Lord Ouseley

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect that all children and young people requiring specialist mental health treatment and care will be able to access such provision.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to respond to the finding by the Education Policy Insititute that there has been a 26 per cent rise over the past five years in referrals to children's mental health services in England.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Local Government Association’s conclusion that only a small number of eligible teenagers take part in the National Citizen Service; whether they plan to reallocate their youth service f...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what formula they use to determine the funding to be provided for integration initiatives in areas with higher levels of migration.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they will assess the impact of the £2 million funding scheme to help disadvantaged children to benefit from healthy meals and enriching activities during the summer of 2018 to determine (1) whether the funding benefited...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to provide additional resources to support bus services in England so that some of the routes stopped since 2010 can be restored.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any correlation between the reductions in youth services provision and police numbers and the levels of gun and knife crime in the UK.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increase in the number of children in care; and how they will ensure that sufficient funding is in place to support the provision of care places.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that school funding per pupil in England has fallen by 8 per cent since 2009–10; and what are the implications for children's education of such ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have received about the Education and Skills Agency considering bids with minimum contract award limits for the training of apprenticeships for small and medium-sized employers who are non-levy pay...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the numbers of apprenticeship starts have decreased since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy; what factors have contributed to any such decrease; and what steps they are taking to increase the number of app...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to prevent children being groomed for criminal gang activities when they have been excluded from school and left unsupervised.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they plan to put in place to prevent vulnerable children being taken into local authority care for their own safety due to underfunded local safeguarding services.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy and efficacy of children's services in the light of the number of children being placed in child protection and being received into local authority care.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they are giving to raising additional resources through taxation to meet the predicted shortfall in social care funding.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for the NHS if additional resources for social care are not secured.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take to identify the number of children who miss school each year; and what assessment they have made of the social and economic costs of that issue.

To ask Her Majesty's Government why the descendants of the Windrush generation have been detained, threatened with deportation and denied their right to work.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the definition of the Windrush generation they use will be expanded to include those who joined their parents, grandparents and siblings after 1973.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are being introduced to reduce the number of children in bed and breakfast, and hotel temporary accommodation.