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HANSARDChildren with SEND and their Families: SupportAll children, no matter their special educational need or disability, deserve the right support to be able to succeed. We will be publishing a full response to the SEND and…16 Jan 2023HANSARDChildren with SEND and their Families: SupportWe work with all areas that are struggling to provide SEND services through our regions group work, our delivering better value programmes, and our safety valve programmes. I…16 Jan 2023HANSARDChildren with SEND and their Families: SupportI can assure the hon. Lady that we are working incredibly hard, and we will be publishing a response imminently. In the meantime, we are rolling out training on mental health to…16 Jan 2023HANSARDChildren with SEND and their Families: SupportMy hon. Friend has raised this issue with me several time. One key part of the reforms set out in the SEND Green Paper will be clear standards about what help children with…16 Jan 2023HANSARDChildren with SEND and their Families: SupportI absolutely commend the work of Councillor Janine Bridges. It sounds as if she is doing a tremendous job to increase the number of places for SEND children. I would also be…16 Jan 2023HANSARDMaintained Nursery SchoolsMy right hon. Friend has consistently and passionately campaigned for the maintained nursery school sector. I agree that it is doing an excellent job, not only in supporting some…16 Jan 2023HANSARDAlternative Provision SettingsAs set out in our special educational needs and disabilities and alternative provision Green Paper published in March, our ambitious alternative provision reforms will keep all…16 Jan 2023HANSARDAlternative Provision SettingsAs part of the reforms we are setting out, we will develop a bespoke national alternative framework that will include looking at standards and sustainable post-16 destinations. I…16 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do indeed congratulate that team; that is quite a hard thing to do and it is brilliant that they have been able to get that recommendation.16 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI pay tribute to Ian’s work. I would love to look at that in more detail and speak to the hon. Lady further about what we can take forward.16 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my right hon. Friend for his collaborative approach in the meeting that we had last week. Absolutely, early identification is key, and we have been looking very carefully…16 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am really exercised about this issue. I speak to parents of children with SEND all the time, and I do think that they find the experience very adversarial. I will be setting out…16 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can tell the hon. Lady that the high needs funding for Barnsley has increased by 12% year on year for 2023-24 and it will be more than £40 million in total. It will also receive…16 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI hope that the 9,000 children will see progress. Not only have we increased the overall funding for SEND by about 50% since 2019, but we are increasing the number of specialist…16 Jan 2023HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityI am not entirely familiar with that figure. Perhaps we can discuss it after the debate and I can come back to him with a fuller answer. As I have said, over the last five years,…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityAs of last year, we had set out half a billion pounds of extra funding to go into the sector. We have also set up energy support, as I mentioned, which will help with the…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityAs ever, my hon. Friend makes a detailed and interesting point that I will take away. I will look at the underspend and see what can be done, and I will come back to him as soon…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Childcare: Affordability and AvailabilityIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. I thank everybody for coming to this end-of-term debate, and for their continued presence in all of the debates we…20 Dec 2022HANSARDEducationAs I said in answer to earlier questions, we put an extra £0.5 billion into the early years sector in the 2021 spending review to increase the hourly rate. We are also spending…06 Dec 2022HANSARDEducationAs I said in answer to earlier questions, we put an extra £0.5 billion into the early years sector in the 2021 spending review to increase the hourly rate, split over the…06 Dec 2022