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date	21/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which academy chains are banned from sponsoring any more schools.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	146287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>An academy sponsor is an organisation or person who has received approval from the department to support an underperforming academy or group of academies. A range of bodies and institutions, including multi-academy trusts, can apply to become academy sponsors.</p><p> </p><p>An academy sponsor is paused if any or all of the following conditions exist:</p><ul><li>significant concerns with educational impact;</li><li>serious financial concerns, for example where the Education and Skills Funding Agency has issued a financial notice to improve due to financial non-compliance, breaches of funding agreements; and/or</li><li>serious concerns about the leadership or governance of the sponsor, which may include due diligence and counter extremism issues.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Academy sponsors remain on pause unless and until the concerns that led to them being paused have been resolved. Just because a sponsor is not on pause does not mean it is automatically allowed to take on more schools. A rigorous process is followed for all sponsorship decisions.</p><p>The following list shows all academy sponsors that are paused as of 22 May 2018:</p><ol><li>Bright Futures Educational Trust;</li><li>Grace Foundation;</li><li>CfBT Schools Trust;</li><li>City of Wolverhampton Academy Trust;</li><li>Future Schools Trust;</li><li>The Education Fellowship Trust;</li><li>University of Chester Academies Trust;</li><li>Wakefield City Academies Trust;</li><li>The Silver Birch Academy;</li><li>Plymouth CAST;</li><li>TBAP Trust;</li><li>Zail Enterprises Ltd;</li><li><del class="ministerial">Bradfield School; </del>and</li><li>Chrysalis Multi-Academy Trust.</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong><br /> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/05/2018 16:53:27 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2018 16:59:17 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 60178 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

903971

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have closed in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	143670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>There are currently 393 free schools open. Since 2010, eight free schools have closed. and one closure is planned for summer 2018. The primary objective of the department when making a decision to close a school is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for pupils and to secure value for money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>Free school closures</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>Discovery New School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>The Durham Free School, Dawes Lane Academy, Stockport Technical School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>St Michael’s Secondary School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Bolton Wanderers Free School, Collective Spirit Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Southwark Free School</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">2017/18</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Southwark Free School</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:02:35 question first ministerially corrected 15/06/2018 08:12:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 59530 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

830527

registered interest
date	25/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Psychology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in all local authorities in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	125058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Figures for educational psychologists in service in all local authorities in 2017 are not available until Summer 2018.</ins></p><p>The attached table provides the number of Educational Psychologists (EPs) that were reported as being directly employed by each local authority in November 2016. The list excludes local authorities where EP provision has been outsourced or the provision has been shared with other local authorities. It would also be open to academies and free schools to obtain their own provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/01/2018 17:51:10 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2018 09:06:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125058 - Full-time equivalent educational psychologists in service in state funded schools..xlsx title No. Educational Psychologists previous answer version 38114 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125058 - Full-time equivalent educational psychologists in service in state funded schools..xlsx title Number of Educational Psychologists
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

823725

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Pupil Referral Units there are for early years pupils.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Alternative provision (AP) is education put in place for children of compulsory school age who would not otherwise receive suitable education because of illness, exclusion or any other reason. AP is arranged by local authorities (and in some circumstances schools) and can be delivered by a range of providers, for example, pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies.</p><p><br /> As at <ins class="ministerial">24 </ins>January 2018, the Department’s <em>Get Information about schools</em> website shows there are <ins class="ministerial">42</ins><del class="ministerial">10</del> pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies that cater to early years pupils aged four and under. <ins class="ministerial">Of these 42 institutions, 10 offer provision for early years pupils aged three and under. </ins><em>Get Information about schools</em> is available at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:58:25 question first ministerially corrected 29/01/2018 11:15:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 35502 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

805420

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of full time equivalent (a) pastoral care workers (b) counsellors (c) mentors and (d) educational psychologists working in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in England since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	119091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The full-time equivalent (FTE) number of contracted staff whose role is defined as that of ‘pastoral support’ or of ‘learning mentor’, employed by state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in England, November 2010 to 2016 is provided in the table attached.</p><p>Information for ‘educational psychologists’ is not available by phase. These figures may <ins class="ministerial">also </ins>undercount the actual number of educational psychologists<ins class="ministerial"> in England and do not provide a comparable national year-on-year</ins> <ins class="ministerial">series </ins>because it is based on a varying percentage of local councils returns in each year (between 68 and 74 per cent).</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for ‘counsellors’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/12/2017 17:48:03 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2018 09:07:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 119091 - table to be attached - 060218.docx title Number of contracted staff previous answer version 30391 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 attachment 1 file name 119091 - table.docx title The full-time number of contracted staff
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger