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registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 363WH, on what date children in foster care will be able to receive 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	154678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154679 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

926711

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on children of providing care to a family member.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	154730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>This month saw the launch of the cross-government, Careers Action Plan (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/713781/carers-action-plan-2018-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/713781/carers-action-plan-2018-2020.pdf</a>),a two-year programme of tailored work to support unpaid carers of all ages.</p><p>Chapter three of this important plan sets out the government’s action specifically to support young carers. This includes plans to improve: identification of young carers; educational opportunities and outcomes; access to support and services; and transition for young adult carers.</p><p>Following the introduction of duties under the Children and Families Act 2014, the Department for Education commissioned 'The lives of young carers in England' (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-lives-of-young-carers-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-lives-of-young-carers-in-england</a>) omnibus research report, published January 2017. This large-scale study gathered data on experiences of young carers in England, and information about the scale and nature of the care they provide and the issues they face.</p><p>The department collects information on young carers through the annual Children in Need census (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need</a>), which records young carers who are unlikely to achieve or maintain a reasonable level of health or development, or whose health and development is likely to be significantly or further impaired, without the provision of services.</p><p>The government is working with organisations who support young carers, for example the Department of Health and Social Care is currently working with Carers Trust on a project to support the effective identification and engagement of young carers.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154731 question first answered 21/06/2018 16:29:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

926713

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 364WH, whether secondary legislation will be required to extend the entitlement to 30 hours free childcare to foster children.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	154679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154678 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

924700

registered interest
date	15/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been made available for professional development programmes for multi-academy trust trustees; how many trustees have taken part in such programmes in total; and how many trustees from multi-academy trusts operating in the Northern Powerhouse have taken part in such programmes.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	154167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>The funding currently available for governance professional development programmes for the period 2017-2020 is £3 million. This funding is available for boards of all state funded maintained schools and academies, including multi-academy trusts, in England and is not broken down by type of school.</p><p>On 9 June, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education announced an additional £3 million for governor and trustee development. We expect this funding to be available for the period 2018-2021. Decisions will be taken on the delivery of this funding in due course. Therefore, the total available for governance development over the period 2018–2021 will be £6 million.</p><p>A range of development programmes were launched in January 2018, and registration began in March 2018. To date, 18 June 2018, we have approved 968 individuals to receive funding for governance leadership programmes, and of these 262 individuals are on a board based in Regional School Commissioner regions- North, Lancashire &amp; West Yorkshire, and East Midlands &amp; Humber. We do not collect data by Northern Powerhouse regions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/06/2018 10:14:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 64423 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

924701

registered interest
date	15/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many business leaders have been matched by the Academy Ambassadors programme with multi-academy trusts operating in the Northern Powerhouse.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	154168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Academy Ambassadors has helped multi-academy trusts to appoint 287 business leaders to their boards across the northern regions. 121 of these were made by trusts in the Regional Schools Commissioner area of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, 93 in East Midlands and Humber, and 73 in the North. An additional 17 appointments have been made to national multi-academy trusts, some of which have schools in the region.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/06/2018 16:48:45 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 64780 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell