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657850

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date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Institutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) schools and (b) other educational institutions she has visited since taking office.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	57512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has visited a number of schools and other education institutions in the course of her official duties.</p><p> </p><p>Visits to schools are listed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NAME</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>LOCATION</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DATE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TYPE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southfields Academy</p></td><td><p>Putney, SW18 5JU</p></td><td><p>25/08/16</p></td><td><p>Academy Converter (Secondary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashburnham Community School</p></td><td><p>Chelsea &amp; Fulham, SW10 0DT</p></td><td><p>29/09/16</p></td><td><p>Community School (Primary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prudhoe Community High School</p></td><td><p>Northumberland, NE42 5LJ</p></td><td><p>13/10/16</p></td><td><p>Community School (Secondary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UTC Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p>Oxfordshire, OX11 6BZ</p></td><td><p>17/10/16</p></td><td><p>UTC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oasis Academy Limeside</p></td><td><p>Oldham, OL8 3SB</p></td><td><p>19/10/16</p></td><td><p>Academy Converter (Secondary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waverley School</p></td><td><p>Birmingham, B9 5QA</p></td><td><p>17/11/16</p></td><td><p>Academy Converter (Primary and Secondary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Handsworth Grammar School</p></td><td><p>Birmingham, B21 9ET</p></td><td><p>17/11/16</p></td><td><p>Voluntary Aided Grammar School (Secondary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Francis Catholic Primary School</p></td><td><p>Birmingham, B19 1PH</p></td><td><p>17/11/16</p></td><td><p>Voluntary Aided School (Primary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy</p></td><td><p>Sleaford and North Hykeham, NG34 7RS</p></td><td><p>28/11/16</p></td><td><p>Academy Converter Grammar School (Secondary)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Bede’s Catholic College</p></td><td><p>Bristol, BS11 0SU</p></td><td><p>15/12/16</p></td><td><p>Academy Converter (Secondary)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Rt. Hon Friend’s visits to other educational institutions are listed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NAME</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>LOCATION</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DATE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TYPE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall College</p></td><td><p>Walsall, WS2 8ES</p></td><td><p>21/07/16</p></td><td><p>FE College</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University of Derby: Buxton and Leek FE College</p></td><td><p>Derbyshire, DE22 1GB</p></td><td><p>18/10/16</p></td><td><p>FE College</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City College Norwich</p></td><td><p>Norwich, NR2 2LJ</p></td><td><p>20/10/16</p></td><td><p>FE College</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool and the Flyde College</p></td><td><p>Blackpool, FY7 8JZ</p></td><td><p>01/12/16</p></td><td><p>FE College</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li></li></ul> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2016 12:36:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

657851

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's estimate is of the potential number of pupils in the 2017 secondary intake; and what projections they have made for future intakes in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	57513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department produces annual pupil projections for each year by age rather than by school national curriculum year. Information about the projected number of pupils by age in secondary schools is in the underlying data of the national pupil projections statistics[1].</p><p>From the most recent projections, figures for the estimated future number of pupils in secondary schools, in January of each year, who were age 11 at the start of the academic year (that is the age at which the vast majority of pupils are in year 7) are given below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Data from the 2016 national pupil projections is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-pupil-projections-july-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-pupil-projections-july-2016</a> in the document called ‘Underlying data: SFR25/2016’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/01/2017 13:10:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

657861

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Headteachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy headteachers earn more than the Prime Minister.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	57539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>In November 2015, there were 59 head teachers in academies and Free Schools recorded receiving an actual salary of more than the Prime Minister, £142,500. This figure includes executive head teachers who are in charge of more than one school.</p><p>This information is collected in the School Workforce Census which covers state funded schools in England and is the latest available.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/12/2016 18:23:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

649448

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average waiting time was for a child to receive a special educational needs and disability assessment and diagnosis in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	55944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 06/12/2016 15:25:30 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

649449

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) were excluded from school; and what the total number of days lost to fixed-term exclusions was for children with SEND in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	55945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The numbers of exclusions of pupils with special educational needs are available from the permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England statistical first releases, which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions</a></p><p> </p><p>The number of days ‘lost’ to fixed-term exclusions for pupils with special educational needs is not held. Schools must arrange alternative provision from the sixth day of a fixed-period exclusion, and may do so earlier.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 06/12/2016 15:25:07 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

649450

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children subject to (a) looked after and (b) leaving care plans are living in unregulated settings such as bed and breakfast accommodation and houses of multiple occupation.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	55946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department collects and publishes information on the types of placement/accommodation looked after children and care leavers are in. This information is available in the Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2015 to 2016’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016</a>. Information on placements for children looked after at 31 March 2016 is contained in table A2 and information on accommodation of care leavers can be found in tables F1b and F1d.</p><p> </p><p>Further details on the definitions used in these tables are available in the children looked after return guide for local authorities, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-return-2016-to-2017-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-return-2016-to-2017-guide</a>.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 06/12/2016 15:24:40 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

628952

registered interest
date	04/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on the delivery of children's services by local authorities who have been exempted from children's social care legislation for six years once those six years have passed.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	51919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>Clause 30 of the Children and Social Work Bill specifies that a trial can last a maximum of three years and can be extended only once, by a further three years, subject to a report being laid in Parliament. It would therefore not be possible for a trial to be extended beyond six years in total.</p><p> </p><p>The monitoring arrangements of each individual trial will be agreed as part of the application process. The Government has tabled an amendment at report stage to specify that before laying regulations the Secretary of State must ask for the advice of the expert panel on the proposed monitoring arrangements and this advice will be published. Anyone who has concerns about the welfare of children during a trial can notify the Department and action would immediately be taken to investigate this. If evidence arose that children were being adversely affected as the result of a trial, the Department will act swiftly to revoke the exemption – this would be done through the negative resolution procedure.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 51920 question first answered 14/11/2016 08:32:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

628954

registered interest
date	04/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to monitor local authorities who are exempted from children's social care legislation; and what her policy is on the mechanisms available for raising concerns about the welfare of children who are the responsibility of such exempted local authorities.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	51920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>Clause 30 of the Children and Social Work Bill specifies that a trial can last a maximum of three years and can be extended only once, by a further three years, subject to a report being laid in Parliament. It would therefore not be possible for a trial to be extended beyond six years in total.</p><p> </p><p>The monitoring arrangements of each individual trial will be agreed as part of the application process. The Government has tabled an amendment at report stage to specify that before laying regulations the Secretary of State must ask for the advice of the expert panel on the proposed monitoring arrangements and this advice will be published. Anyone who has concerns about the welfare of children during a trial can notify the Department and action would immediately be taken to investigate this. If evidence arose that children were being adversely affected as the result of a trial, the Department will act swiftly to revoke the exemption – this would be done through the negative resolution procedure.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 51919 question first answered 14/11/2016 08:32:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

628127

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the local authorities that have requested exemption from powers under social care legislation; and which powers in such legislation those authorities have requested to be exempted from.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	51873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>No requests to use the power to test different ways of working can be made until the Children and Social Work Bill receives Royal Assent in 2017. We have had initial conversations with our ‘Partners in Practice’ local authorities about areas they would be interested in exploring. Case studies with further details about these ideas are available in an existing policy statement, which can be found at: <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/files/DEP2016-0760/Power_to_innovate_-_policy_statement.pdf" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/files/DEP2016-0760/Power_to_innovate_-_policy_statement.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 08/11/2016 16:32:55 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

628128

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children and Social Work Bill (HL)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consultation her Department has undertaken with (a) children, (b) social workers and (c) charities and professional organisations in the social work sector on the drafting of the Children and Social Work Bill; and if she will publish evidence of that consultation.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	51872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The measures in the Children and Social Work Bill are the result of substantial research, engagement, and consultation with the children’s social care sector and the children and young people it serves. This includes:</p><p> </p><p>- published reports on social work education by Sir Martin Narey and David Croisdale-Appleby, and on local safeguarding by Alan Wood. All of these draw on extensive interviews and consultation with key organisations and practitioners;</p><p>- regular engagement with social work managers and frontline social workers by the Chief Social Worker for Children and Department for Education officials;</p><p>- policy briefing and development sessions with a range of sector organisations including NSPCC, BASW, Barnardo’s, ADCS, ADASS, Unison, LGA, individual social work employers, and the Alliance for Children in Care; and</p><p>- a series of consultation events with children in care and care leavers.</p><p> </p><p>Our key policy documents – Putting Children First; Keep on Caring; and Adoption: A vision for change – provide additional supporting evidence and set out our wider reform programme for children’s social care. These can be found through the following links:</p><p> </p><p>Narey review of social work education: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-the-education-of-social-workers-consistently-effective" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-the-education-of-social-workers-consistently-effective</a></p><p>Croisdale-Appleby review of social work education</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-work-education-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-work-education-review</a></p><p>Wood review of local safeguarding</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wood-review-of-local-safeguarding-children-boards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wood-review-of-local-safeguarding-children-boards</a></p><p>Putting Children First</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-children-first-our-vision-for-childrens-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-children-first-our-vision-for-childrens-social-care</a></p><p>Keep on Caring <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf</a></p><p>Adoption: A vision for Change</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-a-vision-for-change" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-a-vision-for-change</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 08/11/2016 16:36:21 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck