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date	05/11/2021
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 assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of childcare support available to full-time students who undertake paid work.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	70223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>The government recognises the value of parents continuing in or returning to education and provides support to those enrolled in recognised higher education courses.</p><p> </p><p>Eligible student parents may be able to claim a Childcare Grant, which offers parents support with up to 85% of their childcare costs depending on their household income.</p><p> </p><p>The maximum Childcare Grant for the 2021/22 academic year is:</p><p> </p><ul><li>up to £179.62 a week for one child</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>up to £307.95 a week for two or more children.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In further education, the Care to Learn scheme contributes towards childcare and related travel costs while young parents are in education.</p><p> </p><p>All parents aged under 20 who meet Care to Learn residency criteria and engage in directly publicly funded education or training (except higher education) can apply if they are the main carer and in receipt of child benefit for their child.</p><p> </p><p>The maximum amount that can be claimed is £175 per child per week in London and £160 per child per week elsewhere.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 15/11/2021 13:14:18 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146107

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2019 to Question 281570 on Children: Day Care, how many local authority areas did not meet the duty to provide sufficient childcare in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department works closely with Childcare Works, our national delivery contractor, to ensure that all local authorities provide sufficient childcare places in order to deliver free early years entitlements. Local authorities are required to report annually to elected council members on how they are meeting their duty to secure sufficient childcare and make this report available and accessible to parents. At this time, no local authority has reported that they are unable to meet their duty to provide sufficient places.</p><p>The Department’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects data on registered early years childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. Data is available at a national and regional level. A link to the survey can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2018</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/09/2019 16:26:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146109

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2019 to Question 278350 on Children: Day Care, how many short breaks local authorities provided for disabled children and their families in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Short breaks for disabled children can be provided by local authorities under either section 17 or section 20 of the Children Act 1989. Whilst information on children receiving services is reported in the children in need census, the detail of the specific services or support provided to the child is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/10/2019 17:10:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1144787

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2019 to Question 278350 on Children: Day Care, how many short breaks local authorities provided for disabled children and their families in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in each year from 2011.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	286617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 09/09/2019 16:33:22 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe