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48187

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what levels of stock his Department holds of (a) stationery, (b) printer cartridges, (c) treasury tags and other fasteners and (d) other office consumables.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	196203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

48188

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote the reputation and status of youth work.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	196223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>Responsibility for youth policy, including youth work, transferred to Cabinet Office on 3 July 2013. Cabinet Office co-ordinates cross-government work on youth policy and is also responsible for policy on international youth issues, youth voice and democracy, and the role of local authorities as well as working with the youth sector.</p><p>The Department for Education continues its commitment to all young people through its responsibilities for education and children's services in England; and works closely with the rest of government on key issues such as reducing risky behaviour and increasing participation in education, employment and training.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

48189

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been removed from their parents by social services in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Mr Jeremy Browne
uin	196237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of children who were taken into care in each of the last five years. Children who were taken into care were children who started to be looked after under a care order, police protection, emergency protection order or child assessment order.</p><p> </p><p>Children who were taken into care during the years ending 31 March:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of children taken into care</p></td><td><p>8,180</p></td><td><p>9,580</p></td><td><p>9,560</p></td><td><p>10,140</p></td><td><p>11,100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The information provided in the table is also published in table C2 of the statistical release, which is available online: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1575 label Biography information for Mr Jeremy Browne

48190

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are in place to check whether the decision made by Somerset County Council on safeguarding children are fair in their treatment of parents.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Mr Jeremy Browne
uin	196246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>In ‘Working Together 2013', the Department for Education set out the expectations and requirements of all local authorities in relation to their statutory duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. A copy of ‘Working Together 2013' can be found in the library of the House, or online at the following address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/281368/Working_together_to_safeguard_children.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/281368/Working_together_to_safeguard_children.pdf</a>. This includes how children and families should be treated during any investigations. Should any parent be dissatisfied about the way a local authority has handled a specific case, they may find it helpful to obtain details of the authority's own complaints procedure.</p><p> </p><p>Parents may wish to complain to the Local Government Ombudsman if they feel dissatisfied with the handling of their complaint under the local authority procedures. It is the Ombudsman's role to investigate complaints in a fair and independent manner.</p><p> </p><p>Assessment of overall children's services provision and safeguarding is undertaken independently by Ofsted under the new Single Inspection Framework.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1575 label Biography information for Mr Jeremy Browne

48191

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resource is available to parents who believe that Social Services departments are behaving unreasonably in pursuing their children's safeguarding activities.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Mr Jeremy Browne
uin	196247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>Parents should, in the first instance, complain to the service provider or the local authority's complaints officer if they are unhappy about the way a local authority has handled a specific case. They may find it helpful to contact the local authority to obtain details of the authority's own complaints procedure. Details of how to complain about a local authority service can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/understand-how-your-council-works/make-a-complaint" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/understand-how-your-council-works/make-a-complaint</a></p><p> </p><p>Parents may wish to complain to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) if they feel dissatisfied with the handling of their complaint under the local authority procedure. More information on making a complaint to the LGO is available at <a href="http://www.lgo.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.lgo.org.uk</a> or by calling the LGO advice line on 0300 061 0614 or 0845 602 1983.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1575 label Biography information for Mr Jeremy Browne

48192

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the performance of the children and families department in Somerset County Council.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Mr Jeremy Browne
uin	196248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>Ofsted inspected Somerset County Council's arrangements for the protection of children between 24 June 2013 and 3 July 2013 and published their findings on 5 August 2013. Ofsted judged the authority's performance as ‘inadequate'.</p><p> </p><p>My officials met with representatives of Somerset County Council on 20 August 2013 to discuss the Ofsted judgement, the Department's proposed course of action and the Council's immediate plans for improvement.</p><p> </p><p>I wrote to the leader of Somerset County Council, John Osman, on 13 September 2013 to underline my concern at the Ofsted judgement of performance and set out my intention to issue the council with an Improvement Notice.</p><p> </p><p>I issued a 12-month Improvement Notice to Somerset County Council on 22 November 2013, requiring the council to institute an improvement board headed by an independent chair to drive improvement and hold partners to account. The improvement board has sat monthly since October 2013 and I am represented at each Board by my officials.</p><p> </p><p>I plan to visit Somerset County Council to assess improvements for myself. My officials will also undertake a review of progress in June 2014 and report findings to me. I will then assess progress against the Improvement Notice and Ofsted recommendations and decide whether to intervene further.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1575 label Biography information for Mr Jeremy Browne

48193

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the merits of requiring all schools in the UK to fly the Union flag.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	196305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

48194

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to deal with emotional neglect of children.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	196374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>Our revised statutory safeguarding guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013', includes a definition of emotional abuse which social workers already act on when deciding on what action to take to keep a child safe.</p><p> </p><p>We want social workers and other professionals who work with children and families to recognise the early signs of all forms of abuse and neglect and take appropriate action. To support this, the Department is working on a number of initiatives. We have brought together a panel of experts to review the evidence concerning indicators of neglect that are associated with a likelihood of future harm to babies, pre-school children and school-age children.</p><p> </p><p>We are reviewing the recommendations in the Action for Children report ‘Child Neglect: The scandal that never breaks' and the Ofsted report ‘In the child's time: professional responses to neglect' and will consider how to support professionals in recognising early signs of all forms of neglect. We are also working with the Department of Health on their proposals for the development of a new criminal offence of ill-treatment or wilful neglect. Following the Narey review, we are improving social work training and developing further the skills of social workers in critical areas including neglect and how to undertake a good quality assessment.</p><p> </p><p>We have also published training materials commissioned from Action for Children and the University of Stirling. These materials<em>, </em>‘Childhood neglect: Improving outcomes for children', contain guidance and training resources to help staff identify and respond early to all signs of neglect and to know what types of interventions are the most effective.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

48195

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in what circumstances he uses a calculation of the (a) value of preventing a fatality, (b) willingness to pay and (c) cost-per-quality adjusted life year approach to quantify the value of a policy intervention; what other tools he uses to quantify the benefit of a policy intervention; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen O'Brien
uin	196461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>Department for Education economists employ a range of valuation tools as appropriate to specific policy interventions in order to advise Ministers, following the principles and techniques prescribed in HM Treasury guidance. Such techniques are also used as appropriate in research commissioned by the Department, for instance in policy evaluations.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	427 label Biography information for Mr Stephen O'Brien

48196

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms his Department has put in place to ensure that (a) schools, (b) nurseries and (c) learning establishments receiving any funds or endorsement from his Department teach evolution and do not teach that creationism is scientifically valid.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	196449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government's policy is that evolution should be taught in schools as an essential element of a rigorous scientific education; teaching creationism as science is incompatible with the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>The national curriculum requires all maintained schools to teach evolution as an established scientific theory. All academies and free schools are required to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum. The model funding agreements for all kinds of academies and free schools are being revised. The latest published version includes a specific requirement to teach evolution, and prohibits the teaching of creationism as an evidence-based theory.</p><p> </p><p>As in all areas of education, we look to Ofsted as the best and most effective lever to ensure expected standards are being achieved. All state funded schools are subject to Ofsted inspections which are required to report on the quality of education provided in the school including the quality of teaching.</p><p> </p><p>Providers in receipt of early years funding must follow clear standards to make sure children are taught the key skills they need to get a good start in life. Where an Ofsted inspector identifies any concerns, they must notify Ofsted's compliance, investigation and enforcement team, who will consider notifying the appropriate agencies.</p><p> </p><p>We expect the Government's position on creationism and evolution to be supported by any learning establishment in receipt of funding from the Department for Education to support science education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas