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1360448

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the finding of Scope and the Disabled Children’s Partnership’s report, The gap widens, published September 2021, that there is a £573 million funding gap in disabled children’s social care, what steps he is taking to ensure that every family with a disabled child can access the care they need.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	56976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>The department believes it is right for local authorities, who know their areas’ needs best, to determine what services are required locally, including early help.</p><p>In line with this, respite care services for disabled children are provided on the basis of an individual assessment of each child and family’s needs.</p><p>This year councils have access to £51.3 billion to deliver their core services, including a £1.7 billion grant for social care. The government has also given over £6 billion in unringfenced funding directly to councils to support them with the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including children’s services.</p><p>The department will continue to work with other government departments, including the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to ensure the upcoming Spending Review reflects the needs of children’s services.</p><p>In addition to statutory services, the department is providing £27.3 million to the Family Fund in financial year 2021-22 to support over 60,000 families on low incomes raising children and young people with disabilities or serious illnesses. Grants can be used for a range of purposes, including family breaks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/10/2021 15:46:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1365893

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Respite Care: Coronavirus
	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 Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities over the use of the £4.8 billion additional grant funding for local authorities, announced at the Spending Review on 27 October 2021, to help ensure that the short breaks and respite care that families with disabled children have may missed during outbreak of covid-19 are restored.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, and the Department for Education, discuss and work with other government departments on a regular basis, including with my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities, on a range of issues, including local government funding and services.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/11/2021 13:40:50 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1420766

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Let Us Learn Too and the Disabled Children’s Partnership’s SEND Money Survey, published on 7 February 2022, what steps he is taking to prevent families with disabled children from having to pay for essential support for their children’s development privately.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	120740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>In July 2021 the government published the National Disability Strategy, setting out a range of commitments over supporting children and young people with disabilities in their education and preparation for adulthood.</p><p>The department is providing over £42 million during this financial year 2021-22 to continue funding projects to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This investment will ensure that specialist organisations around the country can continue to help strengthen local area performance, support families and provide practical support to schools and colleges. It will strengthen participation of parents and young people in the SEND system, ensuring they have a voice in designing policies and services and have access to essential support. This also includes £27.3 million in the financial year 2021-22 to support families on low incomes raising disabled or seriously ill children.</p><p>Additionally, councils will be funded £30 million for the next three years to set up more than 10,000 additional respite placements, helping to provide positive opportunities for disabled children and young people.</p><p>The department is conducting a review of the SEND system and looking at ways to make sure the system is more consistent, high quality, and integrated across education, health and care. The outcome of that review will be published as a green paper for full public consultation in the first quarter of this year.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/02/2022 17:08:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1460080

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2022
	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, with reference to the proposal in his Department's SEND review to allow families with disabled children to pick a school from a pre-defined list, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of that proposal on the health of disabled children in the event that schools on that list do not meet their needs.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	158936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The SEND and AP green paper sets out our proposal to establish a single national SEND and AP system setting national standards for how needs are identified and met across education, health, and care to address inconsistency across the SEND system in how and where needs are assessed and met.</p><p>This includes consistent processes for how individual needs are identified and recorded and the appropriate provision to meet those needs, including best practice in reasonable adjustments for disabled children, such as those children with a sensory impairment and the full range of appropriate types of support and provision for meeting different needs.</p><p>The department is consulting on the proposals for a tailored list of placements and the development of a national framework of bands and tariffs and will fully consider the impact of these proposals on disabled children, including the impact on their health and meeting their individual needs as the department takes this forward.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 158937 question first answered 28/04/2022 09:55:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1460081

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2022
	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, with reference to the proposal in his Department's SEND review on determining the level of support that disabled children receive from a national banding system, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of that proposal with the aim of providing support to each disabled child based on individual need, as set out in the Children and Families Act 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	158937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The SEND and AP green paper sets out our proposal to establish a single national SEND and AP system setting national standards for how needs are identified and met across education, health, and care to address inconsistency across the SEND system in how and where needs are assessed and met.</p><p>This includes consistent processes for how individual needs are identified and recorded and the appropriate provision to meet those needs, including best practice in reasonable adjustments for disabled children, such as those children with a sensory impairment and the full range of appropriate types of support and provision for meeting different needs.</p><p>The department is consulting on the proposals for a tailored list of placements and the development of a national framework of bands and tariffs and will fully consider the impact of these proposals on disabled children, including the impact on their health and meeting their individual needs as the department takes this forward.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 158936 question first answered 28/04/2022 09:55:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1462766

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2022 to Question 158937, what assessment he has made of the prospect of the policy proposal in the SEND Review on deciding the levels of support disabled children get from a national banding system having the potential effect of reducing the level of support disabled children and families currently receive.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	1501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>The special education needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision green paper sets out our proposals to improve the outcomes and experiences of children and young people with SEND and their families so that they can fulfil their potential and lead happy, healthy, and productive adult lives. The proposals aim to drive national consistency in how needs are assessed, identified, and met across education, health and care through the introduction of national standards.</p><p> </p><p>The department wants to ensure the most effective use of our investment in high needs funding and the proposal for national framework of funding bands has the potential to ensure far greater consistency in funding arrangements throughout the system. The department is consulting on how it can best develop a national framework for funding bands and tariffs, to achieve its objectives and help make it easier for all children and young people and their families to understand not only the provision they can access locally but also the funding levels that provision would attract, giving them greater assurance that their child’s needs will be met appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/05/2022 15:50:12 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1462767

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2022 to Question 158936, what discussions he has had with families with disabled children when formulating the policy proposal in the SEND Review to only allow families with disabled children to pick a school from a pre-defined list where those families have had to take a local authority to the SEND tribunal to get the school their disabled child needs.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	1502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the SEND Review, the department has engaged hundreds of people, including children, young people, and their families, as well as working with a cross-sector steering group which had representation from parents and carers. In March 2022, we addressed questions about the review at a webinar attended by 200 parents and carers of children and young people with SEND. Earlier this month, the department hosted a meeting of 14 SEND charities convened by the Council for Disabled Children. These charities include representation of children and young people, and their parents.</p><p>The department recognises that the significant set of proposals outlined in the green paper need to be subject to a full public consultation. For this reason, over 120 consultation events have been arranged, allowing direct engagement with a broad range of people, including children, young people, and their families. The department is committed to ensuring everyone has an opportunity to take part in the consultation and we encourage everyone to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/05/2022 15:46:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1467487

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Disability
	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 the new National Children’s Social Care Framework works with the proposed new National SEND Standards, as outlined in the SEND Review, to meet the social care needs of families with disabled children.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to building a coherent children’s social care system that has the interests of families and vulnerable children at its heart.</p><p> </p><p>The department will align its implementation strategy for children’s social care with reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities system that it is consulting on through the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/06/2022 12:40:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1467488

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Social Care National Implementation Board
	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 include people with lived experience of childhood disability on the new National Implementation Board for children’s social care.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The department recognises the importance of engaging directly with people with lived experience, building on the impressive work of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in hearing and accounting for the voices of children and their families, including people with lived experience of childhood disability.</p><p>We are committed to continuing this approach, by keeping the views and interests of those with lived experience at the heart of our work as we develop our implementation strategy for children’s social care. The new National Implementation Board will include people with their own experience of the care system, alongside those with experience of leading transformational change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/06/2022 17:00:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1519595

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	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	Maternity Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £95 million of additional funding for maternity services in England announced by her Department in 2021, how many of the additional (a) 1,200 midwives and (b) 100 obstetricians have been recruited to the NHS in England as of 10 October 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	59615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/08/2023 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally in the format requested. However, data on the number of midwives and obstetricians as of July 2022 is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/july-2022" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/july-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 17/08/2023 09:42:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 22437 answering member constituency Sleaford and North Hykeham answering member printed Dr Caroline Johnson answering member 4592
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris