The department contracts with the charity Education and Employers Taskforce to deliver Inspiring Governance, a service to support recruitment in school governance by matching those who wish to be governors to school vacancies. The contract runs to the end of March 2020, and is worth £1 million per annum.<\/p>
<\/p>
There are no plans to increase funding to this programme.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4113", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Stratford-on-Avon"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nadhim Zahawi"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-02-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-02-20T14:46:00.347Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-02-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Schools: Governing Bodies"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has any plans to increase funding for the Inspiring Governance programme.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4641", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alex Norris"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Nottingham North"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Alex Norris"} ], "uin" : "126778"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/837910", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/837910/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Social Work England will be responsible for registering all individuals who are qualified to practise as social workers in England. This will include social workers working in residential child care settings.<\/p>
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The Collective Spirit Free School in Oldham received £6,825 in the financial year 2013- 2014 following its foundation in September 2013.<\/p>
<\/p>
Information on how much pupil premium schools received in each financial year since 2014 to 2015 is available on GOV.UK at the links listed below:<\/p>
Financial year 2014 to 2015<\/p>
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2014-to-2015-final-allocations<\/a>.<\/p> Financial year 2015 to 2016<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations<\/a>.<\/p> Financial year 2016 to 2017<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2016-to-2017<\/a>.<\/p> Financial year 2017 to 2018<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2017-to-2018<\/a>.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department plans to spend on childcare for disadvantaged children in 2018; and how much his Department has spent on such childcare in each of last three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of early years education and childcare settings have been sold and purchased by a new owner in each of the last three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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