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1178024

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the research commissioned by Government from the Early Intervention Foundation on effective local practice with regard to supporting families.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	1260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Early Intervention Foundation is due to report findings from its review of effective local practice in spring 2020. A publication date is yet to be agreed.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 24/02/2020 09:54:06 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1205199

registered interest
date	18/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he will take to ensure that free school meal vouchers provided during the school holidays are not spent on (a) alcohol and (b) other non-food items.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	61463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>Provision for free school meals is ordinarily term time only. However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government understands that children and parents face an entirely unprecedented situation over the summer. To reflect this, we will be providing additional funding for a COVID-19 Summer Food Fund which will enable families with children who are eligible for free school meals to receive food vouchers covering the 6-week holiday period.</p><p>Families are free to select the most appropriate food for their child. When selecting products, we encourage families to consider health and nutrition. The School Food Standards and the NHS Eat Well website may act as a useful guide for families. These can be found at the following links:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england</a> and;<br> <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/?tabname=recipes-and-tips" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/?tabname=recipes-and-tips</a>.</p><p>The vouchers should be used for food and must not be redeemed for any age-restricted items, such as alcohol, cigarettes or lottery tickets. I have recently written to participating supermarkets to ensure their ongoing support in relation to these restrictions.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 23/06/2020 14:34:49 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1239902

registered interest
date	02/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Hubs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department spent the funding allocated in the March 2020 Budget for family hubs on.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	98691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2020 answer text <p>There are already many family hubs across the country up and running. We want to ensure that innovations such as family hubs are recognised and shared, and successful approaches can spread. Local areas are using their existing funding pots to move to a family hub model.</p><p>The 2020 Budget allocated £2.5 million for research and developing best practice around the integration of services for families, including family hubs. We will be launching the procurement process for this work shortly.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 07/10/2020 16:06:11 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1240123

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 2.7 of Budget 2020 on the provision of £2.5 million for research and developing best practice around the integration of services for families, what that allocation has been spent on.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	98935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>There are already many family hubs across the country up and running. We want to ensure that innovations such as family hubs are recognised and shared, and successful approaches can spread. Local areas are using their existing funding pots to move to a family hub model.</p>The Budget 2020 allocated £2.5 million for research and developing best practice around the integration of services for families, including family hubs. We will be launching the procurement process for this work shortly. answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 08/10/2020 16:08:02 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1290292

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Hubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress has been made on developing a national centre for Family Hubs.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	159279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Families play a critical role in caring for and educating their children; and the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for cross-government collaboration to provide support to families. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is driving forward this government’s focus on improving outcomes for families’ and has appointed a Departmental Policy Adviser on families.</p><p>On family hubs, the department is investing over £14 million and is taking steps to champion this approach. We expect to have completed the procurement of a National Centre for family hubs by March 2021 and for the centre to be up and running by spring 2021. We are also investing in an evaluation innovation fund, and work to develop data and digital products to help professionals collaborate and plan with families in the early years.</p><p>To support and strengthen families, and to ensure children have the best start, the department has:</p><ul><li>launched an Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, on 15 January 2021;</li><li>announced that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue for a further year up to March 2022 (£185 million has been made available through the core ASF to help pay for essential therapeutic services for over 65,000 adoptive and eligible special guardianship families since 2015);</li><li>launched the cross government special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) review to strengthen the support available to children and young people, and their families;</li><li>continued to deliver 30 hours childcare places to nearly 350,000 children in January 2020, with over one million disadvantaged two-year-olds having benefitted from 15 hours free childcare since the entitlement began in 2013;</li><li>commenced reform of the early years foundation stage to improve outcomes for all children at age five, especially disadvantaged children, and to reduce the workload so practitioners and teachers can spend more time teaching children;</li><li>introduced the Nuffield Early Language Intervention to 40% of primary schools in the 2020-21 academic year to address the education recovery needs of reception-age children;</li><li>continued to work with voluntary and community sector partners and deliver online resources to help parents engage in home learning activities with under-fives to support early language, literacy and numeracy development, and parent and child mental health and wellbeing, and to support children with SEND;</li><li>worked in partnership with Public Health England, the Local Government Association and the Early Intervention Foundation to secure improved early language outcomes for disadvantaged children through effective integration of local services;</li><li>spent more than £18 billion since 2011 – and another £2.4 billion this year – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality;</li><li>supported families through free school meals (FSM) - under the benefits-related criteria there are currently around 1.4 million pupils eligible for and claiming FSM, saving families around £400 a year for each child. In addition, the Holiday Activity and Food programme will expand in 2021 so that disadvantaged children across England will be offered free healthy meals and enriching activities over the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays through a £220 million investment.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 159280 159281 159282 159283 question first answered 03/03/2021 11:29:48 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1290293

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Hubs
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 rollout Family Hubs across the country; and what resources are being provided by his Department for that rollout.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	159280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Families play a critical role in caring for and educating their children; and the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for cross-government collaboration to provide support to families. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is driving forward this government’s focus on improving outcomes for families’ and has appointed a Departmental Policy Adviser on families.</p><p>On family hubs, the department is investing over £14 million and is taking steps to champion this approach. We expect to have completed the procurement of a National Centre for family hubs by March 2021 and for the centre to be up and running by spring 2021. We are also investing in an evaluation innovation fund, and work to develop data and digital products to help professionals collaborate and plan with families in the early years.</p><p>To support and strengthen families, and to ensure children have the best start, the department has:</p><ul><li>launched an Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, on 15 January 2021;</li><li>announced that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue for a further year up to March 2022 (£185 million has been made available through the core ASF to help pay for essential therapeutic services for over 65,000 adoptive and eligible special guardianship families since 2015);</li><li>launched the cross government special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) review to strengthen the support available to children and young people, and their families;</li><li>continued to deliver 30 hours childcare places to nearly 350,000 children in January 2020, with over one million disadvantaged two-year-olds having benefitted from 15 hours free childcare since the entitlement began in 2013;</li><li>commenced reform of the early years foundation stage to improve outcomes for all children at age five, especially disadvantaged children, and to reduce the workload so practitioners and teachers can spend more time teaching children;</li><li>introduced the Nuffield Early Language Intervention to 40% of primary schools in the 2020-21 academic year to address the education recovery needs of reception-age children;</li><li>continued to work with voluntary and community sector partners and deliver online resources to help parents engage in home learning activities with under-fives to support early language, literacy and numeracy development, and parent and child mental health and wellbeing, and to support children with SEND;</li><li>worked in partnership with Public Health England, the Local Government Association and the Early Intervention Foundation to secure improved early language outcomes for disadvantaged children through effective integration of local services;</li><li>spent more than £18 billion since 2011 – and another £2.4 billion this year – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality;</li><li>supported families through free school meals (FSM) - under the benefits-related criteria there are currently around 1.4 million pupils eligible for and claiming FSM, saving families around £400 a year for each child. In addition, the Holiday Activity and Food programme will expand in 2021 so that disadvantaged children across England will be offered free healthy meals and enriching activities over the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays through a £220 million investment.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 159279 159281 159282 159283 question first answered 03/03/2021 11:29:48 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1290294

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families
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 strengthen families.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	159281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Families play a critical role in caring for and educating their children; and the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for cross-government collaboration to provide support to families. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is driving forward this government’s focus on improving outcomes for families’ and has appointed a Departmental Policy Adviser on families.</p><p>On family hubs, the department is investing over £14 million and is taking steps to champion this approach. We expect to have completed the procurement of a National Centre for family hubs by March 2021 and for the centre to be up and running by spring 2021. We are also investing in an evaluation innovation fund, and work to develop data and digital products to help professionals collaborate and plan with families in the early years.</p><p>To support and strengthen families, and to ensure children have the best start, the department has:</p><ul><li>launched an Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, on 15 January 2021;</li><li>announced that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue for a further year up to March 2022 (£185 million has been made available through the core ASF to help pay for essential therapeutic services for over 65,000 adoptive and eligible special guardianship families since 2015);</li><li>launched the cross government special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) review to strengthen the support available to children and young people, and their families;</li><li>continued to deliver 30 hours childcare places to nearly 350,000 children in January 2020, with over one million disadvantaged two-year-olds having benefitted from 15 hours free childcare since the entitlement began in 2013;</li><li>commenced reform of the early years foundation stage to improve outcomes for all children at age five, especially disadvantaged children, and to reduce the workload so practitioners and teachers can spend more time teaching children;</li><li>introduced the Nuffield Early Language Intervention to 40% of primary schools in the 2020-21 academic year to address the education recovery needs of reception-age children;</li><li>continued to work with voluntary and community sector partners and deliver online resources to help parents engage in home learning activities with under-fives to support early language, literacy and numeracy development, and parent and child mental health and wellbeing, and to support children with SEND;</li><li>worked in partnership with Public Health England, the Local Government Association and the Early Intervention Foundation to secure improved early language outcomes for disadvantaged children through effective integration of local services;</li><li>spent more than £18 billion since 2011 – and another £2.4 billion this year – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality;</li><li>supported families through free school meals (FSM) - under the benefits-related criteria there are currently around 1.4 million pupils eligible for and claiming FSM, saving families around £400 a year for each child. In addition, the Holiday Activity and Food programme will expand in 2021 so that disadvantaged children across England will be offered free healthy meals and enriching activities over the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays through a £220 million investment.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 159279 159280 159282 159283 question first answered 03/03/2021 11:29:48 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1290295

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families: Social Mobility
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 of strengthening families on promoting social mobility.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	159282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Families play a critical role in caring for and educating their children; and the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for cross-government collaboration to provide support to families. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is driving forward this government’s focus on improving outcomes for families’ and has appointed a Departmental Policy Adviser on families.</p><p>On family hubs, the department is investing over £14 million and is taking steps to champion this approach. We expect to have completed the procurement of a National Centre for family hubs by March 2021 and for the centre to be up and running by spring 2021. We are also investing in an evaluation innovation fund, and work to develop data and digital products to help professionals collaborate and plan with families in the early years.</p><p>To support and strengthen families, and to ensure children have the best start, the department has:</p><ul><li>launched an Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, on 15 January 2021;</li><li>announced that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue for a further year up to March 2022 (£185 million has been made available through the core ASF to help pay for essential therapeutic services for over 65,000 adoptive and eligible special guardianship families since 2015);</li><li>launched the cross government special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) review to strengthen the support available to children and young people, and their families;</li><li>continued to deliver 30 hours childcare places to nearly 350,000 children in January 2020, with over one million disadvantaged two-year-olds having benefitted from 15 hours free childcare since the entitlement began in 2013;</li><li>commenced reform of the early years foundation stage to improve outcomes for all children at age five, especially disadvantaged children, and to reduce the workload so practitioners and teachers can spend more time teaching children;</li><li>introduced the Nuffield Early Language Intervention to 40% of primary schools in the 2020-21 academic year to address the education recovery needs of reception-age children;</li><li>continued to work with voluntary and community sector partners and deliver online resources to help parents engage in home learning activities with under-fives to support early language, literacy and numeracy development, and parent and child mental health and wellbeing, and to support children with SEND;</li><li>worked in partnership with Public Health England, the Local Government Association and the Early Intervention Foundation to secure improved early language outcomes for disadvantaged children through effective integration of local services;</li><li>spent more than £18 billion since 2011 – and another £2.4 billion this year – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality;</li><li>supported families through free school meals (FSM) - under the benefits-related criteria there are currently around 1.4 million pupils eligible for and claiming FSM, saving families around £400 a year for each child. In addition, the Holiday Activity and Food programme will expand in 2021 so that disadvantaged children across England will be offered free healthy meals and enriching activities over the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays through a £220 million investment.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 159279 159280 159281 159283 question first answered 03/03/2021 11:29:48 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1290298

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families
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 support and promote stable and secure family life to ensure that children have the best start.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	159283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>Families play a critical role in caring for and educating their children; and the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need for cross-government collaboration to provide support to families. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is driving forward this government’s focus on improving outcomes for families’ and has appointed a Departmental Policy Adviser on families.</p><p>On family hubs, the department is investing over £14 million and is taking steps to champion this approach. We expect to have completed the procurement of a National Centre for family hubs by March 2021 and for the centre to be up and running by spring 2021. We are also investing in an evaluation innovation fund, and work to develop data and digital products to help professionals collaborate and plan with families in the early years.</p><p>To support and strengthen families, and to ensure children have the best start, the department has:</p><ul><li>launched an Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, on 15 January 2021;</li><li>announced that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue for a further year up to March 2022 (£185 million has been made available through the core ASF to help pay for essential therapeutic services for over 65,000 adoptive and eligible special guardianship families since 2015);</li><li>launched the cross government special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) review to strengthen the support available to children and young people, and their families;</li><li>continued to deliver 30 hours childcare places to nearly 350,000 children in January 2020, with over one million disadvantaged two-year-olds having benefitted from 15 hours free childcare since the entitlement began in 2013;</li><li>commenced reform of the early years foundation stage to improve outcomes for all children at age five, especially disadvantaged children, and to reduce the workload so practitioners and teachers can spend more time teaching children;</li><li>introduced the Nuffield Early Language Intervention to 40% of primary schools in the 2020-21 academic year to address the education recovery needs of reception-age children;</li><li>continued to work with voluntary and community sector partners and deliver online resources to help parents engage in home learning activities with under-fives to support early language, literacy and numeracy development, and parent and child mental health and wellbeing, and to support children with SEND;</li><li>worked in partnership with Public Health England, the Local Government Association and the Early Intervention Foundation to secure improved early language outcomes for disadvantaged children through effective integration of local services;</li><li>spent more than £18 billion since 2011 – and another £2.4 billion this year – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality;</li><li>supported families through free school meals (FSM) - under the benefits-related criteria there are currently around 1.4 million pupils eligible for and claiming FSM, saving families around £400 a year for each child. In addition, the Holiday Activity and Food programme will expand in 2021 so that disadvantaged children across England will be offered free healthy meals and enriching activities over the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays through a £220 million investment.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 159279 159280 159281 159282 question first answered 03/03/2021 11:29:48 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce