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520793

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the average waiting time for therapy referrals and appointments for children with special needs (a) nationally and (b) in Gloucestershire in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	37916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p>Currently in Gloucestershire, 94% of patients are accessing Speech and Language therapy and 99% of patients are accessing Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy within eight weeks of referral.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/05/2016 14:18:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

514804

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children who are NHS (a) mental health and (b) learning disability inpatients are in the care of private providers commissioned by the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	35091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>On 22 April 2016, there were 668 children and young people who were receiving inpatient care which had been commissioned by the National Health Service from independent sector providers.</p><p>It is not possible to make a clear distinction between the numbers with a diagnosis of a mental health condition and those who have a learning disability as it will depend on the primary diagnosis linked to the admission and some patients will have a dual diagnosis.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/04/2016 10:19:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

451585

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account his Department has requested be taken of children who have specific needs arising from dual diagnosis of physical and mental health conditions in the thematic analysis of the local transformation plans commissioned by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	26515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS England has commissioned a number of thematic reviews as part of the analysis of the Local Transformation Plans. The aim is to understand how local areas are approaching the transformation process and where possible identify interesting local approaches that could inform future service planning and design to address the needs of all of the local population including those with dual diagnosis of physical and mental health.</p><p> </p><p>One of these thematic reviews focuses on the needs of vulnerable groups of children and young people, such as looked after children, care leavers and those in contact with the justice system. This could also include children and young people with complex needs such as those with long term physical health issues if local areas have identified this group as a priority for action.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/02/2016 12:25:59 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

438027

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of clinical commissioning group transformation plans do not mention services for (a) children who have experienced abuse and (b) looked after children; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	20075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>As part of improving transparency, all Local Transformation Plans must be published locally and made widely available.</p><br /><p>NHS England’s guidance <em>Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing - Guidance and support for local areas</em> is explicit about the need to promote equality and address health inequalities, and states that plans should ‘address the full spectrum of need including children and young people who have particular vulnerability to mental health problems for e.g. those with learning disabilities, looked after children and care leavers, those at risk or in contact with the Youth Justice System, or who have been sexually abused and/or exploited’.</p><br /><p>The assurance process requires local areas to evidence how they are meeting the needs of vulnerable groups including looked after children and children who have experienced abuse.</p><br /><p>An analysis of Local Transformation Plans has been commissioned and will include a thematic review of how the mental health needs of children and young people in vulnerable groups have been addressed.</p><br /><p>As set out in the guidance for Local Transformation Plans an integral part of the locally developed Children and Young People’s Mental Health Transformation Plans includes a tracking template that sets out local progress milestones and financial spend. This tracker will be used as the basis for assurance assessment in 2015/16 and from 2016/17 onwards progress on local transformation will become part of the mainstream planning assurance process.</p><br /><p>Local Transformation Plansrequire all key partners in a local area to agree how best to meet the mental health needs of children and young people in their local populations. 122 Local Transformation Planshave been developed that cover all 209 clinical commissioning groups.</p><br /><p>The assurance process for Local Transformation Plans for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing was undertaken by NHS England regional teams and included assurance against each plan of standard self-assessment and tracker templates to enable a comparison of plans against objective success criteria.</p><br /><p>NHS England have commissioned a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Local Transformation Plans, in order to support policy makers, local commissioners and services to understand and use the data that is contained within the plans to drive further improvements. Local Transformation Plans will be reviewed from a narrative, analytical and financial perspective, with thematic reviews carried out in key focus areas that align with <em>Future in mind </em>principles.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 20074 20076 20077 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:32:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

432931

registered interest
date	27/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in (a) England, (b) the North East and (c) Sunderland required 24-hour care due to life-limiting or life-threatening conditions in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	18044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Information is not held centrally on how many children in England required 24-hour care due to life-limiting or life-threatening conditions in 2014-15. The local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) do not collect information for the North East and Sunderland.</p><br /><p>CCGs (and in the case of specialised services, NHS England), will commission a range of care to support children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, including paediatric care, and community-based nursing. A child with a life-limiting condition may be eligible for a package of continuing care, where their needs are such that they require clinical care in addition to that routinely commissioned. This might include one-to-one support. NHS England also allocates an annual grant of £11 million to children’s hospices to support their provision of palliative and respite care.</p><br /><p>Children and young people with complex needs may also be eligible for local authority-commissioned social care to support living, short-breaks, and special educational support, where they have a special educational need.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 18086 question first answered 04/12/2015 14:43:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

432932

registered interest
date	27/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is offered to families with children suffering from life-limiting or life-threatening conditions in England.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	18086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Information is not held centrally on how many children in England required 24-hour care due to life-limiting or life-threatening conditions in 2014-15. The local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) do not collect information for the North East and Sunderland.</p><br /><p>CCGs (and in the case of specialised services, NHS England), will commission a range of care to support children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, including paediatric care, and community-based nursing. A child with a life-limiting condition may be eligible for a package of continuing care, where their needs are such that they require clinical care in addition to that routinely commissioned. This might include one-to-one support. NHS England also allocates an annual grant of £11 million to children’s hospices to support their provision of palliative and respite care.</p><br /><p>Children and young people with complex needs may also be eligible for local authority-commissioned social care to support living, short-breaks, and special educational support, where they have a special educational need.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 18044 question first answered 04/12/2015 14:43:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

431724

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what weighting has been applied (a) to the sparsity indicator within the children's 0 to 5 services component relative to that for other components and (b) to address complex need within that component.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	17381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>In the publication <em>Public health grant: proposed target allocation formula for 2016/17, an engagement of behalf of the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA)</em>, ACRA proposed that there should be a sparsity adjustment to take account of the longer travel times to home visits by health visitors.</p><br /><p>The proposed sparsity adjustment is an index ranging between the values of 1.05 and 0.98 across local authorities, with an England average value of 1.00. The need weighted population for the 0-5 services component for each local authority is multiplied by this index to give the need and sparsity weighted populations.</p><br /><p>ACRA proposed in the engagement that the relative need weight per head for 0-5 children’s services should be based on the proportion of children in low income households. ACRA proposed that the weight per head should be four times higher for children in low income households than for other children. No further adjustment is prosed by ACRA.</p><br /><p>The engagement closed on 6 November and ACRA is currently considering the responses before providing its final advice to Ministers.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/11/2015 16:23:13 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

156319

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in training every GP and GP nurse in child physical and mental health.
tabling member constituency	Pudsey
tabling member printed	Stuart Andrew
uin	214998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and content for education and training and ensure newly qualified doctors and nurses are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Health Education England also has the role of ensuring the National Health Service workforce has high quality education and training to deliver the highest possible quality of care and is continuing its work with the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum to identify key training issues to improve the care of young people with physical or mental health issues during transition from childhood to adolescence.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/11/2014 16:58:23 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew

156320

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to introduce a named doctor or health professional for every child with a long-term condition.
tabling member constituency	Pudsey
tabling member printed	Stuart Andrew
uin	214999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>We have announced that from 1 April 2015, the general practitioner (GP) contract will require GP practices to assign all registered patients, including children with long-term conditions, a named GP who will be responsible for co-ordinating their care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/11/2014 15:59:29 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew

156326

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will develop a Mortality Plan aimed at reducing the number of preventable child deaths in England.
tabling member constituency	Pudsey
tabling member printed	Stuart Andrew
uin	215001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Deaths in infants, children and young people are falling, but not as fast as in comparable countries. The Government is tackling this. In 2013 we issued a system-wide pledge, signed by all major health organisations to deliver the system-wide change needed to improve health outcomes for children and young people, and reduce preventable child deaths.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We set up an independent group of experts, the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum, to advise and challenge us on what we must do to improve children’s health. We have taken action based on their advice to improving prevention, early intervention and healthcare to improving health outcomes for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Department is working with a range of key partners, including NHS England, Public Health England, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives, on a programme of work to reduce stillbirths and neonatal deaths. This includes raising awareness of the known risk factors, improving identification of babies at risk and improving perinatal reviews.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/11/2014 16:59:38 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew