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date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Mobility
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Harrison Centre for Social Mobility's Social Mobility Pledge initiative.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL8254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The Social Mobility Pledge initiative represents an excellent opportunity for businesses to become Social Mobility Pledge accredited employers, by committing to enhance support for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. We would encourage all employers to sign-up to the pledge.</p><p> </p><p>The pledge fits with the aims of the government’s own strategies for social mobility, including the Careers and Industrial Strategies and ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, which is the government’s national plan to support children and young people to reach their full potential.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 18/06/2018 16:37:13 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

916586

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date	04/06/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many local authorities are denying funding to parents of children with special educational needs who seek places at independent schools with appropriate provision for them.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL8292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to assess whether children and young people have complex special educational needs requiring an education, health and care (EHC) plan. When drawing up an EHC plan, the child’s parents or (from age 16) the young person has a statutory right to request that a particular institution be named on the EHC plan. If the institution is one of those specified in Section 38(3) of the act, the local authority is under a qualified duty to name the institution, and the institution must admit the child or young person.</p><p> </p><p>Independent special schools may choose to bring themselves in scope of this duty by asking to join the Secretary of State’s approved list (under Section 41 of the act). 155 independent special schools have chosen to do so.</p><p> </p><p>A parent or young person may request a placement in an independent school that is not on the Section 41 list. The local authority is not under the same conditional duty to name the provider, but must have regard to the general principle in Section 9 of the Education Act 1996 that children should be educated in accordance with their parents’ wishes, so long as this is compatible with the provision of efficient instruction and training and does not mean unreasonable public expenditure. The local authority should be satisfied that the institution would admit the child or young person before naming it in a plan, since these providers are not subject to the duty to admit a child or young person even if named in an EHC plan. If a local authority names an independent school, independent special school or special post-16 institution in an EHC plan, then they must secure a place and fund any fees, including any boarding and lodging where relevant.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 18/06/2018 12:02:47 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

916591

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the future education prospects and social mobility of children taken into local authority care and moved around the care system.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>We know that stability for a child in care is a key factor in forming secure, high-quality relationships that can help a child to thrive in education and into adulthood. Research by the Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education shows the important relationship between stability and better outcomes for young people in care in mainstream schools at the end of key stage 4.</p><p>The Department for Education is working to improve stability for looked after children, including investing £3.8 million in the Mockingbird Family Model. This aims to improve placement stability by providing enhanced support to foster carers and the children they look after. The department collects and publishes annually information on the educational attainment of looked-after children and outcomes for care leavers aged 19, 20 and 21 years old and uses this information to inform policies to improve outcomes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 18/06/2018 16:38:34 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

916592

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated shortfall of foster carers in England at present in relation to children being placed in institutional care; and how any shortfall is being addressed.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Whilst the number of looked after children has increased steadily over the last nine years, the proportions of children placed in foster care (74%) and in residential care (11%) remain similar to previous years. We cannot ascertain, however, whether there is a shortfall of carers in certain parts of England. Data on children looked after in England can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department is carefully considering how to support local authorities and fostering agencies to improve the recruitment and retention of foster parents as it develops the government’s response to ‘Foster Care in England’ (attached) the independent review into the fostering system, and the report from the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into fostering (attached).</p><p> </p><p>The department is working with Boarding Schools Partnerships to encourage more local authorities to consider boarding for children in or at risk of going into care, where it might be the right support for them. There are few more vulnerable groups of children in England and the department is focused on enabling them to succeed in life.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name House of Commons Education Committee report on fostering.pdf title Education_Select_Committee_inquiry 2 file name Foster_Care_in_England_Review.pdf title Foster_Care_in_England question first answered 18/06/2018 16:58:40 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley