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Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Children In Care (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: I have been asked to reply. It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Child Protection Orders (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: In July 2009 the President of the Family Division, Sir Mark Potter, issued Interim Guidance to the family courts about the handling of cases, including care proceedings To reflect this, CAFCASS has issued revised Operating Priorities for the period covered by the Interim Guidance (October 2009 to March 2010) to all its staff. In London, guidance has been issued to staff in support of the...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service: Finance (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: CAFCASS's budget for 2007/08 was £107,133,000. On top of this, CAFCASS received funding for additional activities, namely £80,000 for ContactPoint and £1,500,000 for Family Contact Services. CAFCASS funding was set for three years as part of the comprehensive spending review 2007 for 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11. Re-profiling of this budget has since taken place to reflect the...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children in Care (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 12 October 2009, Official Report, column 185W.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children in Care (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: Local circumstances vary substantially and local authorities with their Children's Trust partners are best placed to judge how best to allocate resources to ensure all children receive the protection they need. In May 2009, the Government announced £57.8 million new investment to support "The protection of children in England: action plan—The Government's response to Lord Laming",...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children in Care: Remand in Custody (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The Department is responsible for provision for care leavers. A 'former relevant child' is a young person aged 18+ (i.e. legally adult) who was either a looked-after child before reaching legal adulthood or a child who had left care after the age of 16 but before the age of 18, who would be entitled to continuing leaving care support from their responsible local authority. The following link...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Day Care (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Day Care (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Foster Care (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: holding answer 9 November 2009 Information on the number of family or friend foster placements which ended, resulting in a change of placement during the year by local authority can be found in the table. The reason for a change of placement is not collected centrally and so we cannot distinguish between planned placement moves and placement breakdowns. Table 1: Number of family or...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Missing Persons (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Protection (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Protection (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Coram (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: holding answer 9 November 2009 Coram's concurrent planning scheme has been independently evaluated by Elizabeth Monck, Jill Reynolds and Valerie Wigfall. This evaluation was published, by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, as 'The Role of Concurrent Planning: Making permanent placements for young children'. The Government recognise the value of concurrent planning for the...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Day Care: Slough (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects information on the ownership of childcare provision in England. The survey does not have information at local authority level. The 2008 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey found that, of all childcare providers (i.e. full day care, full day care in children's centres, sessional and out of school provision) in the South East, 2,700...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Departmental Annual Reports (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Family Courts: Guardians (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Guardianships: Self-Employed (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: Since its creation in 2001, CAFCASS has made extensive use of the services of self-employed contractors (SECs) to undertake the role of Children's Guardian in section 31 (Children Act 1989) care proceedings. CAFCASS plans to continue to commission work from SECs to help meet demand for the services of Children's Guardians provided that competent SECs are available and for whose work budgetary...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Integrated Children's System (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Pupils: Abuse (12 Nov 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.