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91410

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date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of child sexual exploitation action plans by local safeguarding children's boards.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted undertakes a review of each local safeguarding children’s board (LSCB) at the same time as they undertake their inspection of local authorities’ services for children in need of help and protection and looked after children. Neither the review nor the inspection makes specific judgements about the sexual exploitation of children or the effectiveness of the local child sexual exploitation action plans. However, inspectors are required to include in the cases they evaluate “children at risk of harm from physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect; inspectors will also want to identify those children and young people where the local authority have concerns that they may be vulnerable to child sexual exploitation and those children and young people who have been missing from care, home and education”. In undertaking the LSCB review inspectors are required to “evaluate the quality and impact of the policies and procedures produced by the LSCB, such as the local thresholds document and the child sexual exploitation action plan.” An LSCB’s response to child sexual exploitation is considered as part of the overall judgement on the performance of the LSCB. Seven LSCBs of the 3<ins class="ministerial">3</ins><del class="ministerial">1</del> inspected since the new framework came into being in November 2013 have been found to be inadequate.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:12:11 question first ministerially corrected 20/10/2014 16:41:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 21507 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91411

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that teaching and guidance is given in schools to ensure that children understand caste discrimination.
tabling member constituency	Islington North
tabling member printed	Jeremy Corbyn
uin	209042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Schools are encouraged to teach their pupils about the diverse national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom through the citizenship national curriculum for KS4. Pupils should also be taught about the need for mutual respect and understanding. Pupils may also be taught about diversity and equality through the non-statutory personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education will shortly be publishing new guidance on promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development of pupils, highlighting the importance of pupils gaining knowledge and understanding of different cultures. Schools may achieve this through their whole school ethos as well as teaching of curriculum subjects.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 25/09/2014 16:31:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	185 label Biography information for Jeremy Corbyn

91412

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local safeguarding children's boards have failed inspections on their child sexual exploitation action plans.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted undertakes a review of each local safeguarding children’s board (LSCB) at the same time as they undertake their inspection of local authorities’ services for children in need of help and protection and looked after children. Neither the review nor the inspection makes specific judgements about the sexual exploitation of children or the effectiveness of the local child sexual exploitation action plans. However, inspectors are required to include in the cases they evaluate “children at risk of harm from physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect; inspectors will also want to identify those children and young people where the local authority have concerns that they may be vulnerable to child sexual exploitation and those children and young people who have been missing from care, home and education”. In undertaking the LSCB review inspectors are required to “evaluate the quality and impact of the policies and procedures produced by the LSCB, such as the local thresholds document and the child sexual exploitation action plan.” An LSCB’s response to child sexual exploitation is considered as part of the overall judgement on the performance of the LSCB. Seven LSCBs of the 3<ins class="ministerial">3</ins><del class="ministerial">1</del> inspected since the new framework came into being in November 2013 have been found to be inadequate.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:12:11 question first ministerially corrected 20/10/2014 16:41:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 21593 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91413

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities operate multi-agency safeguarding hubs.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not prescribe which multi-agency model local authorities should use to share information about children and their families. Approaches to organising contact, assessment and referral services in a local area are a matter for local authorities and their partners. The Department for Education does not monitor which approach each local authority uses. Ofsted monitors the effectiveness of local multi-agency information sharing arrangements under the single inspection framework.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect data on the models used by local authorities to share information about safeguarding. However, the Home Office undertook a project to improve national and local understanding of the different local multi-agency models in place, and as part of this surveyed all local authorities. In 2013, responses were received from 63 of 152 local authority areas, 64% of which stated they had some kind of multi-agency model in operation. The ‘Multi-Agency Working and Information Sharing Project – Early Findings’ report, published July 2013, and the Final report, published in July 2014, gives examples of areas that use multi-agency safeguarding hubs and other multi-agency models. Both reports are published found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225012/MASH_Product.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225012/MASH_Product.pdf</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multi-agency-working-and-information-sharing-project" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/multi-agency-working-and-information-sharing-project</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 208999 question first answered 13/10/2014 16:09:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91414

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Serious Case Review Panel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the minutes of all the meetings of the Serious Case Review Panel.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	209055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>As indicated in response to question 194096 (1 April 2014, column 629W), discussions at meetings of the national panel of independent experts on serious case reviews focus on cases put to the panel from local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs). The panel considers the points put forward by LSCBs about the application of the SCR criteria, the appointment of reviewers and the publication of SCR reports and agrees its response to each LSCB. These responses constitute the summary of discussions at the panel meetings. However, they cover sensitive material not in the public domain and could not therefore be routinely published. The panel recently published its first annual report which gives a summary of its first year of operation.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:16:28 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91415

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she will publish her Department's response to the consultation, Improving Permanence for Looked After Children; and if she will introduce an entitlement to support for all children returning home from care.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Stuart
uin	208987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>A robust assessment of the needs of a child and their family and how these needs will be met through ongoing support from the local authority is crucial if children are to return home safely and successfully from care. The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 are clear that the child’s care plan must provide details of the advice, assistance and support that the responsible authority intends to provide after the child has returned home. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 sets out the principles and parameters of a good assessment. [1]</p><p>Improving practice when children return home from care is a priority for the Government. In 2013, we consulted on a range of proposals to improve permanence for looked-after children. Department for Education officials convened a meeting of the relevant Expert Group on 9 September 2014 to discuss these issues and the consultation response. The Government’s formal response will be published later this year.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 13/10/2014 16:17:36 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

91416

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Travel: Concessions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward proposals to extend the statutory entitlement for free transport for young people in education and training beyond the current age threshold of 16.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	209015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The statutory responsibility for transport to education and training for 16 to 19 year olds rests with local authorities, enabling them to make decisions which best match local needs and circumstances. Local authorities are expected to make reasonable decisions based on the needs of their population, the local transport infrastructure, and the resources they have available.</p><p>The Government has no plans at present to extend the home to school statutory entitlement beyond the age of 16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/10/2014 10:11:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91417

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: 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 her Department has made of the adequacy of the further education free schools' meal allowance.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	208975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>From September 2014, further education (FE) funded institutions are required to provide free meals to their disadvantaged 16- to 18-year-old students.</p><p>Funding for FE free meals in 2014-15 has been set at £2.41 per meal. This is based on evidence of the average cost of providing school meals in secondary schools, using the latest available data from the 2012 School Food Trust Annual Survey.</p><p>However, we recognise that institutions will face a range of different circumstances and so have given them the flexibility to enhance free meals funding from the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund. We have also made clear that where they do this they must ensure that they continue to provide sufficient support from that scheme to support students facing the full range of barriers to participation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/10/2014 13:23:04 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91418

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: 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 her Department has made of the ability of all further education institutions to provide free meals to qualifying 16 to 18 year old students.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	208993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>During the development of the new policy to provide free meals to disadvantaged 16- to 18-year-old students in further education (FE) institutions, officials visited colleges to gain an understanding of their current facilities and discuss with them the implications of implementing the policy.</p><p>We also sought the views of, and took on board comments from, a number of bodies representing FE sector institutions. As a result, we took steps to ensure that the new requirement was introduced in as flexible way as possible and did not require the creation of new facilities.</p><p>We are not aware of any institutions that are not complying with the requirement to provide free meals.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/10/2014 13:18:59 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91419

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of (a) the implication for his Department's policies of the paper Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature and (b) allegations of fraud in that paper.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	208969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The 2013, peer-reviewed paper <em>Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature </em>analysed the abstracts of around 12,000 scientific papers and found that, of the third which expressed a view on the cause of global warming, 97% considered it to be man-made. We are not aware of any evidence of fraud relating to this paper.</p><p>The main conclusion of the paper is consistent with findings from all other such studies, and as is evident from the recent Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that recent global warming is largely caused by human activity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 13/10/2014 12:40:44 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies