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349919

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date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has provided to schools on the provision of (a) alcohol and (b) drugs education; and whether such guidance requires the specific mention of new psychoactive substances.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	2204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Drugs education is a statutory part of the new national curriculum for science. Pupils should be taught about the effects of recreational drugs, including substance misuse (including alcohol), on behaviour, health and life processes. Teaching in this area can be further strengthened through PSHE education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Effective drug and alcohol education plays an important role in helping to ensure that young people are equipped with the information they need to make informed, healthy decisions and to keep themselves safe. Schools have access to specific information about drugs and alcohol, including resources via the PSHE Association: <a href="http://%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20www.pshe-association.org.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=1027" target="_blank"> www.pshe-association.org.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=1027</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 2166 question first answered 16/06/2015 15:31:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

349924

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the prevalence of good quality drug and alcohol education in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	2166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Drugs education is a statutory part of the new national curriculum for science. Pupils should be taught about the effects of recreational drugs, including substance misuse (including alcohol), on behaviour, health and life processes. Teaching in this area can be further strengthened through PSHE education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Effective drug and alcohol education plays an important role in helping to ensure that young people are equipped with the information they need to make informed, healthy decisions and to keep themselves safe. Schools have access to specific information about drugs and alcohol, including resources via the PSHE Association: <a href="http://%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20www.pshe-association.org.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=1027" target="_blank"> www.pshe-association.org.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=1027</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 2204 question first answered 16/06/2015 15:31:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

349992

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services
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 ensure the quality of social work services provided to local authorities by outsourced bodies.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	2100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for ensuring the quality of all their children’s social care functions, and remain accountable for the quality of all such provision should they choose to delegate such functions to a third party provider. Ofsted inspect all local authority provision, including any providers to which functions are delegated. The Secretary of State for Education can, and does, intervene using her discretionary powers under the Education Act 1996 (as applied by section 50 of the Children Act 2004), should any such provision fall below expected standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2015 15:26:05 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

349993

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
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, what the reasons were for ceasing Ofsted inspections of children's social care services provided by outsourced bodies.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	2104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for ensuring the quality of all their children’s social care functions, and remain accountable for the quality of all such provision should they choose to delegate such functions to a third party provider. Ofsted inspect all local authority provision, including any providers to which functions are delegated. Under the Deregulation Act 2015, however, providers of children’s social care services no longer have to register with Ofsted before functions may be delegated. This removes duplication, while in no way lessening the protections in the system. It removes a duty from Ofsted, removes a burden from social work providers and reduces cost.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2015 15:26:46 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

350009

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her proposals for teaching sexual consent in schools will be compulsory for students in all state-funded schools.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	2284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Good quality sex and relationship education is a vital part of preparing young people for life in modern Britain. Our statutory guidance makes it clear that it must be taught in an age appropriate way. Sex and relationship education (SRE) is compulsory in maintained secondary schools and academies are expected to provide SRE as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. When teaching SRE, all schools must have regard to the Secretary of State’s statutory guidance. The guidance ensures young people develop positive values and a moral framework that will guide their decisions, judgments and behaviour, and makes clear that pupils should learn how the law applies to sexual relationships. The guidance also compels schools to give young people a clear understanding of the arguments for delaying sexual activity and resisting pressure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The PSHE Association has developed non-statutory guidance for schools when teaching about the topic of consent, which was published in March 2015 and can be found at <a href="http://www.pshe-association.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.pshe-association.org.uk</a>. The department strongly welcomes this guidance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department believes that head teachers and their staff are best-placed to decide what resources and guidance to use to teach pupils about keeping safe and preparing for life in modern Britain.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2015 15:27:54 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero