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48188

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 promote the reputation and status of youth work.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	196223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>Responsibility for youth policy, including youth work, transferred to Cabinet Office on 3 July 2013. Cabinet Office co-ordinates cross-government work on youth policy and is also responsible for policy on international youth issues, youth voice and democracy, and the role of local authorities as well as working with the youth sector.</p><p>The Department for Education continues its commitment to all young people through its responsibilities for education and children's services in England; and works closely with the rest of government on key issues such as reducing risky behaviour and increasing participation in education, employment and training.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

48483

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 7 April 2014, Official Report, column 86W, on schools: governing bodies, how many governors (a) have completed and (b) are expected to have completed National College for Teaching and Leadership training on dealing with performance related pay awards for teachers by 1 September 2014.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Stuart
uin	196691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>From January to April 2014, 3,205 school governors completed the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) training on dealing with performance related pay awards for teachers; 7,200 are expected to complete the training by 1 September 2014.</p><p>Governors have held school leadership to account for school performance, including the assessment of overall teacher performance, for some time. With the introduction of performance-related pay, governing bodies will have already approved revised pay policies that set out precisely how their schools will make performance and pay decisions.</p><p>To support governors in exercising their responsibilities, the Department for Education issued advice on implementing the new pay arrangements. The NCTL is also providing these free training workshops for governors on performance-related pay and financial efficiencies. In addition, the National Governors Association (NGA) has published guidance on how governors should prepare to deal with pay appeals. We believe that, with this support, most governing bodies will have the knowledge and awareness of the key issues they need to address to ensure that robust evidence-based pay decisions are made this September.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

48485

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 4 February 2014, Official Report, column 191W, on special educational needs, when the pilots will launch and finish; and when the findings of such pilots will be published.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	196573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education, in consultation with the Ministry of Justice and others, will in the near future be developing proposals for the review of redress and complaint arrangements for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, of which these pilots will form a part. We estimate that the pilots will begin in the spring of 2015 as the first appeals about the new Education, Health and Care plans begin to be heard and that the pilots will last for two years as they build up the evidence on which to base any recommendations. The Secretary of State for Education and the Lord Chancellor must lay a report on the outcome of the review before Parliament within three years of the any of the provisions of Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 coming into force in September 2014. Interim findings from the pilots could be published before the final report on the review.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48486

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 3 February 2014, Official Report, column 57W, on special educational needs, which organisations and charities have been consulted on the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	196572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The consultation on a draft Special Educational Needs Code of Practice was an open consultation and any organisations or individuals could respond. The Department for Education received over 700 responses from a wide range of organisations and individuals including parents; young people; early years; schools; further education professionals; local authorities; health sector professionals and voluntary and community sector organisations, including many from the special educational needs and disability fields.</p><p>A short, focused consultation is now being carried out on a revised draft, which takes account of responses to the public consultation and amendments to the Children and Families Bill during its passage through Parliament. A full response to the consultations on the Code of Practice will be published in the next few weeks and this will give details of organisations and charities who responded.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48488

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research his Department has commissioned on a potential relationship between domestic abuse experienced by children and low educational attainment in later life.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	196558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not commissioned research on the possible relationship between domestic abuse and a child's subsequent educational attainment. Reports published earlier this year by the Early Intervention Foundation and by Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse highlighted the impact on children's wellbeing of exposure to domestic abuse. Though these reports did not focus on later educational attainment, they illustrated potential disruption to children's lives that is likely to affect their education. The Government is committed to safeguarding children from any form of abuse.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

48489

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 number of UK households which experience high risk domestic abuse; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such abuse on children.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	196555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>Information about the number of children at risk because of domestic abuse has been collected by local authorities as part of the Department for Education's Children in Need census since April 2013. The first figures will be available from autumn 2014.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

48490

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the (a) Home Secretary and (b) Secretary of State for Justice on domestic abuse and its effect on children.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	196556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>Issues relating to domestic abuse are discussed in meetings of the Inter-Ministerial Group on Violence Against Women and Girls, chaired by the Home Secretary. I represent the Department for Education at these meetings, and Ministry of Justice Ministers also attend.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

48494

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department has issued to other government departments on implementing the Government's commitment to give due consideration to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child when considering new policy or legislation.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	903755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office's ‘Guide to Making Legislation', published in July 2013, states that officials in all Government Departments are expected to have regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) before starting the legislative process. A copy of the guidance is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210917/Guide_to_Making_Legislation_July_2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210917/Guide_to_Making_Legislation_July_2013.pdf</a></p><p>It is for individual Departments to determine how best to comply with this commitment in practice. The Department for Education has offered advice to them in a variety of forms in our role of co-ordinating the forthcoming report to the UN Committee for the UK's fifth periodic review, which will set out the progress which has been made in implementing the UNCRC since the last review in 2008.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

48499

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 787-88W, on pupil exclusions: autism, whether his Department plans to employ further exclusion advisors.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	196705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not employ any exclusion advisors.</p><p>The exclusion adviser referred to in the answer of 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 787-88W, on pupil exclusions: autism is employed by the National Autistic Society using a grant provided by the Department under the National Prospectus Grants Programme 2013-15.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48500

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects on children missing education; what information schools are expected to record in the Lost Pupil Database, part of his Department's school2school site; and how many pupils' records were held in the Lost Pupil Database on 1 February (a) 2014, (b) 2013, (c) 2012, (d) 2011 and (e) 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	196657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect data on children missing education. Section 436A of the Education Act 1996 places a duty on local authorities to have arrangements that enable them to establish the identities of children in their area who are not registered pupils at a school, and are not receiving suitable education through a means other than at a school. Local authorities may decide as part of this duty to collect information on children who may be missing education or at risk of doing so. The Department's statutory guidance to local authorities advises that they must have robust procedures in place to fulfil their legal duty.</p><p>The 'lost pupils database' (LPD) records the transfer records of pupils whose correct destination is not known. Files are retained whenever a child leaves a school for a destination outside the maintained school sector. Examples of these destinations include ‘gone to an independent school', ‘gone sick', ‘moved abroad with parents' or 'moved on without reason'.</p><p>The LPD is not used by Children Missing Education (CME) officers to record CME data. The primary function of the Department's School to School (S2S) secure data transfer website is to provide schools and Local Authorities (LAs) with a mechanism for the secure and ongoing transfer of thousands of statutory child-level data files per week to new schools/LAs when children move school.<br><br>The details required for the Lost Pupil Database are:</p><p>File Name<br>Source school<br>Source LA<br>UPN<br>Surname<br>Forename<br>DOB<br>Gender<br>Former UPN<br>Former Surname<br>Middle Names<br>Ethnicity<br>FSM eligibility<br>In Care<br>Care Authority<br>SEN status<br>Start Date<br>Postcode<br>Sessions Possible<br>Sessions Attended<br>Sessions Unauthorised<br>First Language</p><p>LPD records are stored for a minimum of 12 months. The last ‘clear down' took place in October 2013 which means monthly additions are only held back to October 2012. At 1 February 2014, 15,128 records were held on the system. Records are not removed from the system until the general ‘clear down', so the figure does not represent pupils missing from education at any given time.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander