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453167

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has received representations on requests by schools to parents and carers that children with autism spectrum disorder not attend school during Ofsted inspections in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	27239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department is aware of a small number of cases in the last few years where parents and carers have complained about a school either asking a child with autism to stay at home on Ofsted inspection days, or diverting the child to other non-academic activities on those days.</p><p>Whenever such complaints have been received, we have been absolutely clear that any request for a child to stay at home during an Ofsted inspection would be an unlawful exclusion and that parents and carers should make a formal complaint to the school’s board of governors. Taking a child out of normal timetabled lessons during an inspection is unacceptable and should be drawn to the attention of the school’s board of governors.</p><p>Parents can also ask the Secretary of State to make a determination under Sections 496 and 497 of the Education Act 1996, which give her the power to direct a governing body where it has failed to discharge a statutory duty or has done so unreasonably. Any such direction would have to be expedient, in that there must be something the Secretary of State could direct the school to do which would put matters right.</p><p>Depending on the circumstances, parents and carers could also bring a claim of disability discrimination to the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability).</p><p>Ofsted’s school inspection framework requires inspectors to take account of schools’ use of exclusion. The Department would also pass to Ofsted any relevant evidence that falls within the inspectorate’s remit. If, during the course of an Ofsted inspection, inspectors become aware that a school has unlawfully excluded pupils for the period of the inspection, this will be taken into account in judging the effectiveness of the school and its leadership. If the evidence emerges after the inspection, the matter will be investigated by Ofsted and could lead to the school receiving an unannounced inspection visit.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 24/02/2016 14:51:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

452413

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of schools which have restricted the school trips which children with autism spectrum disorder can attend in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	27052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on schools which have restricted the school trips that children with autism can attend.</p><p>Public sector bodies, including maintained schools, are covered by the public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010. When carrying out their functions they must have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and foster good relations between disabled and non-disabled children and young people. This duty is anticipatory, which means that schools must take into account the needs of disabled pupils, such as those with autism, when planning school trips and other events.</p><p>The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0-25 emphasises that school leaders should establish and maintain a culture of high expectations that expects those working with children and young people with SEN or disabilities to include them in all the opportunities available to other children and young people so that they can achieve well. This would include opportunities to socialise and attend external school trips.</p><p>If parents believe that a school has discriminated against their autistic child in planning school trips, they can make a claim for disability discrimination to the First-tier Tribunal.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 11:55:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

452414

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Mental Illness
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 pupils who were (a) permanently and (b) temporarily excluded from school were recorded as having mental health conditions in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	27053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The number of pupils recorded as having a mental health condition who received a permanent or fixed period exclusion is not held by the Department.</p><p>The number and proportion of pupils in national curriculum year group 10 and 11 with an autistic spectrum disorder primary need who were excluded in each of the last 5 years can be found in the attached table.</p><p>Information on the number of fixed period and permanent exclusions for all pupils, including separate breakdowns by national curriculum year group and special educational need provision, is available in the ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England’ National Statistics release[1].</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 27054 question first answered 23/02/2016 12:00:31 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

452415

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Autism
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 pupils in Years 10 and 11 were (a) permanently and (b) temporarily excluded from school had autism spectrum disorder in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	27054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The number of pupils recorded as having a mental health condition who received a permanent or fixed period exclusion is not held by the Department.</p><p>The number and proportion of pupils in national curriculum year group 10 and 11 with an autistic spectrum disorder primary need who were excluded in each of the last 5 years can be found in the attached table.</p><p>Information on the number of fixed period and permanent exclusions for all pupils, including separate breakdowns by national curriculum year group and special educational need provision, is available in the ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England’ National Statistics release[1].</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 27053 question first answered 23/02/2016 12:00:32 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

452024

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to monitor implementation of the duties in the Children and Families Act 2014 on local authorities to (a) identify, (b) assess the needs of and (c) provide whole family support for young carers from April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	26955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Section 96 of the Children and Families Act 2014, which came into force in April 2015, imposes a duty on local authorities to to <em>“…take reasonable steps to identify the extent to which there are young carers within their area who have needs for support.”</em> Once a young carer has been assessed, the local authority must consider whether the child has needs that could be met by services provided under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, that is, whether they should be supported as a child in need.</p><p>The Department currently supports the Carers Trust to help local authorities and voluntary sector partners to embed good practice, including good practice surrounding whole family support. This approach is intended to ensure effective, joined up, support with the potential to offer a single point of professional contact for young carers and their families. We will draw on the learning from that work when considering further action.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 11:58:40 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

438625

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have received young carer assessments under the Children and Families Act 2014 since its implementation; and what proportion of young carers received services from the local authority to meet their needs following such an assessment.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	20193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>This information is not available to the Department.</p><p>From April 2015, all young carers are entitled to an assessment of their needs for support by the local authority. These new provisions work alongside those in the Care Act 2014 for assessing adults to enable ‘whole family approaches’ to assessment and support. This means that when a child is identified as a young carer, the needs of everyone in the family will be considered. This will cause both children’s and adults’ support services to assess why a child has a caring responsibility, what needs to change, and what would help the family to prevent children from taking on this responsibility in the first place.</p><p>This reform is intended to ensure effective, joined-up support with the potential to offer a single point of professional contact for young carers and their families.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/01/2016 16:08:12 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger