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1045953

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding local authorities receive to deliver children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	211226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set at the Spending Review. The Chancellor has announced that the next Spending Review will be this year, and decisions about the future funding of local government will be taken in the round.</p><p>We are working with the Department for Education (DfE) and the sector to develop an understanding of children’s services costs and pressures, and to help local authorities innovate and reform services to achieve better quality and efficiency.</p><p>In preparation for the Spending Review, and as part of the Government’s review of relative needs and resources, new, up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. DfE and MHCLG have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 29/01/2019 14:13:36 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1046095

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations he has made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding for local authority children’s social services.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	211349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>My Department works on a regular basis with the Her Majesty’s Treasury regarding funding for local government. This includes children’s services and I speak to colleagues at the Department for Education on this matter as well. At the last Autumn Budget, Government made available an additional £410 million to local authorities for spend on children’s and adult’s social care in the next year. Our Departments will continue to work closely together in the run-up to the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 28/01/2019 17:01:45 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1023914

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to local authorities for the provision of children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	201693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set at Spending Review. The Chancellor has announced that the next Spending Review will be in 2019 and decisions about the future funding of local government will be taken in the round.</p><p>We are working with the Department for Education (DfE) and the sector to develop an understanding of children’s services costs and pressures, and to help local authorities innovate and reform services to achieve better quality and efficiency.</p><p>In preparation for the Spending Review, and as part of the Government’s review of relative needs and resources, new, up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. DfE and MHCLG have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 200075 question first answered 17/12/2018 14:22:16 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1020805

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding local government receives to deliver children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	200075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set at Spending Review. The Chancellor has announced that the next Spending Review will be in 2019 and decisions about the future funding of local government will be taken in the round.</p><p>We are working with the Department for Education (DfE) and the sector to develop an understanding of children’s services costs and pressures, and to help local authorities innovate and reform services to achieve better quality and efficiency.</p><p>In preparation for the Spending Review, and as part of the Government’s review of relative needs and resources, new, up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. DfE and MHCLG have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 201693 question first answered 17/12/2018 14:22:16 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

1020663

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with local authorities on the delivery of children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and the Minister for Local Government regularly hear from Councils across the country to discuss the delivery of services, including Children’s Social Care.</p><p>The Department leads on the national Troubled Families Programme, which aims to find better ways of working with complex families with multiple high-cost problems. Ministers regularly visit participating authorities and hear from the families and children who are supported by the Programme, in which we have committed £920 million from 2015-2020.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 14/12/2018 14:35:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1017307

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the resources required for local authority children's services, care services and care leaver services effectively to implement the national protocol on reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of looked-after children and care leavers.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	197431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The national protocol on reducing criminalisation of looked after children and care leavers sets out best practice. Implementing the protocol is voluntary; it does not place any new statutory burdens on local authorities.</p><p>The protocol has been developed with leaders from across the children’s social care, health and criminal justice sectors and endorsed as a positive step forward for children and young people and the relevant professionals working with them.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/12/2018 15:42:28 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown