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date	18/06/2018
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, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 363WH, on what date children in foster care will be able to receive 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	154678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154679 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

905443

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
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 recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the means by which local authorities are funded for the statutory services they provide to children.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	144888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is an un-ring-fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement, to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and, of course, their statutory responsibilities, including children’s social care. Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available to local government - £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.1 billion in 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s fair funding review of relative needs and resources will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at local government finance settlements, including for children’s services. We are working towards implementation in 2020/21, while keeping this date under review as our work progresses.</p><p> </p><p>To inform the review, the Department for Education and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government have jointly commissioned a data research and collection project on the cost and demand pressures for children’s services, to understand local authorities’ relative funding needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 143748 question first answered 22/05/2018 16:52:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

904045

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Government Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the provision of statutory services for children by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	143746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has recently discussed children’s social care with colleagues, including the my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which includes the provision of statutory services for children by local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The department works closely with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government on a range of policy areas including local authority children’s social care services, the Troubled Families Programme and work to reduce the number of care leavers who experience homelessness and rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:25:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

904046

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Government Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness with which local authorities are discharging their statutory duties to children.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	143747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Ofsted inspects local authority services for children in need of help and protection, children in care, and care leavers. These inspections focus on the effectiveness of local authority services, arrangements in discharging their statutory duties and the quality of leadership and management.</p><p> </p><p>The department uses this inspection data and a range of other measures to assess the overall health of the system and the performance of individual local authorities. Current inspection data suggests that significant improvements are needed before the sector is working at a good level, though there has been some good recent progress.</p><p> </p><p>‘Putting Children First’, published in 2016 sets out a clear approach to issues identified in the delivery of children’s social care services across the country and we continue to deliver the measures proposed in it.</p><p> </p><p>For individual local authorities, in particular those whose performance is deemed ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement to be good’, the department works with the local government sector to drive improvements. We work with 15 ‘Partner in Practice’ local authorities to develop excellence in children’s social care services and to build capacity to support weaker councils to improve.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:49:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

904047

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Local Government Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess the effectiveness of the way in which local authorities are funded to provide statutory services to children.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	143748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is an un-ring-fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement, to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and, of course, their statutory responsibilities, including children’s social care. Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available to local government - £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.1 billion in 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s fair funding review of relative needs and resources will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at local government finance settlements, including for children’s services. We are working towards implementation in 2020/21, while keeping this date under review as our work progresses.</p><p> </p><p>To inform the review, the Department for Education and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government have jointly commissioned a data research and collection project on the cost and demand pressures for children’s services, to understand local authorities’ relative funding needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 144888 question first answered 22/05/2018 16:52:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon