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1568426

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Imports: Inspections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have a mechanism to identify specific inbound goods for inspection prior to those goods reaching the UK.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>A risk-based, intelligence-led approach is taken at the Border to tackle the highest and most significant risks before arrival. This approach includes risk-based pre- and post-clearance checks, regular monitoring of supply chains to identify any potentially illicit trade in cooperation with international partners and providing education to traders on their responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>Entry summary declarations (also known as an ENS) submitted by carriers, are used to identify risks on goods before they arrive. They are part of the international standard for safety and security set up by the World Customs Organisation in their SAFE Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Where the Goods Vehicle Movement System (GVMS) is used for inbound goods with pre-lodged customs declarations, goods requiring checks are identified before they disembark. In other circumstances where customs declarations have been pre-lodged goods may be identified for checks provisionally.</p><p> </p><p>Imports of all goods which are regulated for sanitary or phytosanitary purposes must be pre-notified via the Imports of Animals, Products, Food and Feed System or an equivalent system for plants and plant products. This information is used to target risk-based checks of these imports, to safeguard UK biosecurity.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:54 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1568414

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Boards are ensuring the provision of (1) support, and (2) treatment, for disabled children.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care partnerships (ICPs) must set out how local authorities and integrated care board (ICBs) can meet these assessed needs in integrated care strategies. Statutory guidance states that these strategies should consider the health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and families and they should include a statement on how the arrangement of health and social care services can be closely arranged with health-related services such as education providers.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to ensure SEND duties receive sufficient focus in the ICB, NHS England statutory guidance will contain provision for the delegation of responsibility for these duties to ICB executive leads.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL4890 HL4892 question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1568413

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Systems will work with schools to ensure that support is available for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care partnerships (ICPs) must set out how local authorities and integrated care board (ICBs) can meet these assessed needs in integrated care strategies. Statutory guidance states that these strategies should consider the health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and families and they should include a statement on how the arrangement of health and social care services can be closely arranged with health-related services such as education providers.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to ensure SEND duties receive sufficient focus in the ICB, NHS England statutory guidance will contain provision for the delegation of responsibility for these duties to ICB executive leads.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL4890 HL4893 question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1568411

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Disability: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Markham on 11 January (HL Deb col 1415), how Integrated Care Systems will ensure joined up provision between health, social care, and education for disabled children.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care systems are designed to join-up the commissioning of health, social care services and other system partners to meet the population health needs. These needs are assessed in the data-driven joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs), prepared by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Government guidance on the preparation of JSNAs states that they should include the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within these assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care partnerships (ICPs) must set out how local authorities and integrated care board (ICBs) can meet these assessed needs in integrated care strategies. Statutory guidance states that these strategies should consider the health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and families and they should include a statement on how the arrangement of health and social care services can be closely arranged with health-related services such as education providers.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to ensure SEND duties receive sufficient focus in the ICB, NHS England statutory guidance will contain provision for the delegation of responsibility for these duties to ICB executive leads.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL4892 HL4893 question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1568802

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children moved between care placements in each local authority in 2021-22; and how many children were moved more than once per authority.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>Information on the number of looked-after children who stayed in one placement during 2021/22 and the number who moved at least once can be found in the attached table.</p><p>Figures on the number of looked-after children who changed placements three or more times during a one year period can be accessed here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/53b32118-528e-4015-777b-08dab100bfc2" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/53b32118-528e-4015-777b-08dab100bfc2</a>. This data is for the year ending 31 March 2018 to the year ending 31 March 2022.</p><p>All placement decisions are subject to the duty in Section 22 of the Children’s Act 1989 that the placement is the most appropriate way to safeguard and promote the child’s welfare. The department needs a range of options for care placements and support that reflects the diverse needs of children in care and care leavers.</p><p>Around 70% of looked-after children are placed with foster carers. For many children who cannot live with their birth parents, foster care offers them the opportunity to experience a stable environment. Looked-after children whose first placement in 2021/22 was with foster carers or placed for adoption were least likely to have more than two placement moves during the year compared with those in other settings.</p><p>Recognising the urgency of action in placement sufficiency, the department will prioritise working with local authorities to recruit more foster carers. This will include pathfinder local recruitment campaigns that build towards a national programme, to help ensure children have access to the right placements at the right time. As the Care Review recommends, the department will focus on providing more support throughout the application process to improve the conversion rate from expressions of interest to approved foster carers.</p><p>Kinship carers are a vital part of our society and play an important role in supporting a child’s development. Councils can offer discretionary financial support to kinship carers. Councils can offer discretionary financial support to kinship carers. We are rapidly working up an ambitious and detailed implementation strategy in response to the reviews and will publish early this year.</p><p>In recognition of rising costs, the government is also providing over £37 billion to help families, targeted to support the most vulnerable.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/01/2023 14:54:10 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1568634

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Supported Housing: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that her Department consults young people who have spent time in Supported Lodgings on all policy developments related to supported lodgings provision.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>The department recognises that supported accommodation, which includes supported lodgings, can be the right option for some older children, where it is high quality and where the young person is ready for the level of independence it promotes. We are investing over £140 million to introduce mandatory national standards and Ofsted registration and inspection of providers who accommodate looked-after children and care leavers aged 16 and 17 in supported accommodation.</p><p>In developing these vital reforms, the department has consulted young people with experience of care at every step.</p><p>The department recently published a consultation aimed directly at care-experienced children and young people, which sought their views on proposed new quality standards for supported accommodation, the proposed new requirements on the providers of this provision, and how Ofsted should register, inspect, and take action against providers. This consultation received 60 responses from care-experienced young people, and the department is carefully considering this input. A response will be published in due course. This consultation document can be accessed at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/regulating-supported-accommodation-team/regulating-supported-accommodation/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/regulating-supported-accommodation-team/regulating-supported-accommodation/</a>.</p><p>This recent consultation builds on years of engagement with care-experienced young people on these reforms, including focus groups which gathered the views of over 220 care-experienced young people, and a previous public consultation which received 69 responses. This continued engagement with children and young people has been invaluable, and has truly helped the department to develop a set of quality standards and accompanying regulatory model which will ensure that supported accommodation can deliver the absolute best for the 16 and 17-year-olds who are ready for the level of independence it brings.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/01/2023 14:53:42 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1568805

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) new children’s social workers entering the profession and (b) children’s social workers leaving the profession in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>In the year ending 31 March 2022, around 3,000 newly qualified child and family social workers were supported through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment, which is the programme social workers undertake when they enter the profession.</p><p>2022 data is not available. In the year ending 30 September 2021, around 2,800 child and family social workers left children’s services in local authorities.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/01/2023 14:50:27 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1568633

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption: Self-employed
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of equalising access to adoption (a) leave and (b) pay by introducing an adoption allowance for self-employed adoptive parents.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>The department recognises that it is crucial to the success of an adoption placement that the adopter has time to care for and bond with their child.</p><p>Self-employed adoptive parents may be supported in a range of ways by local authorities, including through financial support where applicable, as set out in the statutory guidance on adoption. This states that local authorities should consider making a payment, equivalent to Maternity Allowance, in cases where adopters do not qualify for any statutory payment because of their self-employment. This payment is discretionary and is means-tested to ensure that resources are targeted at those adopters who need it most, as part of a package of post-adoption support.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/01/2023 14:50:19 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1568645

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of recruitment for foster carers; and if she will take steps to increase the rate of recruitment for foster carers.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>The department closely monitors data and research in trends relating to the recruitment of foster carers. Recognising the urgency of action in placement sufficiency, we will prioritise working with local authorities to recruit more foster carers. This will include pathfinder local recruitment campaigns that build towards a national programme, to help ensure that children have access to the right placements at the right time. As the Care Review recommends, the department will focus on providing more support throughout the application process, to improve the conversion rate from expressions of interest to approved foster carers. More information on foster care placements can be found here: <a href="https://childrenssocialcare.independent-review.uk/final-report/" target="_blank">https://childrenssocialcare.independent-review.uk/final-report/</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/01/2023 14:47:09 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1568589

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Social Care Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the implementation strategy for recommendations from the independent review of children’s social care; and what steps she will take to involve care experienced people in her announcement.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2023 answer text <p>The department is rapidly working up an ambitious and detailed implementation strategy in response to the Independent Review of Children's Social Care, which we will publish shortly.</p><p>The department is committed to engaging widely with those with care experience and all interested stakeholders to help us drive the right change and scale up good practice across the country.</p><p>​The department has established the National Implementation Board to challenge and support the development of the reform programme. The Board is chaired by a minister and its membership is made up of sector leaders with experience of leading transformational change, and those with lived experience of the children’s social care system.</p><p>Since July 2022, the Board has provided advice and challenge on the strategy and our delivery plans, to help ensure we are taking the right actions to secure the outcomes we want to see for children and families in the short, medium, and long term.</p><p>​There will be other avenues through which people can engage with the reform programme beyond the National Implementation Board. The department will share information on this shortly. ​​</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/01/2023 14:47:06 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell