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788457

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Graduates: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2017 to Question 108341, on graduates: disadvantaged, whether her Department still intends to complete its work to look at approaches to increasing the number of graduates in the workforce by 2018; how it will report back on that work; and if that work is still focused on the workforce in disadvantaged areas as set out in the strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	112636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We are considering a range of approaches on the number of graduates in the workforce and addressing disadvantage through the early years’ sector. This work is still underway. We continue to support graduates into the sector through our funding of the Early Years Initial Teacher Training programme, including bursaries and employer incentives. As set out in the early years workforce strategy we also will review early years initial teacher training routes to ensure we are maximising the impact of the programme.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 17:50:20 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

788459

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 24 April 2017 to Question 71018, on children's centres, what recent assessment she has made of the future of children's centres.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	112696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that all children, regardless of background, get the best possible start in life. Children’s centres have an important role to play.</p><p>Councils have a duty to improve the well-being of young children in their area and to reduce inequalities. However, it is for councils to decide the best solutions for their area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 17:49:46 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

788475

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Dental Health
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 that early-years professionals cover oral health as part of their training.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	112537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of healthy teeth - poor oral health can affect a child's ability to sleep, eat, speak, play and socialise with other children. Early Years Educator qualifications must cover the promotion of the health, safety and welfare of children. All early years’ providers have a responsibility to promote the health of children in their setting, set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.</p><p>Good oral health can form part of this, and Public Health England (PHE) worked with the Department for Education to publish in December 2016 a toolkit for providers considering a supervised tooth brushing programme. PHE has also established a Child Oral Health Improvement Programme Board to ensure that every child grows up free from tooth decay.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 112538 question first answered 16/11/2017 17:53:33 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

788476

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Dental Health
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 deliver supervised tooth-brushing sessions for children in nurseries and school breakfast clubs.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	112538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of healthy teeth - poor oral health can affect a child's ability to sleep, eat, speak, play and socialise with other children. Early Years Educator qualifications must cover the promotion of the health, safety and welfare of children. All early years’ providers have a responsibility to promote the health of children in their setting, set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.</p><p>Good oral health can form part of this, and Public Health England (PHE) worked with the Department for Education to publish in December 2016 a toolkit for providers considering a supervised tooth brushing programme. PHE has also established a Child Oral Health Improvement Programme Board to ensure that every child grows up free from tooth decay.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 112537 question first answered 16/11/2017 17:53:33 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

786192

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Wakefield City Academies Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109401, what evidence she has to suggest that the publication of the ESFA report into Wakefield City Academies Trust would be obstructive to the process of ensuring all the schools are placed with new trusts; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	111967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We are working to ensure we get a solution in place as quickly as possible for the pupils and the parents who are currently living with uncertainty around the future of their respective schools.</p><p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) routinely visits academy trusts to assess their financial management and governance arrangements; this includes multi-academy trust reviews. We do not routinely publish these assurance reports. All Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) monitor the performance of their schools on an ongoing basis, and where they have concerns, will work with trusts to find solutions. Following a disappointing set of results in 2016, RSCs became concerned about the Trust.</p><p>The ESFA undertook such a review of Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) between June and September 2015 and made a follow-up visit in July 2016. We do not intend to publish the ESFA report into WCAT, as this could be obstructive to the process of ensuring that all the schools are transferred to new trusts that will be able to provide an excellent education for children.</p><p>Like all multi-academy trusts, WCAT publishes its annual report and financial statements online found here: <a href="http://www.wcatrust.org/key-documentation/" target="_blank">http://www.wcatrust.org/key-documentation/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 12:39:27 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

786356

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the criteria is for a free school to be (a) closed and (b) merged with another school.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	112151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>All open free schools have a funding agreement which sets out the circumstances in which that agreement may be terminated and the school may close. The department’s model funding agreements are published on GOV.UK at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academy-and-free-school-funding-agreements-single-academy-trust" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academy-and-free-school-funding-agreements-single-academy-trust</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, following the Education and Adoption Act 2016, the Secretary of State has powers to terminate a school’s funding agreement if it is judged inadequate by Ofsted – regardless of the terms of the individual school’s funding agreement. These powers are set out in the ‘Schools Causing Concern’ guidance:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640916/SCC_guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640916/SCC_guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Advice to academy trusts on what they need to do to make a significant change, including a merger, is published on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/504321/Making_significant_changes_to_an_open_academy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/504321/Making_significant_changes_to_an_open_academy.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>An assessment of proposals to make a significant change will be made before the Regional Schools Commissioner or the Secretary of State, as appropriate, makes a final decision.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 12:14:35 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

786358

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in what circumstances her Department will intervene in the (a) financial management and (b) governance of multi-academy trusts in which concerns have been brought to her attention by reports of the Education and Skills Agency.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	112103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Where concern is identified, the Education and Skills Funding Agency will respond proportionately to the severity of the risk, taking into account the scale and nature of the issue and any local circumstances. Where there are significant concerns about financial management and/or concerns about governance in an academy trust (including a multi-academy trust or constituent academies within a multi-academy trust) it may issue, and publish, a Financial Notice to Improve (FNtI). The trust must comply with all the terms of an FNtI. Failure to comply will be deemed a breach of the funding agreement by virtue of the relationship between the funding agreement and the Academies Financial Handbook. In exceptional circumstances, the funding agreement may be terminated due to non-compliance with the terms of the FNtI.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 12:10:45 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

785115

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unrecorded or illegal school exclusions were reported to her Department in the last academic year.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	111784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data on unrecorded or illegal exclusions.</p><p> </p><p>There is a statutory process to follow when pupils are formally excluded from their school. Where an exclusion decision is challenged and an independent review panel (IRP) is appointed, the Department collects and publishes data on whether panels decide to uphold the exclusion decision, recommend that the governing body reconsider their decision, or quash the decision and direct that the governing body/academy trust considers the exclusion again:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a> (table 12). One of the reasons that an IRP could direct the governing body/academy trust to reconsider is if they believe the exclusion to be illegal, but we do not collect data on the reason for an IRPs decision.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect data on pupils who are prevented from attending a school outside of the formal exclusion process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 11:24:40 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

785116

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance has been issued by her Department to ensure that school governors give appropriate consideration to autism and SEND when considering exclusion appeals.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	111787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The department publishes statutory guidance for head teachers and governors on exclusion: ‘Exclusion from maintained schools, Academies and pupil referral units in England’. The guidance covers the process from start to finish, and includes specific requirements in relation to pupils with special educational needs (SEN). In particular, head teachers should make additional efforts to consider what extra support may be required to avoid exclusion of pupils with special educational needs and disability, and as far as possible, should avoid permanently excluding pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan or Statement.</p><p> </p><p>In reaching a decision on whether or not a pupil should be reinstated, the governing board should consider whether the decision to exclude the pupil was lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair, including considering whether a head teacher has complied with the guidance in relation to pupils with SEN.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 11:04:43 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

785117

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Headteachers: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many cases of serious misconduct by headteachers have been reported to her Department by the National College for Teaching and Leadership in each of the last three years; and how many of those cases included inappropriate exclusions.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	111788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>In the last three years there have been 57 cases of serious misconduct concluded at a hearing involving a head teacher. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) does not record inappropriate exclusions as a category of misconduct. We would normally expect this type of misconduct to be dealt with at a local level by employers.</p><p> </p><p>The NCTL considers referrals concerning serious misconduct by teachers. These are recorded at the initial stage according to the type of misconduct being alleged. Inappropriate exclusion is not a type of serious misconduct that is recorded. We do not record the role held by a teacher until an investigation concludes that there is evidence of serious professional misconduct.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2017 11:17:25 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb