Helen Hayes

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...

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...

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.

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.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the attendance rate was for children attending alternative provision in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 lateral flow testing kits have been provided to pharmacies in (a) Lambeth and (b) Southwark; and what assessment he has made of the current availability of those kits to residents...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2022 to Question 100627, on Special Schools: Ventilation, how many CO2 monitors were offered to nurseries and early years settings.