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1129993

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date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of the National School Breakfast Programme on educational attainment.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	260547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The department is investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools. The focus of these clubs has been to target the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas – to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.</p><p> </p><p>The programme will also deliver innovation projects with the aim of testing solutions to delivery and access barriers, and enhancing the health and education benefits. Innovation projects will seek to test out new approaches to enhancing the health, education or wider socioeconomic benefits and to overcoming delivery and access barriers.</p><p> </p><p>We monitor management information from the programme on an ongoing basis and will also review the effectiveness of the programme fully once the programme concludes.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 13:11:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1129998

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sure Start Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of Sure Start centres on health outcomes for young people in deprived areas.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	260548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the health effects of Sure Start. Across the key health outcomes for children and young people, children living in households in the lowest socio-economic groups have worse outcomes than other children. There are clear benefits to early investment and support through pregnancy and the early years<strong>. </strong>Children’s centres can play an important role in supporting families, but it is right local councils decide how to organise and provide services for families in their areas to meet local needs – whether this is through children’s centre buildings or delivering services in different ways.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act (2006) to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Funding for children’s services (including children’s centres) is made available through the local government finance settlement. In addition, other government funding, including that for public health, adult skills training and troubled families may also be used locally to support services delivered wholly, or in part, through children’s centres. Children services funding for 2020-2021 and beyond will be determined in the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 260549 question first answered 10/06/2019 13:23:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1129999

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sure Start Programme: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to increase funding for the Sure Start programme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	260549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the health effects of Sure Start. Across the key health outcomes for children and young people, children living in households in the lowest socio-economic groups have worse outcomes than other children. There are clear benefits to early investment and support through pregnancy and the early years<strong>. </strong>Children’s centres can play an important role in supporting families, but it is right local councils decide how to organise and provide services for families in their areas to meet local needs – whether this is through children’s centre buildings or delivering services in different ways.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act (2006) to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Funding for children’s services (including children’s centres) is made available through the local government finance settlement. In addition, other government funding, including that for public health, adult skills training and troubled families may also be used locally to support services delivered wholly, or in part, through children’s centres. Children services funding for 2020-2021 and beyond will be determined in the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 260548 question first answered 10/06/2019 13:23:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1129685

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on accommodation standards for 16 and 17 year olds in care.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	259860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning sufficient accommodation to meet the needs of children in care and care leavers; and to ensure that this accommodation is ‘suitable’.</p><p> </p><p>Suitable accommodation is defined in the Children Act Volume 2 guidance, which states that settings used to accommodate children in care should:</p><p> </p><ul><li>be suitable for the child in light of their needs, including their health needs;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>ensure the responsible authority has satisfied itself as to the character and suitability of the landlord or other provider;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>comply with health and safety requirements relating to rented accommodation; and</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>ensure the responsible authority has, so far as reasonably practicable, taken into account the child’s: wishes and feelings; and education, training or employment needs.</li></ul><p> </p><p>A copy of the guidance is available at the following link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441643/Children_Act_Guidance_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441643/Children_Act_Guidance_2015.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This definition of suitable accommodation also applies to settings used to accommodate care leavers aged 16 or 17.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 16:49:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1129733

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the National School Breakfast Programme.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	259855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The department is investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme using funds from the soft drinks industry levy revenues. This money will introduce or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools. The focus of these clubs has been to target the most disadvantaged areas of the country, including the Department for Education’s opportunity areas to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.</p><p> </p><p>A contract was awarded to Family Action in March 2018 and will run until March 2020. Family Action, in partnership with Magic Breakfast, have both been named as the leading charities responsible for running the breakfast club programme. Family Action are distributing the appropriate funding to participating schools who meet the eligibility criteria.</p><p> </p><p>Through the programme, schools receive dedicated support from Family Action and Magic Breakfast, including tailored assistance in the establishment of each breakfast club. Schools also receive breakfast food for children or funding to deliver this food provision. Schools also receive a one-off £500 grant payment which they are free to use as they deem appropriate, for example, purchasing equipment to set up a breakfast club.</p><p> </p><p>We monitor management information from the programme on an ongoing basis and will also review the effectiveness of the programme fully once the programme concludes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 13:30:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1129852

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sure Start Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Institute for Fiscal Studies report entitled The health effects of Sure Start, published on 3rd June 2019; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	259904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The government welcomes the recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on the health effects of Sure Start. It is crucial that in our pursuit of better outcomes for children and families, and in making spending decisions, we are guided by high quality evidence. I refer the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme to the statement given in response to an Urgent Question about the IFS report by my right hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships on 5 June 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 13:27:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1129083

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Independent Reviewing Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to strengthen the Independent Reviewing Officer service for children in care.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	259248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>In Fostering Better Outcomes, published in July 2018, we committed to working with organisations representing Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and local authorities to consider how the role of IROs can be put to best effect in the current system and under existing legislation. My officials have been in regular conversations with both the National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers and the National Independent Reviewing Officers Manager’s Partnership to discuss how the role of IROs can be strengthened. Both organisations have worked with their members to develop proposals. We will continue to offer support and challenge to both these organisations as they move forward in introducing practice improvements.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 259249 question first answered 06/06/2019 15:44:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1129084

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Independent Reviewing Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with representatives from the National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers on strengthening the Independent Reviewing Officer service.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	259249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>In Fostering Better Outcomes, published in July 2018, we committed to working with organisations representing Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and local authorities to consider how the role of IROs can be put to best effect in the current system and under existing legislation. My officials have been in regular conversations with both the National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers and the National Independent Reviewing Officers Manager’s Partnership to discuss how the role of IROs can be strengthened. Both organisations have worked with their members to develop proposals. We will continue to offer support and challenge to both these organisations as they move forward in introducing practice improvements.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 259248 question first answered 06/06/2019 15:44:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1129142

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Closures
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 8 March 2019 to Question 226665, whether his Department plans to start collecting information on the effect of the closure of maintained nursery schools on other local services.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	259192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing supply and demand for childcare and ensuring that there are sufficient places available for working parents locally.</p><p> </p><p>Whether a maintained nursery school (MNS) closes or not is a matter for local authorities, but they should have regard to statutory guidance when deciding to close one, which includes consultation with all those who have an interest. The department is in regular contact with local authorities and the MNS sector.</p><p> </p><p>I announced on 28 February that the government would extend the supplementary funding paid to local authorities, by approximately £24 million. This enables them to fully fund MNSs for the whole of the 2019/20 academic year. What happens after September 2020 will be determined by the next Spending Review, informed by research we have published on the services, costs and quality of MNSs: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maintained-nursery-schools-contribution-to-early-years-provision" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maintained-nursery-schools-contribution-to-early-years-provision</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 259194 question first answered 06/06/2019 15:36:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1129143

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Save the Children report entitled It all starts here and pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214547, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of people enrolling to train towards the award of Early Years Teacher Status.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	259193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>We do not require graduates in private, voluntary and independent early years settings. The early years initial teacher training (ITT) programme is demand-led. Training providers request the number of places they wish to deliver and these are fully funded.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the early years ITT programmes is published as part of the ITT Census at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759716/ITT_Census_2018_to_2019_main_text.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759716/ITT_Census_2018_to_2019_main_text.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 06/06/2019 15:39:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson