance page on 8 February 2023 confirms this and can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/senior-mental-health-lead-training" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/senior-mental-health-lead-training</a>.​</p><p>​This change will give senior mental health leads the flexibility they need to plan ahead for this academic year by allowing them to book onto a quality assured training course at a time of their choosing.</p><p>​The guidance will be further updated to confirm the grants available for the entirety of the 2023/24 financial year in due course.​</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 22/02/2023 12:52:28 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1604599

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.49 of the Spring Budget 2023, HC 1183, what estimate she has made of her Department's planned expenditure in 2023-24 on the (a) universal 15 hours free childcare entitlement for all three and four year olds, (b) additional 15 hours free childcare entitlement for eligible working parents of three and four year olds and (c) 15 hours free childcare offer for disadvantaged children aged two.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	166373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>On 15 March 2023, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the hourly rates for the entitlements will be substantially uplifted, on top of the investments announced at the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 and on 16 December 2022.</p><p>On 16 December, the department announced indicative funding allocations in 2023/24 for local authorities for the 2, 3, and 4-year-old entitlements, totalling £3.927 billion. We will now provide £204 million of additional funding from September 2023, increasing to £288 million by 2024/5, for local authorities to further increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers, with further uplifts to follow each year. This will include an average of 30% increase in the 2-year-old rate from September 2023 and mean that in 2024, the average hourly rate for 2-year-olds will be more than £8 per hour, and around £11 per hour for under 2s. The average 3- and 4-year-old rate will rise in line with inflation to over £5.50 per hour from September 2023, with further uplifts beyond this.</p><p>This funding is in addition to the £4.1 billion that the government will provide by 2027/28 to facilitate the expansion of the new free hours offer, under which all eligible working parents in England will, by September 2025, be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week, for 38 weeks of the year, from when their child is 9 months old to when they start school.</p><p>The department will provide further details of the distribution of the uplifted funding to local authorities for 2023/24 and for 2024/25, including average hourly rates for the 2, 3 and 4-year-old entitlements, which are demand-led, in due course.</p><p>Average hourly rates for the 2023/24 financial year, not including the abovementioned uplifts, were published on 16 December 2022, and are reproduced in the table below, which also includes average hourly rates for 2022/23.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Entitlement:</p></td><td><p>2022 to 2023<br> (£)</p></td><td><p>2023 to 2024 (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 and 4-year-old Universal Hours entitlement, average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£5.06</p></td><td><p>£5.31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 and 4-year-old Additional Hours entitlement, average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£4.98</p></td><td><p>£5.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 and 4-year-old entitlements, combined average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£5.04</p></td><td><p>£5.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2-year-old entitlement, average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£5.77</p></td><td><p>£6.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes on the averages:</p><ol><li>1 Part Time Equivalent (PTE) is equivalent to 15 hours of childcare.</li><li>National average hourly funding rates are subject to change when allocations are updated to make use of Jan 2023 PTEs and Jan 2024 PTEs, i.e., if these have different PTE distributions between local authorities.</li><li>For 2022-23, the 3- and 4-year-old entitlement average funding rate is made up from a Universal Hours average of £5.06 and an Additional Hours average of £4.98. Both these entitlements are funded on the same EYNFF funding rates at LA-level, but they have different PTE distributions between LAs, e.g., Universal Hours has a higher proportion of total PTEs in London LAs, which leads to different national averages. These figures are based on initial allocations.</li><li>For 2023-24, the 3- and 4-year-old entitlement average funding rate is made up from a Universal Hours average of £5.31 and an Additional Hours average of £5.23. Both these entitlements are funded on the same EYNFF funding rates at LA-level, but they have different PTE distributions between LAs, e.g., Universal Hours has a higher proportion of total PTEs in London LAs, which leads to different national averages. These figures are based on indicative allocations.</li><li>The 3- and 4-year-old average figures for 2022-23 do not include funding for the Teachers Pay Grant and Teachers Pension Employer Contributions (TPPG), which from 2023-24 has been included in the hourly rate.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 166374 question first answered 28/03/2023 15:19:12 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1604606

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Financial Statement on 15 March 2023 that the additional funding for childcare providers is an average of a 30 per cent increase in the two-year-old rate this year, if she will publish the average hourly rate to be paid to childcare providers for each free childcare hour they provide to a child aged (a) two, and (b) three or four, in (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24, (iii) 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	166374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>On 15 March 2023, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the hourly rates for the entitlements will be substantially uplifted, on top of the investments announced at the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 and on 16 December 2022.</p><p>On 16 December, the department announced indicative funding allocations in 2023/24 for local authorities for the 2, 3, and 4-year-old entitlements, totalling £3.927 billion. We will now provide £204 million of additional funding from September 2023, increasing to £288 million by 2024/5, for local authorities to further increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers, with further uplifts to follow each year. This will include an average of 30% increase in the 2-year-old rate from September 2023 and mean that in 2024, the average hourly rate for 2-year-olds will be more than £8 per hour, and around £11 per hour for under 2s. The average 3- and 4-year-old rate will rise in line with inflation to over £5.50 per hour from September 2023, with further uplifts beyond this.</p><p>This funding is in addition to the £4.1 billion that the government will provide by 2027/28 to facilitate the expansion of the new free hours offer, under which all eligible working parents in England will, by September 2025, be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week, for 38 weeks of the year, from when their child is 9 months old to when they start school.</p><p>The department will provide further details of the distribution of the uplifted funding to local authorities for 2023/24 and for 2024/25, including average hourly rates for the 2, 3 and 4-year-old entitlements, which are demand-led, in due course.</p><p>Average hourly rates for the 2023/24 financial year, not including the abovementioned uplifts, were published on 16 December 2022, and are reproduced in the table below, which also includes average hourly rates for 2022/23.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Entitlement:</p></td><td><p>2022 to 2023<br> (£)</p></td><td><p>2023 to 2024 (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 and 4-year-old Universal Hours entitlement, average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£5.06</p></td><td><p>£5.31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 and 4-year-old Additional Hours entitlement, average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£4.98</p></td><td><p>£5.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 and 4-year-old entitlements, combined average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£5.04</p></td><td><p>£5.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2-year-old entitlement, average hourly funding rate</p></td><td><p>£5.77</p></td><td><p>£6.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes on the averages:</p><ol><li>1 Part Time Equivalent (PTE) is equivalent to 15 hours of childcare.</li><li>National average hourly funding rates are subject to change when allocations are updated to make use of Jan 2023 PTEs and Jan 2024 PTEs, i.e., if these have different PTE distributions between local authorities.</li><li>For 2022-23, the 3- and 4-year-old entitlement average funding rate is made up from a Universal Hours average of £5.06 and an Additional Hours average of £4.98. Both these entitlements are funded on the same EYNFF funding rates at LA-level, but they have different PTE distributions between LAs, e.g., Universal Hours has a higher proportion of total PTEs in London LAs, which leads to different national averages. These figures are based on initial allocations.</li><li>For 2023-24, the 3- and 4-year-old entitlement average funding rate is made up from a Universal Hours average of £5.31 and an Additional Hours average of £5.23. Both these entitlements are funded on the same EYNFF funding rates at LA-level, but they have different PTE distributions between LAs, e.g., Universal Hours has a higher proportion of total PTEs in London LAs, which leads to different national averages. These figures are based on indicative allocations.</li><li>The 3- and 4-year-old average figures for 2022-23 do not include funding for the Teachers Pay Grant and Teachers Pension Employer Contributions (TPPG), which from 2023-24 has been included in the hourly rate.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 166373 question first answered 28/03/2023 15:19:12 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1607835

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to Questions 166373 and 166374 on Childcare tabled by the hon. Member for Twickenham on 15 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	174444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>I can confirm that responses to Questions <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-15/166373" target="_blank">166373</a> and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-15/166374" target="_blank">166374</a> have been provided to the hon. Member for Twickenham.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 30/03/2023 16:09:56 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson