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823377

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	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Government has made in implementing the finding and recommendations of Putting Children First: Delivering our vision for excellent children's social care; and how the Government monitors that progress.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	122860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the Department for Education (DfE) set out its plans for Children’s Social Care reform in the policy paper ‘Putting Children First’, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-children-first-our-vision-for-childrens-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-children-first-our-vision-for-childrens-social-care</a>. This paper set out the challenges faced by the children’s social care system, including those around training, management, and lack of innovation.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms were influenced by the evidence on what works to improve children’s social care services including findings from the tougher more practice-focused Ofsted inspection framework that we introduced in 2013. We have developed this further and introduced the new Inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS) framework this month to drive further improvement in children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on the most vulnerable children has increased by over half a billion in real terms and 37 authorities have been lifted out of intervention and have not returned.</p><p>We are making further progress in delivering our ambitious reform programme through:</p><ul><li>setting up the ‘What Works Centre’ for Children’s Social Care, which will give us robust evidence on how to improve the lives of vulnerable children;</li><li>placing a new duty on local authorities, police and health services to work together to safeguard and promote children’s welfare;</li><li>working with some of the best local authorities in the country to model and disseminate excellent practice through the system, with £20 million going to Councils to get ahead of failure;</li><li>launching the ‘alpha’ phase of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) of children and family social workers; and</li><li>the extension of the Partners in Practice programme to help improve sector performance.</li></ul><p>In response to the recent Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office report, the department published the ‘CSC public roadmap’ for how it intends to transform services. This can be found here: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-accounts/Correspondence/2017-19/Correspondence-dfe-Child-Protection-180917.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-accounts/Correspondence/2017-19/Correspondence-dfe-Child-Protection-180917.pdf</a>) and sets out a timeframe for delivery of the reforms.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 122883 question first answered 19/01/2018 14:41:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

823394

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	Department for Education: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has retained ministerial responsibility for social mobility policy.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	122876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The department has retained ministerial responsibility for improving social mobility through education. We will continue to ensure that the education system supports the government’s priority to increase opportunity so that all people can reach their potential.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:23:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

823402

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	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what policies his Department has developed as a result of inspection findings under the Single Inspection Framework for local authority children's services.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	122883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the Department for Education (DfE) set out its plans for Children’s Social Care reform in the policy paper ‘Putting Children First’, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-children-first-our-vision-for-childrens-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-children-first-our-vision-for-childrens-social-care</a>. This paper set out the challenges faced by the children’s social care system, including those around training, management, and lack of innovation.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms were influenced by the evidence on what works to improve children’s social care services including findings from the tougher more practice-focused Ofsted inspection framework that we introduced in 2013. We have developed this further and introduced the new Inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS) framework this month to drive further improvement in children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on the most vulnerable children has increased by over half a billion in real terms and 37 authorities have been lifted out of intervention and have not returned.</p><p>We are making further progress in delivering our ambitious reform programme through:</p><ul><li>setting up the ‘What Works Centre’ for Children’s Social Care, which will give us robust evidence on how to improve the lives of vulnerable children;</li><li>placing a new duty on local authorities, police and health services to work together to safeguard and promote children’s welfare;</li><li>working with some of the best local authorities in the country to model and disseminate excellent practice through the system, with £20 million going to Councils to get ahead of failure;</li><li>launching the ‘alpha’ phase of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) of children and family social workers; and</li><li>the extension of the Partners in Practice programme to help improve sector performance.</li></ul><p>In response to the recent Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office report, the department published the ‘CSC public roadmap’ for how it intends to transform services. This can be found here: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-accounts/Correspondence/2017-19/Correspondence-dfe-Child-Protection-180917.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-accounts/Correspondence/2017-19/Correspondence-dfe-Child-Protection-180917.pdf</a>) and sets out a timeframe for delivery of the reforms.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 122860 question first answered 19/01/2018 14:41:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

823467

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	Children: Day 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 an estimate of how many children are not currently accessing their full 30 hours of free childcare because their specialist needs are not being accommodated.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	122941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently hold data about the number of free hours that are being used by children that are eligible for 30 hours or the reasons why a child may not be accessing their full entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We will collect data about the number of children taking up 30 hours free childcare in January 2018 Early Years and Schools Census. This will be published in the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical first release in summer 2018. This will include data about the number of children with special educational needs or a disability taking up government-funded hours.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:48:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

823468

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	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 he plans to take to ensure that disabled three and four year olds who require one-to-one care can still access the thirty hours of free childcare to which they are entitled.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	122942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Childcare Act 2006 and Childcare Act 2016 make clear that if children meet the eligibility requirements for the free entitlements, the local authority must secure a place for them. The Equality Act 2010 requires that local authorities and all early years’ providers must make reasonable adjustments for disabled children.</p><p>Local authorities can use the high needs element of their Dedicated Schools Grant to support settings to provide childcare to disabled children. In addition, we introduced, in April 2017, a national Disability Access Fund, worth to £615 per child per year, to support disabled children to access the free entitlements.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:46:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

823634

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	Children: Day Care
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 implications for his policies of the finding of the survey of childcare providers in England, conducted by the Pre School Learning Alliance in December 2017, that 66 per cent of childcare providers plan to make changes to how they offer the 30 hours over the next 12 months most commonly by increasing fees and charges.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	123092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The government has always been clear that providers can choose whether to offer 30 hours and what pattern of days and hours they offer parents. We have also been clear that government funding is not intended to cover the costs of meals or additional services. It is entirely reasonable for providers to charge parents for additional extras but this cannot be a condition of the child’s place.</p><p> </p><p>The independent evaluation of the 30 hours early delivery areas did not find that charges were a barrier to parents taking up a place. They also showed that over 80% of providers who previously delivered the free entitlements were willing and able to offer extended hours places.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123094 question first answered 19/01/2018 14:28:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

823636

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	Children: Day Care
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 implications for his policies of the finding of the survey of childcare providers in England, conducted by the Pre School Learning Alliance in December 2017, that 38 per cent of providers are uncertain whether or not they will be offering 30 hours places in a year's time.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	123094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The government has always been clear that providers can choose whether to offer 30 hours and what pattern of days and hours they offer parents. We have also been clear that government funding is not intended to cover the costs of meals or additional services. It is entirely reasonable for providers to charge parents for additional extras but this cannot be a condition of the child’s place.</p><p> </p><p>The independent evaluation of the 30 hours early delivery areas did not find that charges were a barrier to parents taking up a place. They also showed that over 80% of providers who previously delivered the free entitlements were willing and able to offer extended hours places.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 123092 question first answered 19/01/2018 14:28:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

823668

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	Social Mobility Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the budget for the Social Mobility Commission was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	123123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Commission became operational in December 2012 (then as the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission). The government has previously allocated the following funding to the Commission:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£227,000 in 2012-3 (from October 2012 – March 2013);</li><li>£600,000 in 2013-4;</li><li>£600,000 in 2014-5;</li><li>£600,000 in 2015-6;</li><li>£589,000 in 2016-7;</li><li>£610,000 in 2017-8.</li></ul> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:28:19 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

823722

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	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the National College for Teaching and Leadership has ever reached the recruitment target of 2,400 early years teachers per year; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The government determines the supply of newly trained teachers with Qualified Teacher Status through a Teacher Supply Model.</p><p> </p><p>There is no equivalent supply model to determine the number of early years teachers required and there is not a target set for recruitment of such teachers. We continue to make early years initial teacher training places available based on demand.</p><p> </p><p>Experimental statistics on new entrants to early years initial teacher training for the academic year 2017/18 are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2017-to-2018</a><strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:20:51 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

823732

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	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 Answer of 15 December 2018 to Question 121998, how many eligible children there are for 30 hours of funded childcare in (a) England, (b) each region of England and (c) each local authority area in England.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The government set out in the 2015 Spending Review that 390,000 children are expected to be eligible for 30 hours free childcare.</p><p>The number of eligible children will increase through the academic year as more children turn three.</p><p>We do not have a robust estimate of eligibility at a regional and local authority level. Local authorities have a statutory duty under section 7 of the Childcare Act 2006 to secure early education places free of charge for all eligible children and we expect local authorities to carry out analysis to understand local demand.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:22:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin