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1002241

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to analyse (1) those elements of health and social care which need to be strengthened, and (2) those aspects of entitlements for disabled children and their families and carers which need to be clarified; and what consequent action they are taking.
	tabling member printed	Lord Judd
	uin	HL11262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The commissioning of health and social care services for children with disabilities is the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups and local authorities respectively. Local commissioners are best placed to assess the needs of the local population and which areas may need strengthening. Clinical commissioning groups must ensure that they secure health services to meet the needs of disabled children to a reasonable extent.</p><p>Children’s social care is the responsibility of the Department for Education. All disabled children are regarded as children ‘in need’ under the Children Act 1989 and may receive social care from the local authority. The Children and Families Act 2014 placed a duty on local authorities to assess whether a parent carer in their area has needs for support.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2018 16:20:38 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

1359021

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	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 report by the Disabled Children’s Partnership The Gap Widens, published on 14 October, which found that the funding gap in disabled children’s health and social care had increased to £2.1 billion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL3090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Although no specific assessments have been made, we are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children.</p><p>On 6 September, we announced an additional £5.4 billion for the National Health Service over the next six months, bringing the total Government support for health services in response to COVID-19 to over £34 billion in 2021/22. This includes £2 billion to reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children. Councils have access to £51.3 billion to deliver core services, including a £1.7 billion grant for social care. To support local areas, we have provided over £6 billion in un-ringfenced funding directly to councils for the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including for children’s social care.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 26/10/2021 14:59:41 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1359022

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the economic benefits of increasing the funding given to disabled children’s health and social care services, and (2) the level of unmet need for disabled children’s health and social care services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL3091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>Although no specific assessments have been made, we are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children.</p><p>On 6 September, we announced an additional £5.4 billion for the National Health Service over the next six months, bringing the total Government support for health services in response to COVID-19 to over £34 billion in 2021/22. This includes £2 billion to reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children. Councils have access to £51.3 billion to deliver core services, including a £1.7 billion grant for social care. To support local areas, we have provided over £6 billion in un-ringfenced funding directly to councils for the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including for children’s social care.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 22/10/2021 10:57:34 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1568411

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Systems will ensure joined up provision between health, social care, and education for disabled children.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL4890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care partnerships (ICPs) must set out how local authorities and integrated care board (ICBs) can meet these assessed needs in integrated care strategies. Statutory guidance states that these strategies should consider the health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and families and they should include a statement on how the arrangement of health and social care services can be closely arranged with health-related services such as education providers.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to ensure SEND duties receive sufficient focus in the ICB, NHS England statutory guidance will contain provision for the delegation of responsibility for these duties to ICB executive leads.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL4892 HL4893 question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1568412

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Boards collect sufficient data to support the commissioning of services for disabled children.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL4891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments. Integrated care boards and local authorities must have regard to these assessments when carrying out their functions, including commissioning.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 27/01/2023 11:49:13 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1568414

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Boards are ensuring the provision of (1) support, and (2) treatment, for disabled children.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL4893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care partnerships (ICPs) must set out how local authorities and integrated care board (ICBs) can meet these assessed needs in integrated care strategies. Statutory guidance states that these strategies should consider the health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and families and they should include a statement on how the arrangement of health and social care services can be closely arranged with health-related services such as education providers.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to ensure SEND duties receive sufficient focus in the ICB, NHS England statutory guidance will contain provision for the delegation of responsibility for these duties to ICB executive leads.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL4890 HL4892 question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1011502

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the quality of health and social care services for disabled children.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	194150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2014, the Government introduced a new statutory framework requiring local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to commission jointly services for children with special educational needs and disability, across health, social care and education. Since 2014, £327 million has been given to local areas to support implementation of these new arrangements, in addition to the high needs budget for placements for pupils with complex special educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to their role inspecting providers, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission are jointly inspecting every local area’s arrangements. The inspections assess the effectiveness of joint arrangements by commissioners of health, education and social care to support children with special educational needs, with written statements of action required where improvement is needed.</p><p> </p><p>Improving wheelchair access for children has been included as a ‘must do’ in NHS England’s planning guidance for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for 2017/18 – 2018/19, which was issued in September 2016. Each CCG is required to set out improvement plans showing how they would halve the number of children waiting 18 weeks by Q4 2017/18 and eliminate 18 week waits for wheelchairs by the end of 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, we announced investment of £1.5 million in child sports prostheses across 2018/19 and 2019/20 for the provision of child sports protheses and research.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019 we will be consulting on introducing mandatory learning disability training for health and care staff.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/11/2018 14:19:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1050083

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the quality of health and social care services for disabled children.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	213463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out a range of actions to improve health outcomes for disabled children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>Over the next three years, autism diagnosis will be included alongside work with children’s mental health services to test and implement the most effective ways to reduce waiting times for specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>By 2023/24 children and young people with a learning disability or autism, with the most complex needs will have a designated keyworker.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will work with partners to allow hearing, sight and dental checks for children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both in special residential schools.</p><p> </p><p>Over the next five years, we will see the national learning disability improvement standards implemented across all services funded by the National Health Service, and by 2023/24, a digital flag in electronic patient records will ensure staff know the reasonable adjustments needed by a person with a learning disability or autism.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019/20, we will continue to fund sports and activity prostheses for children who have suffered limb loss or who have a limb deficiency.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continue to work with the Department for Education to ensure health services and social care services work together locally to deliver the best outcomes for children with a disability.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/02/2019 17:13:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1059854

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to tackle the funding shortfall for health and social care services for disabled children.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	220316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The commissioning of health and social care services for children with disabilities is the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups and local authorities respectively. Local commissioners are best placed to assess the needs of the local population and allocate funds accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, the Government introduced a new statutory framework requiring local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to commission jointly services for children with special educational needs and disability, across health, social care and education. Since 2014, £327 million has been given to local areas to support implementation of these new arrangements, in addition to the high needs budget for placements for pupils with complex special educational needs which is over £6 billion this year, the highest it has ever been.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015 Spending Review made available more than £200 billion until 2020 for councils to deliver services to local communities, including for provision of social care services for disabled children. The Government is conducting a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities which will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at Local Government Finance Settlements, including for children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for the National Health Service will grow on average by 3.4% in real terms each year from 2019/20 to 2023/24; by 2023/24 the NHS budget will increase by over £20 billion a year in real terms compared with today.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/02/2019 17:55:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1202873

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to permit support bubbles for families who usually receive childcare support for disabled children from members of their family residing in other households with multiple occupants.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	58674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2020 answer text <p>Since 1 June, people have been allowed to meet outdoors in groups of up to six from different households, (including people you do not live with) where childcare can be provided.</p><p>From 13 June, it will also be permitted for single adult households to form a support bubble with another household. People who live apart can form a bubble as long as one person in the relationship lives in a single adult household and all members of the other household are willing to form an exclusive support bubble.</p><p>Guidance on meeting people from outside of your household has been published and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-people-from-outside-your-household" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-people-from-outside-your-household</a></p><p>The Government keeps these arrangements under regular review and the next review date is 25 June.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/06/2020 10:11:07 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter