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47208

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contractual arrangements his Department has with Professor Julian Le Grand; and how much he has been paid.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	195602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>In March 2013, my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, appointed Professor Julian Le Grand as Chair of a panel undertaking a review of Doncaster Children's Services, as announced in a letter dated 25 March 2013 to the then Mayor of Doncaster, Peter Davies. The letter is published on the Department's website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/doncaster-childrens-care-direction-for-improvement-march-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/doncaster-childrens-care-direction-for-improvement-march-2013</a>. Professor Le Grand submitted his Report to Ministers in May 2013. Professor Le Grand was subsequently asked by my hon. Friend, the Minister for Children and Families, to chair another panel to consider ways forward for Birmingham's Children's Social Care Services, as announced in a letter to the leader of Birmingham Council, Albert Bore, on 29 November 2013. The letter is also published on the Department's website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/edward-timpson-writes-to-birmingham-city-council" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/edward-timpson-writes-to-birmingham-city-council</a>. The Report of this work was submitted to Ministers in February 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Professor Le Grand received no remuneration for his work on either Review. The Department for Education met reasonable travel, accommodation and other expenses for Professor Le Grand which were wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred in relation to this work in accordance with the Department's policies.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

47213

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has in place to support children's centres that wish to move towards a co-operative model following their proposed closure.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	195433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office's Mutuals Support Programme provides support to public sector workers who want to turn their service into a mutual. This can include children's centres and co-operative forms of organisation. Further information is available through the Mutuals Information Service website (<a href="http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government recently announced a Transformation Challenge Award to help councils transform the way they run local services to put the user first. The Department for Education has funded work to support and encourage groups of parents, families and community members to develop their own community management models for children's centres.</p><p> </p><p>All designated children's centres including those provided by co-operative model, are inspected by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 195434 195462 195474 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

47215

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will visit further education colleges to discuss the effect of his proposed 17.5 per cent reduction from September for funding for 18 year olds in full-time education.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>I have received a large number of invitations to discuss this topic and sadly cannot accept nearly as many as I would like to.</p><p>Nevertheless, I have listened to the views of the hon. and Rt hon. Members, as well as those of colleges and other providers of 16-to-19 education. I am pleased that we have been able to afford to mitigate the impact of the funding reduction on 18-year-olds in the academic year 2014/15. We will cap any losses in relation to this at 2% of the funding that an institution receives for the education of 16-to-19 year olds.</p><p>However, the overriding need to tackle the budget deficit remains, and so the full funding reduction for 18-year-olds will still be necessary in 2015/16. We have carried out and published an impact assessment, which is available online:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47217

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 the proposed 17.5 per cent reduction in funding for full-time education on 18 year olds from ethnic minorities who (a) have poor prior attainment and (b) speak English as an additional language.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has published an impact assessment, which is available online:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment</a>.</p><p>The impact assessment looked at the proportion of 18-year-old black and minority ethnic (BME) students in full-time education who attract a funding uplift for disadvantage based on the level of deprivation of their home postcode, compared with the proportion of all 16- to 18-year-old BME students. It shows that 18-year-old BME students in full-time education are not more likely to be from disadvantaged areas than 16- to 18–year-old BME students as a whole.</p><p>I am pleased that we have been able to afford to mitigate the impact of the funding reduction on 18-year-olds in the academic year 2014/15. We will cap any losses in relation to this at 2% of the funding that an institution receives for the education of 16- to 19-year-olds.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47218

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to develop the capacity and knowledge of parents and staff who volunteer to take on the running of their children's centre.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	195474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office's Mutuals Support Programme provides support to public sector workers who want to turn their service into a mutual. This can include children's centres and co-operative forms of organisation. Further information is available through the Mutuals Information Service website (<a href="http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government recently announced a Transformation Challenge Award to help councils transform the way they run local services to put the user first. The Department for Education has funded work to support and encourage groups of parents, families and community members to develop their own community management models for children's centres.</p><p> </p><p>All designated children's centres including those provided by co-operative model, are inspected by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 195433 195434 195462 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

47219

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will provide funding for the transition of children's centres to new structures.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	195434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office's Mutuals Support Programme provides support to public sector workers who want to turn their service into a mutual. This can include children's centres and co-operative forms of organisation. Further information is available through the Mutuals Information Service website (<a href="http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government recently announced a Transformation Challenge Award to help councils transform the way they run local services to put the user first. The Department for Education has funded work to support and encourage groups of parents, families and community members to develop their own community management models for children's centres.</p><p> </p><p>All designated children's centres including those provided by co-operative model, are inspected by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 195433 195462 195474 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

47220

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure the quality of service provided by co-operative model children's centres.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	195462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office's Mutuals Support Programme provides support to public sector workers who want to turn their service into a mutual. This can include children's centres and co-operative forms of organisation. Further information is available through the Mutuals Information Service website (<a href="http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://mutuals.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government recently announced a Transformation Challenge Award to help councils transform the way they run local services to put the user first. The Department for Education has funded work to support and encourage groups of parents, families and community members to develop their own community management models for children's centres.</p><p> </p><p>All designated children's centres including those provided by co-operative model, are inspected by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 195433 195434 195474 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

47534

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on career colleges.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	903663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government's policy for career colleges is the same as for any other further education college that enrols 14- to 16-year-olds. The Education Funding Agency first needs to grant permission for the college to enrol 14- to 16-year-olds, and permission is restricted to colleges with a Good or Outstanding Ofsted rating.</p><p>The proposals set out by the Career College Trust, an independent charity, take advantage of the flexibilities and freedoms of the funding reforms introduced by this Government to provide an alternative approach to offering high quality academic and vocational education from age 14.</p><p>I await with interest developments in career colleges and other innovative schemes for 14-19 provision, which have arisen as a result of the Government's vocational education reforms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

47033

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to integrate better into schools children with challenging behaviour; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	195367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply given to him on 8 October 2013, Official Report, Column 257W.</p><p>Since October, we have updated our advice on behaviour to re-emphasise the need for clear rewards and sanctions. We have outlined a range of sanctions that it is permissible for teachers to use to tackle challenging behaviour when it occurs. We have also been clear that schools should use rewards to praise and reinforce good behaviour.</p><p>In addition, we have produced a range of case studies showing good practice in how schools manage behaviour and bullying. The case studies provide examples of what effective schools do to integrate children with challenging behaviour into the school ranging from support through schools' pastoral systems to using art and modified curricula to support the inclusion of pupils with behaviour difficulties.</p><p>The new special educational needs (SEN) Code of Practice makes it clear that, while persistent disruptive or withdrawn behaviour does not necessarily mean that a pupil has SEN, schools should determine whether there are any causal factors, such as undiagnosed learning difficulties, difficulties with communication or mental health issues, so that support can be put in place for the pupil to stay at the school and make progress.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

47035

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of childminder agencies that will be established in September (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	195337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The childminder agency legislation is enabling. Childminder agencies will be independent of government, and it will be for organisations themselves to decide if and when to enter this market. We have therefore not estimated the number of childminder agencies that will successfully register with Ofsted in September 2014 or 2015.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell