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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

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

46502

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
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 responsibilities local authorities have to ensure that asylum seekers who are leaving care they entered as a child receive alternative support once they reach adulthood.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	194872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2014 answer text <p>Unaccompanied asylum seeking children must be provided with the same support as for any care leaver, as set out in Volume 3 of ‘The Children Act Guidance and Regulations: Planning Transition to Adulthood for Care Leavers'.[1]</p><p>Financial support for looked after unaccompanied asylum seeking children should reflect their needs as eligible care leavers and their immigration needs. As for any relevant child, once an unaccompanied asylum seeking child leaves care or reaches the age of 18, a personal advisor must be appointed to support them.</p><p>[1]<a href="http://resources.leavingcare.org/uploads/c4f7aeaf941cdefb8f4a18f478aa1f19.pdf" target="_blank">http://resources.leavingcare.org/uploads/c4f7aeaf941cdefb8f4a18f478aa1f19.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 02/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48498

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 Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of sixth form colleges on the effect of recent changes to sixth form funding for students who have severe or complex disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	196731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Last year's funding changes for students with severe and complex needs were introduced following extensive consultation with local authorities and all types of institutions, including sixth-form colleges.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48948

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, by what methods the National College of Teaching Leadership gathers information on the risk of sexual abuse at independent schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	197117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) receives and acts upon referrals from employers (including independent schools), the police, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the public.</p><p>The Teachers' Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 provide NCTL with the power to regulate teachers including those in independent schools. These regulations provide for any referral to be investigated regardless of the date of the alleged incident.</p><p>Upon receipt of a referral NCTL make an initial assessment of the allegations to establish whether, if proven, they have the prospect to meet the prohibition threshold using the Secretary of State's advice <em>‘Teacher misconduct: the prohibition of teachers'</em>. Where the case is assessed as serious enough to potentially meet the threshold the allegations are investigated seeking representations from the teacher involved and collecting other evidence deemed to be appropriate on a case by case basis. On conclusion of the investigation a further determination is made and where the allegations are still serious enough to potentially warrant a prohibition order, the matter is progressed to a panel hearing. The hearing is held in public and the panel comprises three panellists appointed through a public appointments process. The teacher can be present with his/her representative, witnesses may be called by either side, a presenting officer presents the case on behalf of NCTL and a legal adviser is present. At least one panellist must be a teacher panellist and at least one must be a lay panellist. The panel make a finding as to facts. Where the facts are found they go on to determine whether those facts amount to unacceptable professional conduct, conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute and/or conviction, at any time, of a relevant offence. Where the panel determine one or more of the above, they then go on to make a recommendation as to whether a prohibition order would be an appropriate sanction. The recommendation is considered by a senior official of NCTL on behalf of the Secretary of State and is either confirmed or amended.</p><p>The work of NCTL sits within a broader safeguarding framework. Independent Schools, like all employers of people working with children, have a statutory duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) all individuals who have been:</p><ol><li>convicted or cautioned for a relevant offence;</li><li>engaged in conduct that has harmed a child or put them at risk of harm; or</li><li>deemed to have satisfied the Harm Test in relation to children i.e. there has been no relevant conduct but a risk of harm to a child still exists.</li></ol><p>The DBS will then consider whether to bar that person from working with children. In addition to this, where a teacher has been dismissed or resigned in the face of dismissal for a serious conduct matter, employers also have a statutory duty to consider referring that teacher to the NCTL. In the most serious cases, the DBS decides to bar an individual, at which point any ongoing NCTL case would be discontinued. The NCTL primarily takes to their conclusion cases which have not met the DBS threshold for barring.</p><p>Under arrangements established by the previous Government, teacher regulation was the responsibility of the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) and all registered teachers fell within their jurisdiction. However, there was no requirement for teachers in independent schools to be registered, so many teachers in independent schools fell outside professional regulation. We have strengthened regulations so that the NCTL now has the power to regulate all teachers in independent schools.</p><p>Separate to the NCTL process for regulating teachers, the Department's Independent Education and Boarding Team (IEBT) administers the wider regulatory system for independent schools. This team can receive information about allegations of abuse from a variety of sources, including Ofsted, local authorities, parents and the police.</p><p>In the first instance, the Department will ensure that the actual allegations are being investigated by relevant authorities – the local authority and, where appropriate, the police. It is then the Department's role to ensure that the school in question is meeting the Independent School Standards. This will normally be done by commissioning an inspection and, where a school is found not to be meeting the standards, taking action to ensure it does so as soon as possible or, if necessary, is closed.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 197118 197119 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48949

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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 role the National College of Teaching Leadership plays with regard to investigations of allegations of historic, sexual abuse at independent schools for which they are now responsible.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	197118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) receives and acts upon referrals from employers (including independent schools), the police, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the public.</p><p>The Teachers' Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 provide NCTL with the power to regulate teachers including those in independent schools. These regulations provide for any referral to be investigated regardless of the date of the alleged incident.</p><p>Upon receipt of a referral NCTL make an initial assessment of the allegations to establish whether, if proven, they have the prospect to meet the prohibition threshold using the Secretary of State's advice <em>‘Teacher misconduct: the prohibition of teachers'</em>. Where the case is assessed as serious enough to potentially meet the threshold the allegations are investigated seeking representations from the teacher involved and collecting other evidence deemed to be appropriate on a case by case basis. On conclusion of the investigation a further determination is made and where the allegations are still serious enough to potentially warrant a prohibition order, the matter is progressed to a panel hearing. The hearing is held in public and the panel comprises three panellists appointed through a public appointments process. The teacher can be present with his/her representative, witnesses may be called by either side, a presenting officer presents the case on behalf of NCTL and a legal adviser is present. At least one panellist must be a teacher panellist and at least one must be a lay panellist. The panel make a finding as to facts. Where the facts are found they go on to determine whether those facts amount to unacceptable professional conduct, conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute and/or conviction, at any time, of a relevant offence. Where the panel determine one or more of the above, they then go on to make a recommendation as to whether a prohibition order would be an appropriate sanction. The recommendation is considered by a senior official of NCTL on behalf of the Secretary of State and is either confirmed or amended.</p><p>The work of NCTL sits within a broader safeguarding framework. Independent Schools, like all employers of people working with children, have a statutory duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) all individuals who have been:</p><ol><li>convicted or cautioned for a relevant offence;</li><li>engaged in conduct that has harmed a child or put them at risk of harm; or</li><li>deemed to have satisfied the Harm Test in relation to children i.e. there has been no relevant conduct but a risk of harm to a child still exists.</li></ol><p>The DBS will then consider whether to bar that person from working with children. In addition to this, where a teacher has been dismissed or resigned in the face of dismissal for a serious conduct matter, employers also have a statutory duty to consider referring that teacher to the NCTL. In the most serious cases, the DBS decides to bar an individual, at which point any ongoing NCTL case would be discontinued. The NCTL primarily takes to their conclusion cases which have not met the DBS threshold for barring.</p><p>Under arrangements established by the previous Government, teacher regulation was the responsibility of the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) and all registered teachers fell within their jurisdiction. However, there was no requirement for teachers in independent schools to be registered, so many teachers in independent schools fell outside professional regulation. We have strengthened regulations so that the NCTL now has the power to regulate all teachers in independent schools.</p><p>Separate to the NCTL process for regulating teachers, the Department's Independent Education and Boarding Team (IEBT) administers the wider regulatory system for independent schools. This team can receive information about allegations of abuse from a variety of sources, including Ofsted, local authorities, parents and the police.</p><p>In the first instance, the Department will ensure that the actual allegations are being investigated by relevant authorities – the local authority and, where appropriate, the police. It is then the Department's role to ensure that the school in question is meeting the Independent School Standards. This will normally be done by commissioning an inspection and, where a school is found not to be meeting the standards, taking action to ensure it does so as soon as possible or, if necessary, is closed.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 197117 197119 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

48950

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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 are open to the National College of Teaching Leadership on receipt of information of an allegation of child abuse at an independent school.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	197119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) receives and acts upon referrals from employers (including independent schools), the police, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the public.</p><p>The Teachers' Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 provide NCTL with the power to regulate teachers including those in independent schools. These regulations provide for any referral to be investigated regardless of the date of the alleged incident.</p><p>Upon receipt of a referral NCTL make an initial assessment of the allegations to establish whether, if proven, they have the prospect to meet the prohibition threshold using the Secretary of State's advice <em>‘Teacher misconduct: the prohibition of teachers'</em>. Where the case is assessed as serious enough to potentially meet the threshold the allegations are investigated seeking representations from the teacher involved and collecting other evidence deemed to be appropriate on a case by case basis. On conclusion of the investigation a further determination is made and where the allegations are still serious enough to potentially warrant a prohibition order, the matter is progressed to a panel hearing. The hearing is held in public and the panel comprises three panellists appointed through a public appointments process. The teacher can be present with his/her representative, witnesses may be called by either side, a presenting officer presents the case on behalf of NCTL and a legal adviser is present. At least one panellist must be a teacher panellist and at least one must be a lay panellist. The panel make a finding as to facts. Where the facts are found they go on to determine whether those facts amount to unacceptable professional conduct, conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute and/or conviction, at any time, of a relevant offence. Where the panel determine one or more of the above, they then go on to make a recommendation as to whether a prohibition order would be an appropriate sanction. The recommendation is considered by a senior official of NCTL on behalf of the Secretary of State and is either confirmed or amended.</p><p>The work of NCTL sits within a broader safeguarding framework. Independent Schools, like all employers of people working with children, have a statutory duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) all individuals who have been:</p><ol><li>convicted or cautioned for a relevant offence;</li><li>engaged in conduct that has harmed a child or put them at risk of harm; or</li><li>deemed to have satisfied the Harm Test in relation to children i.e. there has been no relevant conduct but a risk of harm to a child still exists.</li></ol><p>The DBS will then consider whether to bar that person from working with children. In addition to this, where a teacher has been dismissed or resigned in the face of dismissal for a serious conduct matter, employers also have a statutory duty to consider referring that teacher to the NCTL. In the most serious cases, the DBS decides to bar an individual, at which point any ongoing NCTL case would be discontinued. The NCTL primarily takes to their conclusion cases which have not met the DBS threshold for barring.</p><p>Under arrangements established by the previous Government, teacher regulation was the responsibility of the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) and all registered teachers fell within their jurisdiction. However, there was no requirement for teachers in independent schools to be registered, so many teachers in independent schools fell outside professional regulation. We have strengthened regulations so that the NCTL now has the power to regulate all teachers in independent schools.</p><p>Separate to the NCTL process for regulating teachers, the Department's Independent Education and Boarding Team (IEBT) administers the wider regulatory system for independent schools. This team can receive information about allegations of abuse from a variety of sources, including Ofsted, local authorities, parents and the police.</p><p>In the first instance, the Department will ensure that the actual allegations are being investigated by relevant authorities – the local authority and, where appropriate, the police. It is then the Department's role to ensure that the school in question is meeting the Independent School Standards. This will normally be done by commissioning an inspection and, where a school is found not to be meeting the standards, taking action to ensure it does so as soon as possible or, if necessary, is closed.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 197117 197118 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

49222

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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 representations he has received on extending the powers provided to the National College for Teaching and Leadership for the investigation of historical incidents of abuse; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	197270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education has received no representations on extending the powers provided to the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) for investigation of historical incidents of abuse.</p><p>The NCTL's remit sits within a broad safeguarding framework. The investigation of incidents of abuse by the NCTL historically or current will depend on the nature of the abuse. Where incidents of abuse relate to issues of child protection these would not ordinarily be matters that the NCTL would be directly involved in.</p><p>All employers of people working with children have a statutory duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) all individuals who have been:</p><ol><li>convicted or cautioned for a relevant offence;</li><li>engaged in conduct that has harmed a child or put them at risk of harm; or</li><li>deemed to have satisfied the ‘harm test' in relation to children, i.e. there has been no relevant conduct but a risk of harm to a child still exists.</li></ol><p>The DBS will then consider whether to bar that person from working with children. Alongside this duty, where a teacher has been dismissed or resigned in the face of dismissal for a serious conduct matter, employers have a statutory duty to consider referring that teacher to the NCTL. In circumstances where the DBS decides to bar an individual any ongoing NCTL case would be discontinued. The NCTL primarily takes to a conclusion cases which have not met the DBS threshold for barring.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

49220

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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, if he will take steps to ensure that governors are disqualified when a school governing body is found guilty of disability discrimination.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	197246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p>Regulations set out the circumstances in which a person is disqualified from holding or continuing to hold office as a governor at a maintained school. These include bankruptcy, conviction for an offence carrying a sentence of imprisonment, disqualification from being a company director or charity trustee, and persons whose employment is prohibited or restricted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has issued advice to school governing bodies on their duties under the Equality Act 2010, including in respect of disability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is for governing bodies of state-funded schools to comply with any orders of the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) in relation to claims of disability discrimination.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe