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767464

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children under 18-years old were classified as a child in need in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2014-15 because a parent had no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	106714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>I am sorry, but the information requested is not available as the Department for Education does not hold data on whether parents of children in need have access to public funds.</p><p><em><br> </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:36:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

767465

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the voluntary guidelines for food in early-years settings highlighted in the Childhood Obesity Plan will be published.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	106650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Example menus and guidance have been developed as part of the delivery of the Childhood Obesity Plan to support early year’s settings in England. This is to provide meals and snacks in line with current government dietary recommendations for infants and children aged six months to four years. The government will publish the menus and guidance in due course. Separate Voluntary Food and Drink Guidelines are already available for early years settings to help them meet the nutritional needs of children aged one to five.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:39:46 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

767466

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the refreshed school food standards highlighted in the Childhood Obesity Plan will be published; and whether those standards will reflect new requirements on dietary fibre.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	106649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The childhood obesity plan, published in August 2016, mentions that we will update the School Food Standards in light of refreshed government dietary recommendations. We are currently reflecting on the best course of action and further announcements will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:38:06 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

767469

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the take-up rate is of the 15 hours childcare offer for disadvantaged two-year olds in (a) the Liverpool city region and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	106524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The data requested for Liverpool local authority and England is published in Table 5LA of the ‘Provision for children under 5 years of age’ Statistical First Release:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017" target="_blank">Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2017 - GOV.UK</a>.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:41:14 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

767470

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the trend in the child-to-staff ratio in childcare and early-years settings in England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	106522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2</a>) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. The welfare and safeguarding section in the EYFS sets the required maximum staff to child ratios. Ratio and qualification requirements apply to the total number of staff available to work directly with children. For children aged three and over, staff with a level 6 qualification supported by someone with a level 3 can operate with a 1:13 ratio, whereas staff with a level 3 supported by someone with a level 2 qualification can operate with a 1:8 ratio. There are no plans to change the requirements. We do not measure staff to child ratios, therefore it is not possible to assess trends.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:44:10 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

767471

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost is of preparing and serving a meal in state-funded schools.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	106508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>I am sorry, but the school governing boards are responsible for their school meals service at a local level and the department does not collect this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:56:26 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

767472

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many childcare and early-years education settings in England contain at least one qualified teacher.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	106520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Workforce data can be found in the annual Early Years Census published by the Department for Education. The workforce data collected in the census relates only to private, voluntary and independent (PVI) settings and childminders. The most recent census which contains information on the graduate workforce can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016</a> (9LA).</p><p> </p><p>In maintained nursery and state-funded primary schools where 3- and 4- year olds benefit from funded early education, it is a requirement that at least one member of staff is a school teacher. Data on the number of maintained and state-funded primary schools can also be found in the census (Table 11).</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2017 15:58:39 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

767473

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day 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 improve staff qualifications in childcare and early-education settings in England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	106521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Early Years Workforce Strategy published in March this year, sets out the actions we will take to attract, retain and develop the early years workforce.</p><p>The strategy includes a commitment to working with the early years sector and awarding organisations to develop new criteria for level 2 childcare qualifications.</p><p>The Department will also work with organisations specialising in SEND (special educational needs and disability) to develop a specification for early years staff who want to focus on SEND.</p><p>The strategy also includes a commitment to review the early years initial teacher training routes to make sure we are maximising the impact of the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/10/2017 17:46:14 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

767474

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Minister for Children and Families plans to respond to the letter dated 16 August 2017 from the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby on a meeting with the Liverpool City cabinet member for children and young people's services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	106556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>I wrote to the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby, on 10 October 2017 in response to his letter.</p><p>I very much look forward to meeting with him and the Liverpool City Cabinet Member for Children and Young People’s Services.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/10/2017 16:25:06 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

767478

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to review her Department's policy on fining parents whose children are absent from school because of term-time vacations.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	106445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Parents should avoid taking their children out of school during term-time, except in exceptional circumstances. The evidence shows every extra day of school missed can affect a pupil’s chances of achieving good GCSEs, which has a lasting effect on their life chances.</p><p>We have a robust local control regime to enforce this, which enables the school or local authority to issue a penalty notice that where parents have failed to secure their child’s regular attendance at school, including if they take their child out of school for a vacation without permission.</p><p>Every local authority must draw up a Code of Conduct for issuing penalty notices, in consultation with governing bodies and head teachers in their area. The Code will set out the occasions when it will be appropriate to issue a penalty notice. This can, for example, include circumstances where a pupil is persistently late to school without a valid reason. A penalty notice must be issued in accordance with that Code.</p><p>In April 2017 the Supreme Court unanimously agreed with our position that no child should be taken out of school without good reason.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2017 09:37:48 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson