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173057

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date	12/01/2015
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 steps she is taking to encourage schools to (a) report and (b) support victims of child abuse.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	220323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Statutory guidance to all professionals working with children, “<em>Working Together to Safeguard Children”</em>, is absolutely clear that professionals should refer immediately to the local authority children’s social care services when they are concerned about a child.</p><p>The Secretary of State also published statutory guidance to schools, <em>“Keeping Children Safe in Education”,</em> in April 2014. Schools and colleges must have regard to it when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.</p><p> </p><p>The first part of the guidance sets out clearly what all staff in schools should know and do to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and when they should refer concerns to their local authority’s children’s social care services.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 15/01/2015 16:19:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

173061

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education Funding Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to provide telephone helplines for schools to use to contact the Education Funding Agency.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	220369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Education Funding Agency (EFA) currently provides a series of contact email addresses and online contact forms for their customers to use. Further details are available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/education-funding-agency" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/education-funding-agency</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Although there are currently no plans for the introduction of a telephone helpline for general customer enquiries, the EFA will continue to keep its methods of communicating with customers under regular review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 15/01/2015 16:22:36 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

173179

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children in (a) care and (b) need who have parents who misuse alcohol or drugs.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	220448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department collects information on the number of children looked after by local authorities in England via the SSDA903 return. However data on the number of children looked after who have parents who misuse alcohol or drugs is not collected.</p><p>Figures are provided in the table below for assessments of children in need:</p><p>Number of assessments of children referred to social care where alcohol or drug misuse by the parent or carer was identified as a factor, year ending 31 March 2014</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>Factor identified<sup>1</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>At initial assessments<sup>2</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>At continuous assessments<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Percentage</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Percentage</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Total assessments completed at which factors were reported</p></td><td><p>206,000</p></td><td><p>.</p></td><td><p>145,700</p></td><td><p>.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>Of which reported:</em></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Alcohol misuse: Concerns about alcohol misuse by the parent/carer</p></td><td><p>18,800</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>16,100</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Drug misuse: Concerns about alcohol misuse by the parent/carer</p></td><td><p>15,300</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>13,800</p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Children in Need census</p><p> </p><p>1. This data was reported for the first time in 2013/14 for initial and continuous assessments completed in the year. A child may have more than one assessment in the year and an assessment may have more than one factor recorded.</p><p> </p><p>2. An initial assessment is a brief assessment and a continuous assessment is a more in depth assessment of a child’s needs where the child has been referred to children’s social care services with a request that services be provided.</p><p> </p><p>This was the first year this data item was collected. Data was provided by around two thirds of local authorities so this information should be treated with caution.</p><p>Factor information is published within table A6 of the ‘Characteristics of children in need: 2013 to 2014’ statistical first release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 15/01/2015 16:21:55 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

173180

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve educational standards and opportunities at non-local education authority schools in (a) Tameside and (b) Stockport.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	220450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>We are clear that underperformance in all schools, whether they are maintained schools or academies, will not be tolerated. Academies have made a real difference in improving outcomes for their pupils. In Tameside and Stockport we are working closely with a small number of underperforming academies to challenge the trusts and encourage them to drive educational improvements using a range of interventions. We are also working to provide opportunities for school-to-school support to help drive up standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 15/01/2015 16:23:23 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

172760

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether construction budgets for studio schools include the cost of specialist teaching equipment related to the school's specialism.
tabling member constituency	Stratford-on-Avon
tabling member printed	Nadhim Zahawi
uin	220159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Where appropriate, construction budgets for studio schools includes additional funding for specialist equipment but such funding is only provided in exceptional circumstances where equipment to support a school specialism is particularly high-cost and essential to curriculum delivery.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 15/01/2015 16:23:53 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi

172765

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce disparities between local authorities in meeting the six-week regulation for visits of children within the first year of a private fostering arrangement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	220175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Regulations made under The Children Act 1989 require local authorities to arrange for a child to be visited within seven working days of a private fostering arrangement becoming known to them. Regulations also require that local authorities must then carry out follow-up visits at least every six weeks in respect of the first year of the private fostering arrangement.</p><p>The Department is not taking any proactive steps to reduce the disparity between local authorities in meeting the six-week regulation. Local authority performance and practice are inspected by Ofsted and, where authorities do not comply with their statutory responsibilities, the Secretary of State can, and does, swiftly and robustly intervene.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 15/01/2015 16:18:13 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe