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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545829/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The department knows that children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) frequently require access to additional support from a broad specialist workforce across education, health and care. As my hon. Friend, the Minister for Mental Health and Women\u2019s Health Strategy, explained on 25 November 2022, the SEND and Alternative Provision Green Paper sets out proposals to commission analysis to ensure that the health needs of children and young people with SEND are supported through effective workforce planning.<\/p><p>The department is already taking steps to increase the capacity of the specialist workforce. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced on 29 November 2022 that we are investing £21 million into training 400 more educational psychologists, who play a critical role in the educational support available to children with SEND.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the number of specialist staff that will be required to implement the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan; and whether her Department has this number of specialist staff as of 28 November 2022.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545879", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545879/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The department is committed to ensuring students have access to high quality T Level industry placements. Industry placements provide young people with the knowledge and experience needed to open the door into skilled employment, further study, or a higher apprenticeship.<\/p><p>T Level industry placements are about providing students with high-quality, meaningful training, rather than providing job roles. As the placement is forming part of a course of further education, there is no legal requirement or expectation to pay students on industry placements. However, employers can optionally choose to pay students, or fund students\u2019 travel and subsistence, if they would like to.<\/p><p>The department has provided an extensive programme of employer and provider support to help with the delivery of high-quality placements where students can develop relevant skills and experiences for their T Level and beyond. The support offers providers and employers tailored advice, guidance, and hands-on support to deliver high-quality placements at scale. We have invested over £240 million over the past 4 years to help providers build their capacity and relationships with employers and have developed a comprehensive package of advice and guidance to support providers to deliver placements, as well as networking opportunities to share best practice.<\/p><p>To provide a strong pipeline of employers across all sectors and areas of the country, the department is engaging directly with employers of all sizes throughout the UK, via the department\u2019s employer engagement teams, to promote the benefits of T Levels and of hosting industry placements. We have a T Level Ambassador Network that is continuing to recruit T Level advocates across key industries to inspire engagement in the T Level programme, and in January this year we launched our \u2018Join the Skills Revolution\u2019 campaign, which promotes government\u2019s training and employment schemes, including T Levels, to employers.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to ensure that students on T-level work placements are (a) paid for their labour in line with the national living wage and (b) have opportunities to develop relevant skills and experience on such placements.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545882", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545882/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In the 2022 Autumn Statement, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor did not commit to new measures for early years, including maintained nursery schools (MNS).<\/p><p>The department has increased funding to local authorities to increase the hourly rates they pay to childcare providers, including MNS, and we are providing additional support for all early years providers with their energy costs over the winter. Further, specifically for MNS, the department has already announced that an additional £10 million will be invested into MNS supplementary funding from 2023/24. This is in addition to the increase to supplementary funding in 2022/23, where the department increased the hourly funding rate by 3.5%, which is equivalent to the increase in the 3 and 4-year-old hourly funding rates. The department has confirmed the continuation of MNS supplementary funding throughout the spending review period, providing the sector with long-term certainty.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autumn Statement 2022 and the announcement of an additional £2.3 billion of funding for education in 2023 and 2024, whether that funding will be available to maintained nursery schools.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4831", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ian Byrne"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545883", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545883/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Overall core schools funding, including funding for both mainstream and high needs schools, will increase by £2.3 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25. After adjusting budgets down to take account of the removal of the compensation for employer costs of the Health and Social Care Levy, this brings the core schools budget to a total of £58.8 billion in 2024/25. This is £2 billion greater than published in the 2021 Spending Review.<\/p><p>The Department will set out plans for the allocation of the additional funding announced at the 2022 Autumn Statement shortly. Additional funding will be available to both Local Authority maintained schools and academies, and to Local Authorities, from April 2023.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autumn Statement 2022 and the announcement of an additional £2.3 billion of funding for education in 2023 and 2024, when she plans for that funding to become available to schools.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4831", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ian Byrne"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545884", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545884/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Overall core schools funding, including funding for both mainstream and high needs schools, will increase by £2.3 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25. After adjusting budgets down to take account of the removal of the compensation for employer costs of the Health and Social Care Levy, this brings the core schools budget to a total of £58.8 billion in 2024/25. This is £2 billion greater than published in the 2021 Spending Review.<\/p><p>The Department will set out plans for the allocation of the additional funding announced at the 2022 Autumn Statement shortly. Additional funding will be available to both Local Authority maintained schools and academies, and to Local Authorities, from April 2023.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autumn Statement 2022 and the announcement of an additional £2.3 billion of funding for education in 2023 and 2024, how that funding will be distributed; and whether schools in areas of higher deprivation will receive proportionately larger sums of funding.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545885/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Overall core schools funding, including funding for both mainstream and high needs schools, will increase by £2.3 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25. After adjusting budgets down to take account of the removal of the compensation for employer costs of the Health and Social Care Levy, this brings the core schools budget to a total of £58.8 billion in 2024/25. This is £2 billion greater than published in the 2021 Spending Review.<\/p><p>The Department will set out plans for the allocation of the additional funding announced at the 2022 Autumn Statement shortly. Additional funding will be available to both Local Authority maintained schools and academies, and to Local Authorities, from April 2023.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, to ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autumn Statement 2022 and the announcement of an additional £2.3 billion of funding for education in 2023 and 2024, whether that funding will be (a) ringfenced for specific uses or (b) available for schools to spend on staff salaries.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4831", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ian Byrne"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545886/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Overall core schools funding, including funding for both mainstream and high needs schools, will increase by £2.3 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25. After adjusting budgets down to take account of the removal of the compensation for employer costs of the Health and Social Care Levy, this brings the core schools budget to a total of £58.8 billion in 2024/25. This is £2 billion greater than published in the 2021 Spending Review.<\/p><p>The Department will set out plans for the allocation of the additional funding announced at the 2022 Autumn Statement shortly. Additional funding will be available to both Local Authority maintained schools and academies, and to Local Authorities, from April 2023.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autumn Statement 2022 and the announcement of an additional £2.3 billion of funding for education in 2023 and 2024, whether that funding will be (a) ringfenced for specific uses or (b) available for schools to distribute in line with their priorities.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4831", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ian Byrne"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545997", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545997/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The department is providing £99 million to local authorities over this spending review to help care leavers stay with their foster families after they turn 18 in a Staying Put arrangement, so they can continue to benefit from a stable and secure family setting as they transition to independence. We are also providing £36 million to extend the Staying Close pilot so that more care leavers leaving children\u2019s homes will be supported with move-on accommodation and support from a trusted adult. An additional £3.2 million is being given to local authorities this year to provide extra support to care leavers at highest risk of rough sleeping.<\/p><p>In addition, the department is providing £36.4 million this spending review for Personal Advisors to support care leavers up to age 25, helping them navigate services such as housing, health or benefits and providing practical or emotional support to help them prepare for living independently.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking to help ensure that each local authority is providing sufficient, good quality housing and care support for care leavers and other care experienced young people.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4471", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Rachael Maskell"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1545998/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Reducing the proportion of care experienced young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) is a priority for the department. The latest data for year ending March 2022 showed that 38% of care leavers aged 19 to 21 were NEET, down from 41% in 2021. The department will publish a detailed implementation strategy in response to the recommendations of The Independent Review of Children\u2019s Social Care in early 2023.<\/p><p>Through the Care Leaver Covenant we launched in 2018, over 350 businesses and higher education institutions are offering employment opportunities and tailored support to care leavers. NHS England, NHS Professionals and the John Lewis Partnership are among the latest organisations to sign the Covenant and between them will be offering over 1000 employment opportunities over the next three years.<\/p><p>In October 2021 the department launched a £3 million pilot in 30 local authorities to extend Pupil Premium Plus funding to looked-after children and care leavers in post-16 education. This initially ran until March 2022 and has been extended with an additional £5 million of funding now supporting a total of 58 local authorities in 2022/23.<\/p><p>There is also support for care leavers starting an apprenticeship, who are entitled to a £1,000 bursary and local authorities must provide a £2,000 bursary for care leavers who go to university.<\/p><p>The department established the Civil Service care leaver internship scheme in 2014, which has led to over 800 care leavers taking up paid jobs across government.<\/p>"}
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