Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label attachment file name title
tabling member	label

Search

1400334

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption
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 make it mandatory for every adopted child to have a long-term, costed and deliverable support plan in place at adoption.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	98979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Our national adoption strategy ‘Achieving Excellence Everywhere’, published in July 2021, makes clear our ambition to support regional adoption agency leaders to ensure that support for adopted children and families is provided throughout childhood and in the transition into adulthood, whenever it is required. We recognise the importance of such support plans being in place even before the child moves into their adoptive family.</p><p>The adoption strategy focuses on the clear need to find families for children, not children for families, and for recruitment campaigns to focus particularly on seeking adopters for those children who often wait the longest. The strategy also sets out a range of ways to improve matching. As well as promoting existing methods and tools to secure matches for children without delay, we want to see new processes and procedures put in place to speed up the sharing of adopters across regions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98980 question first answered 11/01/2022 14:28:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1400335

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that every local authority has a published (a) strategy on how it identifies at the earliest stage children who are likely to wait longer for adoption and (b) process for seeking to match those children with a family in a timely manner.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	98980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Our national adoption strategy ‘Achieving Excellence Everywhere’, published in July 2021, makes clear our ambition to support regional adoption agency leaders to ensure that support for adopted children and families is provided throughout childhood and in the transition into adulthood, whenever it is required. We recognise the importance of such support plans being in place even before the child moves into their adoptive family.</p><p>The adoption strategy focuses on the clear need to find families for children, not children for families, and for recruitment campaigns to focus particularly on seeking adopters for those children who often wait the longest. The strategy also sets out a range of ways to improve matching. As well as promoting existing methods and tools to secure matches for children without delay, we want to see new processes and procedures put in place to speed up the sharing of adopters across regions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98979 question first answered 11/01/2022 14:28:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1400336

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy that families that are (a) receiving and (b) in the process of applying for therapeutic support via the Adoption Support Fund will be able to access that fund beyond March 2022; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	98981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Our transitory funding arrangements for the adoption support fund (ASF) mean that applications for therapy starting between August and November 2021 may be funded for up to nine months, up to July 2022. We will be able to confirm more detailed plans, including for the ASF, in due course. In the meantime, we remain deeply committed to supporting families and adopted children.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/01/2022 14:30:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1399768

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Government will offer additional support and resources to local authorities' early intervention teams within their education departments.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	98329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>In the autumn Budget a package of £500 million for ‘Early Help’ was announced. This includes a £300 million package to transform ‘Start for Life’ services and create a network of family hubs in half of council areas in England and a £200 million uplift to the ‘Supporting Families’ programme.</p><p>The additional funding provided for ‘Supporting Families’ takes the total investment to £695 million over the next 3 years, around a 40% real-terms uplift in funding for the programme by financial year 2024-25.</p><p>The ‘Supporting Families’ key workers consider the whole family’s needs and work through a multi-agency approach which includes schools and education specialists.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/01/2022 16:47:08 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1399769

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will review the resources provided to local authorities in order to meet the service standards set out in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	98330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The department announced on 16 December that high needs funding for children and young people with complex needs is increasing in financial year 2022-23 by £1 billion to over £9.1 billion.</p><p>This unprecedented increase of 13% comes on top of the £1.5 billion increase over the last 2 years and will continue to support local authorities and schools with the increasing costs they are facing. Every local authority will attract an increase of at least 12% per head of the 2 to 18-year-old population in financial year 2022-23, with some local authorities seeing increases of up to 16% compared to the previous year.</p><p>As well as substantial increases in high needs funding for all local authorities, we are also targeting extra support for those authorities in the most financial difficulty and reviewing the overall system of support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>The SEND Review is considering all elements of the SEND system, and the outcome of that review will be published in the first quarter of 2022 as a green paper for full public consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/01/2022 17:17:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1399891

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children and young people have been placed in pupil referral units in each year since 2016, by local education authority area and education Key Stage.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	98353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The table below is the high-level view of the total number of pupils within pupil referral units (PRUs) since 2016 with a Statement/Education Health Care (EHC) plan, as well as with and without Special Education Needs (SEN) support.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No SEN </strong></p></td><td><p>3,499</p></td><td><p>3,583</p></td><td><p>3,419</p></td><td><p>3,065</p></td><td><p>2,879</p></td><td><p>2,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>SEN Support </strong></p></td><td><p>10,015</p></td><td><p>10,453</p></td><td><p>11,447</p></td><td><p>10,908</p></td><td><p>9,997</p></td><td><p>7,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Statement or EHC </strong></p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>1,633</p></td><td><p>1,866</p></td><td><p>2,161</p></td><td><p>2,520</p></td><td><p>3,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,015 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,669 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,732 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,134 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,396 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,785 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The complete breakdown by the number of children and young people placed in state place-funded alternative provision (AP) schools (i.e. pupil referral units, AP academies and AP free schools whose main registration is in an AP setting) each year since 2016 is included in the attached spreadsheet. This includes detail of placement by local authority, year group, and identification of special educational need.</p><p>This table has been produced using the ‘Special educational needs in England’ data publication, which is based on data collected in the spring school census in January each year. This can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england</a>.</p><p>The department does not currently collect data on pupil reintegration from AP to mainstream education.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98354 98355 question first answered 11/01/2022 16:16:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince attachment 1 file name 98353_54_55_breakdown_children_young_people_in_AP.pdf title 98353_98354_98355_Table
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1399893

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children and young people placed in pupil referral units returned to mainstream education in each year since 2016, by local education authority area and education Key Stage.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	98354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The table below is the high-level view of the total number of pupils within pupil referral units (PRUs) since 2016 with a Statement/Education Health Care (EHC) plan, as well as with and without Special Education Needs (SEN) support.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No SEN </strong></p></td><td><p>3,499</p></td><td><p>3,583</p></td><td><p>3,419</p></td><td><p>3,065</p></td><td><p>2,879</p></td><td><p>2,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>SEN Support </strong></p></td><td><p>10,015</p></td><td><p>10,453</p></td><td><p>11,447</p></td><td><p>10,908</p></td><td><p>9,997</p></td><td><p>7,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Statement or EHC </strong></p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>1,633</p></td><td><p>1,866</p></td><td><p>2,161</p></td><td><p>2,520</p></td><td><p>3,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,015 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,669 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,732 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,134 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,396 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,785 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The complete breakdown by the number of children and young people placed in state place-funded alternative provision (AP) schools (i.e. pupil referral units, AP academies and AP free schools whose main registration is in an AP setting) each year since 2016 is included in the attached spreadsheet. This includes detail of placement by local authority, year group, and identification of special educational need.</p><p>This table has been produced using the ‘Special educational needs in England’ data publication, which is based on data collected in the spring school census in January each year. This can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england</a>.</p><p>The department does not currently collect data on pupil reintegration from AP to mainstream education.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98353 98355 question first answered 11/01/2022 16:16:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince attachment 1 file name 98353_54_55_breakdown_children_young_people_in_AP.pdf title 98353_98354_98355_Table
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1399894

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units
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 children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities who have been referred to pupil referral units in each year since 2016, by local authority area and education Key Stage.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	98355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The table below is the high-level view of the total number of pupils within pupil referral units (PRUs) since 2016 with a Statement/Education Health Care (EHC) plan, as well as with and without Special Education Needs (SEN) support.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No SEN </strong></p></td><td><p>3,499</p></td><td><p>3,583</p></td><td><p>3,419</p></td><td><p>3,065</p></td><td><p>2,879</p></td><td><p>2,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>SEN Support </strong></p></td><td><p>10,015</p></td><td><p>10,453</p></td><td><p>11,447</p></td><td><p>10,908</p></td><td><p>9,997</p></td><td><p>7,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Statement or EHC </strong></p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>1,633</p></td><td><p>1,866</p></td><td><p>2,161</p></td><td><p>2,520</p></td><td><p>3,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,015 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,669 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,732 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,134 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,396 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,785 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The complete breakdown by the number of children and young people placed in state place-funded alternative provision (AP) schools (i.e. pupil referral units, AP academies and AP free schools whose main registration is in an AP setting) each year since 2016 is included in the attached spreadsheet. This includes detail of placement by local authority, year group, and identification of special educational need.</p><p>This table has been produced using the ‘Special educational needs in England’ data publication, which is based on data collected in the spring school census in January each year. This can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england</a>.</p><p>The department does not currently collect data on pupil reintegration from AP to mainstream education.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 98353 98354 question first answered 11/01/2022 16:16:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince attachment 1 file name 98353_54_55_breakdown_children_young_people_in_AP.pdf title 98353_98354_98355_Table
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1399196

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Workforce Development Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Workforce Development Fund will be extended to (a) maintained nurseries and (b) early year settings.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	96915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The Workforce Development Fund is funding from the Department of Health and Social Care to support the continuing professional development (CPD) of staff across the adult social care sector. There are no plans to extend it to maintained nursery schools or early years settings.</p><p>Separately, the Department for Education is investing up to £180 million to build a stronger, more expert workforce in the early years sector, where we know that the COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated the outcomes gap and set back children’s learning and development, particularly in language and maths, hitting those from disadvantaged backgrounds the hardest. This funding comprises the Early Years Education Recovery Programme, the Nuffield Early Language Programme and a further investment in the Professional Development Programme.</p><p>These initiatives complement our reforms to the Early Years Foundation Stage to accelerate and embed real change for young children, which is more important than ever in light of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. This recovery package aims to target disadvantaged areas and will largely be available to maintained nursery schools and childminders.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/01/2022 17:23:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1388567

registered interest
date	16/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funds his Department has paid to Diversity Role Models in each of the last five years; and to what projects those funds were allocated.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	94270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>During Anti-Bullying Week, the department announced funding to five leading organisations, including Diversity Role Models, to deliver new anti-bullying projects which are aimed at preventing and tackling bullying of all children and young people, including those with protected characteristics. Diversity Role Models has been offered £187,530.00 grant funding for the period from 10 August to 31 March 2022 Further details can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-support-for-schools-to-tackle-bullying" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-support-for-schools-to-tackle-bullying</a>.</p><p>In addition to this, across financial years 2016-2020 Diversity Role Models was involved in two projects as part of the Government Equalities Office (then part of the Department for Education) Anti-Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic (HBT) Bullying programme. They received a payment of £57,057.45 in April 2016 and were provided with £131,231.25 to as part of the 2019-20 financial year extension of the Anti-HBT Bullying programme. Further details can be found here: <a href="https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/news/diversity-role-models-appeals-to-schools-to-use-new-funding-to-tackle-bullying-of-lgbt-pupils" target="_blank">https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/news/diversity-role-models-appeals-to-schools-to-use-new-funding-to-tackle-bullying-of-lgbt-pupils</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/01/2022 12:38:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton