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1093505

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date	22/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Classroom Assistants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in schools in (a) England, (b) North East and (c) Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	235756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants in state funded in England, North East region and Easington constituency in November each year from 2013 to 2017.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>Easington</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013[1]</p></td><td><p>243,733</p></td><td><p>11,006</p></td><td><p>347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014[2]</p></td><td><p>255,088</p></td><td><p>12,053</p></td><td><p>403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015[3]</p></td><td><p>262,950</p></td><td><p>12,534</p></td><td><p>395</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016[4]</p></td><td><p>265,616</p></td><td><p>12,698</p></td><td><p>383</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017[5]</p></td><td><p>262,820</p></td><td><p>12,532</p></td><td><p>379</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p><p> </p><p>[1] 2013 figures for the North East region exclude 4 out of 1,552 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[2] 2014 figures for the North East region exclude 5 out of 1,543 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[3] 2015 figures for the North East region exclude 8 out of 1,532 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[4] 2016 figures for the North East region exclude 3 out of 1,530 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[5] 2017 figures for the North East region exclude 5 out of 1,519 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/03/2019 16:06:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1093507

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional financial support his Department provides to local authorities that experience a significant increase in the number of looked-after children under their care.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	235757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS), which gives local authorities flexibility to target spending according to local needs and to fulfil their statutory responsibilities, including services for looked-after children.</p><p> </p><p>Over the five-year period to 2019-20, councils have access, through the LGFS, to over £200 billion to deliver local services, including children’s services. Core spending power has increased from £45.1 billion in 2018-19 to £46.4 billion in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>Social worker caseload data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2018</a>. The average caseload per children and family social worker was 17.4 cases (based on full-time equivalent counts) in 2018. Specific data on the ratios for social workers working with looked after children is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Along with my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, we regularly meet key stakeholders, including Directors of Children’s Services, to discuss children’s services. Officials in regional teams also meet local authorities regularly and the most recent meeting with Durham County Council was earlier this month.</p><p> </p><p>The department recognises how important it is to speak directly with those who are delivering services for children and families and we are working between now and the Spending Review to get a sharper and more granular picture of children’s services costs and pressures.</p><p> </p><p>We are also, through our ‘Strengthening Families, Protecting Children’ programme, investing £84 million over the next 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities with high or rising demand for children’s social care to work more effectively with their most vulnerable families.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 235789 235790 question first answered 27/03/2019 16:59:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1093508

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
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 average caseload ratios for social workers working with looked-after children.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	235789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS), which gives local authorities flexibility to target spending according to local needs and to fulfil their statutory responsibilities, including services for looked-after children.</p><p> </p><p>Over the five-year period to 2019-20, councils have access, through the LGFS, to over £200 billion to deliver local services, including children’s services. Core spending power has increased from £45.1 billion in 2018-19 to £46.4 billion in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>Social worker caseload data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2018</a>. The average caseload per children and family social worker was 17.4 cases (based on full-time equivalent counts) in 2018. Specific data on the ratios for social workers working with looked after children is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Along with my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, we regularly meet key stakeholders, including Directors of Children’s Services, to discuss children’s services. Officials in regional teams also meet local authorities regularly and the most recent meeting with Durham County Council was earlier this month.</p><p> </p><p>The department recognises how important it is to speak directly with those who are delivering services for children and families and we are working between now and the Spending Review to get a sharper and more granular picture of children’s services costs and pressures.</p><p> </p><p>We are also, through our ‘Strengthening Families, Protecting Children’ programme, investing £84 million over the next 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities with high or rising demand for children’s social care to work more effectively with their most vulnerable families.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 235757 235790 question first answered 27/03/2019 16:59:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1093509

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had had with Durham County Council on managing the increase in the number of looked-after children in County Durham.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	235790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS), which gives local authorities flexibility to target spending according to local needs and to fulfil their statutory responsibilities, including services for looked-after children.</p><p> </p><p>Over the five-year period to 2019-20, councils have access, through the LGFS, to over £200 billion to deliver local services, including children’s services. Core spending power has increased from £45.1 billion in 2018-19 to £46.4 billion in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>Social worker caseload data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2018</a>. The average caseload per children and family social worker was 17.4 cases (based on full-time equivalent counts) in 2018. Specific data on the ratios for social workers working with looked after children is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Along with my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, we regularly meet key stakeholders, including Directors of Children’s Services, to discuss children’s services. Officials in regional teams also meet local authorities regularly and the most recent meeting with Durham County Council was earlier this month.</p><p> </p><p>The department recognises how important it is to speak directly with those who are delivering services for children and families and we are working between now and the Spending Review to get a sharper and more granular picture of children’s services costs and pressures.</p><p> </p><p>We are also, through our ‘Strengthening Families, Protecting Children’ programme, investing £84 million over the next 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities with high or rising demand for children’s social care to work more effectively with their most vulnerable families.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 235757 235789 question first answered 27/03/2019 16:59:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1055061

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resources his Department provides to Durham County Council for (a) the extension and modernisation of dilapidated school buildings and (b) the construction of new schools.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	217034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s priorities for investment in the school estate are to ensure there are enough school places, and that the school estate is safe.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2015, the Department has allocated £6 billion in condition funding to those responsible for maintaining school buildings across the country. As part of this, Durham local authority receives an annual school condition allocation to invest in maintenance priorities across its maintained schools – in 2018-19 they received £5.4 million. Maintained schools in Durham also received their own capital allocations, totalling £3.5 million in 2018-19. This includes their allocation from the additional £400 million of capital funding, announced at Budget 2018. These figures do not include academies and voluntary aided schools, which receive separate funding.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provides basic need funding to support the provision of school places so that local authorities can fulfil their statutory responsibility to secure sufficient provision. Durham received £13.3 million to provide new school places from 2011-18 and has been allocated a further £6.5 million from 2018-21. This funding is not ringfenced, so local authorities can decide how best to spend that money to deliver their responsibilities. It can be used to work with any school in their local area, including academies and free schools.</p><p> </p><p>Durham has also been allocated £2.2 million from the special provision capital fund, from 2018-21, helping to create new places and improve facilities for pupils special educational needs and disabilities. As in the case of basic need funding, it is not ringfenced and can be used as local authorities see fit to improve special provision in their local areas.</p><p> </p><p>This funding for new school places and condition sits alongside our investment in central free schools and the Priority School Building Programme. The Priority School Building Programme is rebuilding or refurbishing buildings in the worst condition at over 500 schools across England, including eight schools in Durham County council’s area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/02/2019 14:34:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1050120

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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 he will link the funding of local authority children's services to levels of demand.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	213328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The department is working alongside the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the sector as part of the review of relative needs and resources to develop a robust, up to date approach to funding distribution for children's services, which will determine new baseline funding allocations for local authorities in England in 2020-21.<strong><br> <br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 31/01/2019 17:37:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1050121

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Work: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will (a) set a recommended social worker caseload figure and (b) provide funding to reduce the average caseloads of such workers.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	213329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are best placed to determine appropriate social worker caseload levels, taking into account their particular local needs, circumstances and structures. We are clear, however, that social worker caseloads must be manageable, so that social workers are able to make effective interventions to improve the lives of vulnerable children.</p><p>We are supporting local authorities to consider how they can best manage delivery of services so that resources are used effectively, including through our £200 million investment in the Innovation Programme. In addition, the Autumn Budget announced an extra £410 million in 2019-20 for local authorities to invest in adult and children’s social care services. We are also investing £84 million, over five years, in targeted, evidence-based interventions to unlock better work with vulnerable children and their families. This will save money for local authorities and improve the quality of services for our most vulnerable children. We will consider long-term children’s services funding at the forthcoming spending review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 17:49:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1050124

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children have been transferred into County Durham from other local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	213332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Information requested on the number of looked after children who have been transferred into County Durham from other local authorities is not held centrally.</p><p>During the year ending 31 March 2018, 560 children in England ceased care because they had been transferred into the care of another local authority. This figure is published in table D1 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ which is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>. However, there is no universal child identifier which allows us to consistently track the movement of a looked after child between local authorities as children will receive a new identifier in the new local authority.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 17:42:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1003774

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Basic Skills: Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to conduct a further Skill for Life Survey which was last carried out in 2011.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	189665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>This government recognises the importance of English, maths and digital skills, both in work and everyday life. That is why we will be participating in the next round of The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s second Survey of Adult Skills in 2021 – an international research project that will provide invaluable information about the performance of our national skills system and how it compares internationally. Data will be collected in 2021-22 with publication of the results in 2023. As a result, the department is not currently planning to conduct a further Skills for Life Survey (which was last carried out in 2011).</p><p>The Survey of Adult Skills has very similar coverage to Skills for Life in terms of age (16 – 65), and is a direct measure of adults’ core skills in literacy, numeracy and information and communications technology, triangulated with their qualifications, employment and use of skills both within and outside of work. In addition, the data from the Survey of Adult Skills is internationally comparable, unlike Skills for Life 2011.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/11/2018 17:24:44 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

993585

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of gap years in improving educational outcomes for students.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	182742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The department has not made any recent assessment of the effectiveness of gap years in improving educational outcomes for students.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, we published a study that examined the characteristics of gap-year takers, their motivations, what they did and what effect it had on their longer-term outcomes: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gap-year-takers-uptake-trends-and-long-term-outcomes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gap-year-takers-uptake-trends-and-long-term-outcomes</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 26/10/2018 13:25:22 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris