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registered interest
date	02/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to increase the national funding rate for sixth form students.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	187339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>We have protected the base rate of funding for 16 to 19 year olds for all types of providers until the end of the current spending review period in 2020. As with other areas of departmental spending, 16 to 19 funding for subsequent years will be agreed as part of the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 12/11/2018 11:37:15 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

903974

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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, what steps he is taking to improve the support provided to children in need.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	143759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>All children, no matter where they live, should have access to the same high quality care and support to meet their needs. This includes stronger initial training and clarity about the knowledge and skills social workers need in their jobs, and creating an environment where innovation can flourish and frontline practice is driven by evidence. The government continues to implement its reform programme as set out in Putting Children First (2016). We are also taking decisive action to improve services in inadequate local authorities through our interventions programme and by implementing a new improvement strategy for local authorities at risk of failing.</p><p> </p><p>The government recently launched a review into the outcomes of children in need, publishing extensive data on the educational outcomes of this cohort and launching a call for evidence. The review’s work continues, and we are engaging with professionals and organisations who support children in need and with 3 What Works Centres - the Education Endowment Foundation, Early Intervention Foundation, and the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care - to build our national evidence base on how best to improve these outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 143760 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:44:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

903975

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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, what steps he is taking to improve the outcomes of children in need.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	143760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>All children, no matter where they live, should have access to the same high quality care and support to meet their needs. This includes stronger initial training and clarity about the knowledge and skills social workers need in their jobs, and creating an environment where innovation can flourish and frontline practice is driven by evidence. The government continues to implement its reform programme as set out in Putting Children First (2016). We are also taking decisive action to improve services in inadequate local authorities through our interventions programme and by implementing a new improvement strategy for local authorities at risk of failing.</p><p> </p><p>The government recently launched a review into the outcomes of children in need, publishing extensive data on the educational outcomes of this cohort and launching a call for evidence. The review’s work continues, and we are engaging with professionals and organisations who support children in need and with 3 What Works Centres - the Education Endowment Foundation, Early Intervention Foundation, and the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care - to build our national evidence base on how best to improve these outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 143759 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:44:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

903976

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing transition support for children in need.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	143761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to preparing vulnerable children for adult life and recognises the challenges and importance of transition. The statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children, makes it clear that when children on child protection plans reach the age of eighteen, local authorities should consider whether support services are still required. For children leaving care, the offer of support from local authorities now extends to twenty-five.</p><p>We are already delivering a major programme of reform, as set out in Putting Children First (2016). We are working to improve the quality of the workforce, develop and spread innovative practice, and improve the quality of local authority children’s services. We are also using the Department for Education’s Social Care Innovation Programme to trial programmes to improve the quality of support for adolescents.</p><p>On 16 March the government launched a review into the outcomes of children in need and opened a call for evidence. We will consider the full range of views we receive in response to the call for evidence, including any around transition support and the way this is planned by local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 144402 144977 question first answered 22/05/2018 16:56:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

828741

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the medical conditions policies of schools are checked by Ofsted as part of their regular system of inspections.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	124384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The government knows how important it is that children with medical conditions are supported to enjoy a full education. That is why it has introduced a new duty to require governing boards to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions, and have provided statutory guidance outlining schools’ responsibilities in this area. This guidance sets out that governing boards should ensure that all schools develop a policy for supporting pupils with medical conditions that is reviewed regularly and is readily accessible to parents and school staff. We keep the guidance under review, including in the context of school awareness, and the role it plays in securing accessibility of school policies</p><p>Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework requires inspectors, in making judgements, to pay particular attention to the outcomes of a range of groups of pupils, including those with medical needs. Ofsted included guidance to inspectors on this matter in their March 2017 school inspection update, reminding inspectors that they should consider how schools are meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions.</p><p>The department works with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to help raise awareness of the duty on schools, and recently promoted the duty through the department’s social media channels.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 124400 124404 question first answered 31/01/2018 14:42:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

828762

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to update the statutory guidance on support for pupils with medical conditions to require schools to make their medical conditions policies readily accessible to parents by publishing them on their websites.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	124400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The government knows how important it is that children with medical conditions are supported to enjoy a full education. That is why it has introduced a new duty to require governing boards to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions, and have provided statutory guidance outlining schools’ responsibilities in this area. This guidance sets out that governing boards should ensure that all schools develop a policy for supporting pupils with medical conditions that is reviewed regularly and is readily accessible to parents and school staff. We keep the guidance under review, including in the context of school awareness, and the role it plays in securing accessibility of school policies</p><p>Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework requires inspectors, in making judgements, to pay particular attention to the outcomes of a range of groups of pupils, including those with medical needs. Ofsted included guidance to inspectors on this matter in their March 2017 school inspection update, reminding inspectors that they should consider how schools are meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions.</p><p>The department works with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to help raise awareness of the duty on schools, and recently promoted the duty through the department’s social media channels.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 124384 124404 question first answered 31/01/2018 14:42:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

828767

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to provide additional guidance to help schools (a) understand and (b) comply with their responsibilities on supporting pupils with medical conditions.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	124404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The government knows how important it is that children with medical conditions are supported to enjoy a full education. That is why it has introduced a new duty to require governing boards to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions, and have provided statutory guidance outlining schools’ responsibilities in this area. This guidance sets out that governing boards should ensure that all schools develop a policy for supporting pupils with medical conditions that is reviewed regularly and is readily accessible to parents and school staff. We keep the guidance under review, including in the context of school awareness, and the role it plays in securing accessibility of school policies</p><p>Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework requires inspectors, in making judgements, to pay particular attention to the outcomes of a range of groups of pupils, including those with medical needs. Ofsted included guidance to inspectors on this matter in their March 2017 school inspection update, reminding inspectors that they should consider how schools are meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions.</p><p>The department works with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to help raise awareness of the duty on schools, and recently promoted the duty through the department’s social media channels.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 124384 124400 question first answered 31/01/2018 14:42:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

828943

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of young people who are able to remain living with their foster carer in a staying put arrangement.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	124549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The cross-government care leaver strategy ‘Keep on Caring’ (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf</a>), which was published in July 2016, reiterated our commitment to Staying Put. It made clear that we want to maximise the number of eligible care leavers who take up the option to Stay Put. This includes continuing to provide funding to local authorities to implement Staying Put, totalling £92.12 million over the period 2016/17 to 2019-20. Through the Children and Social Work Act 2017, the government introduced a requirement for local authorities to publish a ‘Local Offer’ for care leavers, which should set out care leavers’ legal entitlements, and which should include the local authority’s policy on Staying Put.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 31/01/2018 15:01:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

828945

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people were (a) eligible to and (b) did remain with a foster carer in a staying put arrangement in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	124551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of care leavers who were eligible for, and receiving care leaver support in, a staying put arrangement with a former foster carer was published in table F2 for 19 and 20 year olds. This is published in table F4 for 18 year olds, in the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 31/01/2018 13:56:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

828948

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has assessed the adequacy of National Minimum Fostering Allowance rates since their introduction in 2007.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	124553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Foster carers and those providing Staying Put arrangements play a vital role in supporting some of our most vulnerable children and young people. It is right that they receive the support they need to meet the needs of those they care for, including financial support.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no assessment of the adequacy of National Minimum Allowances for foster carers or whether it would be appropriate to set minimum allowances for those providing Staying Put arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>However, the National Fostering Stocktake, an independent review of the fostering system in England, has now concluded. I will carefully consider any recommendations made by the review and the Education Select Committee on payments to foster carers and Staying Put carers. The government response will be published in spring 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 124554 question first answered 31/01/2018 14:47:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy