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1126043

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to monitor the application of the statutory guidance entitled Promoting the health and well-being of looked-after children - Statutory guidance for local authorities, clinical commissioning groups and NHS England, with particular reference to foetal alcohol syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	253564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>​The statutory guidance sets out local authorities’ duty to make sure each child they look after has a health assessment of their physical, emotional and mental health needs. The health and care system is responsible for providing this assessment. Assessments should take into account the health conditions that may be more prevalent in looked-after children, including foetal alcohol syndrome.</p><p>As part of their inspection of local authority children’s services, Ofsted assesses the progress and experience of children in care, including whether their physical and mental health needs are being effectively identified and met.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/05/2019 12:18:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1126075

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium: Leeds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils received the pupil premium in each primary school in Leeds City Council area in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	253712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils in receipt of pupil premium in schools in Leeds local authority and all other schools in financial year 2017-2018 can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/05/2019 12:21:30 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1126195

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) level and (b) quality of (i) staff qualifications and (ii) in-service professional development in the pre-school childcare sector.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	253524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all children have access to high quality early education and can achieve their full potential. The latest Ofsted data confirms that 95% of early years providers are now rated ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’, up from 68% in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework is mandatory for all early years providers in England. It sets out the staffing requirements for early years settings, including ratios and qualifications.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2017, we published the early years workforce strategy. This set out how the government will support employers to attract, retain and develop high quality early years staff, which is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Since then we have worked with sector stakeholders to develop criteria for new more robust level 2 qualifications and awarded a grant to take forward activity to promote gender diversity in the early years workforce. We have also created a new career pathway document to support careers advice, recruitment and staff development. This information is available here: <a href="https://www.cache.org.uk/media/1417/dfe-career-pathway-map-v17.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cache.org.uk/media/1417/dfe-career-pathway-map-v17.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are also supporting employer trailblazer groups to develop new apprenticeship standards for the early years workforce and investing £20 million in in-service professional development and training for early years practitioners in pre-reception settings in disadvantaged areas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/05/2019 16:04:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1126211

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to introduce mandatory SEN and disability law training for all SENCOs, SEN officers, managers and head teachers.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	253525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) working in schools are required to achieve a National Award in SEN Co-ordination (NASENCO) within 3 years of appointment (unless they were appointed before 1 September 2009). There are no plans to change this.</p><p>The NASENCO is a Masters-level award that covers all aspects of leading on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) within schools. It also covers aspects of supporting children and young people with SEND. An accredited Early Years SENCO Award is being delivered by NASENCO. It is not mandatory for SENCOs in early years setting to gain this qualification.</p><p>Guidance to help schools understand how the Equality Act (2010) affects them and how to fulfil their duties under the act is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equality-act-2010-advice-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equality-act-2010-advice-for-schools</a>. There are no plans to introduce mandatory training in relation to the Equality Act.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/05/2019 15:35:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1126253

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students qualify for free school meals in each secondary school in (a) Ashfield constituency; and what the average number is of students that qualify for free school meals in secondary schools in England.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	253541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data for each school is available in the ‘Schools pupils and their characteristics 2018’, underlying data, contained in file ‘Schools_Pupils_and_their_Characteristics _2018_Schools_Pupils_UD’.</p><p> </p><p>The figures can be filtered by parliamentary constituency name (column X), school phase e.g. state-funded secondary schools (column N). Column EF, EG provide the number and % of pupils known to be eligible for FSM, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of pupils eligible for FSM in state-funded secondary schools in England is provided in Table 3a of the national tables.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/05/2019 12:19:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1125386

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
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, what estimate he has made of the number of local authorities currently without any educational psychology service.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	251978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>​The information requested is not held centrally. It is not possible to assess whether there are any local authorities without an educational psychologist (EP) service as no information is collected on outsourced EP services.</p><p>The department’s main data source on teachers and other school staff is the annual School Workforce Census. The collection includes a count of educational psychologists (EP) employed centrally by local authorities and any that are reported as being directly employed by schools. It does not show any that are employed on an occasional basis. It also does not include outsourcing of EP provision, nor take into account any sharing of EP provision across local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/05/2019 13:19:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1125641

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding for special educational needs and disabilities services in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	252539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education frequently discusses matters of shared interest with HM Treasury ministers, including funding for special educational needs and disabilities.</p><p>We are committed to supporting local authorities in tackling cost pressures on their high needs budgets. In December 2018 we allocated an additional £250 million up to 2020, on top of the £6 billion we had already promised nationally, and in the run up to the Spending Review we will continue to consider the level of funding that is needed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/05/2019 13:24:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1125713

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
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, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) number of and (b) reasons for children being taken into care.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	252568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of children who started to be looked after during the year by reason is published in Table C1 in the statistical release ‘Children Looked After in England including Adoption’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>. Information for children taken into care is shown in the attached tabled.</p><p>The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them. 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, that is not always possible and, as a last resort, local authorities can apply to the courts for a care or supervision order where the child is suffering, or is at risk of suffering, significant harm. In making their decisions, the courts must be satisfied that the threshold for significant harm has been met and that taking the child from his or her family’s care will be in the child’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p>Where a child cannot live at home, we must make sure they are safe and receive the highest quality care, which is why we are working hard to improve the social care support for children across England through our reform programme, Putting Children First. We have also established the Children’s Social Care What Works Centre, whose initial research priority focuses on ‘what works in safely reducing the need for children to enter care’.</p><p> </p><p>In the Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £410 million for adult and children’s social care in 2019-20. A further £84 million is also being invested over the next 5 years through the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme. This programme will support up to 20 local authorities with high or rising demand for children’s social care services to improve the support offered to vulnerable children and their families. Through this, we aim to enable more children to stay at home thriving in stable family environments, and safely reduce the number of children entering care.</p><p> </p><p>Across the government, we are also tackling the problems that cause children to be in need in the first place. This includes better supporting those with alcohol-dependent parents, the introduction of landmark legislation for those affected by domestic abuse, preventing young people being drawn into serious violence, and unprecedented investment in early years education and support for children and young people’s mental health.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 252574 question first answered 14/05/2019 15:46:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 252568_252574_Children_In_Care_Table.doc title 252568_252574_Table
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1125733

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
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 the average waiting time was for a SEND assessment after a child was referred by a teacher in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	252513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Schools (and further education colleges, sixth form colleges and 16-19 academies) are required to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils they support and to use their best endeavours to make sure that a child or young person who has SEN gets the support they need. This is outlined in the statutory SEN Code of Practice.</p><p> </p><p>The school should assess the child, plan an intervention if a learning difficulty is identified, implement the intervention and then review the outcome and progressively repeat this cycle until the child’s learning difficulty is properly supported. This type of support is called SEN Support and the cyclical process is referred to as a ‘graduated approach’ to meeting children’s needs. This process should take place regardless of whether a child has been referred for an education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment by the local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding the average waiting time and the average cost of SEND assessments is not held by the department. However, information is published on the number and percentage of new education, health and care plans that are issued within 20 weeks of referral in the annual ‘Statements of SEN and EHC plans’ statistical release. Information for the most recent period is published in table 8 of the release found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 252514 question first answered 15/05/2019 14:41:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1125734

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
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 support is available for a pupil waiting for a SEND assessment; and what the average cost was per pupil receiving such an assessment in the most recent period for which figures are available..
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	252514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Schools (and further education colleges, sixth form colleges and 16-19 academies) are required to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils they support and to use their best endeavours to make sure that a child or young person who has SEN gets the support they need. This is outlined in the statutory SEN Code of Practice.</p><p> </p><p>The school should assess the child, plan an intervention if a learning difficulty is identified, implement the intervention and then review the outcome and progressively repeat this cycle until the child’s learning difficulty is properly supported. This type of support is called SEN Support and the cyclical process is referred to as a ‘graduated approach’ to meeting children’s needs. This process should take place regardless of whether a child has been referred for an education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment by the local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding the average waiting time and the average cost of SEND assessments is not held by the department. However, information is published on the number and percentage of new education, health and care plans that are issued within 20 weeks of referral in the annual ‘Statements of SEN and EHC plans’ statistical release. Information for the most recent period is published in table 8 of the release found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 252513 question first answered 15/05/2019 14:41:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead