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registered interest
date	24/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that the Child Poverty Strategy will address the barriers which prevent children in poverty from accessing speech and language support.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2024 answer text <p>The number of children in poverty has gone up by 700,000 since 2010, with over four million children now growing up in a low-income family. This not only harms children’s lives now, but it also damages their future prospects, and holds back our economic potential as a country.</p><p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister therefore announced, on 17 July 2024, the appointment of my right hon. Friends, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Secretary of State for Education, as the joint leads of a new ministerial taskforce to begin work on a Child Poverty Strategy. The government is committed to delivering an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty, to tackle the root causes, and give every child the best start at life.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling child poverty is at the heart of breaking down barriers to opportunity and improving the life chances for every child. For too many children, living in poverty robs them of the opportunity to learn and to prosper. Too many children, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, leave primary school with unresolved speech, language and communication needs that have a lasting impact on their life chances.</p><p> </p><p>To help tackle this now, the department will provide targeted support for teachers in early years settings and primary schools to support children with the development of speech, language and communication skills. More broadly, the department will work with teachers and curriculum experts to identify how oracy can be woven into lessons across the curriculum to support all children to succeed. Through this, the department aims to support teachers across the country to realise the benefits of using oracy to teach, by adding it to their repertoire and enabling more children and young people to flourish in life and work.</p><p> </p><p>Early language skills are vital to enable children to thrive in the early years and later in life, including for all aspects of later attainment in school. To support early language skills, the department is investing over £20 million in the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme (NELI). NELI is an evidence-based programme targeting reception aged children needing extra support with their speech and language development and is proven to help them make four months of additional progress, which rises to seven months for those eligible for free school meals. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the NELI programme, which is equivalent to two thirds of all English state primaries, would continue for the 2024/25 academic year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern question first answered 05/08/2024 15:07:23 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1280819

registered interest
date	26/01/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children were taken into care because their mother was given a custodial sentence in each of the last five years; and how many such children were in care for (1) less than two months, (2) two months to four months, (3) four months to six months, (4) six months to 12 months, and (5) over 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL12581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The department does not hold the information centrally as data is not collected on the number of children who enter care as a result of their mother receiving a custodial sentence.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 09/02/2021 15:09:58 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1179849

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Greater Manchester
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of school leavers entered higher education in each of the ten districts of Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL1721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes annual information on the proportion of students from state-funded and special schools who entered higher education by age 19 by local authority in its ‘Widening Participation in Higher Education’ statistical release.</p><p>The table below shows figures for the latest five years for local authorities within Greater Manchester.</p><p>Table 1: Percentage of pupils from state-funded and special schools who entered Higher Education by age 19 by local authority.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tameside</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trafford</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td><td><p>53%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 09/03/2020 16:28:21 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1046309

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Greater Manchester
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current waiting time for children with special educational needs to have education, health and care plans (1) processed, and (2) implemented, in each of the ten districts of Greater Manchester.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL13018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Data is collected by the department on assessments for education, health and care (EHC) plans that are completed within their 20-week target. This is published, at local authority level, in table 8 of the “Statements of special educational needs and EHC plans: England 2018” publication attached and available here: <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 printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/02/2019 14:01:51 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL13018_New_EHC_plans_issued_within_20_weeks_by_local_authority.xls title HL13018_New_EHC_plans_issued_within_20_weeks_by_lo
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

747972

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the new school funding formula for each school in the city of Manchester.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>We want to ensure every school has the resources it needs to deliver a high quality education for every child and that all schools are fairly funded. We received over 25,000 responses to the consultation. We are grateful to all those who expressed their views on school funding and the proposed formula as part of this process. We will publish the response to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/07/2017 16:38:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

45725

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve support for young people with caring responsibilities.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL6374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>Improving support for carers of all ages is a priority for this Government. That is why the Department for Education has provided over £2.7 million of funding to The Children's Society and Carers Trust over four years (2011-15) to work with local authorities and voluntary and community organisations to promote ‘whole family' approaches to supporting young carers and identify and share existing good practice.</p><p>The Department has also made significant changes to the law relating to young carers with effect from April 2015. Clause 96 of the Children and Families Act 2014 delivers four things:</p><ol><li>It consolidates and simplifies the legislation relating to young carers' assessments, making rights and duties clearer to both young people and practitioners</li><li>It extends the right to an assessment of needs for support to all young carers under the age of 18 regardless of who they care for, what type of care they provide or how often they provide it</li><li>It makes it clear to local authorities that they must carry out an assessment of a young carer's needs for support on request or when the need becomes apparent</li><li>It provides the appropriate links between children's and adults' legislation to enable local authorities to align the assessment of a young carer with an assessment of the person they care for.</li></ol><p>These changes will work with provisions in the Care Bill that also support the combining of children's and adult's assessments, and the forthcoming regulations on a whole family approach to assessing and supporting adults. Together they will provide a clear legislative framework that will support local authorities to consider the needs of the whole family, deliver coordinated packages of support and protect children and young people from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.</p><p>In addition, we will develop regulations and statutory guidance that will build on existing best practice to support local implementation. We plan to issue draft versions for consultation in spring 2014 and final versions in October 2014; six months before the changes will take effect. A decision on what additional implementation support is needed beyond March 2015 will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley