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1483523

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Community Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the cost of converting all remaining community schools to academy status.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	25985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The current academisation rate is 46.2% of all state-funded schools, which represents 9,990 academies and free schools compared to 11,623 local authority maintained schools. Of these academies, 54% are in trusts with fewer than ten schools and fewer than 7,500 pupils.</p><p> </p><p>The average costs of converting community schools to academy status, and of forming trusts of at least ten schools or 7,500 pupils, will vary significantly. This is because the cost depends on the circumstances of each school and trust at the time, such as whether the school is converting via the sponsored or converter route.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 25986 question first answered 19/07/2022 17:02:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1483524

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Multi-academy Trusts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the cost of transferring all schools into multi-academy trusts of (a) 10 or more schools and (b) 7,500 or more pupils.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	25986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The current academisation rate is 46.2% of all state-funded schools, which represents 9,990 academies and free schools compared to 11,623 local authority maintained schools. Of these academies, 54% are in trusts with fewer than ten schools and fewer than 7,500 pupils.</p><p> </p><p>The average costs of converting community schools to academy status, and of forming trusts of at least ten schools or 7,500 pupils, will vary significantly. This is because the cost depends on the circumstances of each school and trust at the time, such as whether the school is converting via the sponsored or converter route.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 25985 question first answered 19/07/2022 17:02:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1483558

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	PE and Sport Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when primary schools will be informed of the (a) outcome of their application to and (b) funding allocation from the PE and Sport Premium Fund.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	26039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced on 25 June that the £320 million PE and sport premium will continue for the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p>The PE and sport premium is paid to all eligible schools and there is no application process. Funding allocations for individual schools will be published in September.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/06/2022 08:55:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1483644

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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 he is taking to increase the number of foster carers (a) nationally and (b) in areas where there is a shortage of foster carers.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	25919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty to secure, as far as reasonably practicable, sufficient accommodation within their area that meet the needs of their looked after children in their area.</p><p>The department recognises the urgency of action in placement sufficiency, and we will prioritise working with local authorities to recruit more foster carers. This will include pathfinder local recruitment campaigns that build towards a national programme, to help ensure children have access to the right placements at the right time. As the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care recommends, the department will focus on providing more support throughout the application process to improve the conversion rate from expressions of interest to approved foster carers.</p><p>The department has already invested in Fosterline Plus, which offers one-to-one support for prospective foster families.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/07/2022 12:22:52 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1483647

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
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 adequacy of the value of the payments available for staying put arrangements.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	25920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>Since the introduction of the Staying Put duty in 2014, the government has provided £174 million of funding to support local implementation and is committed to continuing to invest £99.8 million over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>Each local authorities allocation is determined by the proportion of eligible children they have relative to the national total. The formula uses the department’s data on the number of young people in foster care immediately before their 18<sup>th</sup> birthday to identify the percentage of eligible young people in each local authority and this percentage is then applied to the total national funding available.</p><p> </p><p>Up until the 2019/20 financial year, the funding was based on an assumption that 25% of eligible care leavers would Stay Put, which is the proportion of care leavers who Stayed Put in the pilots, which ran before the legal duty was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2019/20 financial year the latest data showed that across the 18 to 20 age range around 35% of care leavers were Staying Put. This meant that actual take up was 40% higher than the original assumption. As a result, the department increased funding in the 2020/21 financial year by 40% (£9.5 million) to address this. We will keep Staying Put funding under review during the next spending review period.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/07/2022 12:27:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1483648

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides additional support to foster carers who are supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	25921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011 clearly set out the requirement that such advice, information, support, and training is made available from the fostering service provider to their foster carers as appears necessary in the interests of the children they are caring for. This is supported by the National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services, which includes a specific requirement that foster carers should have training in appropriate safer-care practice, including skills to care for children who have been abused (Standard 4.6).</p><p> </p><p>Specific training is arranged by fostering service providers, as local fostering service providers benefit from the flexibility to meet local need.</p><p> </p><p>All fostering service providers are expected to support their carers to meet the training, support and development standards (TSD) for foster care following their approval. Standard 5 of the TSD standards requires foster carers to understand the development of children and young people, including the impact of trauma. The TSD standards require that foster carers can provide evidence to show they understand the impact of trauma on children’s ability to form attachments, their behaviour, and their ability to cope with transitions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/07/2022 12:16:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1483672

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
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 potential impact of increasing childcare ratios on levels of childcare staff (a) recruitment and (b) retention.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	25945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>In the summer, the department will be consulting on moving to the Scottish ratios for two-year-olds, from a ratio of 1:4 (one adult to four children) to 1:5 (one adult to five children). Alongside this, the department is also considering how we can provide greater flexibility within ratios for childminders.</p><p> </p><p>Our priority continues to be to provide safe, high quality early years provision for our youngest children, and throughout this consultation process we will engage fully with the sector and parents and carers on this proposed change.</p><p> </p><p>Responses from this consultation will help to build the evidence base, including on the impact that changing childcare ratios may have on staff recruitment and retention.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/07/2022 12:18:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1483673

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries and (b) childcare settings have closed in each region of England in each year since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	25946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/06/2022 08:58:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1473174

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Asylum
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 23 June 2022 to Question 18916 on Children: Asylum, if he will ask the Children's Commissioner to provide a written update on that issue; and if he will make it his policy to place a copy of the response in the Library of both Houses.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	24601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>This is a matter for the Children’s Commissioner. Given her independence, the hon. Member for South Shields will need to contact her directly.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 29/06/2022 16:30:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1472820

registered interest
date	23/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that children have access to healthy meals during the school summer holidays when free school meals are not provided.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	23761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The department is investing over £600 million in the holiday activities and food programme over the next three years. Children who are in receipt of free school meals are eligible for a place on the holiday activities and food programme, free of charge. This is being delivered in all 152 local authorities in England and ensures that disadvantaged children have access to healthy food and enriching activities during the longer school holiday periods.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/07/2022 10:47:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell