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date	22/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the £434 million funding gap for disabled children's social care identified in the research published by the Disabled Children's Partnership; and what plans they have to establish a disabled children's fund to improve early intervention services such as short breaks for disabled children.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bertin
uin	HL275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>All children should have access to the support they need to keep them safe, provide them with a stable and nurturing home, and overcome challenges to achieve their potential. We do not recognise the figures provided in the Disabled Children’s Partnership report, however, in the Spending Round 2019, the government confirmed an additional £1 billion grant for adult and children’s social care in 2020-21. This is in addition to the continuation of all existing social care grants.</p><p>Local authorities’ core spending power is expected to rise from £46.2 billion to £49.1 billion in 2020-21. This is an estimated 4.3% increase in real terms.</p><p>Local authorities have the flexibility to make decisions based around their local needs. The statutory guidance, 'Working Together to Safeguard Children', sets out how local authorities should provide effective, evidence-based services to protect and promote the welfare of children, including disabled children. The guidance was updated on 4 July 2018 and states that it is better to provide services addressing needs early, rather than reacting later. The statutory duty to provide short breaks, introduced in 2011, falls on local authorities. The guidance is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2</a>, and is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 05/11/2019 16:10:39 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL275_Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children.pdf title HL275_Guidance
tabling member	4577 label Biography information for Baroness Bertin

1151684

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Joint Understanding between the Department for Education and the Independent Schools Council is supporting the raising of educational standards in state schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The government’s joint understanding with the Independent Schools Council (ISC) encourages more independent schools to work in partnership with state-funded schools across the 4 key areas of: governance, teaching, curriculum and targeted school improvement. These 4 areas have been identified as key to raising standards across the education system. The department is supporting the growth of partnerships across these 4 areas through a dedicated unit.</p><p>The 2019 ISC census shows that there are 1,142 ISC schools in the UK involved in partnerships with state schools - equating to 84% of ISC schools. Those schools reported 11,466 separate partnerships, compared with 10,553 before the joint understanding was agreed in 2018.</p><p>The department welcomes a reported shift in the census towards higher impact activities, such as staff secondments, mixed lessons, and other academically-significant endeavours, as well as an increase in members of independent school staff serving as governors of state schools. These trends are to be welcomed for their ability to raise educational standards across the system.</p><p>Consistent with the joint understanding, the department is now calling for bids for its cross-sector partnerships grant. The grant aims to raise the ambition for what schools can achieve together, and to remove a key financial barrier to new high-impact, sustainable, and mutually beneficial partnerships forming. It is designed to attract bids from both new partnerships that may benefit from seed funding, as well as existing partnerships looking to deepen and expand their collaborations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 04/11/2019 17:54:28 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1151688

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Libraries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the educational impact on children of not having access to a school library.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>It is for individual schools to decide whether to provide and maintain a library service for their pupils. The vast majority of head teachers recognise the important role school libraries play in improving literacy and encouraging pupils to read for pleasure and ensure that suitable library facilities are provided. The national curriculum requires teachers in maintained schools to encourage pupils to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information. It also emphasises the importance of listening to, discussing and – as their fluency increases – reading for themselves a wide range of stories, poems, plays and information books. Ofsted’s school inspection framework has a significant focus on reading as part of the quality of education judgement, with reading being prioritised to allow pupils to access the full curriculum offer.</p><p> </p><p>The last Progress in International Reading Literacy Study indicated in 2011 that 92% of pupils in Year 5 in England were attending a school where there was a library. This was above the international average of 86%.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect data on school library provision or the impact it has on children’s educational attainment.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL324 question first answered 04/11/2019 09:25:35 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1151177

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what safeguards are in place to ensure that children in care who are in Alternative Provision are always educated by registered providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Any independent alternative provision (AP) setting that provides full-time education to one or more children who is looked-after or who has an Education, Health and Care Plan must be registered as a school. It is a criminal offence to operate an unregistered school. We have successfully prosecuted those operating unregistered independent schools and would prosecute any AP setting that was operating as an unregistered independent school. Some children in care may access provision that is not legally required to register as a school if it is on a part-time basis as part of a wider package of education and support.</p><p> </p><p>In all cases, the duty on local authorities under the Children Act (1989) to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need in their areas applies regardless of where a child is educated. For children in care, their social worker should seek a school or other education setting that is best suited to the child’s needs, which may include a part-time, unregistered AP setting. In all cases, the local authority or school that commissions the place in AP should assure themselves that the setting is registered where applicable and the provision is delivered by high quality staff with suitable training, experience and safeguarding checks.</p><p> </p><p>The department is currently looking closely at what we need to do to ensure AP provides high quality education and the right support to these children that will enable them to succeed. The department wants to be as ambitious for them as we are for all children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this the government has launched a £4 million AP Innovation Fund which is delivering nine projects focused on testing ways to improve outcomes for children in AP. In due course, we will set out plans to go further for improving outcomes for children in AP, including how we will support alternative providers to attract and develop high-quality staff.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 04/11/2019 12:03:41 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey