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452413

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of schools which have restricted the school trips which children with autism spectrum disorder can attend in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	27052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on schools which have restricted the school trips that children with autism can attend.</p><p>Public sector bodies, including maintained schools, are covered by the public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010. When carrying out their functions they must have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and foster good relations between disabled and non-disabled children and young people. This duty is anticipatory, which means that schools must take into account the needs of disabled pupils, such as those with autism, when planning school trips and other events.</p><p>The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0-25 emphasises that school leaders should establish and maintain a culture of high expectations that expects those working with children and young people with SEN or disabilities to include them in all the opportunities available to other children and young people so that they can achieve well. This would include opportunities to socialise and attend external school trips.</p><p>If parents believe that a school has discriminated against their autistic child in planning school trips, they can make a claim for disability discrimination to the First-tier Tribunal.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 11:55:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

452024

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to monitor implementation of the duties in the Children and Families Act 2014 on local authorities to (a) identify, (b) assess the needs of and (c) provide whole family support for young carers from April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	26955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Section 96 of the Children and Families Act 2014, which came into force in April 2015, imposes a duty on local authorities to to <em>“…take reasonable steps to identify the extent to which there are young carers within their area who have needs for support.”</em> Once a young carer has been assessed, the local authority must consider whether the child has needs that could be met by services provided under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, that is, whether they should be supported as a child in need.</p><p>The Department currently supports the Carers Trust to help local authorities and voluntary sector partners to embed good practice, including good practice surrounding whole family support. This approach is intended to ensure effective, joined up, support with the potential to offer a single point of professional contact for young carers and their families. We will draw on the learning from that work when considering further action.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 11:58:40 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445959

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Parents: Mental Illness
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 18 January 2016 to Question 22307, on parents: mental illness, if she will make it her policy to collect such data.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	23218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not intend to collect this data.</p><p>Information on parental status and mental health illness is collected through the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 22/01/2016 13:00:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

444619

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Parents: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of parents with mental illnesses there are in (a) pre-primary, (b) primary and (c) secondary schools in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the number of children at any stage of school whose parents are suffering from mental illness.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/01/2016 17:22:18 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

438625

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have received young carer assessments under the Children and Families Act 2014 since its implementation; and what proportion of young carers received services from the local authority to meet their needs following such an assessment.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	20193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>This information is not available to the Department.</p><p>From April 2015, all young carers are entitled to an assessment of their needs for support by the local authority. These new provisions work alongside those in the Care Act 2014 for assessing adults to enable ‘whole family approaches’ to assessment and support. This means that when a child is identified as a young carer, the needs of everyone in the family will be considered. This will cause both children’s and adults’ support services to assess why a child has a caring responsibility, what needs to change, and what would help the family to prevent children from taking on this responsibility in the first place.</p><p>This reform is intended to ensure effective, joined-up support with the potential to offer a single point of professional contact for young carers and their families.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/01/2016 16:08:12 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

435902

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mental Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of poor mental health on the education outcomes of children up to 18 years old.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	19045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>An estimated 1 in 10 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and more have lower level problems. We know that all forms of mental health disorder in children are associated with disruption to education and absence from school. We also know there is a strong association between conduct disorders in adolescence and a lack of qualifications in early adulthood.</p><br /><p>This is why the government has made good mental health, character and resilience a high priority. We want all children and young people to be able to fulfil their potential both academically and in terms of their mental wellbeing. The Department of Health has committed an additional £1.4 billion of funding which will be used to help radically improve mental health services for children, young people and new mothers over the next 5 years.</p><br /><p>Schools and colleges have an important role to play in supporting the resilience and mental health of children and young people. To support schools develop approaches that suit the particular needs of their students we have:</p><ul><li>contributed £1.5 million to a joint pilot for training single points of contact in schools and specialist mental health services to ensure that children and young people have timely access to specialist support where needed;</li><li>funded guidance and lesson plans to support age-appropriate teaching about mental health;</li><li>published guidance on the provision of high quality counselling in schools, and mental health and behaviour;</li><li>provided funding worth £4.9 million this year, through a dedicated mental health strand within our VCS programme, to support 17 projects delivering a wide range of support across the country to children and young people with mental health issues. These include projects to promote positive mental health in schools with organisations such as MIND and Place2Be.</li></ul> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 10/12/2015 12:43:40 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

422286

registered interest
date	19/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start children's centres offer perinatal mental health support for new and expectant mothers.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	12440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not routinely collect the information requested. While perinatal mental health is important to the government, we believe that children’s centres are best placed to decide which services to offer, based on an assessment of local needs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/10/2015 17:32:55 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

222924

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
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 potential implications for her policy on early years interventions of the study by Professor James Heckman on the economics of human potential.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	225019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>Providing children with good-quality education and care in their earliest years can help them succeed at school and later in life. This contributes to creating a society where opportunities are equal regardless of background. We believe we can improve early education by building a stronger and better-qualified early years workforce. We also aim to provide more good-quality affordable childcare.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Professor James Heckman has published a number of (mostly US based) studies, which form part of a much wider evidence base on the substantial benefits of investing in early education. Professor Heckman reports that early education has significant positive impacts on a child’s development and attainment and finds that these impacts can be larger for disadvantaged children. Taken as a whole, the evidence underpins the Department’s policy to provide an entitlement to 570 hours of free early education or childcare a year for all 3 and 4-year-olds and disadvantaged 2-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has no current plans to make an assessment of the potential implications for policy on early years interventions of Professor Heckman’s most recent work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 26/02/2015 15:50:28 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

177474

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to schools on ensuring that food provided at breakfast clubs and after school clubs is healthy and nutritious.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	223260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The new school food standards which came into effect on 1 January 2015 define the foods and drinks that must be provided to pupils, those which are restricted, and those which must not be provided at all. They apply to all food and drink provided on and off school premises during an extended school day up to 6pm, including school trips, breakfast clubs, tuck shops, mid-morning break, vending machines and after school clubs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Full details of permitted foods are available in the school food regulations at:</p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made</a></p><p> </p><p>Departmental advice is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 15:36:39 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

156669

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to her Department was of the Bailey Review on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	215282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The review had a budget of £100,000, which included the costs of the reviewer, the costs of the research he commissioned, the consultations he undertook and the publishing costs.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/11/2014 17:19:50 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger