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514015

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres were in operation on 1 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	34596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>On 1 March 2016 local authorities listed as being in operation 3,331 main children's centres and sites open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network.</p><p>Children’s centre records are maintained by local authorities and are made publicly available via the department’s “EduBase portal” at: <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/04/2016 15:39:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

456496

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
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 29 February 2016 to Question 28207, how many and which local authorities have notified her Department about plans to dispose of grant-funded assets through the (a) sale, (b) transfer and (c) change of use of children's centres.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	29203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The decision whether to dispose of grant funded assets is a local issue. We have a thorough process in place to consider whether the local authority should be subject to claw back as a result of the disposal of grant funded assets which was outlined in the response to Question 28207.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/03/2016 16:40:56 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

454824

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which local authorities have notified her Department about plans to dispose of grant-funded assets through the (a) sale, (b) transfer and (c) change of use of children's centres under the requirements of the Sure Start Early Years and Childcare Grant.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	28205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Where local authorities dispose of or change the use of buildings or other assets funded wholly or partly through Sure Start capital grants, they must repay the money through the claw-back process.</p><p>The Department for Education has a thorough set of monitoring arrangements in place regarding claw-back rules. Local authorities are required to notify the department of each and every proposed change of services and provide details about the level of early years services that are to continue. The department then considers if the local authority has continued to offer a sufficient level of early years services for children and their families from the building in question to meet the original aims of the grant.</p><p>If the department is satisfied that the funding for the asset will continue to be used for purposes consistent with the grant, the department may defer claw-back. Deferring claw-back means that we accept the change of usage at that time, however, the department retains its interest in the asset and if in the future the asset has its usage changed, is transferred or otherwise disposed of, and does not continue to meet the purposes of the grant the local authority must inform the department and we will claw-back the funding. The department’s interest in an asset funded by Sure Start capital grants is 25 years from designation of the building. If the grant was used to purchase capital items or re-furbish an existing asset, the length of time and value of any claw-back depends on the depreciation value of the items, according to local authority depreciation rules.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 28207 question first answered 29/02/2016 17:24:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

454825

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria her Department uses to assess whether a local authority should be subject to a Sure Start claw-back.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	28207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Where local authorities dispose of or change the use of buildings or other assets funded wholly or partly through Sure Start capital grants, they must repay the money through the claw-back process.</p><p>The Department for Education has a thorough set of monitoring arrangements in place regarding claw-back rules. Local authorities are required to notify the department of each and every proposed change of services and provide details about the level of early years services that are to continue. The department then considers if the local authority has continued to offer a sufficient level of early years services for children and their families from the building in question to meet the original aims of the grant.</p><p>If the department is satisfied that the funding for the asset will continue to be used for purposes consistent with the grant, the department may defer claw-back. Deferring claw-back means that we accept the change of usage at that time, however, the department retains its interest in the asset and if in the future the asset has its usage changed, is transferred or otherwise disposed of, and does not continue to meet the purposes of the grant the local authority must inform the department and we will claw-back the funding. The department’s interest in an asset funded by Sure Start capital grants is 25 years from designation of the building. If the grant was used to purchase capital items or re-furbish an existing asset, the length of time and value of any claw-back depends on the depreciation value of the items, according to local authority depreciation rules.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 28205 question first answered 29/02/2016 17:24:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

447355

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish her review of children's centres; and for what reasons that review was not published in 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	24072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>We value children’s centres services. We are committed to consulting on the role of children’s centres in 2016. Details about the scope and timing of the consultation will be made available in due course and will be publicised widely to ensure the broadest possible response.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/01/2016 13:10:32 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

433192

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the national consultation on the future of children's centres will be launched; what its terms of reference will be; and what the timetable is for responses to be received and the Government to announce its proposals.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	18189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>We value the services provided by children’s centres. We intend to consult to see what role children’s centres should play to ensure they are able to have the most impact as part of integrated local services for families. An independent survey carried out by the national children’s charity, 4Children (published October 2015) estimated more than a million children and families are now using children’s centres.</p><br /><p>The consultation will offer parents, carers, local authorities and key stakeholders the opportunity to influence and drive what we expect from children’s centre services and where we see them having the greatest impact. We plan to launch the consultation shortly.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/12/2015 14:36:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

432757

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
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 future provision of universal early childhood services through childhood centres.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	17913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Children’s centres provide access to health services – either by providing the services or by providing advice and assistance on gaining access to services. Local authorities and local health commissioners have statutory duties to consider providing services through children’s centres to ensure that families get access to the services they need. The transfer of responsibility for public health services to local authorities in October this year provides new opportunities for local areas to configure health services to best effect.</p><br /><p>The Department of Health has been working with local authorities in order to ensure sharing regular and timely updates of live birth data between NHS trusts and children’s centres and have mapped out a process for putting in place appropriate arrangements to support a national solution.</p><br /><p>Children's centres can also have a key role in delivering integrated reviews, which check a child's health and educational progress at age two.</p><br /><p>Future policy on children’s centres will be informed by the planned consultation on the future of children’s centre services, which is due to be launched shortly.</p><br /> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 17670 question first answered 04/12/2015 14:38:45 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne