Written questions

Helen Hayes

2,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 114851 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, what estimate he has made of the number of additional qualified level 3 special educational needs coordina

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 114851 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, if he will publish a breakdown of estimated funding provided through the Nuffield Early Language Intervent

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 114851 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, if he publish a breakdown of funding distributed via the Early Years Professional Development Programme in

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 114851 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, what proportion of children his Department estimates those interventions will reach.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 114851 on Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus, what criteria his Department will use to monitor the outcomes of the (a) Early Years Professional Developm

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is he taking to ensure referrals from schools to children’s social care services are responded to (a) appropriately and (b) promptly.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the adequacy of children’s social care services in England.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of social service departments in each region of England have been rated (a) inadequate or (b) requires improvement by Ofsted.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in care aged 16 and 17 died while they were living in (a) semi-independent or (b) independent accommodation in each of the last five years.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to review the deaths of 22 children in care aged 16 and 17 while they were living in (a) semi-independent or (b) independent accommodation between 2018 and 2020.

9 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Attendance

9 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Ethnic Groups

9 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of state (a) primary and (b) secondary school permanent exclusions by (i) type of school, (ii) ethnicity and (iii) age for each year since 2010.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has carried out an impact assessment on the use of behaviour hubs by state schools in England on children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Secondary Education: Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of secondary schools in England who have (a) more than five children and (b) more than 10 children leaving the school roll to be home educated in each year since 2018-2019.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Secondary Education: Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the proportion of secondary schools in England which excluded five or more children from state school in the years (a) 2018-2019, (b) 2019-2020 and (c) 2020-2021.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Primary Education: Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the proportion of primary schools in England which excluded five or more children from state school in the years (a) 2018-2019, (b) 2019-2020 and (c) 2020-2021.

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 25 November 2021, HCWS421 on Update on Early Years Funding, if he will set out the projected population estimate his Department has used when calculating funding for (

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 25 November 2021, HCWS421 on Update on Early Years Funding, what assessment he has made of the real terms impact of that additional funding in the context of increasin

8 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 25 November 2021, HCWS421 on Update on Early Years Funding, what the total funding allocated for the early years entitlement is (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-2

3 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Adoption: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent comparative assessment has he made of the levels of (a) financial and (b) other support available to (i) self-employed and (ii) employed adoptive parents.

3 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Adoption Leave: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of uptake of adoption leave by self-employed parents following adoption; and what steps he is taking to ensure taking adoption leave is affordable for new adop

3 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Adoption: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made adequacy of access to financial support for self-employed adoptive parents after a child has been placed with them.

1 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the decision to close the national assessment and accreditation system for children's social workers on the standard of service provided by soc

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children entering school with speech and language difficulties or delay following the closure of early years settings during the covid-19 outbreak.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support early years and childcare providers to help children catch up with missed learning and development that has been delayed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the average waiting time for families to receive (a) an EHCP assessment and (b) for support to be put in place following initial referral in England, by region.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of early years settings that have had to relax staff to children ratios as a result of covid-19 related absences for (a) 0 to 2 year olds and (b) 3 and 4 year olds; and w

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children’s social workers who will have gone through the national assessment and accreditation system by the time of the scheme’s closure.

31 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of (a) his Department's total spend on the national assessment and accreditation system for children’s social workers since its introduction in 2018 and (b) how much will have b

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