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1346265

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Hearing Impairment
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 adequacy of the provision of Qualified Teachers of the Deaf in the London Borough of Barnet.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of qualified teachers of the deaf is not collected centrally.</p><p>The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special education needs and disabilities (SEND), including hearing impairments, receive the support they need to achieve in their early years, at school and college. High needs funding, which is specifically for supporting children with more complex SEND, will be increasing by £780 million in the financial year 2022-23. This comes on top of the over £1.5 billion increase over the previous two years and will bring the overall total of funding for high needs to £8.9 billion. Within that total, the provisional allocation to the London Borough of Barnet is £65.3 million, an 8% per head increase on the £60.5 million of high needs funding that council is receiving this financial year. Decisions about how that funding is used, including for the employment of specialist teachers for deaf children, are made by local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 32361 32362 question first answered 21/07/2021 11:32:44 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1346266

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of Qualified Teachers of the Deaf in England.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of qualified teachers of the deaf is not collected centrally.</p><p>The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special education needs and disabilities (SEND), including hearing impairments, receive the support they need to achieve in their early years, at school and college. High needs funding, which is specifically for supporting children with more complex SEND, will be increasing by £780 million in the financial year 2022-23. This comes on top of the over £1.5 billion increase over the previous two years and will bring the overall total of funding for high needs to £8.9 billion. Within that total, the provisional allocation to the London Borough of Barnet is £65.3 million, an 8% per head increase on the £60.5 million of high needs funding that council is receiving this financial year. Decisions about how that funding is used, including for the employment of specialist teachers for deaf children, are made by local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 32360 32362 question first answered 21/07/2021 11:32:44 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1346267

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has been made of the vacancy rate of Qualified Teachers of the Deaf in England.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of qualified teachers of the deaf is not collected centrally.</p><p>The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special education needs and disabilities (SEND), including hearing impairments, receive the support they need to achieve in their early years, at school and college. High needs funding, which is specifically for supporting children with more complex SEND, will be increasing by £780 million in the financial year 2022-23. This comes on top of the over £1.5 billion increase over the previous two years and will bring the overall total of funding for high needs to £8.9 billion. Within that total, the provisional allocation to the London Borough of Barnet is £65.3 million, an 8% per head increase on the £60.5 million of high needs funding that council is receiving this financial year. Decisions about how that funding is used, including for the employment of specialist teachers for deaf children, are made by local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 32360 32361 question first answered 21/07/2021 11:32:44 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1345793

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding (a) Durham County Council and (b) each other council in the North East has received from the Holiday Activities and Food programme in 2021.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	31562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>The department-funded holiday activities and food (HAF) programme, which has provided healthy food and enriching activities to disadvantaged children, has been expanded to every local authority across England this year and is backed by up to £220 million of funding. It builds on previous programmes, including last summer’s, which supported around 50,000 children across 17 local authorities.</p><p>Durham County Council has been allocated a maximum of £2,532,180 to deliver HAF programmes over Easter, summer, and Christmas 2021.</p><p>The maximum allocations for the other councils in the North East are as follows:</p><p>Darlington - £519,040</p><p>Gateshead - £902,440</p><p>Hartlepool - £664,030</p><p>Middlesbrough - £1,143,010</p><p>Newcastle upon Tyne - £1,846,420</p><p>North Tyneside - £896,960</p><p>Northumberland - £1,128,130</p><p>Redcar and Cleveland - £743,920</p><p>South Tyneside - £831,630</p><p>Stockton-on-Tees - £980,900</p><p>Sunderland - £1,491,000</p><p> </p><p>Further to this, the Department for Work and Pensions has extended the COVID Local Support Scheme (previously the COVID Winter Grant Scheme) for every English council, to the 30 September, with an additional £160 million.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 15/07/2021 16:16:40 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1345825

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Advocacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s announcement in March 2020 that the national standards for the provision of children’s advocacy services would be revised, when he plans for the public consultation on those revisions to be launched.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	31487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that advocacy services are improved for looked-after children and care leavers.</p><p>The commitment to consulting on a revised and fully updated version of the National Standards for the Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services is being taken forward and we intend to launch the consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 15/07/2021 16:17:51 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1345838

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
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 provide families access to food over the school summer holidays for children (a) currently in receipt of free school meals and (b) who become eligible for free school meals over the summer period.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	31456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>Schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time. Beyond that, billions of pounds of welfare assistance is in place to support families, young people and children.</p><p>The COVID Local Support Grant, established by the Department for Work and Pensions and operated through local authorities in England, is there to support the hardest hit families and individuals with food and essential utility costs. This grant has been extended for a final time, with a further investment of £160 million, to cover the period up to 30 September 2021.</p><p>This grant is further to the £269 million invested since the scheme (previously known as the COVID Winter Grant Scheme) launched in December 2020.</p><p>The funding remains ring-fenced, with at least 80% targeted to assist with food and bills, and at least 80% for families with children. Local authorities have discretion to decide how to allocate government funding in their areas, recognising that they are best placed to understand local needs. Local authorities have the flexibility within the scheme to identify which vulnerable households are in most need of support and apply their own discretion when identifying eligibility.</p><p>Further guidance on the COVID Local Support Grant is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-local-support-grant-guidance-for-local-councils/covid-local-support-grant-extension-21-june-to-30-september-2021-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-local-support-grant-guidance-for-local-councils/covid-local-support-grant-extension-21-june-to-30-september-2021-guidance</a>.</p><p>Further to this, the department announced the significant expansion of the holiday activities and food programme, which provides healthy food and enriching activities to disadvantaged children. It will operate in every local authority across England this summer – backed by up to £220 million. It builds on previous programmes, including last summer’s, which supported around 50,000 children across 17 local authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 15/07/2021 16:14:10 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1345983

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Reviews
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 6 July 2021 to Question 23236 on Special Educational Needs: Reviews, whether the system experts referred to in that Answer are the Chair of the SEND System Leadership Board and its independent advisors; and if he will list those system experts.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	31450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) Review is working with system experts and other government departments across education, health and care to ensure that there is balanced input and representation from across the SEND system. The system experts referred to in the answer to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-06-28/23236" target="_blank">23236</a> include Tony McArdle, the Chair of the SEND System Leadership Board and wider Board members.</p><p>It also includes those system experts which the review has most recently engaged with as part of its policy development, which include but are not limited to: Association of Directors of Childrens Services, Confederation of School Trusts, Council for Disabled Children, Local Government Association, National Network of Parent Carer Forums, National Multi-Academy Ttrust (MAT) CEO Network for Alternative Provision and SEND, Office of the Children’s Commissioner, and Ofsted.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 15/07/2021 16:15:39 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1345517

registered interest
date	09/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption: Young People
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 report entitled Adoption UK’s Adoption Barometer 2021, published in June 2021, on the 28 per cent of adopted young people aged between 16-25-years who were not in education, employment or training at the end of 2020.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	30348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>Improving adoption is a manifesto commitment and Adoption UK’s Adoption Barometer report is a valuable resource for informing policy debate. We will be considering Adoption UK’s barometer report carefully as part of our planning for funding for future years.</p><p>Contact will continue to be a challenge for adopted children, their birth parents, and their adoptive parents, particularly when this contact comes through social media. It is important that social workers help children, birth parents, and adoptive parents to understand the implications of disclosing personal information on social networking sites, and the harm unauthorised or unmediated contact can have.</p><p>We continue to work with Regional Adoption Agencies and Voluntary Adoption Agencies to ensure that services including contact support are delivered to a high-quality standard.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 30350 question first answered 14/07/2021 11:32:05 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1345518

registered interest
date	09/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Reviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Department will publish its SEND review, commissioned in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	30349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) Review has been making good progress, but the COVID-19 outbreak has frustrated the pace of this important review and materially altered the context for reform.</p><p>The SEND Review continues to work with system experts to make sure we are designing a system fit for the future. We are drawing on the best evidence available to review the system, before publishing proposals for public consultation as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 14/07/2021 11:25:18 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1345519

registered interest
date	09/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to evaluate the potential (a) effects and (b) consequences of social media on contact between adopted children and their birth families.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	30350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>Improving adoption is a manifesto commitment and Adoption UK’s Adoption Barometer report is a valuable resource for informing policy debate. We will be considering Adoption UK’s barometer report carefully as part of our planning for funding for future years.</p><p>Contact will continue to be a challenge for adopted children, their birth parents, and their adoptive parents, particularly when this contact comes through social media. It is important that social workers help children, birth parents, and adoptive parents to understand the implications of disclosing personal information on social networking sites, and the harm unauthorised or unmediated contact can have.</p><p>We continue to work with Regional Adoption Agencies and Voluntary Adoption Agencies to ensure that services including contact support are delivered to a high-quality standard.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 30348 question first answered 14/07/2021 11:32:05 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson