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227770

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Absent Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will update her guidance to schools on the release of reports and other information on the educational progress of pupils to non-resident parents; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	227792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has no plans to issue guidance to schools on this matter. The Education (Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I 1437) require maintained schools to keep curricular and educational records for each pupil, disclose these records to parents and pupils, and report, at least annually, to all parents on their child’s progress and attainment.</p><p> </p><p>Section 576 Education Act 1996 (applicable to The Pupil Information Regulations) provides that the definition of ‘parent’ includes all natural parents, whether they are married or not, and any person who has care of a child, irrespective of whether they are a natural parent or have parental responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The exception applies in circumstances where there is a court order limiting an individual’s exercise of his or her parental responsibility which expressly amends their entitlement to receive such information.</p><p> </p><p>If a parent feels that they are not receiving the statutory information to which they are entitled, under education law, from the school, they can complain formally to the school by following its complaint procedure.</p><p> </p><p>These statutory duties do not apply to mainstream Academies or Free Schools. As an independent public body, an Academy or Free School is directly responsible, under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), for the collation, retention, storage and security of all information that they produce and hold. In an Academy or Free School, a pupil has the right to a copy of their own educational information under the DPA. In certain circumstances, requests for this information may be made by a parent on behalf of their child.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2015 10:00:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

225155

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Runaway Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have gone missing from (a) residential children's homes and (b) foster care in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	226410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of children who went missing from children’s homes and foster placements in the year ending 31 March 2013 is published in the ‘Children’s Homes Data Pack’[1]. Analysis for other years has not been undertaken and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-homes-data-pack" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-homes-data-pack</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 09/03/2015 15:55:06 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

225156

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
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 outsource child safeguarding functions from local authorities; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	226411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>Where a local authority is judged to be failing in its provision and delivery of children’s services, the Secretary of State has a discretionary power to intervene under the Education Act 1996, as applied by section 50 of the Children Act 2004. This may include directing the local authority to review its children’s services operations and commissioning procedures, and this may include the delivery of specified functions by another body.</p><p> </p><p>The powers under part 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 and associated regulations are quite different and provide for local authorities to be able to delegate children’s social care functions, including safeguarding functions, to third parties on a voluntary basis. The Department for Education has no plans to instruct any local authorities to delegate their functions under these provisions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 09/03/2015 15:48:50 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

170378

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's financial commitment is to the Family, Drug and Alcohol Court project; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	218666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has been a strong supporter of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court model since 2008, and has worked closely with the team to grow the model and secure its sustainability. With regard to further financial commitment, I refer the Hon Member to the reply given to him on 14 July in <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-07-09/204870/" target="_blank">PQ 204870</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 18/12/2014 12:46:54 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

170380

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care
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 increase the number of foster carers; and what recent estimate she has made of the number of foster carers required.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	218668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Our evidence at national level suggests that there is no overall shortage of foster carers. However, some local authorities report local difficulties, including shortages of particular types of foster carer such as those able to accommodate sibling groups and children with complex needs and challenging behaviours.</p><p>The Government is investing £750,000, over the period 2013 -15, in an innovative programme to help local authorities and their partners address issues and barriers in recruiting the range of foster carers needed to meet the needs of all looked-after children.</p><p>The Government's wider programme of reform for fostering aims to further support effective recruitment and retention of foster carers through: improving the assessment and approval process for new foster carers, facilitating effective delegation of parenting decisions to foster carers, and awarding £90,000 to Research in Practice to develop training on foster care for social workers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 18/12/2014 12:40:48 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166547

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many special guardianship orders have been granted in each year since their inception.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	216338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education collect annual figures from local authorities of the number of children who leave care under a Special Guardianship Order. Special Guardianship was introduced as a new permanence option for children that offered greater security than foster care, but without the absolute legal severance from their birth family. Overall, it is good news that thousands of additional children are now living in a permanent family as a result of more SGOs being used.</p><p>The table below shows these figures since 2007 when SGOs first started to be made.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Looked After Children who</p><p>leave care under an SGO***</p></td><td><p>Overall number of children</p><p>who have an SGO[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,780</p></td><td><p>2,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,150</p></td><td><p>4,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,770</p></td><td><p>4,911</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3,330</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>***NB – rounded to the nearest 10</p><p>The Department for Education Statistical First Release on ‘Children looked after in England, including adoption’ contains data for the last 5 years. Figures quoted cover financial years 1<sup>st</sup> April – 31<sup>st</sup> March [2].</p><p> </p><p>[1] The Ministry of Justice collect information of all children with a Special Guardianship Order, only figures for the last 3 years are available. Figures quoted cover calendar years – 1<sup>st</sup> January – 31<sup>st</sup> December.</p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 02/12/2014 17:18:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166548

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research she has commissioned into the efficacy of special guardianship orders; what findings she has made about who are using these orders; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	216339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has recently published a comprehensive research study investigating local authorities’ responses to special guardianship and the experiences of special guardianship families. A copy of the full report is available online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigating-special-guardianship" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigating-special-guardianship</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 02/12/2014 16:54:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166549

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new foster carers have been recruited in each local authority area in each of the last five years; and what measures her Department takes to monitor recruitment patterns.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	216340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Data on the number of new foster carer households approved during the year has been collected by Ofsted since 2011-12. The numbers that were recruited in 2011-12 for each local authority area are included in the attached table. Equivalent local authority figures for 2012-13 and 2013-14 are due to be published in January 2015, although national figures are already available for 2012-13. [1] Ofsted did not collect this data prior to 2011-12 and consequently the data for earlier years are not available.</p><p>The Department for Education is supporting local authorities and independent fostering agencies through initiatives to promote recruitment and retention and broaden the range of foster carers, in line with their local assessments of the demand for foster carers.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/fostering-quality-assurance-and-data-forms-2012-13-first-statistical-release" target="_blank">www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/fostering-quality-assurance-and-data-forms-2012-13-first-statistical-release</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 02/12/2014 17:11:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson attachment 1 file name 216340 workbook 2.12.14.xls title Applications_from_prospective_fostering_households
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

114697

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
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 work with the Department for Health to ensure that new arrangements for transition and access to preventative support under the Care Act 2014 benefit young people who have care and support needs and are leaving care.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	213657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Officials from the Department for Education work closely with the Department of Health on initiatives to support the transition of young people, including care leavers, to adult care and support. Past examples include: the development of statutory guidance for the transition provisions in the Care Act, which was published last month, the first cross-Government care leavers’ strategy in 2013 and our recent ‘one year on’ report which sets out how we have met the commitments in the strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Joint working between the two Departments in this important area is set to continue. For example, the Departments are currently working together to revise statutory guidance on promoting the health and well-being of looked-after children. This is due to be finalised in spring 2015 and we will jointly explore other ways in which we can help the sector implement the transition provisions in the Care Act.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/11/2014 17:40:54 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

114700

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Playing Fields
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on child welfare for pupils using publicly accessible pitches for sporting activities during school hours.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	213655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>All schools must adhere to health and safety legislation. The employer in a school must take reasonable steps to ensure that staff and pupils are not exposed to risks to their health and safety by ensuring that a risk assessment is conducted and measures put in place to minimise any known risks. The Department for Education and the health and safety executive provide advice and guidance to schools about pupil health and safety, and risk assessment. Schools should also ensure they have a designated safeguarding lead to provide support, advice and expertise to staff on matters of safety and safeguarding.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/11/2014 17:42:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton