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99720

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which primary schools in each local authority area have more than 600 pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
	uin	210963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Data on the number of pupils enrolled at all maintained schools, academies (including free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges) and non‑maintained special schools, is collected through the school census.</p><p>Pupil numbers for individual schools are included within the underlying data of the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’[1] statistical first release.</p><p>A table listing all primary schools with more than 600 pupils is attached to this answer.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/10/2014 13:49:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws attachment 1 file name SchoolsPupils2014_PupilNumbersOver600.xlsx title Primary schools with more than 600 pupils
	tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart

93536

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Missing Persons: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to provide help to missing children.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	210779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>In January 2014 the Department for Education published revised statutory guidance on children missing from home or care.[1] This sets out the steps that local authorities and their partners should take to prevent children going missing and to protect them when they do. The guidance is clear that within seventy hours of a missing child being found, the council should offer them an independent return interview to uncover information that will help protect children from:</p><ol><li>The risk of going missing again.</li><li>The risks they may have been exposed to while missing.</li><li>The risk factors in their home.</li></ol><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-who-run-away-or-go-missing-from-home-or-care" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-who-run-away-or-go-missing-from-home-or-care</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:05:07 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

93027

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies have articles of association which require the Academy Trust to consider any advice given by the principal of a school in the Academy Trust before resolving to take action; and in how many academy trusts the consideration of such advice is discretionary.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	210150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The model articles of association for academy trusts set out the expectations of how academy trusts should be governed, including those arising from company and charity law. The model articles do not include any specific requirement on the trust board to consider advice given by the principal but we would expect them to do so. We would expect there to be an effective working relationship between trustees and the principal, who will often serve as a trustee.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:39:13 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 22418 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

93030

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on the appointment of a director who does not play an active role, otherwise known as a sleeping partner, to be a director of an academy trust.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	210151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>We expect all those who serve on academy trust boards to play a full and active role in supporting and driving high standards in schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:39:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 22419 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

93031

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints she has received that an academy trust is not complying with its articles of association (a) following an Ofsted inspection, (b) following an inspection by the Education Funding Agency and (c) from any other source.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	210152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not categorise and record centrally complaints volumes about academy trusts’ compliance with their articles of association. Any complaint received about non-compliance by an academy trust is assessed and, where the evidence warrants it, investigated in line with the Department’s published complaints procedure. This is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-school" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/complain-about-school</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:37:34 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 22420 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

93032

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy trusts have boards of directors with no more than three members.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	210153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Trust boards have flexibility to operate the size of board they feel is right for their academy trust. The Department for Education does not collect statistics related to the size of individual academy boards but the model articles state that there shall be no fewer than three directors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:38:18 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 22421 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

93795

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 209053, which seven local safeguarding children's boards inspected since November 2013 have been found to be inadequate by Ofsted.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	210922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The seven Local Safeguarding Children Boards inspected since November 2013 which have been found to be inadequate by Ofsted are Slough, Coventry, Bexley, Birmingham, Knowsley, Buckinghamshire and Manchester.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:02:34 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

93796

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Local Government: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority designated officers work in each local authority.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	210923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s statutory guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, last revised in 2013, is clear that every county level and unitary local authority should have a Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).</p><p>The Department for Education does not hold or collect information relating to numbers of LADOs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:03:27 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

93165

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Nuneaton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional physical education teachers and sports specialists have been recruited by schools in Nuneaton constituency in the last 18 months.
	tabling member constituency	Nuneaton
	tabling member printed	Mr Marcus Jones
	uin	210395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:56:41 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones

93170

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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 progress her Department is making on improving public accountability of services for children with special educational needs through published performance data.
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
	uin	210579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes a range of performance and attainment data from:</p><ol><li>Local authorities</li><li>Early years settings</li><li>Schools and colleges on children and young people with special educational needs and disability</li><li>Local and national levels</li></ol><p>Local authorities and their partners across education, health and social care are implementing the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms which came into force on 1 September this year. The Department is working closely with local authorities and local Parent Carer Forums to understand how local implementation of the Children and Families Act is progressing. Summary findings of an autumn implementation survey will be published before the end of the year. The Department will also publish local authority data on an annual basis, starting in summer 2015. This will include, for example, the number of conversions from statements to Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans and the number and percentage of new EHC Plans delivered within twenty weeks.</p><p>From September 2015, we expect local authorities will have made significant progress in embedding the reforms, and our focus will increasingly be on whether the new systems are leading to improved outcomes for children and young people.</p><p>We have asked Ofsted to consider what more needs to be done to ensure good quality delivery of the new system. Ofsted’s recommendations will be published shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2014 16:06:32 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick