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1126462

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units: Standards
	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 quality of education in pupil referral units.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	254263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is taking forward a programme of reform to alternative provision (AP), including pupil referral units, and set out its vision for reform in the March 2018 document: 'Creating opportunity for all: our vision for alternative provision'. Since then the Government has made significant progress by launching a £4 million AP Innovation Fund, which is developing best practice and delivering projects to improve outcomes for pupils in AP, by publishing two research reports into AP with examples of good practice for providers and commissioners, and by opening 6 AP free schools and approving two more.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Timpson Review of school exclusion, the Government committed to setting out plans to go further to improve outcomes for children in AP, including how to support alternative providers to attract and develop high-quality staff through a new AP workforce programme, and how it will help commissioners and providers to identify and recognise good practice.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/05/2019 14:11:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1126463

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Mental 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 provide additional funding for early support for children with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	254084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>​The Department for Education is working closely with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care to support schools and colleges to provide support for children and young people with emerging mental health issues and secure specialist treatment where it is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan published in January 2019 announced that by 2023/24 an extra 345,000 children and young people in England aged 0-25 will receive mental health support via NHS funded mental health services and new Mental Health Support Teams. Mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. Spending on children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than adult services, and faster than other NHS spending. As set out in the 'Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision' green paper, the new support teams will work with groups of schools and colleges to provide swift access to support for children and young people with emerging and mild and moderate needs and support referrals to more specialist treatment.</p><p>The Department for Education is providing up to £95 million between 2019/20 and 2023/24 to support the delivery of the green paper proposals, including the costs of a significant training programme for senior mental health leads, to help schools and colleges to put in place whole school approaches to supporting pupil mental health.​</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/05/2019 14:07:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1126547

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Morning Lane Associates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what work is outstanding under his Department's contracts with Morning Lane Associates as (a) sole provider and (b) part of a consortium.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	254203
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>There are no outstanding contracts with Morning Lane Associations (MLA). The department entered in to a consortium contract, which included MLA and was led by KPMG on 26 March 2015. This contract was to develop an assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers. This contract was extended in October 2015 and ended on 31 May 2016. MLA was not directly awarded £4.4 million. MLA received £1.6 million of funding to support the innovation project ‘Reclaiming Social Work’. The additional money for this project was paid directly to local authorities through a section 31 grant.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 254204 254205 question first answered 20/05/2019 14:03:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1126548

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Morning Lane Associates
	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 9 May 2019 to Question 250518 on Morning Lane Associates, what the start and end dates were of the contracts that Morning Lane Associates undertook, in partnership with KPMG, in relation to the national assessment and accreditation system for children and family social workers.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	254204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>There are no outstanding contracts with Morning Lane Associations (MLA). The department entered in to a consortium contract, which included MLA and was led by KPMG on 26 March 2015. This contract was to develop an assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers. This contract was extended in October 2015 and ended on 31 May 2016. MLA was not directly awarded £4.4 million. MLA received £1.6 million of funding to support the innovation project ‘Reclaiming Social Work’. The additional money for this project was paid directly to local authorities through a section 31 grant.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 254203 254205 question first answered 20/05/2019 14:03:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1126549

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Morning Lane Associates
	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 9 May 2019 to Question 250518, Morning Lane Associates, for what reason the £4.4 million awarded to Morning Lane Associates to implement the Reclaiming Social Work approach in five local authorities was not included in that Answer.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	254205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>There are no outstanding contracts with Morning Lane Associations (MLA). The department entered in to a consortium contract, which included MLA and was led by KPMG on 26 March 2015. This contract was to develop an assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers. This contract was extended in October 2015 and ended on 31 May 2016. MLA was not directly awarded £4.4 million. MLA received £1.6 million of funding to support the innovation project ‘Reclaiming Social Work’. The additional money for this project was paid directly to local authorities through a section 31 grant.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 254203 254204 question first answered 20/05/2019 14:03:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck