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418674

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours her Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	10221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are dealt with by the relevant policy teams across the Department for Education as a core business function, with support from a small policy advisory team. The processing of FOI requests is accordingly an integral part of civil servants' responsibilities and the number of hours spent on this activity is not separately identifiable.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/09/2015 08:54:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

418413

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Classroom Assistants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the findings of her Department's review into the status and professionalism of teaching assistants announced in October 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	10004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2015 answer text <p>Ministers have considered the latest evidence on the effective deployment and professional development of teaching assistants, together with a summary of the call for evidence and the draft teaching assistant standards submitted by the expert panel.</p><p> </p><p>In the light of this evidence, the Government believes that schools are best placed to decide how they use and deploy teaching assistants, and to set standards for the teaching assistants they employ. The Secretary of State has therefore decided not to publish the draft standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/10/2015 09:40:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 21854 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

417897

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many new academy schools they estimate will open in the year May 2015 to May 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The government has no targets for opening new academies. On the basis of actual opening dates since May 2015 and anticipated opening dates of current academy proposals, between May 2015 and May 2016 approximately 650 new academies will open; this number is very likely to change as new projects arise.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL2131 HL2132 question first answered 18/09/2015 13:20:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

417898

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their target for opening new academy schools in the year May 2015 to May 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The government has no targets for opening new academies. On the basis of actual opening dates since May 2015 and anticipated opening dates of current academy proposals, between May 2015 and May 2016 approximately 650 new academies will open; this number is very likely to change as new projects arise.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL2130 HL2132 question first answered 18/09/2015 13:20:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

417899

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their target for opening new academy schools in each of the next five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The government has no targets for opening new academies. On the basis of actual opening dates since May 2015 and anticipated opening dates of current academy proposals, between May 2015 and May 2016 approximately 650 new academies will open; this number is very likely to change as new projects arise.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL2130 HL2131 question first answered 18/09/2015 13:20:02 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

417900

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many sponsors have applied to open new academy schools since May.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>On Monday 7 September 2015 my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education and I attended the Academy Ambassadors ‘businesses in schools’ event, at which the Secretary of State urged business leaders to set up more academy trusts. I set up Academy Ambassadors (AA) to recruit sponsors and high-calibre business leaders to join academy trust boards as non-executive directors. This latter activity is to help multi-academy trusts grow in a sustainable way, offer specific support such as Chair of Audit or Finance, or simply serve as strong, independent board members. AA work closely with academy trusts to recruit non-executive directors and trustees with the specific skill-set the trust requires, from their local community. Its most successful approaches have been through business breakfasts, partnerships with large employers, and working with network organisations (such as Women in Banking and Finance). AA has placed over 80 business leaders onto academy trusts and has a current ‘talent pool’ of over 150 business people.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Department for Education’s Regional Schools Commissioners undertake a wide range of activities to encourage sponsorship involving schools, businesses and other bodies, including colleges and universities, in their regions.</p><p> </p><p>The value of sponsorship is largely unquantifiable in purely monetary terms.</p><p> </p><p>Since May, no new schools have opened where the sponsor had ‘applied’ since May, however, we regularly receive applications from organisations wishing to be academy sponsors.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL2134 HL2135 question first answered 18/09/2015 13:18:20 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

417901

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage sponsors to open new academy schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>On Monday 7 September 2015 my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education and I attended the Academy Ambassadors ‘businesses in schools’ event, at which the Secretary of State urged business leaders to set up more academy trusts. I set up Academy Ambassadors (AA) to recruit sponsors and high-calibre business leaders to join academy trust boards as non-executive directors. This latter activity is to help multi-academy trusts grow in a sustainable way, offer specific support such as Chair of Audit or Finance, or simply serve as strong, independent board members. AA work closely with academy trusts to recruit non-executive directors and trustees with the specific skill-set the trust requires, from their local community. Its most successful approaches have been through business breakfasts, partnerships with large employers, and working with network organisations (such as Women in Banking and Finance). AA has placed over 80 business leaders onto academy trusts and has a current ‘talent pool’ of over 150 business people.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Department for Education’s Regional Schools Commissioners undertake a wide range of activities to encourage sponsorship involving schools, businesses and other bodies, including colleges and universities, in their regions.</p><p> </p><p>The value of sponsorship is largely unquantifiable in purely monetary terms.</p><p> </p><p>Since May, no new schools have opened where the sponsor had ‘applied’ since May, however, we regularly receive applications from organisations wishing to be academy sponsors.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL2133 HL2135 question first answered 18/09/2015 13:18:20 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

417902

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their total estimated value of sponsorship for new academy schools between 7 May and 31 August.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>On Monday 7 September 2015 my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education and I attended the Academy Ambassadors ‘businesses in schools’ event, at which the Secretary of State urged business leaders to set up more academy trusts. I set up Academy Ambassadors (AA) to recruit sponsors and high-calibre business leaders to join academy trust boards as non-executive directors. This latter activity is to help multi-academy trusts grow in a sustainable way, offer specific support such as Chair of Audit or Finance, or simply serve as strong, independent board members. AA work closely with academy trusts to recruit non-executive directors and trustees with the specific skill-set the trust requires, from their local community. Its most successful approaches have been through business breakfasts, partnerships with large employers, and working with network organisations (such as Women in Banking and Finance). AA has placed over 80 business leaders onto academy trusts and has a current ‘talent pool’ of over 150 business people.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Department for Education’s Regional Schools Commissioners undertake a wide range of activities to encourage sponsorship involving schools, businesses and other bodies, including colleges and universities, in their regions.</p><p> </p><p>The value of sponsorship is largely unquantifiable in purely monetary terms.</p><p> </p><p>Since May, no new schools have opened where the sponsor had ‘applied’ since May, however, we regularly receive applications from organisations wishing to be academy sponsors.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL2133 HL2134 question first answered 18/09/2015 13:18:20 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

388926

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
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 (a) the adequacy of counselling services in schools for young people and (b) the effectiveness of curriculum content on emotional well-being and self-harm.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	6433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>We recognise that schools have a vital role to play in helping to promote good mental health for all their pupils as well as providing early support where mental health problems have been identified</p><p>Schools are best placed to decide what support and teaching they need to provide and we know that many schools provide their pupils with counselling. While we do not collect detailed central information on this provision, we have produced a blueprint for school counselling services which provides schools with practical, evidence-based advice informed by schools and counselling experts on how to deliver high quality school based counselling. More information can be found online here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools</a>. However, teachers are not mental health professionals and it is important that students can get swift access to specialist mental health support where needed. An additional £1.25bn is available for mental health services for children, young people and new mothers over the next 5 years, to ensure timely access to appropriate specialist support is available.</p><p>In March 2015, we published a review of the research evidence for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education teaching. This covers effective practice and teaching as well as the impact of PSHE teaching on pupil’s outcomes, including their emotional health and well-being and their academic attainment. This research is published online here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pshe-education-a-review-of-impact-and-effective-practice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pshe-education-a-review-of-impact-and-effective-practice</a></p><p>We have already funded the PSHE Association to produce guidance to improve teaching about mental health in PSHE which was published in March 2015. This will be supplemented by detailed lesson plans for Key Stages 1-4. More information is available online here <a href="https://www.pshe-association.org.uk/news_detail.aspx?ID=1435" target="_blank">https://www.pshe-association.org.uk/news_detail.aspx?ID=1435</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 6432 question first answered 15/07/2015 11:13:40 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

387008

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department is doing to ensure children's services rated as inadequate can be improved and begin to achieve their targets.
tabling member constituency	Halesowen and Rowley Regis
tabling member printed	James Morris
uin	5094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education takes any failure to deliver services at the required level extremely seriously. The department is currently considering all the available evidence in order to act in a way which provides sustainable improvements for the children of Sandwell, ensuring that the services received by children, young people and their families improve to the required level.</p><p> </p><p>The department believes that Sandwell has had sufficient time to make the necessary improvements. Sandwell was originally rated as ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted in January 2010. During the five years in which Sandwell has been subject to intervention arrangements, a large number of local authorities have managed to improve their services to meet the required standard.</p><p>The department currently intervenes in 20 local authorities in which children’s social care services have been identified by Ofsted as failing children and young people. The interventions include a range of strategies, from enhanced oversight by department officials, independent advisors or commissioners, through to more extreme cases which have required the department to remove services from the local authority’s control. The level of support provided will depend on the scale of the issues identified by Ofsted and the capacity of the authority to address them.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 5091 5092 5093 question first answered 09/07/2015 16:53:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3992 label Biography information for James Morris