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512971

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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, how many free schools have been delayed in opening due to the inability to secure a site for the school in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	34121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Since 2010, where free schools have opened at a later date, this has been for a variety and often a combination of reasons – it would be misleading to attempt to identify which had been delayed solely or largely due to site issues. In each case the department will have balanced the risk of opening on the original date against all of the elements needed to be in place for a successful school.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:52:40 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

512973

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breast Ironing
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 local authority children's services on the practice of breast ironing.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	34115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Breast ironing is child abuse and it is illegal. It cannot be excused as a cultural or traditional practice. Children’s services should safeguard children from this as from any other form of abuse. Statutory guidance for local authorities and others on how to safeguard children can be found in ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’[1].</p><p>The Home Office is leading cross-Government work to tackle so-called honour-based violence, and the Department for Education contributes to this work. I refer the Hon. Member to the response submitted by the Home Office to the Parliamentary Question on this issue, No. 34114, on 19 April 2016.</p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/419595/Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/419595/Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:52:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

512974

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children living in regulated children's homes who were the responsibility of each local authority were placed (a) within that local authority area, (b) outside the local authority area and (c) more than 20 miles away from their home on the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	34120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is attached.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:49:07 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson attachment 1 file name Children looked after at 31 March 2015, placed in childrens homes, by location and distance, by LA - 34120.xlsx title Children looked after at 31 March 2015, placed in
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

512519

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.30 of Educational excellence everywhere, Cm 9230, when she plans to amend the academy articles of association models to remove the requirement for new academy trusts and school governing boards to elect parent governors; and if she will take steps to enable existing academies to make that change.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	33823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The model articles of association give multi-academy trust (MAT) boards the freedom to appoint a local governing body. The board is also free to decide on what, if any, governance functions they delegate to subsidiary governance structures at the level of either individual schools or clusters of schools. Whatever arrangements MATs use, they must set out and publish on their website their chosen arrangements in a clear scheme of delegation.</p><p>The White Paper <em>Educational Excellence Everywhere</em> outlines our intention to place a new expectation on all academies to put in place specific arrangements to engage with all parents in a meaningful way to listen to their views and feedback. To enable a move to fully skills-based governance, the White Paper also announces an end to our requirement on new and existing trusts to reserve places on the board for elected parents.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 33914 question first answered 22/04/2016 09:41:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 55889 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

512520

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.35 of Educational excellence everywhere, Cm 9230, if she will issue guidance on levels of remuneration for non-executive academy trust directors.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	33824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Academy trusts are independent charities and must comply with charity law. This means that trust directors can only receive payment for carrying out trustee duties with Charity Commission authorisation.</p><p>The Charity Commission will only authorise payment to academy trustees where it has been clearly shown to be in the charity’s interests. They will consider issues such as the reasons for payment, whether conflicts of interests are managed appropriately, whether the Principal Regulator (for academies this is the Secretary of State for Education) is agreeable and whether payment of any trustees is in the longer-term interests of the charity. These arrangements are set out in the Department’s Governance Handbook, available on GOV.UK at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/governance-handbook" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/governance-handbook</a>. It is up to trusts to decide on the level of any such remuneration.</p><p>Academy trusts operate under a robust accountability system which holds them to account for the results they achieve and their use of resources. This includes a requirement to publish audited accounts each year allowing the wider public chance to hold academy trusts to account to help make sure that spend is securing better outcomes for pupils.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:40:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 55892 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

512521

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Maintained Schools: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.35 of Educational excellence everywhere, Cm 9230, what powers she has to require local authority maintained schools to provide details of everyone involved in governance for a new database; and when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to bar unsuitable individuals from being governors of maintained schools.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	33825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>The Education Act 2002 gives the Secretary of State the power to give guidance to maintained schools governing bodies about their constitution. She also has a number of other information gathering powers in legislation. We expect to use this combination to make provision for the database by 1 September 2016. We also intend to bring forward legislation on barring unsuitable individuals from being governors of maintained schools at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/04/2016 09:59:04 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 55893 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

512523

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
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 12 April 2016 to Question 32243, how many investigations her Department has carried out into cases where schools or early years settings have been accused of refusing to accept disabled children in each year since 2010; and what the outcomes of those investigations were.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>If it is considered that a child or young person may have been refused admission to a school because of a disability, a claim for disability discrimination can be made to the First-tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability. The latest Disability Discrimination Statistics are available on GOV.UK[1].</p><p>Claims for disability discrimination against early years settings are heard by the county courts.</p><p>In 2014, 27,140 new statements or EHC plans were issued[2] and, in total, there are currently 240,185[3] children and young people with statements or EHC plans. Since 2013, the Department has received around 25 requests for an SEN determination about school admissions each year, although only three have resulted in directions to admit. In order to protect the identity of the child, we are unable to give details of these.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483768/tribunals-send-tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483768/tribunals-send-tables.xlsx</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2015</a> (Table 2)</p><p>[3] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2015</a> (Table 1)</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:48:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

512526

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on whether academies will be able to employ unqualified teachers when all schools become academies.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	33924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>Since August 2012, the funding agreements for all new academies has given the academy trust the freedom to employ anyone it believes is suitably qualified or is otherwise eligible to plan and prepare lessons and courses for pupils, teach pupils, and assess and report on pupils’ development, progress and attainment. Academies set up prior to this date can apply to the Education Funding Agency to have their funding agreement amended.</p><p>As set out in our White Paper, <em>Educational Excellence Everywhere,</em> we will replace Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) with a stronger, more challenging accreditation based on a teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom, as judged by great schools. This new accreditation will raise the quality and status of the teaching profession, better recognising advanced subject knowledge and pedagogy that is rooted in up-to-date evidence, ensuring the highest quality of teaching is paramount to the success of each school. Headteachers know this, which is why we trust them to employ staff that they believe to be best qualified for the job – including whether to make this accreditation a mandatory requirement or not, considering how to weigh it against other qualifications and experience the potential teacher may bring.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/04/2016 15:52:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

512529

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.28 of Educational excellence everywhere, Cm 9230, when she plans to amend the model articles of government of academies to require each school in a multi-academy trust to have a school level governing body; and whether she plans that those model articles will set out the role of school level governing bodies to focus on understanding and championing the needs of pupils, parents and the wider local community.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	33914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The model articles of association give multi-academy trust (MAT) boards the freedom to appoint a local governing body. The board is also free to decide on what, if any, governance functions they delegate to subsidiary governance structures at the level of either individual schools or clusters of schools. Whatever arrangements MATs use, they must set out and publish on their website their chosen arrangements in a clear scheme of delegation.</p><p>The White Paper <em>Educational Excellence Everywhere</em> outlines our intention to place a new expectation on all academies to put in place specific arrangements to engage with all parents in a meaningful way to listen to their views and feedback. To enable a move to fully skills-based governance, the White Paper also announces an end to our requirement on new and existing trusts to reserve places on the board for elected parents.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 33823 question first answered 22/04/2016 09:41:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 55890 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

512530

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
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 22 March 2016 to Question 30916, for what reason the 26 related party transactions by academy trusts classified as irregular or improper by the Education Funding Agency were not repaid by the trusts.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Repayment is considered on a case by case basis and may be sought where there has been a serious breach of requirements or standards of conduct. Some transactions may be classified as irregular or improper because of less serious procedural and compliance issues, or because of insufficient evidence to form an opinion. Repayment may not be pursued in these cases. The 26 related party transactions classified as irregular were assessed on this basis.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 22/04/2016 09:41:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips