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1002016

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of reinstating the Commissioning Support Programme; and whether his Department plans to develop an improved programme to support children’s services commissioners.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	188261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The department currently has no plans to reinstate the Commissioning Support Programme.</p><p>We are providing funding through our £200 million Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme to test new commissioning arrangements so that children and young people are matched to the right care placements to meet their needs.</p><p>We are developing central commissioning arrangements for secure children’s homes placements and will be providing seed funding for fostering partnerships to introduce new or expanded collaborative approaches for commissioning, sufficiency planning and integrated models of care.</p><p>We have set up a Residential Care Leadership Board to drive forward improvements in commissioning and share learning and best practice across the sector. <strong><br> <br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/11/2018 11:29:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

999522

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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, with reference paragraph 5.18 of Budget 2018, how his Department will determine which local authorities receive funding for the children's social care improvement pilot schemes.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	187043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>We will be investing £84 million over the next five years to support a number of local authorities who are struggling with issues of performance and demand. This targeted fund will support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families. This investment will build on the lessons learned from promising innovation programmes in Hertfordshire, Leeds and North Yorkshire, which have supported more children to stay safely at home. We will work closely with local authorities and other sector partners between now and April to determine how best to allocate the funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/11/2018 14:43:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

997605

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
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 22 October 2018 to Question 180286 on Children: Hearing Impairments, what extensive support his Department has provided to schools to deliver the best value possible with available resources.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	185799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The department has launched a Supporting School Resource Management strategy which provides schools with practical advice on savings that can be made on the £10 billion non-staffing spend spent across England last year. This outlines the extensive support we are providing for schools and includes support and guidance to schools and academies to improve how they buy goods and services. For example:</p><p>- The financial benchmarking service, which allows schools to compare their performance and use of resources with other, similar schools, and also comparisons between academy trusts.</p><p>- Recommended deals that are helping schools to save money on the things they buy regularly, such as printers and photocopiers.</p><p>- A new deal to support schools with getting value for money when hiring supply teachers and other agency workers.</p><p>- Regional Schools Buying Hubs pilots in the North West and South West, providing hands-on support and advice to schools on complex procurement.</p><p>- A free teacher vacancy listing website to support recruitment needs and drive down recruitment costs is currently in pilot phase.</p><p>- Encouraging schools to integrate their curriculum and financial planning to inform decision making on the deployment of teaching staff.</p><p>- School Resource Management Advisers (SRMAs). These sector experts work with schools and trusts to provide tailored advice on how to make best use of their revenue and capital resources to deliver educational outcomes. The SRMA pilot started at the end of January 2018 and completed some 70 deployments by the end of the 2017/18 academic year. SRMAs will be deployed in larger scale in the 2018/19 academic year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/11/2018 14:37:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

997606

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
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 22 October 2018 to Question 180286 on Children: Hearing Impairments, if he will publish the findings from his Department’s monitoring of the impact of the national funding formula on high needs.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	185800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The department published Section 251 budget data for 2018-19, detailing the planned spend by local authorities on high needs, in September 2018. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2018-to-2019#section-251-budget-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2018-to-2019#section-251-budget-data</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/11/2018 12:42:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

997611

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations in the report, Break the Barriers: Girls' experiences of menstruation in the UK, published in January 2018 by Plan UK.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	185670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to support disadvantaged pupils is based on robust evidence. We have considered the research published by Plan UK and have used this to inform the department’s 2018 survey questions for pupils and senior school leaders.</p><p> </p><p>The department published additional analysis of its absence statistics, in March 2018, which show that whilst absence rates amongst girls increases after a certain age, there is no evidence to suggest that this is related to pupils being disadvantaged. This suggests period poverty does not have a significant, nation-wide impact on school attendance.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are best placed to assess the needs of their pupils, have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available to disadvantaged pupils if they identify this as a barrier to attendance. We support schools in addressing the needs of disadvantaged pupils through the provision of the Pupil Premium, equivalent to more than £2.4 billion of additional funding this year alone.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 185671 question first answered 07/11/2018 13:16:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

997856

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Nurseries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) childminders and (c) nursery classes based in primary schools he has visited since his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	185724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has visited, since his appointment on 8 January 2018, five nurseries, and has spent time meeting nursery children and teachers during four primary school visits. He has not yet visited any childminders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/11/2018 14:46:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

997859

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many graduates in paid employment in an early years setting who undertake training to achieve the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) have accessed (a) grant funding, (b) employer incentive and (c) both grant funding and employer incentive in each year since that policy was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	185725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The number of employment-based early years trainees for whom the department provided early years initial teacher training (ITT) funding in academic years 2016/17 and 2017/18 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of early years ITT trainees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>431</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For all trainees shown above, both the training grant and employer incentive was provided.</p><p>We are unable to provide any data collected prior to the academic year 2016/17. A review of early years ITT data found that prior to the academic year 2016/17, data was not collected with sufficient quality to produce high quality statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Further information about this and the subsequent actions put in place by the department, can be found in the ‘Data collection and quality’ section of the ITT Census 2017/18, found here at: <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>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/11/2018 14:31:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

997860

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many individuals employed in early years settings have achieved level 3 qualifications in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	185726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>We do not centrally collect the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>However, the number of workers with qualifications at various levels is published in our ‘Childcare and early years providers surveys’ at: <br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 survey is due to be published on 1 November 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/11/2018 12:47:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

997133

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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, how many people who were eligible for 30 hours of free childcare in one term did not apply for an eligibility code for the next term.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	185086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>To access 30 hours free childcare for their child a parent must apply via the Childcare Service and receive an eligibility code. Once they have received this code they are required to reconfirm their circumstances every three months but they do not need to apply for a new code each term.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/11/2018 16:45:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

997163

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will provide a list of the names and address of schools that are participating in the baseline assessment trial.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	185091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The reception baseline assessment was trialled in a nationally representative sample of schools between 10 September and 19 October 2018. Schools’ participation in the trials was voluntary.</p><p> </p><p>In line with accepted practice, the names of the schools that are participating in these trials will not be released by the department. Schools were recruited on this basis and releasing this information could adversely affect school participation in future voluntary trialling, which would put our ability to develop high quality, valid and reliable assessments at risk.</p><p> </p><p>In our response to the public consultation on the future of the primary assessment system in England, and having noted the support from respondents to that consultation exercise, we confirmed that we would introduce a reception baseline assessment from the 2020 to 2021 academic year onwards. As part of that, we committed to explore the issue of what information from the assessment should be shared with schools. That consideration is continuing and we will make a further announcement prior to the introduction of the assessment.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 185123 question first answered 01/11/2018 14:12:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin