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516221

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Government's plan to make every school an academy on nursery school education.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	35841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The government has confirmed that the expectation that all schools will become academies by 2020 does not include the early years.</p><p> </p><p>We know that close working between primary schools – whether they are academies or maintained schools - and nursery schools is essential to improving pupils’ transition to Reception. We would expect those excellent local relationships that already exist to continue, regardless of whether the school is an academy or not.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 04/05/2016 16:00:51 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

485591

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
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 encourage nurseries to teach early language skills.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
uin	32246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards for the provision of learning, development and care for children from birth to five year olds that all registered early years providers such as maintained nurseries must follow. Within the EYFS, there are several areas of learning and development that shape the educational programme in the early years settings, one of which is communication and language.</p><p>The EYFS makes clear that children should be given opportunities to experience a rich language environment to help them develop the confidence and skills they need to express themselves and to speak and listen in a range of situations. The EYFS requires practitioners to ensure all children have the opportunities to learn and develop a good standard of English language to ensure they are ready to benefit from the opportunities available to them when they begin primary school.</p><p>We have also worked closely with 4Children to develop the <em>What to Expect, When?</em> guide which illustrates to parents and early years providers the tools they can use to help their children’s language development from birth to five years old, and can be found at: <a href="http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2015/03/what-to-expect-when-a-parents-guide/" target="_blank">http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2015/03/what-to-expect-when-a-parents-guide/</a></p><p>The Department for Education has also awarded £5.3 million to voluntary and community sector organisations of which a number are supporting staff to develop strong pedagogical approaches to language development and early literacy.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/04/2016 11:21:17 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

479565

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of the Budget 2016, whether nursery schools are included in the plans to convert all schools to academies; how she expects the changes announced in the Budget 2016 to affect nursery schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	31594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>The expectation that all schools should become academies by 2020, set out in the 2016 Budget, did not include the early years. The government has already announced an ambitious plan to transform early years provision so that working families can receive 30 hours free childcare.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation on the National Funding Formula for schools sets out the government’s plans for replacing the arbitrary and unfair system for allocating primary and secondary school funding with a fairer system. Later this year, we will consult on proposals for a fairer funding system for all of the early years.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 22/03/2016 17:52:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

427106

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to change the rules on staff-pupil ratios in early education settings.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	15420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>There are no plans to change the staff: child ratios for providers registered on the Early Years Register. Lord Nash made clear, during passage of the Childcare Bill in the House of Lords, that we are committed to keeping the existing ratios.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/11/2015 17:07:21 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

419176

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) two years old and (b) three to four years old have been signed up to free early education in (i) the UK, (ii) London and (iii) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	10519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Funded early education for two-year-olds was first introduced in September 2013 and first reported in 2014 in the statistical publication “Provision for children under-five years of age in England”. This is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years</a>. Figures are provided at national, regional and local authority level. Information at constituency level is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/10/2015 10:42:47 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

419177

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support the Government provides to local authorities to increase the uptake of free early education.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	10518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Take-up of the entitlement to free early education for three- and four-year-olds is already very high – reaching 96% across England in January 2015.</p><p>The entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds was introduced September 2013. This was by extensive marketing activity, including radio, posters and through social media. The government supports local authorities in securing high take-up for this entitlement by providing them with information on parents believed to be eligible for the entitlement. This enables direct communication, marketing and support to be provided to parents so that they can access the entitlement for their child.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/10/2015 10:54:08 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

418411

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children develop good early language skills before they reach primary school.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	9973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The government recognises a key part of raising the standard of education for all children is to ensure they receive a good level of development in literacy and numeracy before they start school. The government has taken the following steps to ensure children are developing good early language skills before they reach primary school:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage sets the prime areas of learning which early years providers must follow. This includes a focus on communication and language. The Early Years Foundation Stage requires providers to understand the needs of every child and support them as necessary to make progress. The Early Years Foundation stage is available online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335504/EYFS_framework_from_1_September_2014__with_clarification_note.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335504/EYFS_framework_from_1_September_2014__with_clarification_note.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The numeracy and literacy skills of staff working with our youngest children are key to supporting children’s progression. We have improved early years qualifications and encouraged high-quality entrants with good numeracy and literacy skills into the profession through setting clear criteria for level 3 training courses and introducing early years initial teacher training.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government has invested over £50 million funding through the Early Years Pupil premium, an additional £5.3 million to sector organisations under the VCS grants and a one off grant of £5 million to teaching schools and their childcare provider partners to support staff development. Many of the projects funded through departmental grants are supporting staff to develop strong pedagogical approaches to language development and early literacy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/09/2015 14:12:34 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham