Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 21 Jan 2019
College Funding
"It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) for introducing this important debate.
I should begin by saying a word about my own background. When I first left school, I served an engineering apprenticeship—that was …..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 19th December 2018
Asked by:
George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were referred to children’s social care services in the last five years to 1 April 2018; and how much funding local authorities received to provide those services over that time period.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The table below shows the number of children referred to children’s social care, England, 2013-14 to 2017-18:
| 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Number of children referred | 570,790 | 553,500 | 547,330 | 571,000 | 581,280 |
Source: Characteristics of children in need: 2017 to 2018, Table A1, found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2017-to-2018.
Funding made available to local authorities is largely not ring-fenced, enabling local authorities to target spending according to local needs.
Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have had access to more than £200 billion, after last month’s budget.
At the Autumn Budget the government announced over £1 billion of extra funding for local authorities, this year and next, to help them deliver the services their communities need and support their most vulnerable residents.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 06 Sep 2018
Children in Need: Adulthood
"I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe) on a really useful survey of the information that is already known, and on the way in which he has introduced a very important subject and given us the opportunity to debate it.
As …..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Jul 2018
Swaminarayan School Closure
"Before I call the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman), by leave of the mover of the motion and the Minister, I strongly remind him that the Minister has to have adequate time to reply. Bob Blackman...."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Draft Social Workers Regulations 2018
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I believe this is the first Delegated Legislation Committee I have served on for about 15 years, so I intend to take full advantage of the opportunity that the Opposition Whips Office has presented me with.
I begin by …..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Draft Social Workers Regulations 2018
"Yes, we do not have that much time anyway. I intend to be reasonably concise.
My first concern relates to regulation 3(4)(a) and (b), which states that
“the Secretary of State must notify the regulator accordingly”
if there are any concerns about proposals that it makes, and
“the regulator must …..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Draft Social Workers Regulations 2018
"It is useful that the Minister has explained the progression of the idea; that is helpful. Perhaps he is coming on to this; I do not know. My concern in relation to regulation 3(4)(b) is about the use of the word “modify” as distinct from, for example, “consider”, which seems …..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"5. What steps he is taking to support alternative educational provision. ..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Minister will know that, at its best, alternative provision can give young people an opportunity to get back on track, but that at its worst, in some cases, it is nothing more than childminding. He will also know that because of pressure on budgets, headteachers often take the cheapest …..."George Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 14 Mar 2018
Foster Care
"Before I call the Minister, I remind him of the convention that the motion’s proposer has a short time to respond at the end of the debate...."George Howarth - View Speech
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