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date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Home Education: Stockton South
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on trends in the number of people being home-schooled in Stockton South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	167402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. A consultation on home education, and call for evidence on the issues of registration, monitoring and support for home educating families, closed on 2 July 2018 and responses are now being considered.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 04/09/2018 08:01:45 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

773150

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people aged 16 to 25 with autism were allocated places as learners with further education and skills providers in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	108477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The table in the attachment shows learners aged between 16 and 25 with Autism Spectrum Disorder participating in further education and skills programmes in the academic year 2012/13 to 2015/16 (final year figures) and reported to date in 2016/17 (provisional full year figures).</p><p>Changes in the methodology of data collection between 2014/15 to 2015/16 produced a variation in learner numbers. This was due to a revision in the way learners with learning difficulties and disabilities were categorised. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/478551/ILRSpecification2015_16_v4_Nov2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/478551/ILRSpecification2015_16_v4_Nov2015.pdf</a></p><p>From the 2015/16 academic year a learning provider can record multiple disabilities on the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) that collects this data. This has led to an increase in the number of learners being reported against certain disabilities.</p><p>Prior to 2015/16 only the primary disability was recorded, therefore comparisons of figures in 2015/16 and 2016/17 should not be made with earlier years.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 24/10/2017 17:02:47 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 108477 table attachment.docx title Table of learners
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

773151

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people aged 16 to 25 with high needs were allocated places as learners with further education and skills providers in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	108478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>High needs students can attend both specialist and mainstream institutions, including general further education colleges.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2015 to 2016 academic year, 21,982 young people with high needs were either placed in special post-16 institutions or further education institutions which received additional funding from local authorities. In 2016 to 2017, this number rose to 25,675 students.</p><p> </p><p>Further education institutions include further education and sixth form colleges, and independent learning providers (formerly known as post-16 charitable and commercial providers).</p><p> </p><p>Comparable data regarding young people with high needs prior 2015 is not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 24/10/2017 16:39:51 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

773162

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Autism: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people with autism aged 16 to 25 years old had (a) a statement of special needs, (b) an education, health and care plan or (c) a learning support assessment in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	108421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The table attached shows learners with autism aged between 16 and 25 with an Education, Health and Care Plan or Learning Support Assessment participating in further education and skills programmes in the academic year 2012/13 to 2015/16 (final year figures) and reported to date in 2016/17 (provisional full year figures).</p><p>Further education and skills data is collected via the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). The ILR does not hold information on statements of special educational need, this is only collected for school pupils via the school census.</p><p>From the 2015/16 academic year a learning provider can record multiple disabilities on the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) that collects this data. This has led to an increased in the number of learners being reported against certain disabilities.</p><p>Prior to 2015/16 only the primary disability was recorded, therefore comparisons of figures in 2015/16 and 2016/17 should not be made with earlier years.</p><p>Young people with special educational needs and disabilities received support through a Learning Difficulty Assessment (LDA) or a statement prior to September 2014. Revision to this support is reflected in the variation between 2014/15 to 2015/16 learner numbers.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 24/10/2017 17:00:09 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name Table for 108421.pdf title Corresponding table
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams