The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural contribution that EU and international students make to the UK\u2019s higher education sector. We want that contribution to continue and we are confident \u2013 given the world class quality of our higher education sector \u2013 that it will.<\/p>
<\/p>
The UK remains a highly attractive destination for non-EU students, with their numbers remaining at record highs \u2013 over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions for the seventh year running. The UK is a world-leading destination for study, with four universities in the world\u2019s top 10 and 16 in the top 100 \u2013 second only to the USA. We actively promote study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British Council.<\/p>
<\/p>
The government announced on 21 January that the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade will produce an international education strategy in early 2019. The strategy will set out the government\u2019s ambition for international education, and plans to support the sector in driving growth in education exports. This will include making sure we optimise our position in the market for international students.<\/p>
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Our latest records show that no academy trust has gone into administration. Where there is a risk to public funds, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will intervene in a proportionate manner to avoid financial issues affecting school provision.<\/p>
<\/p>
The ESFA has a robust intervention strategy to support an academy trust, which is a company limited by guarantee and subject to company law, to reach a stronger financial position. Intervention actions range from supporting and building trust capacity through to issuing a Financial Notice to Improve, or in the most serious cases, terminating a funding agreement, after schools have been transferred to another trust.<\/p>
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Schools are free to develop their own behaviour policies and strategies for managing behaviour according to their own particular circumstances. To help schools develop effective strategies, the Department has produced advice for schools which covers what should be included in the behaviour policy. This advice can be viewed here:<\/p>
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/behaviour-and-discipline-in-schools<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> Schools can adopt a policy which allows disruptive pupils to be placed in isolation away from other pupils for a limited period. If a school uses isolation rooms as a disciplinary penalty, this should be made clear in their behaviour policy. As with other disciplinary penalties, schools must act lawfully, reasonably and proportionately in all cases. The school must also ensure the health and safety of pupils.<\/p> <\/p> The Department regularly reviews the guidance issued to schools and updates it as appropriate.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1051327/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " \u200bInformation on the number of children being educated at home, and the reasons for their being so educated, is not held centrally.<\/p> \u200bIn 2018, the department held a consultation and call for evidence on home education to gain more information about home education in England. The government\u2019s response to this will be published shortly.<\/p>"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1051339", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1051339/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Following the consultation which closed in November 2018, the Department is currently finalising the regulations and guidance for the new subjects of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education.<\/p> The Department plans to publish the Government response to the consultation in Spring 2019 and lay the regulations for debate in Parliament. Once the regulations have completed the Parliamentary process, they will be available to schools and other stakeholders along with the final guidance.<\/p> Schools will be encouraged and supported to start teaching the new subjects from September 2019 on a voluntary basis, and will then be required to do so from September 2020.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1051352/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them.<\/p> One of the key principles of the legislation which underpins the UK\u2019s child protection system, is that children are best looked after within their families. However, that is not always possible and, as a last resort, local authorities can apply to the courts for a care or supervision order where the child is suffering, or is at risk of suffering, significant harm. In making their decisions, the courts must be satisfied that the threshold for significant harm has been met and that taking the child from his or her family\u2019s care will be in the child\u2019s best interests.<\/p> <\/p> Where a child cannot live at home, we must make sure they are safe and receive the highest quality care, which is why we are working hard to improve the social care support for children across England through our reform programme, Putting Children First. We have also established the Children\u2019s Social Care What Works Centre, whose initial research priority focuses on \u2018what works in safely reducing the need for children to enter care\u2019.<\/p> In the Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £410 million for adult and children\u2019s social care in 2019-20. A further £84 million is also being invested over the next 5 years through the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme. This will build on three of our most promising Innovation Programme projects, with the aim of improving social work practice to enable children to stay safely at home where that is in their best interests.<\/p> This investment is in addition to the almost £270 million the department has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been 4 programmes in local authorities in the East Midlands region and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality. The Creating Strong Communities model, for example, developed by North East Lincolnshire has been designed to fundamentally change the way local practitioners and partners in North East Lincolnshire work together to safeguard vulnerable children.<\/p> The number of children taken into care in the East Midlands region and Nottingham local authority area is shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.<\/p> Figures on children taken into care by legal status is published for England in Table C1 of the statistical release \u201cChildren Looked after in England including adoptions: 2017:2018\u201d at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North who are taken into social care by court order.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1051353/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them.<\/p> One of the key principles of the legislation which underpins the UK\u2019s child protection system, is that children are best looked after within their families. However, that is not always possible and, as a last resort, local authorities can apply to the courts for a care or supervision order where the child is suffering, or is at risk of suffering, significant harm. In making their decisions, the courts must be satisfied that the threshold for significant harm has been met and that taking the child from his or her family\u2019s care will be in the child\u2019s best interests.<\/p> <\/p> Where a child cannot live at home, we must make sure they are safe and receive the highest quality care, which is why we are working hard to improve the social care support for children across England through our reform programme, Putting Children First. We have also established the Children\u2019s Social Care What Works Centre, whose initial research priority focuses on \u2018what works in safely reducing the need for children to enter care\u2019.<\/p> In the Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £410 million for adult and children\u2019s social care in 2019-20. A further £84 million is also being invested over the next 5 years through the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme. This will build on three of our most promising Innovation Programme projects, with the aim of improving social work practice to enable children to stay safely at home where that is in their best interests.<\/p> This investment is in addition to the almost £270 million the department has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been 4 programmes in local authorities in the East Midlands region and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality. The Creating Strong Communities model, for example, developed by North East Lincolnshire has been designed to fundamentally change the way local practitioners and partners in North East Lincolnshire work together to safeguard vulnerable children.<\/p> The number of children taken into care in the East Midlands region and Nottingham local authority area is shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.<\/p>