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943014

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Food Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had and with whom on the number of children who are at risk of experiencing hunger during school summer holidays in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	164845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The government recently announced a programme of research and pilots across the country that will explore ways of supporting children from disadvantaged families to access free enrichment activities and healthy food during school holidays.</p><p>This programme of work will investigate how to provide a balanced programme for the most disadvantaged school-age pupils, combining engaging activity with a healthy and nutritious meal. Work is already underway and further piloting in 2019 will follow the initial research taking place in the 2018 summer holidays.</p><p>In developing this programme of work, I met with both the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North and with the right hon. Member for Birkenhead, and my officials have met with a wide range of stakeholders to discuss this important issue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/07/2018 17:59:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

943039

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Drug and Alcohol Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken to ensure that the graduation rate of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court is maintained beyond September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	164968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Local Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) will continue to be funded, as they and other innovative models similar to FDAC currently are, by those local areas who choose to establish or commission these services locally. It is important that families are supported to overcome issues related to alcohol and substance misuse, and the government is investing £16 billion in public health services and has set out a wide-ranging drug strategy to address this.</p><p>We understand that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is considering the future of the FDAC National Unit, which they have run since its establishment in 2015. Officials are currently working with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to ensure that the impact of the potential closure of the FDAC National Unit on local sites is minimised and that any resources developed by the FDAC National Unit remains accessible to them, and others, interested in the FDAC model in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164969 question first answered 24/07/2018 17:40:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943042

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Drug and Alcohol Court
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 effect of the closure of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court on rates of substance abuse by people who would otherwise have gone through that Court.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	164969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Local Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) will continue to be funded, as they and other innovative models similar to FDAC currently are, by those local areas who choose to establish or commission these services locally. It is important that families are supported to overcome issues related to alcohol and substance misuse, and the government is investing £16 billion in public health services and has set out a wide-ranging drug strategy to address this.</p><p>We understand that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is considering the future of the FDAC National Unit, which they have run since its establishment in 2015. Officials are currently working with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to ensure that the impact of the potential closure of the FDAC National Unit on local sites is minimised and that any resources developed by the FDAC National Unit remains accessible to them, and others, interested in the FDAC model in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164968 question first answered 24/07/2018 17:40:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943081

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to maintained nursery schools in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	164884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding of around £60 million a year. This is in addition to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF). It will enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019 to 2020. This funding is allocated and spent at a local authority level rather than at a constituency level. MNS supplementary funding was introduced from 2017 to 2018.</p><p>Final allocations of 2017 to 2018 MNS supplementary funding at local authority, regional and national levels are at column M of the 2017-18 Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations tab of the ‘DSG allocations 2017 to 2018’ spreadsheet. This is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p>Provisional allocations of 2018-19 MNS supplementary funding at local authority, regional and national levels are at column M of the 2018-19 Early Years Block tab of the ‘DSG allocations 2018 to 2019’ spreadsheet. This is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/07/2018 17:54:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

942441

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether medical evidence of non-accidental injuries must be provided before children's services departments place children in the care of a local authority on the grounds of such injuries; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	164393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 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. However, as a last resort, after other steps have failed, local authorities may apply to the independent courts for a decision to be made about removing a child from his or her family for the child’s safety. Children’s welfare must be the paramount factor when decisions are taken in any case involving children.</p><p> </p><p>Where a local authority believes that a child is suffering, or at risk of suffering, significant harm, they can apply to the independent courts for a care (or supervision) order. The courts may only make a care order to remove a child from his or her family’s care if they are satisfied that the child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm and that a care order is deemed better for the child than not taking any action; or the child is beyond parental control. This assessment must be based on evidence and the courts must be satisfied that any factual circumstances that are alleged are more likely than not to have arisen in order to rely on them. However, local authorities need not have and indeed may not be able to access medical evidence prior to taking action to seek to take a child into their care.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/07/2018 11:22:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

942506

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many specialist leaders of education in England are specialists in (a) English and (b) special educational needs and disability.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	164487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Specialist Leaders of Education (SLEs) are designated by Teaching Schools.</p><p> </p><p>Although we request that Teaching Schools inform us of all SLE designations and de-designations, this is not a condition of our grant payments to Teaching Schools.</p><p> </p><p>Based on the information supplied to us by Teaching Schools, there are 1330 SLEs with the special educational needs specialism and 2461 SLEs with the English specialism as of 1 July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/07/2018 16:23:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

942509

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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, how many children have been taken into social care in each of the last five years; and what assessment he had made of reasons for the trends in those numbers.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	164444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>We monitor the number of children entering the care system on an ongoing basis and information showing the change in the number of children entering the care system in the last five years is provided in the table below:</p><p><strong>Children who started to be looked after<sup>1,2,3 </sup>and children who were taken into care during the year<sup>4</sup> ending 31 March 2013 to 2017</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Children who started to be looked after</p></td><td><p>28,980</p></td><td><p>30,730</p></td><td><p>31,360</p></td><td><p>32,160</p></td><td><p>32,810</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which children who were taken into care<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>11,150</p></td><td><p>10,950</p></td><td><p>10,840</p></td><td><p>11,810</p></td><td><p>14,490</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: SSDA903</p><ol><li>Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Only the first occasion on which a child started to be looked after in the year has been counted.</li><li>Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements, but include children who were previously looked after under and agreed series of short term placements but have changed to become looked after under a different legal status (e.g. care order) in the year.</li><li>A child starts to be looked after when they are provided with local authority accommodation. Of these, a child is deemed to have been ‘taken into care’ if they start to be looked after under an interim or full care order, or if they are detained for child protection under a police protection order, emergency protection order or child assessment order.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further breakdowns of children who started to be looked after can be found in Tables C1 and C2 of the statistical first release Children Looked After in England including Adoption: 2016 to 2017 at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We want the very best for all children, including those who come into contact with the children’s social care system and we set out our vision for delivering excellent children’s social care in ‘Putting Children First’. This outlines our reform programme which seeks to: improve the quality of social work practice; create systems and environments where great social work can flourish; promote learning and multi-agency working where all involved in supporting children and families can work together; and support children who both enter and leave the care system. The reforms are designed to ensure that all vulnerable children and families receive the highest-quality care and support and that only those children who need to be are removed from their families and only then as a last resort. We have invested over £200 million through the Innovation Programme to test and develop better practice, including testing approaches to help vulnerable children to remain safely at home.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/07/2018 13:59:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

942517

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what supplementary funding is available for maintained nursery schools to apply for.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164357 164358 164359 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

942518

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to maintained nursery schools in each of the least eight years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164356 164358 164359 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

942519

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Kingston upon Hull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to maintained nursery schools in Hull in each of the least eight years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164356 164357 164359 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson