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927966

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childminding: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing registered childminders to receive Government funding for providing care to a child who is related to them but does not live with them.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	155895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Childminders, including grandparents who are childminders, cannot receive early years funding, including the new 30 hours’ entitlement, for related children. This is set out in Sections 18(4) and 20 of the Childcare Act 2006: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/contents" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/contents</a>.</p><p>This long-standing position avoids creating an incentive for adults to register to become formal carers for related children they are already looking after on an informal basis.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/06/2018 14:54:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

927978

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Staff
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 14 June 2018 to Question 152263 on Department for Education: Staff, what proportion of the 81.2 equivalent full time staff work on the 30 hours of funded childcare policy.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	155897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>As at 31 May 2018, there were 26 full time equivalent members of staff working on the 30 hours free childcare policy out of 81.2 full time equivalent staff working in the Department for Education’s Early Years Group. Other staff members in the department also contribute to early years policy, including the 30 hours free childcare policy, as part of their work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/06/2018 14:50:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

926958

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how his Department monitors compliance by English local authorities with requirements prescribed in section 1 of the Childcare Act 2006.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	155281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The department does not monitor local authority compliance with section 1 of the Childcare Act 2006. We do continue to work closely with local authorities to improve outcomes for children, such as through the Partners in Practice programme, the special educational needs and disabilities reform programme, and our work to close the word gap announced in ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential: a plan to improve social mobility through education’.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/06/2018 14:51:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

927006

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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, whether his Department plans to introduce measures to ensure the parity of special educational needs provision between the North and the South.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	155292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to work with parents, young people, and providers to keep the provision for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities under review, including its sufficiency.</p><p>There is a presumption in law that children and young people should be educated in mainstream settings unless the local authority concludes they require more specialist provision following a statutory Education, Health and Care assessment (EHC). In January 2018, 34.8% of children and young people with EHC plans were placed in maintained special schools.</p><p>Local authorities are also able to commission new schools (both special and mainstream) via the free school presumption route, drawing on the basic need and special provision capital funding sources. The department has allocated £265 million of capital funding (over and above basic need funding) to help build new places at mainstream and special schools, and to improve existing places to benefit current and future pupils. We have given local authorities a more proactive role in commissioning new special free schools, and since March we have announced 15 projects which are being taken forward.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 155293 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:24:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

927007

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the mandatory introduction of a special educational needs school in each local authority to cater for young people who struggle in mainstream education.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	155293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to work with parents, young people, and providers to keep the provision for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities under review, including its sufficiency.</p><p>There is a presumption in law that children and young people should be educated in mainstream settings unless the local authority concludes they require more specialist provision following a statutory Education, Health and Care assessment (EHC). In January 2018, 34.8% of children and young people with EHC plans were placed in maintained special schools.</p><p>Local authorities are also able to commission new schools (both special and mainstream) via the free school presumption route, drawing on the basic need and special provision capital funding sources. The department has allocated £265 million of capital funding (over and above basic need funding) to help build new places at mainstream and special schools, and to improve existing places to benefit current and future pupils. We have given local authorities a more proactive role in commissioning new special free schools, and since March we have announced 15 projects which are being taken forward.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 155292 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:24:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

927040

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Risk Assessment
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 15 June 2018 to Question 150684 on Academies, if he will publish a list of each regional schools commissioners’ risk ratings of the multi academy trusts in their regions.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	155301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) take account of a variety of educational[1], financial and governance information when making assessments of multi-academy trusts (MATs) in their regions. These may include, for example, the published MAT performance measures. As outlined in the published RSC Decision Making Framework, RSCs assess MATs at key milestones throughout the academic year, such as following exam results. They also assess MATs at key stages of their growth to consider their capacity to support and enable the academies within their MAT to improve.[2]</p><p>As my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State announced in his speech at the National Governance Association on 9 June, we concluded that we need to have a transparent way of assessing the strength of individual trusts. We want to take time to get this right and will be engaging with the sector over the coming months before setting out proposals.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-academy-trust-performance-measures-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-academy-trust-performance-measures-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>[2] <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/577885/RSC_decision_making_framework_December_2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/577885/RSC_decision_making_framework_December_2016.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/06/2018 16:56:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

926710

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 363WH, on what date children in foster care will be able to receive 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	154678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154679 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

926711

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Carers
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 on children of providing care to a family member.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	154730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>This month saw the launch of the cross-government, Careers Action Plan (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/713781/carers-action-plan-2018-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/713781/carers-action-plan-2018-2020.pdf</a>),a two-year programme of tailored work to support unpaid carers of all ages.</p><p>Chapter three of this important plan sets out the government’s action specifically to support young carers. This includes plans to improve: identification of young carers; educational opportunities and outcomes; access to support and services; and transition for young adult carers.</p><p>Following the introduction of duties under the Children and Families Act 2014, the Department for Education commissioned 'The lives of young carers in England' (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-lives-of-young-carers-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-lives-of-young-carers-in-england</a>) omnibus research report, published January 2017. This large-scale study gathered data on experiences of young carers in England, and information about the scale and nature of the care they provide and the issues they face.</p><p>The department collects information on young carers through the annual Children in Need census (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need</a>), which records young carers who are unlikely to achieve or maintain a reasonable level of health or development, or whose health and development is likely to be significantly or further impaired, without the provision of services.</p><p>The government is working with organisations who support young carers, for example the Department of Health and Social Care is currently working with Carers Trust on a project to support the effective identification and engagement of young carers.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154731 question first answered 21/06/2018 16:29:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

926713

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 364WH, whether secondary legislation will be required to extend the entitlement to 30 hours free childcare to foster children.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	154679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154678 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

926714

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure that children who provide care to a family member receive adequate support.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	154731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>This month saw the launch of the cross-government, Careers Action Plan (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/713781/carers-action-plan-2018-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/713781/carers-action-plan-2018-2020.pdf</a>),a two-year programme of tailored work to support unpaid carers of all ages.</p><p>Chapter three of this important plan sets out the government’s action specifically to support young carers. This includes plans to improve: identification of young carers; educational opportunities and outcomes; access to support and services; and transition for young adult carers.</p><p>Following the introduction of duties under the Children and Families Act 2014, the Department for Education commissioned 'The lives of young carers in England' (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-lives-of-young-carers-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-lives-of-young-carers-in-england</a>) omnibus research report, published January 2017. This large-scale study gathered data on experiences of young carers in England, and information about the scale and nature of the care they provide and the issues they face.</p><p>The department collects information on young carers through the annual Children in Need census (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need</a>), which records young carers who are unlikely to achieve or maintain a reasonable level of health or development, or whose health and development is likely to be significantly or further impaired, without the provision of services.</p><p>The government is working with organisations who support young carers, for example the Department of Health and Social Care is currently working with Carers Trust on a project to support the effective identification and engagement of young carers.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154730 question first answered 21/06/2018 16:29:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins