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750751

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date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Psychology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in all local authorities in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	4435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The head count of educational psychologists reported as employed by all local authorities in England in November 2016 is 1,600. This figure will undercount the actual number of educational psychologists because only 64 per cent of local authorities provided data in the latest year. Information is not yet available for 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/07/2017 15:32:13 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

750772

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to annually review funding levels to local authorities for the provision of 30 hours free childcare until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	4347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is investing £1 billion extra every year for the early years entitlements, including over £300 million a year to increase local authorities hourly funding rates. Local authorities are required to pass the vast majority of their funding on to early years providers so that they can deliver the 30 hours of childcare for working parents and other entitlements on a sustainable and high-quality basis.</p><p>The Government’s increased level of funding is based on the “Review of Childcare Costs” which looked at both the current costs of childcare provision and the implications of future cost pressures including the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage. Recent research conducted by Frontier Economics, calculated the average hourly costs of providing childcare for three and four year olds, and the Government’s new funding rates compare very favourably to these.</p><p>We will keep under review the data underpinning the new Early Years National Funding Formula, which is used to distribute funding for the early years entitlements.</p><p>The Government is also providing guidance, tools and support for providers to help make their businesses more financially sustainable and operate efficiently.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 4200 4346 question first answered 17/07/2017 16:51:56 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

750773

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the effect of the Government’s 30 hours free childcare policy on the financial viability of childcare providers.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	4346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is investing £1 billion extra every year for the early years entitlements, including over £300 million a year to increase local authorities hourly funding rates. Local authorities are required to pass the vast majority of their funding on to early years providers so that they can deliver the 30 hours of childcare for working parents and other entitlements on a sustainable and high-quality basis.</p><p>The Government’s increased level of funding is based on the “Review of Childcare Costs” which looked at both the current costs of childcare provision and the implications of future cost pressures including the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage. Recent research conducted by Frontier Economics, calculated the average hourly costs of providing childcare for three and four year olds, and the Government’s new funding rates compare very favourably to these.</p><p>We will keep under review the data underpinning the new Early Years National Funding Formula, which is used to distribute funding for the early years entitlements.</p><p>The Government is also providing guidance, tools and support for providers to help make their businesses more financially sustainable and operate efficiently.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 4200 4347 question first answered 17/07/2017 16:51:56 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

750809

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to amend safeguarding guidance for schools better to protect girls from sexual assault.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	4398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>In its response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s inquiry into sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools, the Government committed to consider how the Committee’s recommendations could be incorporated into <em>Keeping children safe in education </em>(KCSIE). This is the Department for Education’s statutory guidance which schools and colleges must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. We want to make sure that any new or revised guidance is fit for purpose and provides schools with the information they require. We will consult fully on any planned changes to the guidance.</p><p> </p><p>KCSIE was last updated in September 2016 and includes guidance for schools on dealing with peer on peer abuse. This includes the following requirements.</p><ul><li>All schools should have a child protection policy.</li><li>The policy should set out procedures which minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse and set out how allegations will be dealt with.</li><li>The policy should address the different forms of peer on peer abuse, including different gender issues.</li><li>The policy should also set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</li><li>The guidance is clear that abuse is abuse, whatever form it takes, and should never be passed off as mere banter or part of growing up.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>As well as addressing peer on peer abuse, KCSIE also contains guidance for schools on dealing with allegations of abuse made against staff.</p><p> </p><p>KCSIE is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 20/07/2017 17:41:44 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

750819

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of student loans have been repaid in full (a) since the new system was introduced and (b) from the establishment of the original scheme.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	4345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Statistics covering English student loans are published annually by the Student Loans Company (SLC) in the Statistical First Release (SFR) <em>‘Student Loans in England’.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of higher education income contingent repayment (ICR) student loan borrowers who have fully repaid their loan as at April 2017 can be found in table 3A of the SFR. These statistics are available by year of entry into repayment, rather than by type of loan.</p><p> </p><p>Student loan borrowers typically enter repayment in the April after they leave their course, however borrowers with loans under the post-2012 student loan arrangements only started to enter repayment in 2016. At this point in time, post-2012 loan borrowers are at a very early stage of repayment, and so a direct comparison with pre-2012 loan borrowers is not possible.</p><p> </p><p>Students entering higher education prior to the academic year 1998/99 were eligible for mortgage style loans to cover the cost of their studies.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/07/2017 14:58:58 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

750831

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out which English local authorities have a total of five per cent or more surplus school places in (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) all schools.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	4254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department collects information on the capacity of schools and the number of pupils on roll as part of the annual School Capacity (SCAP) survey. A school is identified as having surplus places if the capacity is higher than the number of pupils on roll.</p><p> </p><p>The latest information on the number and percentage of surplus places at local authority level can be found in tables A2 and A3 of the ‘School Capacity: academic year 2015 to 2016’ release at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>An efficient system requires a degree of unfilled or surplus places at any point. Retaining a reasonable level of surplus places provides for parental choice and allows local authorities to manage shifting demand for places. A range of factors contributes to the level of surplus places held. For example, surplus places can be evidence of local authorities planning ahead of future need, as the increase in pupil numbers at primary level over recent years begins to move into secondary level. Unfilled places can also be attributed to the building of completely new schools, which fill up year by year, leaving space in the upper years.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/07/2017 17:36:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck