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988789

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Confederation of School Trusts: Speeches
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the speech entitled Damian Hinds speech at Confederation of School Trusts conference, published by his Department on 11 October 2018, for what reasons parts of that speech have been redacted on the gov.uk website; and who took the decision to redact sections of that speech.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	180288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In line with the Government Communications Service propriety guidance, published by the Cabinet Office and based on the Civil Service Code, the Department for Education redacted political content from the version published on GOV.UK. The guidance is available at:</p><p><a href="https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Government-Communication-Propriety-Guidance-Feb-16-1.pdf" target="_blank">https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Government-Communication-Propriety-Guidance-Feb-16-1.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The speech by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is available on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/damian-hinds-speech-at-confederation-of-school-trusts-conference" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/damian-hinds-speech-at-confederation-of-school-trusts-conference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 15:10:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

992703

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled, Teaching Children & Young People with Literacy Difficulties Practice Guidance February 2018, published by Warwickshire County Council, if he will make an assessment of the effect on students with Dyslexia of not providing those students with special support except in extreme circumstances.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	182143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The department have not made any formal assessment of this report. We are continuing to improve standards on literacy and to support schools and parents on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) including dyslexia.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are required under the Children and Families Act (2014) and the accompanying SEND Code of Practice to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils or students they support. Maintained schools are given notional SEN budgets and should use this to pay for support to children with dyslexia where required. Schools must use their best endeavours to make sure that a child with SEN gets the support they need - this means doing everything they can to meet children and young people’s SEN.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Act (2010) is clear that a person (P) has a disability if - (a) P has a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. All schools have duties under the Equality Act (2010) towards individual disabled children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 182142 182888 question first answered 30/10/2018 13:34:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

988652

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Collective Spirit Free School
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there is a timetable to return the former Collective Spirit Free School site to Oldham Council.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	180278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>We are currently assessing a number of options for the future use of the Collective Spirit Free School site in Oldham. We continue to work towards a solution with local partners and intend to resolve the future use of the site early in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/10/2018 08:22:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

992844

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making schools publish their safeguarding policies online.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	182303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ is statutory guidance to which all schools must have regard. The guidance is clear that all schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should be updated annually (as a minimum), and be available publicly either via the school website or by other means.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/10/2018 12:52:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

992847

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of including in the definition of children at risk of being exploited in the Working Together to Safeguard Children guide children and young people undergoing family breakdown.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	182306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ guide already mentions the potential need for early help for children in a challenging family circumstance. In a section on ‘Identifying children and families who would benefit from early help’, the text includes: “Practitioners should, in particular, be alert to the potential need for early help for a child who…. is in a family circumstance presenting challenges for the child such as drug and alcohol misuse, adult mental health issues and domestic abuse.” A child undergoing family breakdown would potentially be in this group.<strong><br> <br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/10/2018 13:01:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

988777

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	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 improve outcomes for children with special educational needs.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	180302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms introduced by the Children and Families Act (2014) were the biggest in a generation. Since then, we have given £391 million to local areas to support implementation of the new duties under the act and a great deal of progress has been made with 98% of statements transferred to education, health and care (EHC) plans, where appropriate, by April 2018.</p><p>We want to ensure that families are able to participate meaningfully in developing local services and have a contract worth £20 million with the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) and Contact, to improve local information, advice and support and provide a national helpline; and a contract worth £3.8 million with Contact, in partnership with KIDS and the CDC, to promote and develop strategic participation by young people and parent carers.</p><p>We have in place a new contract with the Whole School SEND Consortium to embed SEND within approaches to school improvement in order to equip the workforce to deliver high quality teaching across all types of special educational needs. The programme of work includes building a community of practice with the involvement of 10,000 schools by 2020 and 15,000 schools by 2022, across the eight regional schools commissioners’ regions.</p><p>We are establishing a SEND Commissioning Board for children and young people with high needs to help support local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups to improve planning and commissioning of SEND provision.</p><p>We have published a roadmap for reforming alternative provision that will see us focus on sharing best practice across the sector and launched a £4 million innovation fund. We have also announced an externally led review of school exclusions, carried out by former children’s minister Edward Timpson CBE, looking into why certain groups of pupils – including those with SEND – are more likely to be excluded than others, and launched a review into the outcomes of and support for children in need.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, we have asked Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to design a programme of further local area SEND inspections to follow the current round and to develop an approach for further inspection or monitoring of those areas required to produce a written statement of action. The inspections consider how effectively local areas identify, meet the needs of and improve the outcomes of children and young people with SEND. They have proved a catalyst for supporting local areas to improve their services and deliver better outcomes for children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 12:29:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

989569

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	University Academy Warrington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the new provider for University Academy Warrington has (a) expertise in and (b) a track record of raising the attainment of working class pupils; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	180645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In selecting a preferred sponsor for University Academy Warrington, the Regional Schools Commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire will consider the trust’s track record of working with pupils who have similar characteristics to those at University Academy Warrington, alongside a range of other criteria, including the raising of attainment.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 16:47:55 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

990333

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Cerebral Palsy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure provision for pupils with cerebral palsy in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	181316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>It is important that children with medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy, are supported to receive a full education. Under Section 100 of the Children and Families Act (2014), governing boards are required to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance.</p><p>The guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3</a>, and covers a range of areas including the preparation and implementation of school policies for supporting pupils with medical conditions, the use of individual healthcare plans, staff training, medicines administration, roles and responsibilities, consulting with parents and collaborative working with healthcare professionals. It was developed with a range of stakeholders including the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance (HCSA), school leaders, academy organisations, unions, young people and their parents, and Department of Health and Social Care officials and is based on good practice in schools.</p><p>We continue to work with organisations such as the HCSA to help raise further awareness of the duty on schools.</p><p>To be awarded qualified teacher status, trainees must meet the teachers’ standards, which include a requirement that they adapt teaching to meet the strengths and needs of all pupils. The performance of all existing teachers in maintained schools must be assessed every year against the teachers’ standards. It is the responsibility of school leaders to determine the training needs of their staff within their approach to school improvement, professional development and performance management.</p><p>Staff training is critical in enabling school staff to provide the support needed to pupils with medical conditions. The statutory guidance is clear that governing boards should ensure that any member of school staff providing support to a pupil with medical needs has received suitable training. It also states that training should be sufficient as to ensure that staff are competent and have confidence in their ability to support pupils with medical conditions, and to fulfil the requirements as set out in individual healthcare plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 181318 question first answered 26/10/2018 12:43:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

987737

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Periods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the support that schools provide to girls who are menstruating.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	179099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Pupil and Parent Carer Omnibus Survey between July and August 2018 includes questions on the provision of sanitary products for girls in schools. The results of this survey will be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The government has put in place a series of arrangements to support girls in school who are menstruating. For example, the current statutory guidance for Sex and Relationships Education encourages schools to make arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation, including requests for sanitary protection.</p><p> </p><p>We are now making Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education compulsory in all secondary schools and Health Education compulsory in all primary and secondary state-funded schools. We are currently consulting on the draft guidance for these subjects which reiterates that schools should make arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation and sets out that puberty should be covered before onset as part of Health Education.</p><p> </p><p>Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available if they identify this as a barrier to attendance.</p><p> </p><p>As a government, we are also providing over £1.6 million through the Tampon Tax Fund for a project distributing sanitary products to vulnerable young women and girls in need in England.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, the government introduced a new duty on schools to support pupils with medical conditions and has published statutory guidance on this for schools and others to follow. This guidance can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This guidance does not specify which medical conditions should be supported in schools. Instead, it focuses on the needs of each individual child and how their medical condition impacts on school life. It is clear that pupils at school with medical conditions should be properly supported so that they have full access to education.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/10/2018 08:55:48 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

988716

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding available to local authorities for specialist education services for deaf children.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	180286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>We want children with special educational needs and disabilities to be able to reach their full potential.</p><p>Nationally, high needs funding has risen by £1 billion since 2013-14, to just under £6 billion in 2018-19. Allocations for individual local authorities can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>However, we recognise that costs have increased which is why we are providing extensive support to schools to deliver the best value possible with available resources. This includes a high needs benchmarking tool to allow local authorities to compare their spending in this area.</p><p>We are monitoring the impact of our national funding formula on high needs and are keeping the overall level of funding under review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 12:18:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker