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1379454

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will publish the average wait times for SEN school places as at 17 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	76790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>The department does not collect information on waiting times for places in special schools.</p><p>Where a local authority identifies that a pupil requires a special school place (through the statutory education, health and care assessment process), they are statutorily required to secure the placement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities have a duty to arrange suitable education for any pupil of compulsory school age who, because of illness, permanent exclusion or other reasons, would not get a suitable education without such provision. Local authorities are required to keep the sufficiency of special educational provision in their area under review.</p><p>On 27 October 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that an additional £2.6 billion has been made available over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. The government continues to invest in the Free Schools programme, through which 74 special and 50 alternative provision free schools have opened across the country since 2010, with 70 similar projects in the pipeline.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 76791 question first answered 22/11/2021 17:22:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1379455

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of waiting times for places in SEN schools on families.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	76791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>The department does not collect information on waiting times for places in special schools.</p><p>Where a local authority identifies that a pupil requires a special school place (through the statutory education, health and care assessment process), they are statutorily required to secure the placement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities have a duty to arrange suitable education for any pupil of compulsory school age who, because of illness, permanent exclusion or other reasons, would not get a suitable education without such provision. Local authorities are required to keep the sufficiency of special educational provision in their area under review.</p><p>On 27 October 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that an additional £2.6 billion has been made available over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. The government continues to invest in the Free Schools programme, through which 74 special and 50 alternative provision free schools have opened across the country since 2010, with 70 similar projects in the pipeline.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 76790 question first answered 22/11/2021 17:22:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1379611

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	EqualiTeach: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department has allocated to Equaliteach in each of the last five years; and for what projects that funding has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	76565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>During Anti-Bullying Week, the department announced funding to five leading organisations, including EqualiTeach, 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. EqualiTeach has been offered £163,765.54 grant funding for the period from 10 August 2021 to 31 March 2022.</p><p>In addition to this, across financial years 2016-2020 the Government Equalities Office (then part of the Department for Education) provided £105,016.00 to Equaliteach as part of the 2019-20 extension of the anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (anti-HBT) bullying programme. Further details can be found here: <a href="https://equaliteach.co.uk/equaliteach-statement-on-geo-and-free-to-be/" target="_blank">https://equaliteach.co.uk/equaliteach-statement-on-geo-and-free-to-be/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/11/2021 17:20:54 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1378903

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families: Respite Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to help ensure that families with disabled children are able access (a) short breaks and (b) respite care that meets their health needs.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	75940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>Respite care services, including short breaks, for disabled children and their families are provided based on an individual assessment of each child and family’s needs.</p><p> </p><p>The department believes it is right for local authorities, who know their areas’ needs best, to determine what services are required locally, including early help.</p><p> </p><p>This year, councils have access to £51.3 billion to deliver their core services, including a £1.7 billion grant for social care. The government has also given over £6 billion in funding directly to councils to support them with the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>The department will continue to work with other government departments, including the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to ensure the needs of children’s services are reflected.</p><p> </p><p>Where a child has complex health needs or is in receipt of palliative or end-of-life care, respite provision may be appropriately delivered by health providers, including children’s hospices. Local authorities have a statutory duty to assess the social care needs of disabled children and young people, and to provide respite care where necessary. Where it is appropriate, local authorities can fund respite care provided by hospices, either as a short-term stay or as a service provided to the child or young person in the family home by the hospice team. Local authorities and health commissioners regularly liaise to plan and commission the most appropriate package of respite care for the children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening condition in their area.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to statutory services, the department is providing £27.3 million to the Family Fund in financial year 2021-22 to support over 60,000 families on low incomes raising children and young people with disabilities or serious illnesses. Grants can be used for a range of purposes, including family breaks.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 76003 76049 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:18:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1378916

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children and Young People: Mental Capacity
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 ensure the wellbeing of children and young people who are being held under deprivation of liberty safeguards.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	75920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>All children should live somewhere that meets their needs and keep them safe. This is particularly important for looked after children who have been deprived of their liberty for their own or for the safety of others. These children and young people are often some of the most vulnerable in our society and we must do all that we can to keep them safe.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are clear that where a looked after child is deprived of their liberty, the setting is very likely to be providing care and accommodation. Such accommodation must be registered as a children’s home as required by the Care Standards Act 2000. Children’s homes are subject to robust registration and inspection requirements by Ofsted to ensure that they meet the needs of children they accommodate, and they must follow the national standards. Ofsted can take action against children’s homes when they are not delivering the quality of care and accommodation for children that the department expects.</p><p> </p><p>Any provider operating a setting that meets the definition of a children’s homes – providing care and accommodation wholly or mainly for children – without the required registration is likely to be committing a criminal offence. The government believes that all children who require care of the sort provided by a children’s home should be in a children’s home which is registered by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p>Where local authorities place children subject to a deprivation of liberty in a setting that is not registered with Ofsted, they should follow the ‘Guidance on Placements in unregistered children’s homes in England or unregistered care home services in Wales’ issued by the President of the Family Division in November 2019 with an addendum added to that guidance on 1st December 2020. This guidance is clear that an application to register the provision with Ofsted must be made within 7 working days from the date of the deprivation of liberty order. The government supports this guidance and adherence to it.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 75921 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:30:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1378917

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children and Young People: Mental Capacity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has he made of the suitability of (a) holiday cottages, (b) park homes and (c) caravans as residences for children and young people subject to deprivation of liberty safeguards.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	75921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>All children should live somewhere that meets their needs and keep them safe. This is particularly important for looked after children who have been deprived of their liberty for their own or for the safety of others. These children and young people are often some of the most vulnerable in our society and we must do all that we can to keep them safe.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are clear that where a looked after child is deprived of their liberty, the setting is very likely to be providing care and accommodation. Such accommodation must be registered as a children’s home as required by the Care Standards Act 2000. Children’s homes are subject to robust registration and inspection requirements by Ofsted to ensure that they meet the needs of children they accommodate, and they must follow the national standards. Ofsted can take action against children’s homes when they are not delivering the quality of care and accommodation for children that the department expects.</p><p> </p><p>Any provider operating a setting that meets the definition of a children’s homes – providing care and accommodation wholly or mainly for children – without the required registration is likely to be committing a criminal offence. The government believes that all children who require care of the sort provided by a children’s home should be in a children’s home which is registered by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p>Where local authorities place children subject to a deprivation of liberty in a setting that is not registered with Ofsted, they should follow the ‘Guidance on Placements in unregistered children’s homes in England or unregistered care home services in Wales’ issued by the President of the Family Division in November 2019 with an addendum added to that guidance on 1st December 2020. This guidance is clear that an application to register the provision with Ofsted must be made within 7 working days from the date of the deprivation of liberty order. The government supports this guidance and adherence to it.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 75920 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:30:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1378987

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
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, if he will make it his policy to increase the threshold for Free School Meals in line with the National Food Strategy recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	75840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The department supports over 1.7 million pupils from the lowest income families to concentrate, learn, and achieve in the classroom through the provision of free school meals. An additional 1.3 million infants receive a free meal under the Universal Infant Free School Meals policy.</p><p>In 2018, the government introduced new eligibility criteria for families on Universal Credit, following a consultation in 2017. It was estimated that this will be more generous in its reach by 2022, in comparison to the legacy benefit system. Further to this, we included generous protections which mean any family eligible for free school meals transitioning to Universal Credit from a legacy benefit will continue to have access to free school meals even if they move above the earnings threshold.</p><p> </p><p>The government will fully consider the recommendations of the National Food Strategy, which included recommendations around free school meal eligibility, and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 75841 75842 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:45:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1378988

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
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, what estimate he has made of the number of children whose parents are in receipt of Universal Credit who do not receive a free school meal.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	75841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The department supports over 1.7 million pupils from the lowest income families to concentrate, learn, and achieve in the classroom through the provision of free school meals. An additional 1.3 million infants receive a free meal under the Universal Infant Free School Meals policy.</p><p>In 2018, the government introduced new eligibility criteria for families on Universal Credit, following a consultation in 2017. It was estimated that this will be more generous in its reach by 2022, in comparison to the legacy benefit system. Further to this, we included generous protections which mean any family eligible for free school meals transitioning to Universal Credit from a legacy benefit will continue to have access to free school meals even if they move above the earnings threshold.</p><p> </p><p>The government will fully consider the recommendations of the National Food Strategy, which included recommendations around free school meal eligibility, and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 75840 75842 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:45:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1378989

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
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 has had discussions with Ministerial colleagues in the Treasury on increasing the annual net earned income threshold for Free School Meals.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	75842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The department supports over 1.7 million pupils from the lowest income families to concentrate, learn, and achieve in the classroom through the provision of free school meals. An additional 1.3 million infants receive a free meal under the Universal Infant Free School Meals policy.</p><p>In 2018, the government introduced new eligibility criteria for families on Universal Credit, following a consultation in 2017. It was estimated that this will be more generous in its reach by 2022, in comparison to the legacy benefit system. Further to this, we included generous protections which mean any family eligible for free school meals transitioning to Universal Credit from a legacy benefit will continue to have access to free school meals even if they move above the earnings threshold.</p><p> </p><p>The government will fully consider the recommendations of the National Food Strategy, which included recommendations around free school meal eligibility, and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 75840 75841 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:45:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1379002

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families: Respite Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that families with disabled children can access short breaks and respite care that meets those children's health needs.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	76049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>Respite care services, including short breaks, for disabled children and their families are provided based on an individual assessment of each child and family’s needs.</p><p> </p><p>The department believes it is right for local authorities, who know their areas’ needs best, to determine what services are required locally, including early help.</p><p> </p><p>This year, councils have access to £51.3 billion to deliver their core services, including a £1.7 billion grant for social care. The government has also given over £6 billion in funding directly to councils to support them with the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>The department will continue to work with other government departments, including the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to ensure the needs of children’s services are reflected.</p><p> </p><p>Where a child has complex health needs or is in receipt of palliative or end-of-life care, respite provision may be appropriately delivered by health providers, including children’s hospices. Local authorities have a statutory duty to assess the social care needs of disabled children and young people, and to provide respite care where necessary. Where it is appropriate, local authorities can fund respite care provided by hospices, either as a short-term stay or as a service provided to the child or young person in the family home by the hospice team. Local authorities and health commissioners regularly liaise to plan and commission the most appropriate package of respite care for the children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening condition in their area.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to statutory services, the department is providing £27.3 million to the Family Fund in financial year 2021-22 to support over 60,000 families on low incomes raising children and young people with disabilities or serious illnesses. Grants can be used for a range of purposes, including family breaks.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 75940 76003 question first answered 19/11/2021 11:18:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford