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622032

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent evaluation she has made of the capacity of childcare providers to provide 30 hours of free childcare from the eight pilot schemes that are piloting the new childcare entitlement; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	50513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>As promised, in September 2016, the Government launched 30 hours free childcare through eight Early Implementers one year in advance of full implementation of the offer from September 2017. Up to 5,000 working families will benefit in our eight Early Implementers areas. The Early Implementers are testing the delivery of the 30 hours free childcare offer, and providing valuable learning by developing a number of approaches. This includes supporting the needs of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and developing flexible models to meet the needs of working parents.</p><p> </p><p>In York, where there are no limits on the number of families who can benefit, around 83% of eligible families are already receiving 30 hours free childcare, just 6 weeks after the launch ‎of early implementation.</p><p> </p><p>The department has commissioned an independent evaluation of early implementation of the 30 hours free childcare offer. The evaluation is focusing on generating learning that can be used by Early Implementers and all local authorities ahead of national rollout in September 2017. There will be a national findings event in the spring next year, and a formal evaluation report will be published in July 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 50514 question first answered 02/11/2016 17:21:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

622033

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of funding from her Department for free childcare is retained by each local authority for central services.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	50597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>Data from local authority planned spend for 2016-17 is publically available and includes their planned central expenditure for central services and contingency. The data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planned-la-and-school-expenditure-2016-to-2017-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planned-la-and-school-expenditure-2016-to-2017-financial-year</a></p><p> </p><p>This data is as reported by the local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/11/2016 13:03:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

622034

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms her Department has for ensuring that local authorities manage their childcare funding effectively.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	50574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>We are currently considering all responses to our recent consultation on proposals for a national funding formula for the early years. These proposals will ensure that funding for the early years is based on the costs of meeting the needs of local children, not on historic spending patterns.</p><p> </p><p>As we implement our proposals, which will be set out in the government’s response to the consultation in the autumn, we will closely monitor and review the impact to ensure that local authorities and providers are able to deliver the childcare entitlements in a sustainable way.</p><p> </p><p>We have also recently appointed Childcare Works as a delivery contractor to work with, and to monitor, local authorities on their preparedness for delivery of the 30-hours offer of free childcare for working parents.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/11/2016 15:40:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

622035

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many childcare providers have breached her Department's statutory guidance issued in September 2014 that states that providers which charge for goods or services do not make this a condition of children accessing their place.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	50563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of local authorities to ensure that providers deliver government-funded early education places free of charge, and that parents are not required to pay for additional services or consumables as a condition of accessing a place. The Government does not require local authorities to report breaches of this requirement centrally; however it has clearly set out local authorities’ responsibility for ensuring there are no compulsory charges for parents.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 Statutory Guidance states that, in relation to delivery of the early education entitlements for two-, three- and four-year-olds, local authorities should ensure that if providers charge for any goods or services, this is not a condition of children accessing their place. The Statutory Guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298754/2014_Draft_Statutory_Guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298754/2014_Draft_Statutory_Guidance.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>We reinforced this position in the consultation on reforms to Early Years Funding which was published on 11 August. This makes clear that providers are free to charge parents for consumables (such as drinks, meals and nappies) or additional services (such as baby yoga, music lessons and trips) provided they are not compulsory. ‘So, for example, paying for additional services must not be a condition of taking up a free publicly-funded place’. The consultation document is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff</a></p><p> </p><p>We will publish updated Statutory Guidance in early 2017, which will restate the Government position on providers charging for additional services or consumables. We have consulted on draft updated Statutory Guidance which is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement/supporting_documents/STAT%20GUIDANCE%20latest.pdf" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement/supporting_documents/STAT%20GUIDANCE%20latest.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 50573 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:06:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

622036

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that all local authorities are aware of their duty to clarify the complaints procedure for parents in relation to their entitlement to free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	50564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education is already clear in statutory guidance that local authorities should have a complaints procedure for parents who are not satisfied that their child has received their early education place, or are unhappy with any aspect of the way in which they have received it, and should publicise this to parents. This is set out at C.7 in Statutory Guidance, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/351592/early_education_and_childcare_statutory_guidance_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/351592/early_education_and_childcare_statutory_guidance_2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department will also include this in the model agreement and the parental declaration template, annexed to the model agreement, which will be published later in the year. The new model agreement and parental declaration template will set out the Department’s expectations on what should be included in agreements between local authorities and childcare providers for delivery of the free early education entitlements for two-, three- and four-year-olds, in order to bring more consistent practice across different local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/11/2016 13:04:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

621159

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to provide funding to implement the pledge made in their manifesto, and the duty on the Secretary of State in the Childcare Act 2016, to extend the number of free childcare hours for working families.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pinnock
uin	HL2676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government will be investing over £1billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund our commitments on the early years entitlements. This includes £300million per year from 2017-18 for a significant increase to the hourly rate paid for the two-, three- and four-year-old entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>It is vital that funding for these entitlements is fairly distributed between different parts of the country and different types of providers. That is why we have recently consulted on our proposals for a national funding formula for these services. Our proposals will ensure that funding is based on the costs of meeting the needs of local children, not on historic spending patterns.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently considering all responses to the consultation, and are planning to publish the Government’s response soon.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/11/2016 15:59:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4341 label Biography information for Baroness Pinnock

619437

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of children who will no longer be able to receive more than 15 hours child care a week as a result of changes to their policy on child care, and how much it would cost local authorities to fund such provision.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government will be investing £6 billion per year in childcare by the end of this Parliament. That includes doubling the free offer for three- and four-year-olds with working parents to 30 hours, supporting families with the cost and flexibility of childcare, introducing tax-free childcare worth up to £2,000 per child per year and increasing support for low-income parents on Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Every three- ‎and four-year-old, and the most disadvantaged two-year-olds will continue to benefit from 15 hours a week of free early education. Local authorities may also choose to provide additional hours of childcare. Such decisions are a matter for individual local authorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/11/2016 15:55:13 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

619918

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of full day care staff had an Early Years Educator Level 3 qualification or above in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	49964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The 2013 Childcare and Early Years Provider Survey showed that 87% of staff in full day care settings are now qualified to at least level 3. This is an increase from 75% in 2008.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold this data for the years since 2013, the data for 2016 will be available by early 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/10/2016 17:36:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

606768

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is giving to rural nurseries to ensure they are able to meet the Government's commitment of providing 30 free hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	49673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>We have recently consulted on a comprehensive set of reforms to the early years funding system, and one of our proposals is to allow local authorities to use a rurality/sparsity supplement in their local funding formulae, in recognition that there may be unavoidable higher costs to providers operating in sparsely populated, rural areas with limited demand. We are currently considering all responses to the consultation and are planning to publish the government’s response in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>We are also keen to gather learning and test how the extended entitlement will operate in a range of area types, including rural areas. Through Early Implementation of the 30 Hours Free Childcare entitlement, Northumberland, one of our early implementer local authorities, is looking specifically at how the extended hours work for and impact on providers operating within the most rural postcodes in Northumberland. Since September, over 500 children in rural parts of Northumberland have been benefiting from a 30 hours free childcare place a year early.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2016 17:28:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

604014

registered interest
date	17/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations she has received from childcare providers on funding concerns relating to the Government's commitment to offer three and four-year-olds 30 free hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	49026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government published the consultation ‘Early years funding: changes to funding for 3- and 4-year-olds’ on 11 August 2016 (<a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff/consult_view" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff/consult_view</a>). The consultation has now closed and we have received 3,121 responses. Of these, 64% identified themselves as childcare providers or practitioners and 22% as representing the maintained sector. The Government’s response to the consultation is planned for later this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2016 17:27:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders