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1043021

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support the improvement of local authority-run services for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	209746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act (2014) introduced a range of additional duties for local authorities in relation to services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p> </p><p>We have invested heavily in training and support for local authorities to take on their new responsibilities and improve their services. This includes funding training and resources on education, health and care planning; leadership skills; joint commissioning of services; and effectively engaging with children, young people and their families to deliver a service that meets their needs. We are also working with IPSEA (Independent Parental Special Education Advice) to deliver legal training for local authorities on the implications of the SEND reforms, and are funding peer support via a network of local authority regional coordinators.</p><p>High needs funding has risen by £1 billion since 2013, to just under £6 billion this year and on 17 December 2018, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education announced additional high needs funding for local authorities of £125 million in 2018-19 and £125 million in 2019-20 to help local councils manage the increasing costs of provision for children and young people with SEND. He also announced a further £100 million top-up to the special provision capital fund for in 2019-20, to take the total investment to £365 million across 2018 to 2021. This will help local authorities invest in improved facilities and additional school and college places for children and young people with SEND.</p><p>Since May 2016, we have been funding Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to inspect local areas (the local authority and relevant commissioning health bodies) on how they are fulfilling their duties for children and young people with SEND. All 152 areas will be inspected over 5 years and where weaknesses are identified by the inspectors, areas are being supported by the Department for Education and NHS England regional SEND advisers to develop and implement an improvement plan known as a written statement of action (WSOA). Inspections are identifying a wide range of strengths, as well as areas for improvements and are acting as a real driver for change. Revisits by Ofsted and the CQC to those areas with a WSOA are helping to ensure than momentum is maintained.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2019 15:23:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1043037

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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, with reference to table A2 of the statistical release Information on looked after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2016-17, how many of the 8,830 looked-after children who were cared for in a friends and family foster placement on 31 March 2017 had also been in (a) an unrelated foster placement, (b) another family and friends care placement, (c) a children's home and (d) other provision for looked-after children.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	209733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>For the years ending 31 March 2017 and 2018, the number of looked after children in a foster placement with friends or family who have also been in a foster placement; not with friends or family, a children’s home placement, or any other type of placement in the same period of care is shown in the table attached.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 209734 question first answered 22/01/2019 17:57:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 209733_&_209734_The_number_of_looked_after_children_in_a_foster_placement_.pdf title The_number_of_looked_after_children
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1043039

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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, with reference to table A2 of the statistical release Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2017-18, how many of the 9,720 looked-after children who were cared for in a friends and family foster placement on 31 March 2018 had also been in (a) an unrelated foster placement, (b) another family and friends care placement, (c) a children's home and (d) other provision for looked-after children.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	209734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>For the years ending 31 March 2017 and 2018, the number of looked after children in a foster placement with friends or family who have also been in a foster placement; not with friends or family, a children’s home placement, or any other type of placement in the same period of care is shown in the table attached.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 209733 question first answered 22/01/2019 17:57:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 209733_&_209734_The_number_of_looked_after_children_in_a_foster_placement_.pdf title The_number_of_looked_after_children
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1043092

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) initial and (b) additional allocated budgets for special needs provision in Nottinghamshire schools have been in each of the past three years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are legally required to provide schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities, up to £6,000. Local authorities must set a notional SEN budget for every school in their area as part of their local schools formula, funded from the overall schools budget, although this funding is not ring-fenced and it remains the responsibility of each school to manage its overall budget, and ensure that the needs of all its pupils are being met.</p><p>When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEN exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This funding comes from the local authority’s high needs budget. On 17 December 2018, we announced an addition of £250 million in high needs funding across the current financial year and the next, on top of the additional funding we had already promised. As a result, Nottinghamshire will receive an additional £1.7 million of this funding in each year, bringing their high needs funding total to £66.5 million in 2019-20.</p><p>The figures for the last three years are illustrated below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools Funding Amount</p></td><td><p>High Needs Funding Amount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£447.8 million</p></td><td><p>£57.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£459.4 million</p></td><td><p>£59.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£469.1 million</p></td><td><p>£64.0 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2019 15:41:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1042305

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
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, whether he has made a recent assessment of the value for money of a child being taken into care; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	209275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>One of the key principles of the legislation which underpins the UK’s child protection system is that children are best looked after within their families, but that is not always possible. As a last resort, after other steps have failed, local authorities may apply to the independent courts for a decision about removing a child from his or her family – for the child’s safety.</p><p>Local authorities are required to submit annual budget and outturn statements about their spending on children’s services, including spend on children looked after, to my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State. This data is published at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We also publish information on the average weekly unit costs of looked after children, by local authority, in the Local Authority Interactive Tool. This can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These sources give information on both the aggregate and average costs to local authorities associated with supporting and accommodating looked after children. The cost of support and care placements varies across individual children. The impact on child welfare through, for example, a reduction in exposure to harm or potential harm will also vary across individual children and will be dependent on the context of the situation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2019 17:26:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1042306

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Speech and Language Therapy: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many speech and language therapists work in virtual schools.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	209276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/01/2019 11:14:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1042372

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2019 to Question 206295 on Special Educational Needs, what proportion of the 0-25 year old population do those figures represent for each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	209330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The department do not publish figures as a proportion of the 0-25 population. Population estimates at a local authority level are published by the Office for National Statistics, available at <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2019 16:00:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1041617

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much central government funding was allocated to local authority children and young people’s services in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018; and what proportion of that funding was allocated to early help services in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	208743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>As children’s services are delivered through local government, the vast majority of their funding comes through the local government finance settlement (LGFS).</p><p>Over the 5 year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20, councils have access, through the LGFS, to over £200 billion to deliver local services. This core spending power, £43.7 billion in 2016-17, £44.3 billion in 2017-18 and £45.1 billion in 2018-19, is un-ring fenced and it is for local authorities to determine spend across different areas according to local priorities, including children’s and early help services.</p><p>In addition to this the Autumn Budget announced a further £410 million in 2019-20 for local authorities to invest in adult and children’s social care services. It also announced £84 million of extra funding, over the next 5 years, to support local authorities to invest in initiatives that improve social work practice and decision making.<strong><br> <br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/01/2019 17:00:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1041618

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were referred to children’s services on multiple occasions before receiving support from those services in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	208744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold the information in the format requested.</p><p>The number of children that were referred to children’s services on multiple occasions before receiving support is not routinely produced.</p><p>The department publishes figures on the total number of referrals to children’s social services within one reporting year, number of referrals which were within 12 months of a previous referral and the number of children re-referred within 12 months.</p><p>These figures for the past 6 years are available in table A1 of the main tables in the ‘Characteristics of children in need: 2017 to 2018’ statistical release on gov.uk and here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2017-to-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2017-to-2018/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2019 17:38:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1041619

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many disabled children received social care in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	208745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of children in need at the 31 March 2018 with a disability recorded is published in the annual ‘Characteristics of Children in need’ publication. The most recent publication is available on the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2017-to-2018</a> and a table summarising the last three years is attached.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2019 16:19:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 208745_Number_of_children_in_need_at_31_March_2018_with_a_disability_recorded.pdf title Number_of_children_in_need_with_a_disability
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy