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168011

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the variation between England's local authorities in the amount spent per person on the leaving care grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not undertake an annual data collection exercise on local authority spend on the leaving care grant.</p><p> </p><p>Based on informal feedback, the number of local authorities paying at least £2,000 leaving care grant to their care leavers has risen from 32 in 2012 to 97 at October 2013.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 217236 question first answered 10/12/2014 16:51:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168012

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provisions are in place to help care leavers find accommodation when entering university.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The statutory guidance, ‘Planning Transition to Adulthood for Care Leavers’, clearly sets out the responsibilities of local authorities to support their care leavers who are about to, or are attending university, including during vacations. In addition to the higher education bursary of £2,000 which local authorities have a duty to pay their care leavers who pursue a higher education course, individual packages of support are expected to be put in place in line with the needs identified within a care leaver’s pathway plan.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has worked closely with Ofsted on their revised inspection framework, which now has a specific judgement on the quality of support provided to care leavers. Local authorities will be judged on the accommodation they provide to all care leavers, including those attending university, and will only receive a ‘good’ judgement if they can demonstrate they provide accommodation that “<em>is appropriate for each young person to safely develop their independence skills” </em>and where they “are safe and feel safe.”</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/12/2014 16:50:33 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168013

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown of local authorities' spend of the leaving care grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not undertake an annual data collection exercise on local authority spend on the leaving care grant.</p><p> </p><p>Based on informal feedback, the number of local authorities paying at least £2,000 leaving care grant to their care leavers has risen from 32 in 2012 to 97 at October 2013.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 217229 question first answered 10/12/2014 16:51:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168014

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on administering the leaving care grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has strengthened the ‘Transition to Adulthood’ statutory guidance to say that the Department expects local authorities to consult with their children in care council on the level of the setting up home allowance. The guidance refers to a survey by the Care Leavers Foundation which showed that, in order to buy the minimum amount of furnishings and equipment which would be needed, the allowance should be at least £2,000. The guidance encourages all local authorities to aim for payments at this level as a minimum, to review their payments annually, and to publicise the arrangements so that their young people are fully aware of them.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/12/2014 16:43:48 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167721

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social workers her Department estimates will be trained through (a) Frontline and (b) Step-Up in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education estimates that 103 participants are set to qualify as social workers in 2015-16 and up to 132 participants in 2016-17 through Frontline.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education estimates that up to 303 participants are set to qualify as social workers in 2015-16 and up to 400 participants in 2016- through Step Up to Social Work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Government have recently announced an expansion of schemes like Frontline and Step Up to Social Work as part of a wider drive to improve the quality of social work.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 08/12/2014 17:23:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167722

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the reduction in the daily placement fee for third-sector organisations on the number and quality of placements available for trainee social workers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>We are currently reviewing the changes to the daily placement fee and the other elements of the education support grant on placement providers and practice educators for 2014 academic year with the (external) social work education funding advisory group. This will affect decisions on the level of the daily placement fee in the 2015 academic year, which we make when programme budgets are finalised.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/12/2014 16:46:48 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167723

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of social workers who will be trained through (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate routes to qualification in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Universities told the Department last year that planned student intake for social work qualifying courses in the 2015-16 academic year are 3,375 undergraduates and 2,081 postgraduates. This data has not been validated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Updated data for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic year will be available early next year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/12/2014 16:41:13 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167463

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
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 assessment she has made of the extent to which families can access Local Offers from different local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	216769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Each local offer must include information about the provision the local authority expects to be available in its area for children and young people who have special educational needs or a disability and the provision it expects to be available outside its area for children and young people for whom it is responsible.</p><p>The provision to be included comprises education, health and care provision; other educational provision; training provision; arrangements for travel to and from schools and post-16 institutions and provision to assist in preparing children and young people for adulthood and independent living.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All Local Authorities have published their local offer in accordance with such requirements.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 08/12/2014 17:20:43 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167545

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects her Department has which involve working with women in Afghanistan; and what the 2014-15 budget is for each such project.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	216770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>As was made clear at the London Conference on Afghanistan, it is vital that women and girls are put at the heart of political, economic and social life in Afghanistan for the country to develop successfully. Gender equality is mainstreamed across all DFID programming, so our entire annual budget of c£10bn for 2014-15 will contribute towards this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In Afghanistan, DFID programmes to support women and girls include both direct measures, such as training for female Provincial Councillor candidates; and indirect, including our support for education sector salaries. The latter has contributed towards over 2.5 million girls attending school according to the latest figures from the Afghan Ministry of Education.</p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 09/12/2014 15:35:54 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167546

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to consult women's rights organisations and women in developing programming for its strategic priority on tackling violence against women.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	216771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>My Department regularly consults with women’s rights organisations and women in developing programming to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG). Over the last few months, this has included several roundtables with representatives from diaspora communities in the UK and women’s rights organisations from across the world on FGM and other forms of VAWG, as well as meetings with representatives from the Gender and Development network and other women’s rights organisations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/12/2014 15:36:31 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe