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91951

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the recommendation of the World Health Organisations' European report on preventing child maltreatment, published in 2013, that national governments adopt a preventative and public health approach to child maltreatment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	209349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government recognises the long-term impact of child maltreatment. We are committed to safeguarding children from abuse and maltreatment, and our approach is based on prevention, using effective multi-agency working to protect children from harm. This approach is at the heart of our statutory guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, published in 2013, which sets out the roles and responsibilities of all relevant services, and how they should work together.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 14/10/2014 15:09:32 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

91952

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what total amount her Department spent on all measures aimed at tackling child abuse and neglect in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	209347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Most statutory spending on child abuse and neglect is included within local authority core funding for children’s social care which comes from the Department for Community and Local Government’s Formula Grant, and from local taxation. Whilst this funding is not ring-fenced, it is for local authorities to decide how to apply their funding across all the services they deliver. The Department for Education would expect all local authorities to prioritise services for their most vulnerable children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>A report from the Audit Commission published in November 2013 found that children’s social care has been largely protected from spending reductions from 2010/11 to 2013/14.[1] Council spending on children’s social care on average increased by 1.2 % in real terms over this period and aggregate spending on children’s social care was set to increase by a further 0.4 % from 2012/13 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, over the period 2010/11 to 2014/15, this Department has spent between £30 and £50 million per year on safeguarding, which includes programmes whose focus is to prevent and tackle abuse and neglect. This spending has fulfilled specific work by local authorities and by voluntary and community sector organisations.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Tough-Times-2013-Councils-Responses-to-Financial-Challenges-w1.pdf" target="_blank">www.audit-commission.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Tough-Times-2013-Councils-Responses-to-Financial-Challenges-w1.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 209348 question first answered 14/10/2014 14:06:14 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

91954

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what total amount her Department spent on primary preventative measures aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	209348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Most statutory spending on child abuse and neglect is included within local authority core funding for children’s social care which comes from the Department for Community and Local Government’s Formula Grant, and from local taxation. Whilst this funding is not ring-fenced, it is for local authorities to decide how to apply their funding across all the services they deliver. The Department for Education would expect all local authorities to prioritise services for their most vulnerable children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>A report from the Audit Commission published in November 2013 found that children’s social care has been largely protected from spending reductions from 2010/11 to 2013/14.[1] Council spending on children’s social care on average increased by 1.2 % in real terms over this period and aggregate spending on children’s social care was set to increase by a further 0.4 % from 2012/13 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, over the period 2010/11 to 2014/15, this Department has spent between £30 and £50 million per year on safeguarding, which includes programmes whose focus is to prevent and tackle abuse and neglect. This spending has fulfilled specific work by local authorities and by voluntary and community sector organisations.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Tough-Times-2013-Councils-Responses-to-Financial-Challenges-w1.pdf" target="_blank">www.audit-commission.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Tough-Times-2013-Councils-Responses-to-Financial-Challenges-w1.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 209347 question first answered 14/10/2014 14:06:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

92185

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many professional social work places will be required by the Step Up and Frontline social work training programmes in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	209551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>There were 309 participants in the Step Up to Social Work intake in January 2014 and 104 participants in the Frontline intake in July 2014. Both programmes secure commitments from participating local authorities to provide sufficient placements. The combined total of 413 is less than ten percent of the total annual intake to social work training which has been between five and six thousand per year since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 209549 question first answered 14/10/2014 15:12:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

92189

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department made of the effect of the Step Up and Frontline social work training programmes on the availability of social work placements for other trainees.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	209549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>There were 309 participants in the Step Up to Social Work intake in January 2014 and 104 participants in the Frontline intake in July 2014. Both programmes secure commitments from participating local authorities to provide sufficient placements. The combined total of 413 is less than ten percent of the total annual intake to social work training which has been between five and six thousand per year since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 209551 question first answered 14/10/2014 15:12:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

91713

registered interest
date	12/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Kings Science Academy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will call an independent public inquiry into events at Kings Free Schools and Academies Trust.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	209208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>No. An independent public inquiry would not be appropriate while a related police investigation is ongoing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 15:27:04 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

91404

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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, when Ofsted will make recommendations on the role of inspections in monitoring specialist education support services for children with special educational needs.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	208892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education asked Ofsted to carry out a study to identify best practice amongst local authorities to prepare for the special educational needs reforms in order to understand whether there is a need for an inspection framework to drive improvements. The findings from the study and the recommendations are a matter for Ofsted. We understand that Ofsted will publish its findings and recommendations from the study by the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 25/09/2014 13:30:39 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

91409

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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, with reference to her Department's press release dated 14 June 2014, entitled New freedoms to help local areas to support vulnerable children, when she plans to publish new regulations on powers to delegate social core functions for vulnerable children.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (Relevant Care Functions) (England) Regulations 2014 came into force on 10 September 2014 and are published online at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/2407" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2014/2407</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:19:05 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91410

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of child sexual exploitation action plans by local safeguarding children's boards.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted undertakes a review of each local safeguarding children’s board (LSCB) at the same time as they undertake their inspection of local authorities’ services for children in need of help and protection and looked after children. Neither the review nor the inspection makes specific judgements about the sexual exploitation of children or the effectiveness of the local child sexual exploitation action plans. However, inspectors are required to include in the cases they evaluate “children at risk of harm from physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect; inspectors will also want to identify those children and young people where the local authority have concerns that they may be vulnerable to child sexual exploitation and those children and young people who have been missing from care, home and education”. In undertaking the LSCB review inspectors are required to “evaluate the quality and impact of the policies and procedures produced by the LSCB, such as the local thresholds document and the child sexual exploitation action plan.” An LSCB’s response to child sexual exploitation is considered as part of the overall judgement on the performance of the LSCB. Seven LSCBs of the 3<ins class="ministerial">3</ins><del class="ministerial">1</del> inspected since the new framework came into being in November 2013 have been found to be inadequate.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:12:11 question first ministerially corrected 20/10/2014 16:41:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 21507 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91412

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local safeguarding children's boards have failed inspections on their child sexual exploitation action plans.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted undertakes a review of each local safeguarding children’s board (LSCB) at the same time as they undertake their inspection of local authorities’ services for children in need of help and protection and looked after children. Neither the review nor the inspection makes specific judgements about the sexual exploitation of children or the effectiveness of the local child sexual exploitation action plans. However, inspectors are required to include in the cases they evaluate “children at risk of harm from physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect; inspectors will also want to identify those children and young people where the local authority have concerns that they may be vulnerable to child sexual exploitation and those children and young people who have been missing from care, home and education”. In undertaking the LSCB review inspectors are required to “evaluate the quality and impact of the policies and procedures produced by the LSCB, such as the local thresholds document and the child sexual exploitation action plan.” An LSCB’s response to child sexual exploitation is considered as part of the overall judgement on the performance of the LSCB. Seven LSCBs of the 3<ins class="ministerial">3</ins><del class="ministerial">1</del> inspected since the new framework came into being in November 2013 have been found to be inadequate.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:12:11 question first ministerially corrected 20/10/2014 16:41:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 21593 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton