Lord Laming

To ask His Majesty's Government whether all restrictions preventing local authorities from building new special education schools have been removed.

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they are making in controlling the profits made by private organisations operating in the childcare sector.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the costs levied by private providers of special educational needs schools are being monitored and controlled.

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they are making in improving the efficiency of handling complaints about the use of interpreters in the courts system.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that chairs of family group conferences are fully trained.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help young people to avoid the dangers of gambling.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to figures released by the Office for National Statistics on 21 November showing that 946,000 young people aged 16 to 24 are not currently in education, employment or training, what steps they are taking to address...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce amendments to the Employment Rights Bill to clarify that foster carers are not employees.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to match-fund the incentive costs of Stepladder Plus, a money management and learning programme for 15–17 year olds in care operated by the Share Foundation.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposal by the Share Foundation to introduce a 'Default Withdrawal at 21' scheme for HMRC-allocated child trust funds.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve services that aim to prevent children being taken into the care of local authorities.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of children who are taken into the care of local authorities.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of children who frequently fail to attend school.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the support given to unpaid carers.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to provide greater support to unpaid carers in England; and, if so, what additional support they intend to provide.

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of children in care in England.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of times children in care must change school.

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of children in care experiencing multiple placements.

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to improve the education of children in care.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report from the Local Government Information Unit, The State of Local Government Finance in England 2024, published on 28 February, which suggests that half the councils in England will...