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HANSARDEarly Years Support for FamiliesWe conducted a survey of 10,000 different providers, and that is what we have used to set out the funding rates. In some of those areas, for example, for two-year-olds, the rate…17 Apr 2023HANSARD Bereaved Children: RegistryIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary. I thank the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) for securing this debate on an important subject. I…28 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities: Specialist WorkforceI thank the right hon. Gentleman, but I would slightly disagree with him. When I was in the Treasury in 2019, I worked on the increase, which we are starting to see, in the high…22 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities: Specialist WorkforceI would be delighted to talk to the relevant Department and the hon. Gentleman’s Minister about how we can share best practice. I know people rightly care about this area.…22 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities: Specialist WorkforceI will happily look at that, and raise it in my conversations with Health. That is quite right. There are lots of other issues as well, particularly autism in girls. A mental…22 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities: Specialist WorkforceI will happily go away and look at that, but I would also make a point on the additional funding we have put into the mainstream sector so that it can cope with all sorts of rises…22 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities: Specialist WorkforceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) on securing a debate on this incredibly…22 Mar 2023HANSARDChildcare and Early YearsIt is brilliant to be here on International Women’s Day, and it was wonderful to see Madam Deputy Speaker back in the Chair, as she did much to ensure it is always debated in the…08 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI thank my right hon. Friend for that question. Yes, I am happy to discuss with him the school—I think there might be two—coming forward in his area.06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionAs I mentioned, we have been increasing the budget, the high needs block, for the last four years. We have also set up further funding for schools, which will be going into the…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionMy hon. Friend is passionate about this area. She is absolutely right, and I have heard from parents in my area and across the country that it is the daily grind of poor…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI thank my hon. Friend for that question and for meeting me when she pressed me on this issue. We will be putting lots of things in place for parents, but in particular we will be…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that specialist support is really important. We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care on specialist health support, whether…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI thank my hon. and learned Friend for everything he has done on children’s policy in his time in government. He is absolutely right that we must make sure the health sector is…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI am not sure I would like to thank the hon. Gentleman for that particular question, but I understand the frustration parents feel. It is something I have talked to lots of…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI thank my right hon. Friend for that question. Obviously, he has been a doughty campaigner on the issue of dyslexia, and he has had many constructive conversations with me about…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI thank the hon. Lady for her question. As we set out national standards and best practice guides, we will be trying to work with the best possible evidence from all providers to…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI thank my hon. Friend for that question. He is absolutely right that getting the right provision in mainstream is the key to success, particularly in respect of early…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionI would like to come back on some of those points. First, on the ambition of the reforms, these are systemic reforms: we are looking at every single part of the system and…06 Mar 2023HANSARD SEND and Alternative ProvisionWith permission, I will make a statement on our progress to improve outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities or in alternative…06 Mar 2023