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1125790

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of rewarding parents for looking after their own children in their formative years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	252520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting parents looking after children and does so in a number of ways throughout their formative years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For instance, every year the Government spends more than £11bn on Child Benefit to support those families raising children. There is also a comprehensive crediting system in place to support those who cannot work due to illness or if they are caring for someone, including parents looking after a child under 12. These help maintain an individual's National Insurance record and so protect their entitlement to the basic State Pension and certain other state benefits.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/05/2019 11:28:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1109917

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if the Government will take steps to ensure that non-working women are able to afford to raise their children at home.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	241393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office is working to address the persistent gendered barriers that women and men face at every stage of their lives. As part of our new strategy we will set out what the Government is doing to ensure that people have financial independence and resilience, as well as real choice and influence over the economic decisions in their lives. This includes the choices that women make around whether to have children, and how to balance work and care.</p><p> </p><p>The Government provides a range of support for new mothers, depending on their needs and the needs of their families. These include breastfeeding, perinatal mental health, and health visitor support.</p><p> </p><p>Enabling women and men to spend quality time with their child in the first year is important to support families to bond. The right to request flexible working, and the introduction of Shared Parental Leave helps parents to balance work and care between them, in a way that works for their families.</p><p> </p><p>If mothers want to return to work, childcare support is available, we have doubled the childcare entitlement for working parents of 3 and 4 year olds, from 15 to 30 hours a week as well as introducing Tax-Free Childcare. This means that this year we will be spending around £6bn on childcare support, this is more than any previous government.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 241394 question first answered 11/04/2019 11:56:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1038522

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to receive the high conflict practice pathway from Cafcass designed to provide guidance to practitioners on cases of parental alienation.
tabling member constituency	Keighley
tabling member printed	John Grogan
uin	206755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Cafcass launched its Child Impact Assessment Framework in October 2018. It is available at <a href="https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/professionals/ciaf/" target="_blank">https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/professionals/ciaf/</a>. The framework, which incorporates the award-winning Domestic Abuse Practice Pathway, brings together guides and tools which Cafcass officers can use to help them assess the impact on the child of different case factors in private law cases, including: domestic abuse; harmful conflict; child refusal or resistance to spend time with one of their parents, which includes parental alienation; and other forms of harmful parenting.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/01/2019 18:12:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	382 label Biography information for John Grogan

1038532

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of data available to his Department on the prevalence of parental alienation.
tabling member constituency	Keighley
tabling member printed	John Grogan
uin	206756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>In October last year the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) launched its Child Impact Assessment Framework (CIAF) which sets out how children may experience parental separation and how this can be understood and acted on by Cafcass.</p><p> </p><p>Cafcass is planning to undertake a review of its case records featuring actual or alleged alienating behaviours so that it has a clearer evidence base on the prevalence of parental alienation and its relationships with other case factors. This study will commence once the CIAF has been fully embedded into practice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/01/2019 18:11:20 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	382 label Biography information for John Grogan

816896

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce a Minister for the first 1001 Days to lead joint work with the Department for Education on that issue.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	121323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>As Minister with responsibility for children’s health in the Department of Health and Social Care. I and my officials work closely with colleagues in the Department for Education on a range of projects and workstreams aimed at improving early year’s health. For example, the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England are working closely with the Department for Education to take forward actions to address the speech, language and communication needs of young children. This is to help close the development and word gap at age five between more and less advantaged children, as outlined by the then Secretary of State for Education (Justine Greening MP) when she launched the Social Mobility Action Plan in December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/01/2018 14:45:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

781432

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the need for changes in the family courts system to address the issue of parental alienation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	110599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>“Parental alienation” describes a situation where a parent knowingly (or unknowingly) manipulates a child’s wishes and feelings towards the other parent in an effort to undermine and interfere with their relationship. The Government is confident that the family justice system can robustly address such behaviour when it is alleged in child arrangements cases.</p><p>As the child’s welfare must be the court’s paramount concern, there is a statutory presumption that the involvement of a parent in the child’s life will further the child’s welfare, unless the contrary can be shown. The court must consider the child’s ascertainable wishes and feelings and how capable each of the parents are of meeting the child’s needs. These principles of the Children Act 1989 safeguard against orders being made because of implacable hostility by one parent.</p><p>Where Cafcass practitioners prepare a report into the child’s welfare, they are aware of the potential for children to be influenced or alienated by parental views. Any concerns of ‘parental alienation’ will be reported to the court.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/11/2017 17:39:51 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

755735

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 18 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what assessment she has made of the effect on social mobility of changes to funding of programmes that are aimed at parents.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	6891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services, which may include parenting programmes and support, is non-ring-fenced and part of the wider local government finance settlement to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities. It is for local authorities to determine how to spend this and other sources of income on the services they provide. They do so taking account local need, priorities, and of course their statutory responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 6894 question first answered 12/09/2017 15:25:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755736

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 27 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what assessment she has made of the effect of a wide range of choices for parents on the uptake of vouchers for parenting programmes.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	6892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education (DfE) funded the CANparent trial between April 2012 and March 2014 and trialled the use of vouchers for parenting programmes in three of the areas of the country. An evaluation of the DfE-funded trial found that:</p><p>While “voucher distributors and some other stakeholders spoke of parents being confused by the range of providers and types of courses on offer” by autumn 2013 “half (49%) of households that had received a voucher had already signed up to a class or were intending to sign up to a class”. The full evaluation of the DfE trial is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/canparent-trial-evaluation-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/canparent-trial-evaluation-final-report</a>.</p><p>In April 2014, the Department of Health (DH) took responsibility for CANParent and ran a modified version of the trial (without a voucher element) for a third and final year. An evaluation of the DH-funded trial is available at: <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/cedar/canuniversalparentingevaluation/trialevaluation/" target="_blank">http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/cedar/canuniversalparentingevaluation/trialevaluation/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2017 16:15:40 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755738

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 27 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what assessment she has made of the effect of the level of resources available to local authorities on their allocation of funding to parenting programmes.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	6894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services, which may include parenting programmes and support, is non-ring-fenced and part of the wider local government finance settlement to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities. It is for local authorities to determine how to spend this and other sources of income on the services they provide. They do so taking account local need, priorities, and of course their statutory responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 6891 question first answered 12/09/2017 15:25:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

752934

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Child Rearing
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 effect of fathers on (a) the development of children in the early years and (b) life chances.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	5560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>Fathers play a fundamental role in their children’s development and future. The recently published study of early education and development (SEED) impact at age 3 report (available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627108/SEED_Impact_at_age_3_Research_Brief.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627108/SEED_Impact_at_age_3_Research_Brief.pdf</a>) demonstrated the important role parents play, particularly through the impact of the home learning environment (HLE). These findings are underpinned by findings from the effective pre-school, primary and secondary education (EPPSE) study (available here: <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research/featured-research/effective-pre-school-primary-secondary-education-project/publications/" target="_blank">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research/featured-research/effective-pre-school-primary-secondary-education-project/publications/#</a>), which showed that the quality of the early HLE impacts on educational attainment through to GCSE and A-Level. The father’s level of educational qualifications specifically is also important for a range of cognitive, social emotional and other outcomes.</p><p>Early years providers are required, through the early years foundation stage framework (EYFS), to engage with parents and carers on their child’s development at home. Children’s centres, as set out in their core purpose, provide local services to parents to narrow inequalities in parenting aspirations and parenting skills. And in 2017, the department also put in place voluntary and charity sector grants worth almost £1.7m to improve the quality of the HLE for disadvantaged families and improve access to the disadvantaged two year-old offer.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 21/07/2017 07:28:04 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy