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1027355

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: 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 ensure child wellbeing (a) inside and (b) outside of school.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	202849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department wants to help schools support the wellbeing of their pupils. That is why in October 2018, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that schools would be provided with a framework to support them to assess the wellbeing of their pupils. The Prime Minister also made a commitment that the Government will publish an annual ‘State of the Nation’ report every year on World Mental Health Day, highlighting the trends and issues in young people’s wellbeing. Work is underway to deliver these commitments.</p><p>In addition, the Department is working with the Department of Health and Social Care to ensure that all schools have access to mental health support, and has also doubled the Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium to £320 million per year since September 2017. The Department is delivering a programme of work to explore how best to support disadvantaged children and their families to access free enrichment activities and healthy food during the school holidays. Up to £26 million is being invested in a breakfast club programme, which will open or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools and will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country.</p><p>Bullying can have serious and lasting consequences on wellbeing. The Government has sent a clear message to schools that bullying, including cyberbullying, for whatever reason is unacceptable. All schools are legally required to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying. The Department is providing over £2.8 million of funding between September 2016 and March 2020, to four anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/12/2018 16:57:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

931130

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Crumbling Futures, published by the Children's Society in March 2018, what plans the Government has to encourage more 16 and 17-year-olds to come forward with any mental or physical health concerns.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>We are interested in the recommendations of the Children’s Society Crumbling Futures report and welcome the focus on this area.</p><p>The government’s mandate to NHS England includes an explicit expectation that the NHS, working together with schools and children’s services will support and safeguard vulnerable children through a joined-up approach to addressing their emotional, mental and physical health needs.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care is providing an additional £1.4 billion funding between 2015/16 and 2019/20 in order to transform mental health services for children and young people with the ambition for an additional 70,000 children and young people to access NHS specialist services a year by 2020/21.</p><p>One of the ways the government will encourage take up of mental health services is through the new Mental Health Support Teams proposed in the Mental Health Green Paper, which will provide significant support to 16-18s in schools and colleges. The Department for Education will also test how the teams can support vulnerable 16-18s and others not in school or college such as those in apprenticeships and other work-based learning. Additionally, the Department of Health are setting up a new national strategic partnership with key stakeholders focused on improving the mental health of 16-25 year olds by encouraging more coordinated action, experimentation and robust evaluation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 157170 question first answered 28/06/2018 16:17:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931131

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Crumbling Futures, published by the Children's Society in March 2018, what infrastructure the Government has in place to support the needs of 16 and 17-year-olds with mental or physical health concerns.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>We are interested in the recommendations of the Children’s Society Crumbling Futures report and welcome the focus on this area.</p><p>The government’s mandate to NHS England includes an explicit expectation that the NHS, working together with schools and children’s services will support and safeguard vulnerable children through a joined-up approach to addressing their emotional, mental and physical health needs.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care is providing an additional £1.4 billion funding between 2015/16 and 2019/20 in order to transform mental health services for children and young people with the ambition for an additional 70,000 children and young people to access NHS specialist services a year by 2020/21.</p><p>One of the ways the government will encourage take up of mental health services is through the new Mental Health Support Teams proposed in the Mental Health Green Paper, which will provide significant support to 16-18s in schools and colleges. The Department for Education will also test how the teams can support vulnerable 16-18s and others not in school or college such as those in apprenticeships and other work-based learning. Additionally, the Department of Health are setting up a new national strategic partnership with key stakeholders focused on improving the mental health of 16-25 year olds by encouraging more coordinated action, experimentation and robust evaluation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 157169 question first answered 28/06/2018 16:17:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

926958

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how his Department monitors compliance by English local authorities with requirements prescribed in section 1 of the Childcare Act 2006.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	155281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The department does not monitor local authority compliance with section 1 of the Childcare Act 2006. We do continue to work closely with local authorities to improve outcomes for children, such as through the Partners in Practice programme, the special educational needs and disabilities reform programme, and our work to close the word gap announced in ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential: a plan to improve social mobility through education’.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/06/2018 14:51:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

638337

registered interest
date	17/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
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 children who do not attend registered early years settings meet the physical and emotional development standards outlined in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	53558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>All three- and four-year-olds and eligible two year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare per week and registered providers offering this early years provision are required to meet the standards of learning and care in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Take up of the free entitlements is high with 95% of three and four year olds accessing the entitlement. Of the 97% of four year olds accessing provision, the majority will be in a reception class, where in the summer term every child is assessed against the Early Learning Goals as part of the EYFS Profile. In 2016 almost 70% of children reached a good level of development.</p><p>For children who do not attend a registered early years setting, there is no requirement for the parent or carer to meet any of the requirements in the EYFS Stage statutory framework. In 2015-16, the Department ran pilots in seven local authorities to offer the benefits of the Integrated Review to children not in formal childcare. The pilots evaluated how best to work with parents of two year-olds not in registered childcare settings, so that their children can also benefit from an Integrated Review. The results of this pilot are being considered.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/11/2016 12:18:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

631824

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
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 potential effect on children's well-being of children being taught in different schools on account of their religious background.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	52231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>We want a diverse educational system that provides greater choice for parents and a high quality education. The proposals in our consultation document, “Schools that work for everyone”, aim to increase the number of high quality places and broaden the types of providers of schools, including faith groups. We expect all schools to cater for the well-being of their pupils whatever their background and the type of school they attend.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 14/11/2016 10:35:09 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

422584

registered interest
date	20/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has for consistent monitoring of the emotional, social and physical development of children in their early years, after the Early Years Foundation Profile becomes non-compulsory in September 2016; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	12513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>It is important for parents and teachers to know how well a child is progressing. As such, communication and language, physical development and personal, social and emotional development are set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework as prime learning areas for children from birth to age five.</p><br /><p>As part of the wider reforms to the accountability system for primary schools and the national curriculum we have introduced the reception baseline assessment for the 2015/16 academic year.</p><br /><p>The reception baseline forms one part of a teacher’s wider assessments in reception and we will expect early years practitioners to continue to carry out the appropriate ongoing, formative assessment of children of reception age.</p><br /><p>The EYFS statutory framework will also still require early years practitioners to carry out a progress check against the three prime areas of learning at age two, and we are improving this check for parents by bringing it together with health visitor checks in the form of new Integrated Reviews.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/10/2015 17:06:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

156757

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to reduce further the rate of smoking, drug use and consumption of alcohol among secondary school pupils.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	215134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>Most smokers start using tobacco regularly before the age of 18 so the Government has taken action to reduce the numbers of young people taking up smoking, for example by implementing legislation to end the open display of tobacco in shops.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Tobacco can no longer be sold from vending machines in England, which has removed an easily accessible source of cigarettes for underage smokers. We introduced a package of measures in the Children and Families Act aimed at protecting young people from tobacco and nicotine addiction and the serious health harms of smoked tobacco, including ending smoking in private vehicles carrying children and introducing an age of sale for electronic cigarettes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our strategy is working and it is welcome news that smoking rates among young people are also falling, with 8% of 15 year olds smoking. This achieves the national ambition to reduce smoking in 15 year olds to 12% or less by the end of 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are committed to reducing the number of young people using drugs and ensuring that they are equipped with the information they need to make informed, healthy decisions and to keep themselves safe is essential. We are investing in a range of programmes which have a positive impact on young people, giving them the confidence, resilience and risk management skills to choose not to misuse drugs and/or alcohol. Examples include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- through mainstream support and the FRANK drug information and advice service we are providing tailored information and advice to young people and to parents, to help them protect their children from drug and/or alcohol misuse;</p><p> </p><p>- drug and alcohol education is part of national curriculum science at key stage 2 and key stage 3 and schools are encouraged, by the Department of Education, to build on this provision through the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) teaching within their classrooms; and</p><p> </p><p>- we have also developed online tools for educators and commissioners that include the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS) which provides practical advice and tools based on the best international evidence; and the Centre for the Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT) has developed a database of evaluations of programmes aimed at improving outcomes for young people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, this winter, Public Health England is aiming to launch Rise Above, an online resource and social movement designed to build young people’s (11-16 years old) resilience and empower them to make positive choices for their health. This includes equipping them with the resilience skills to tackle the health challenges of adolescence and handle risky situations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Alcohol Strategy set out several measures to support our commitment to reducing underage drinking. These include educating young people on the risks associated with alcohol and by addressing factors that can influence young people’s attitude to alcohol, such as parental drinking. We are ensuring that guidance is available for parents through a range of public and community organisations including; NHS Choices, Directgov, Family Lives, and NetMum, Mumsnet, Dad Talk and Contact a Family.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has also reformed the Licensing Act to give local communities more powers. The Act includes provisions to double fines for under-age alcohol sales to £20,000 and give councils and the police the power to shut permanently shops or bars that persistently sell to children.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/11/2014 17:36:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

101100

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the education system gives due consideration to the promotion of child wellbeing.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The school curriculum must be broad and balanced. It must promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development, and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.</p><p> </p><p>Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education supports the teaching of all subjects across the school curriculum. With a new slimmed down curriculum, schools have more freedom and autonomy to integrate activities into the curriculum which can promote pupils’ wellbeing and build character.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced a new departmental priority with the aim of supporting schools and colleges to prepare well-rounded young people for success in adult life. We are working closely with the Department of Health’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce, which includes school representatives, to look at how we can further improve the prevention and identification of mental health problems and access to mental health services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/11/2014 10:52:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane