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1052174

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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 assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions in relation to (a) children living in poverty, (b) the provision of childcare available to low-income families and (c) the level of early years teachers of the Report entitled, It All Starts Here, published by Save the Children in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	215174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all children have access to a high quality of early education and can achieve their full potential. The latest Ofsted data confirms that 95% of providers are now rated good and outstanding, up from 68% in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence tells us that children from disadvantaged backgrounds can be up to 19 months behind their better off peers in their learning by the time they start school. High-quality early learning from the age of two can help to narrow that gap. That is why we require local authorities to fund places for disadvantaged two-year-old children at providers judged ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. Since its introduction in 2013, nearly three quarters of a million of the country’s most disadvantaged two-year-olds have benefitted from the entitlement to 15 hours of free early education a week.</p><p> </p><p>We do not require graduates in the private, voluntary and independent sector but remain committed to ensuring that there are training routes for those that wish to pursue graduate qualifications. For example, we continue to fund early years initial teacher training (EYITT). We are also investing £20 million in professional development and training for early years practitioners in disadvantaged areas.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 16:05:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1052177

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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 assessment he has made of the reasons why the number of looked after children aged over 16 has increased; and what plans he has to manage that increase.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	215197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Factors leading to there being more older than younger looked-after children include an increase in the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (who are mainly 15 to 17 year olds); increasing efforts to protect children from criminal activity such as child sexual exploitation and gang and drug culture; and a recent court judgement which means 16 to 17 year olds are taken into care when they present as homeless.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education is launching a new national Tackling Child Exploitation support service, backed by up to £2 million, which will operate up until 2022, to address child sexual exploitation together with other forms of child criminal exploitation. The department has also made a £1.3 million contribution to the controlling migration fund over two years to fund 8 local authorities to provide better access to initial assessment and education for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p> </p><p>The department remains committed to ensuring that local authorities only seek to take children into care where they must do so, including through the reform programme outlined in ‘Putting children first’. We are working across government and with local family justice boards to better understand the challenges in the family justice system and to consider what else can be done to address these. In addition at Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced £84 million for ‘Strengthening families, protecting children’<em>,</em> a programme which will support a number of local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, to support their most vulnerable children to stay safely at home, thriving in stable family circumstances - where that is in their best interests.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 16:37:55 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1052225

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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 plans he has to increase funding for children's services in Liverpool; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Dame Louise Ellman
uin	215110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>We have confirmed our settlement for local government for 2019-20, which sees a real-terms increase in local government spending power next year. Core spending power increases from £45.1 billion in 2018-19 to £46.4 billion in 2019-20. For Liverpool, core spending power will rise from £449 million in 2018-19 to £458 million in 2019-20.</p><p>All long-term spending decisions are for this year’s Spending Review, when the government will set out its approach for the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 17:53:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

1052322

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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, when the external research commissioned together with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and HM Treasury into the relative drivers of need in children’s social care will be published; and what the purpose is of that research.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	215198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) led review of councils’ relative needs and resources, the Department for Education and MHCLG have jointly commissioned external research into the relative drivers of ‘need to spend’ on children’s services.</p><p>The aim of this work is twofold: to develop a statistically robust, up-to-date approach to funding distribution for children’s services at local government finance settlements; and to gather useful data to better understand demand pressures.</p><p> </p><p>The current timescale is for a model ready to consult on later this year for use in the 2020-21 local government finance settlement.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 16:43:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1051311

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of academy chains that have (a) gone into administration and (b) collapsed in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	214465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>Our latest records show that no academy trust has gone into administration. Where there is a risk to public funds, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will intervene in a proportionate manner to avoid financial issues affecting school provision.</p><p> </p><p>The ESFA has a robust intervention strategy to support an academy trust, which is a company limited by guarantee and subject to company law, to reach a stronger financial position. Intervention actions range from supporting and building trust capacity through to issuing a Financial Notice to Improve, or in the most serious cases, terminating a funding agreement, after schools have been transferred to another trust.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/02/2019 17:46:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1051352

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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 steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North who are taken into social care by court order.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	214628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them.</p><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, 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>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 will build on three of our most promising Innovation Programme projects, with the aim of improving social work practice to enable children to stay safely at home where that is in their best interests.</p><p>This investment is in addition to the almost £270 million the department has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been 4 programmes in local authorities in the East Midlands region and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality. The Creating Strong Communities model, for example, developed by North East Lincolnshire has been designed to fundamentally change the way local practitioners and partners in North East Lincolnshire work together to safeguard vulnerable children.</p><p>The number of children taken into care in the East Midlands region and Nottingham local authority area is shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.</p><p>Figures on children taken into care by legal status is published for England in Table C1 of the statistical release “Children Looked after in England including adoptions: 2017:2018” 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></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 214629 question first answered 04/02/2019 14:59:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 214628_&_214629_table_Children_who_started_to_be_looked_after_during_the_years_ending_31_March .xls title 214628_629_Children_who_started_to_be_looked_after
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1051353

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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, how many children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North have been taken into social care by court order in the last (i) one, (ii) three and (iii) five years.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	214629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them.</p><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, 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>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 will build on three of our most promising Innovation Programme projects, with the aim of improving social work practice to enable children to stay safely at home where that is in their best interests.</p><p>This investment is in addition to the almost £270 million the department has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been 4 programmes in local authorities in the East Midlands region and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality. The Creating Strong Communities model, for example, developed by North East Lincolnshire has been designed to fundamentally change the way local practitioners and partners in North East Lincolnshire work together to safeguard vulnerable children.</p><p>The number of children taken into care in the East Midlands region and Nottingham local authority area is shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.</p><p>Figures on children taken into care by legal status is published for England in Table C1 of the statistical release “Children Looked after in England including adoptions: 2017:2018” 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></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 214628 question first answered 04/02/2019 14:59:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 214628_&_214629_table_Children_who_started_to_be_looked_after_during_the_years_ending_31_March .xls title 214628_629_Children_who_started_to_be_looked_after
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1051373

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2019 to Question 211786 on Children: Social Services, which local authority requested exemption from statutory guidance; from what statutory guidance that local authority requested exemption; and for what reason that request was refused.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	214564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>In June 2018, Hackney wrote to the department asking for dispensation from ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015’ in relation to child protection conferences. They wanted to explore establishing an alternative process with a specific cohort of young people where the risk of harm was derived from outside of their family, but their parents were engaged with services. The department wrote back to say, as set out in ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018’, that the statutory guidance should be compiled with unless exceptional circumstances arise.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/02/2019 17:29:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1051380

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Curriculum: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what requirements there are for schools to offer as part of the curriculum (a) football and (b) rugby; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	214459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The government wants all young people to leave formal education as happy, confident and well-rounded individuals. Exercise and organised sport such as football and rugby can play a huge part in children’s personal resilience and emotional wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>Physical education (PE) is a compulsory subject at all four key stages in the national curriculum. Schools have the freedom to offer sports that interest and engage their pupils. There is a greater focus on competitive sport in PE lessons and we know that many schools offer their pupils rugby and football as part of their curricular and extra-curricular sport offer. Details of the national curriculum requirements can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-physical-education-programmes-of-study" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-physical-education-programmes-of-study</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Through the primary PE and sport premium, the government has invested over £1 billion of ring-fenced funding to primary schools to improve PE and sport since 2013.Through the School Sport Action Plan, which will be published in the Spring, the government will work with national governing bodies of sport and local community sport clubs to make it easier for pupils to take part in sports, and this will include football and rugby.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/02/2019 14:34:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1051386

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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 assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of Save the Children's estimate, in their report entitled Lost Opportunities, Lost Income, published 23 January 2019, that mothers are losing out on over £1.2 billion in earnings due to a lack of affordable childcare.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	214545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The government is very aware of the challenges faced by families, including working mothers, due to childcare costs. That is why we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support in 2019-20. This is more than any previous government. This includes around £3.5 billion which we plan to spend this year on all the free early education entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>All 3 and 4 year olds, and the most disadvantaged two-year-olds, are able to access 15 hours a week of free early education and, from September last year, we doubled the childcare entitlement for working parents of 3 and 4 year olds to 30 hours a week. In the first year of delivery, over 340,000 children benefited from a 30 hours place.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility for the 30 hours entitlement is based on parental income. This means that parents using the full 30 hours entitlement could save, on average, up to £5,000 per year. Our recent evaluation of the first year of national roll-out of 30 hours of free childcare indicated that over one quarter of mothers surveyed said they had increased their hours and 15% stated that they would not be working without the extended hours.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/02/2019 15:06:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson