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790928

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the change in funding from her Department was for (a) Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, (b) Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, (c) Manchester City Council, (d) Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, (e) Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, (f) Salford City Council, (g) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, (h) Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, (i) Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council and (j) Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council for children's social care in (i) 2014-15, (ii) 2015-16, (iii) 2016-17 and (iv) 2017-18; and what the average reduction in local authority funding in England was for children's social care in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Full details of the councils' funding are detailed in the Local Government Finance Settlement, which is published on the Government's website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2017-to-2018</a></p><p>Funding for children's social care is not ring fenced because this allows local authorities, who are independent of central Government, to manage their budgets in line with local priorities. We believe it is important that councils are able to set the policy agenda and target spending to match.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 29/11/2017 16:47:30 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

792457

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any evaluation has been conducted to assess the effectiveness of the Partners in Practice programme in improving local authority children’s services.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL3398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The Partners in Practice are a key part of this government’s efforts to improve practice across the children’s social care system and deliver better outcomes for children and families. The Partners in Practice are driving improvement by providing high quality support to those local councils who need it most. They are also developing and testing innovative approaches to supporting children and families, and sharing learning and best practice across the sector.</p><p>Building a robust evidence base is central to the programme and the Partners in Practice are all subject to detailed independent evaluation. Interim evaluation reports will be published in early 2019, with final reports due to be published in mid-2020. The Partners in Practice are also actively sharing live learning and best practice through conferences, workshops, study visits, guides and toolkits.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 04/12/2017 17:18:40 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

790934

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which high-performing children's services departments have provided assistance to other local authorities whose departments were judged inadequate since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>The department does not hold information on all cases when high-performing children's services departments have provided assistance to other local councils because local councils may freely make these arrangements among themselves. The following list shows all those local councils that have been contracted by the department since it started routinely to appoint intervention advisers to work with inadequate local councils in 2015:</p><ul><li>Achieving for Children (Richmond Upon Thames and Kingston);</li><li>Cornwall County Council;</li><li>Essex County Council;</li><li>Hampshire County Council;</li><li>Islington Borough Council;</li><li>Leeds City Council; and</li><li>Lincolnshire County Council.</li></ul> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2017 09:01:25 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

790935

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which children's services departments have (a) been judged inadequate by Ofsted and (b) had outside commissioners take responsibility for their services in each year from 2012.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>The attached table shows local councils which have been judged inadequate for Children’s Social Care Services by Ofsted since 2012.</p><p>Rotherham is the only local council to have had executive commissioners take over and exercise council children’s services functions since 2012. However, since 2012 the following local councils have had a non-executive children’s services commissioner appointed to review how services are delivered, whether those services should remain in council control and direct improvements:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Barnet</li><li>Birmingham</li><li>Bromley</li><li>Croydon</li><li>Doncaster</li><li>Dudley</li><li>Kirklees</li><li>Norfolk</li><li>Reading</li><li>Sandwell</li><li>Sunderland</li><li>Slough</li><li>Torbay</li><li>Worcestershire</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2017 14:56:39 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill attachment 1 file name 113558 - Table Local councils judged inadequate.docx title Local councils judged inadequate
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

790936

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of reductions in the number of social workers on (a) children at risk, (b) disabled children and (c) carers.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>According to information supplied to the department by local councils, the number of child and family social workers has not decreased and therefore no such assessments have been made. Information on the number of children’s social workers in local councils in England has been collected as at 30 September each year since 2013. The most recent data as at 30 September 2016 was published by the department on 16 February 2017 and is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childrens-social-care-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childrens-social-care-workforce</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2017 12:23:30 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

790937

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authority children's services departments are not run directly by the local authority; and what the structure is within which each such department operates.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>Many local councils use a variety of commissioning approaches to have specific parts of their children’s services run by organisations other than themselves. I am sorry, but the department does not have a record of such arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>A small proportion of local councils have arrangements whereby the entirety of their service is run at arms’ length from the council, including some that are in intervention. The department has used different approaches for local councils in intervention, depending on their needs and circumstances. In two local councils (Doncaster and Slough), the department established an independent trust to deliver children’s services after services had consistently been judged as inadequate. Sunderland local council has also established a children’s services trust, <em>Together for Children</em>, after its services were judged as inadequate. In the Isle of Wight, children’s services are currently delivered through a partnership with Hampshire local council, which has been enforced through a Statutory Direction. In Rotherham, the government removed control of all services from the council following publication of reports on historic child sexual exploitation and appointed a team of Commissioners. Some services have been handed back to the council but this does not yet include children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>We are also aware of a number of autonomously established alternative delivery models. The most notable example is Achieving for Children, a social enterprise company that was set up and co-owned by Richmond and Kingston local authorities to run both their children’s services. It has since expanded to include the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. The department now provides funding to Achieving for Children through the Partners in Practice Programme to extend their approach and so that we can understand the impact of this model better. Beyond this, however, the department does not track each local council’s operating model.</p><p> </p><p>In all of these examples, the council maintains statutory responsibility for the children in their care.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2017 12:33:54 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

790938

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities (a) are in intervention and (b) have been issued with improvement notices for children's services.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>The following local councils are in intervention:</p><p>Barnet, Birmingham, Bromley, Buckinghamshire, Croydon, Cumbria, Darlington, Doncaster, Dudley, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Kirklees, Lambeth, Lancashire, Manchester, Norfolk, Reading, Rotherham, Sandwell, Slough, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Sunderland, Surrey, Tameside, Torbay, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Wirral and Worcestershire.</p><p> </p><p>Of these local authorities in intervention, the following have been issued with improvement notices:</p><p>Darlington, Gloucestershire, Lambeth, Lancashire, Manchester, South Gloucestershire, Surrey, Tameside, Wandsworth and Wirral.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining local councils have been issued with statutory directions.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2017 09:18:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

790939

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has allocated for the training of (a) youth workers and (b) social service practitioners, in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>Local councils are responsible for allocating funding to youth services in line with local need and this includes workforce development. The government, in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund, has invested £40 million through the Youth Investment Fund to expand and build the sustainability of local voluntary, community and social enterprise delivered youth services. Many grant recipients will spend part of their grant on workforce development. The Department for Education funds several central training programmes for child and family social workers including, for example, the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment for newly qualified social workers. Separately, many of the projects funded through the Department’s Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme and Partners in Practice (PiP) programme include training and professional development of social workers. Expenditure in each of the last five years and budget for the current financial year is shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Policy Area</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Budget</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(£m)</p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Work Reform</p></td><td><p>14.9</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td><td><p>30.2</p></td><td><p>34.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Innovation Programme &amp; PiPs</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>29.7</p></td><td><p>73.0</p></td><td><p>51.5</p></td><td><p>43.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14.9 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>44.7 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91.3 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>81.7 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>78.6 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2017 09:24:21 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

788927

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendations in the report by the Local Government Association, Bright Futures—getting the best for children, young people and families.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL3236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The government has noted the Local Government Association’s (LGA) recommendations in their report, Bright Futures – getting the best for children, young people and families. We are continuing to work closely with the LGA, and wider children’s sector, to develop and deliver the government’s strategy to ensure all children receive high quality care and support.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 28/11/2017 11:56:15 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

789035

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to Greater Manchester Combined Authority's bid for funding from the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	112946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has submitted a request to the department for innovation funding, separate to the Innovation Programme bidding process. Their proposals are part of discussions linked to their Devolution Deal and the commitment they made to a full review of their children’s services across the ten local authorities. Minsters will make a decision based on the potential for improved outcomes for children, value for money, and genuine innovation. GMCA will be informed of the minister’s decision in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 22/11/2017 16:15:34 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey