Asked by: Martin Vickers (Conservative - Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there is a standardised procedure for ensuring that young offenders are assessed for an EHCP.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0-25 Years (2015), sets out that local authorities must promote the education of each child and young person while they are in custody and on their release, whether they have an education, health and care (EHC) plan or not.
Each child or young person entering custody will undergo an educational assessment, including an assessment of literacy, numeracy and, where necessary, a screening to identify whether further assessments to identify special educational needs (SEN) are required. If the child or young person already has an EHC plan, the home local authority must send it to the Youth Offending Team, the person in charge of the relevant youth accommodation, and the child or young person’s health commissioner, within five working days of becoming aware of the detention.
Where a child or young person does not already have an EHC plan, the parent, young person or the person in charge of the relevant youth accommodation can request an assessment of the child or young person’s post-detention EHC needs from the home local authority.
Anyone else, including Youth Offending Teams and the education provider in custody, has a right to bring the child or young person to the notice of the home local authority as someone who may have SEN and the local authority must consider whether an assessment of their post-detention EHC needs is necessary.
Asked by: Martin Vickers (Conservative - Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local councils have had intervention from the Government to ensure that they provide effective complaints procedures regarding their local offer.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Part Three of the Children and Families Act 2014, imposes a range of duties on local authorities in England in relation to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in their areas, or for whom they are otherwise responsible. These include:
The 2014 Act requires my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, to issue a code of practice giving guidance to local authorities, and others, about the exercise of their functions under Part Three of the Act, to which they must have regard. This statutory guidance is the ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’ (2015), which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25.
Local authorities must publish a summary of comments at least annually. All local areas are subject to robust SEND inspections, and Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have just commenced a strengthened local inspection framework, which does include judgements about the Local Offer where appropriate. Where a local area’s Local Offer is identified as a significant weakness by Ofsted/CQC, the department provides intervention and support to secure improvement.
Asked by: Martin Vickers (Conservative - Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has given to local authorities on ensuring the education, health and social care services work together to provide services with young people with special educational needs.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Part Three of the Children and Families Act 2014, imposes a range of duties on local authorities in England in relation to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in their areas, or for whom they are otherwise responsible. These include:
The 2014 Act requires my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, to issue a code of practice giving guidance to local authorities, and others, about the exercise of their functions under Part Three of the Act, to which they must have regard. This statutory guidance is the ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’ (2015), which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25.
Local authorities must publish a summary of comments at least annually. All local areas are subject to robust SEND inspections, and Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have just commenced a strengthened local inspection framework, which does include judgements about the Local Offer where appropriate. Where a local area’s Local Offer is identified as a significant weakness by Ofsted/CQC, the department provides intervention and support to secure improvement.
Asked by: Martin Vickers (Conservative - Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has given to local authorities on informing young people regarding disability and special educational needs.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Part Three of the Children and Families Act 2014, imposes a range of duties on local authorities in England in relation to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in their areas, or for whom they are otherwise responsible. These include:
The 2014 Act requires my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, to issue a code of practice giving guidance to local authorities, and others, about the exercise of their functions under Part Three of the Act, to which they must have regard. This statutory guidance is the ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’ (2015), which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25.
Local authorities must publish a summary of comments at least annually. All local areas are subject to robust SEND inspections, and Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have just commenced a strengthened local inspection framework, which does include judgements about the Local Offer where appropriate. Where a local area’s Local Offer is identified as a significant weakness by Ofsted/CQC, the department provides intervention and support to secure improvement.
Asked by: Martin Vickers (Conservative - Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on identifying young people with special educational needs.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Part Three of the Children and Families Act 2014, imposes a range of duties on local authorities in England in relation to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in their areas, or for whom they are otherwise responsible. These include:
The 2014 Act requires my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, to issue a code of practice giving guidance to local authorities, and others, about the exercise of their functions under Part Three of the Act, to which they must have regard. This statutory guidance is the ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’ (2015), which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25.
Local authorities must publish a summary of comments at least annually. All local areas are subject to robust SEND inspections, and Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have just commenced a strengthened local inspection framework, which does include judgements about the Local Offer where appropriate. Where a local area’s Local Offer is identified as a significant weakness by Ofsted/CQC, the department provides intervention and support to secure improvement.
Asked by: Martin Vickers (Conservative - Cleethorpes)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many exclusions of (a) SEN and (b) other pupils there were in schools in the Cleethorpes constituency in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department publishes figures from the school census on permanent exclusions and suspensions from state funded schools in England. The latest full academic year figures are for the academic year 2020/21 and can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england/2020-21.
The attached table provides the number of permanent exclusions and suspensions for pupils with and without special educational needs (SEN) at state funded schools in Cleethorpes constituency between 2018/19 and 2020/21.