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Written Answers — Department for Education: Children: Day Care ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The 30 hours childcare schemes are a devolved matter and the Department for Education has a remit for the 30 hours entitlement for England. Questions about schemes in Scotland and Wales should be referred to the devolved administrations.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Children: Day Care ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: ​We want parents to have access to a range of affordable childcare, giving them increased flexibility in their working hours and helping children thrive in the crucial early years. That is why the Department for Education is investing £3.5 billion in our early education offers this year alone. The 30 hours childcare entitlement provides an additional 570 hours of funded childcare to...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Breakfast Clubs ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The department is investing up to £26 million into the National Schools Breakfast Programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. A contract was awarded to Family Action in March 2018 and will run until March 2020. Family Action, in partnership with Magic Breakfast, have both been named as the leading charities responsible for running the Breakfast Club programme. Together...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Children: Corporal Punishment ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: There is no specific ban on ‘smacking’ children in England.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The continuing provision of free school meals to children from out of work families, or those on low incomes, is of the utmost importance to this government. We want to make sure as many eligible pupils as possible are claiming their free school meals, and to make it as simple as possible for schools and local authorities to determine eligibility. To support this, we already provide an...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Pupil Premium: Travellers ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The pupil premium is additional funding, worth over £2.4 billion in the current financial year, to help schools improve the progress and attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Allocations to schools are based on the number of pupils on roll at the time of the January school census who are currently registered for benefits-based free school meals (FSM) or who have been registered at any point in...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Children: Exploitation ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The Tackling Child Exploitation Support Programme will include support for local safeguarding partners - the police, health and the local authority - to develop and deliver a strategic response to extra-familial harms and child exploitation. The police force(s) in any safeguarding partnership will be responsible for ensuring that any intelligence gathered during safeguarding activity in that...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Offences against Children ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The department welcomes the publication of the report ‘Improving agency data on child sexual abuse’ by the Centre of Expertise and will take into consideration its valuable recommendations. A small amount of the data, on child sexual abuse and exploitation in scope of the report, is reported centrally to the department. These are additional factors collected at the end of a child...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Nurseries: Labour Turnover ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: Employers in the early years sector are responsible for recruiting and setting the pay and conditions for their employees within the statutory requirements set by government (for example, national minimum wage). We do not collect data on staff turnover, however wider data on workforce is included in the Provider Surveys: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childca...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Children: Day Care ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The 30 hours entitlement is intended to support working families with access to high quality, affordable childcare. We are clear that the 30 hours entitlement aims to support working families with the cost of childcare, and to support parents back into work, or to work more hours should they wish to do so. Therefore, we have not made any assessment of the effect of the entitlement on...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Food Poverty: Children ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: ​This government wants pupils to be healthy and well-nourished and we encourage a healthy balanced diet and healthy life choices through school funding, legislation and guidance. My officials will continue to work with colleagues from The Food Foundation to scope out how we might all come together to address the issues raised in the Children’s Future Food Inquiry report and we will set...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Food Poverty: Children ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: All children should be able to access healthy and nutritious food at home and at school. This is an essential part of building a country that works for everyone, and in which every child and young person can reach their potential. We are supporting around 1.1 million of the most disadvantaged children through free school meals, saving families approximately £400 a year. We invested in a £9...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Apprentices ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: ​In 2019-20, funding available for investment in apprenticeships in England has risen to over £2.5 billion, double what was spent in 2010-11 in cash terms. This is used to fund apprenticeships for all employers, including apprenticeships started before the introduction of the levy as well as those started since by levy-payers and non-levy payers. Small and medium-sized enterprises, most of...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Apprentices: Shipbuilding ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: Employers are at the heart of government’s reforms on apprenticeships, designing new high-quality apprenticeship standards that meet the needs of their industries. There are 116 engineering and manufacturing standards available for employers in the shipbuilding industry to choose from, and a total of 487 standards available across a wide range of sectors from Business and Administration to...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: Children who have left care through a special guardianship order are eligible for pupil premium plus funding (for previously looked-after children) of £2,300. This is unrelated to eligibility for free school meals (FSMs). To be eligible to receive FSMs, a pupil or their parent must be in receipt of any one of the following listed benefits and must make a claim to the school for FSMs:Income...

Written Answers — Department for Education: University Technical Colleges: Apprentices ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The University Technical College (UTC) programme has an important role to play in equipping young people with the skills businesses need and getting them into employment and apprenticeships. The most recent sustained destinations data shows that during 2016-17, 21% of pupils who studied in key stage 5 at a UTC in the previous year, progressed into apprenticeships. This is double any other...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Apprentices ( 6 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The most recent statistics on apprenticeship starts by industry sector covers the academic years 2012/13 to 2016/17 and are published at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in- england-by-industry-characteristics. The UK Standard Industrial Classification of economic activities does not include a specific category for the technology sector. However,...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment ( 5 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The department received a proposal from the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) for a central bursary scheme to fund trainee teachers of the hearing impaired. After consideration the department found that it did not provide strong enough evidence that a bursary is the solution to the declining numbers of trained teachers of the deaf. Officials are working with NDCS and other...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Young People: Carers ( 5 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: The government is committed to supporting young carers so that they are properly protected from excessive or inappropriate caring responsibilities and supported to achieve their full potential. Consistent identification remains challenging, with many being ‘hidden’ and therefore unrecognised and/or unsupported. Changes through the Children and Families Act 2014 simplified the legislation...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Apprentices: Degrees ( 5 Sep 2019)

Kemi Badenoch: As part of its agreed responsibilities, the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education recommends and reviews funding bands to make sure that employers can access high quality apprenticeships, and that funding bands represent good value for money for employers and the government. The Institute has highlighted its intention to improve transparency in its approach towards pricing all...


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