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816673

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date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last year; and what proportion of total sick leave in her Department that leave was.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of employees in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 who were absent due to stress was 102, this represented 2% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to stress was 14% of the overall sickness absence for the department.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of sickness absence days in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 due to stress was 2652.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost to the department from December 2016 to December 2017 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £2,700,000.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121103 121107 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:54:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

816676

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many days' sick leave officials in her Department took for reasons relating to stress in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of employees in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 who were absent due to stress was 102, this represented 2% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to stress was 14% of the overall sickness absence for the department.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of sickness absence days in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 due to stress was 2652.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost to the department from December 2016 to December 2017 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £2,700,000.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121100 121107 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:54:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

816680

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost was to her Department as a result of officials taking sick leave in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of employees in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 who were absent due to stress was 102, this represented 2% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to stress was 14% of the overall sickness absence for the department.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of sickness absence days in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 due to stress was 2652.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost to the department from December 2016 to December 2017 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £2,700,000.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121100 121103 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:54:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

816722

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of local authorities provide radio aids hearing technology to assist deaf children in educational settings.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	121149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect data on the provision by local authorities of radio aids to deaf children in educational settings.</p><p>Schools and local authorities are required to provide auxiliary aids as part of the reasonable adjustment duty under the Equality Act 2010. Schools are expected to provide an auxiliary aid or service for a disabled pupil when it would be reasonable to do so and if such an aid would alleviate any substantial disadvantage that the pupil faces in comparison to non-disabled pupils. All such decisions depend on the facts of each individual case. Where there is a centrally organised visual or hearing impairment service it may be reasonable for the local authority to provide more expensive aids or support through that service but not reasonable for an individual school to have to provide them.</p><p>Local authorities must have regard to the statutory responsibilities placed upon them by the Children and Families Act 2014 to determine appropriate provision for children and young people with special educational needs or a disability (SEND) in their area and to keep it under review. They are also required to consult children and young people and their families on their published Local Offer of SEND provision. This is especially important for low incidence types of SEND such as hearing impairment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:51:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

816736

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Sanitary Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of school absences caused by girls’ inability to access free sanitary products.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	121163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education collects information on absence through the termly school census. The department collects data on the number of possible sessions, number of authorised absences, number of unauthorised absences and the reason for absence for each pupil. The reasons for absence do not include a category which would enable sessions missed due to a lack of access to menstrual products to be identified. The method of data collection does not enable us to identify pupils who are routinely missing school as we collect information on the total sessions missed each term. Full details of the absence data we collect in school census can be found in the census guidance here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-census</a>.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to address absence is based on robust evidence. We have sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and have received a very limited response. We are producing additional analysis of our absence data to look for evidence of period poverty and will publish findings in due course.</p><p>We have made it a priority to reduce school absence for all pupils and there has been some notable success in this area, with overall yearly absence rates decreasing from 6.5% of possible sessions missed in 2006/7 to 4.6% in 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:11:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

816777

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have applied to her Department for authorisation to make further deductions or variations to the limits set out in the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	121204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>89 local authorities requested to disapply the School and Early Years Finance (England) regulations 2017, this relates to the funding year 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:53:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

816832

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of children receiving free school meals who are entitled to them.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	121259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the benefits of providing a healthy school meal to the most disadvantaged children and we want to make sure that as many eligible children as possible are claiming their free school meals.</p><p><br> Schools and local authorities have worked hard in recent years to encourage eligible families to register for free school meals, and we provide schools with a model registration form and guidance. We will continue to look at the most effective practice and to share this with schools and local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:28:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

816907

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of families that will become ineligible for free school meals as a result of proposed changes to the net earnings threshold and how many of those families would benefit financially by reducing their income in order to receive free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	121334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We are currently consulting on proposals for free school meals eligibility under Universal Credit. We will consider the responses to the consultation carefully and will continue to refine our analysis as our policy on this matter develops.</p><p>Currently around 1.1 million of the most disadvantaged children are eligible for and claim a free nutritious meal. This government provides significant funding to ensure the most disadvantaged children receive free school meals. Under our proposals, no existing recipients of free school meals should lose their entitlement following the introduction of new eligibility criteria. We have proposed protection arrangements to ensure that every pupil who is eligible and receiving free school meals at the point at which the criteria are changed (or any claimants who gain free school meals during the rollout of Universal Credit) should be protected against losing their meals whilst Universal Credit is fully rolled out nationally. In addition, any protected pupils who are still receiving free school meals once the Universal Credit transition is complete would continue to receive protection until the end of their current phase of education.</p><p>Under our proposed net earnings threshold, we estimate that around 50,000 more children will become entitled to free school meals than at present, enabling us to target support towards a greater number of families on low incomes. It is right that we make sure that free school meals reach children from the most disadvantaged families, and we are consulting on this issue to make sure that this is the case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:47:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

816918

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department plans to issue to schools on tackling peer-on-peer sexual abuse.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	121345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>On 14 December 2017 the department published advice for schools on how to prevent and respond to reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges</a>.)</p><p>Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>).</p><p>KCSIE sets out that all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection training at induction and that training should be regularly updated. All schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should include procedures to minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse, set out how allegations will be investigated and dealt with, be clear abuse should never be passed off as “banter” and set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</p><p>The department is consulting on revising KCSIE. The consultation (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions</a>) closes on 22 February 2018 and provides an opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of the sexual violence and sexual harassment advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121346 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:46:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

816919

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to prevent peer-on-peer sexual abuse in schools.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	121346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>On 14 December 2017 the department published advice for schools on how to prevent and respond to reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges</a>.)</p><p>Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>).</p><p>KCSIE sets out that all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection training at induction and that training should be regularly updated. All schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should include procedures to minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse, set out how allegations will be investigated and dealt with, be clear abuse should never be passed off as “banter” and set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</p><p>The department is consulting on revising KCSIE. The consultation (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions</a>) closes on 22 February 2018 and provides an opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of the sexual violence and sexual harassment advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121345 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:46:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight