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date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the entitlement to pupil premium funding so that all children under a Special Guardianship Order are able to access Free School Meals.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	285191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Children who have left care through a special guardianship order are eligible for pupil premium plus funding (for previously looked-after children) of £2,300. This is unrelated to eligibility for free school meals (FSMs).</p><p>To be eligible to receive FSMs, a pupil or their parent must be in receipt of any one of the following listed benefits and must make a claim to the school for FSMs:</p><ul><li>Income Support</li><li>Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance</li><li>Income-related Employment and Support Allowance</li><li>Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act (1999)</li><li>The guaranteed element of Pension Credit</li><li>Child Tax Credit (provided you are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit (WTC) and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)</li><li>WTC run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for WTC</li><li>Universal Credit - if you applied on or after 1 April 2018, your household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits you receive).</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 06/09/2019 17:13:46 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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date	24/07/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2019 to Question 263684, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of the reported practice of parents and reviewing bodies of schools seeking to avoid compliance with equalities law and the schools admission code in their admittance and treatment of children with SEND.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	281574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The admission authorities of all mainstream state-funded schools must comply with the School Admissions Code and with equalities law when determining and applying their admission arrangements.</p><p>The Admissions Code includes provisions relating to the admission of children with special educational needs and disabilities, both in relation to those children who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and those who do not. Where a child has an EHCP that names a particular mainstream or special school, the school has a legal duty to admit that child.</p><p>If anyone considers that a school’s admission arrangements are not lawful they may object to the Schools Adjudicator, whose decisions are binding and enforceable. The parents of any child refused admission to a mainstream school also has the right of appeal to an independent appeals panel.</p><p>Any parent who feels their admission appeal was not carried out properly can complain to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (for maintained schools) or the Education, Skills and Funding Agency (for academies).</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 281573 question first answered 05/09/2019 07:50:14 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe