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Safeguarding Children

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish the revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 March 2010

Reference

2414; 718 c106WA

House

House of Lords

Criminal Records Bureau

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the announcement by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on 14 December concerningCriminal Records Bureau checks, whether they plan to require families intending to educate their children at home to be subject to such checks.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 January 2010

Reference

814; 716 c16-7WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Extremist Groups

To ask Her Majesty's Government what vetting procedures are in place to prevent (a) extremists, and (b) members of proscribed groups, from (1) becoming teachers and (2) working with young people.

Asked by

Baroness Neville-Jones (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

5 January 2010

For maintained schools, the responsibility for considering the professional suitability of registered teachers, whether potential new recruits or existing members of the teaching profession, lies with the individual school governing bodies and with local authorities. The department has provided detailed guidance on the necessary checks which should be carried out before engaging a teacher. These checks involve checking the individual's identity, their academic qualifications and previous employment history, taking up professional and character references, and applying to the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) for mandatory checks on the individual's criminal background and whether they are included on the lists that are maintained by the Independent Safeguarding Authority. For independent schools, the proprietor is responsible for carrying out the checks on their staff. Proprietors themselves must have a criminal background check as part of assessing their suitability and the Secretary of State has powers under the Education Act 2002 to prohibit unsuitable individuals from taking part in the management of an independent school. Similar requirements for criminal background checks currently apply in children's social care and in registered childcare settings. In voluntary settings where individuals work with children and young people but which are not regulated by the Government, such as the churches or the Scouts for example, organisers are eligible to conduct CRB checks and we advise them to do so. Individuals wishing to become teachers or to work with children in regulated activity must be registered with the Vetting and Barring Scheme when the registration requirements under the new scheme are phased in from next year. Where relevant safeguarding information is found by the CRB or Access Northern Ireland during the vetting process, this information will be passed to the Independent Safeguarding Authority. The ISA will consider this and other information that it may hold or gather on a person to determine if the person poses a future risk of harm to children. An ISA children's list bar would prevent an individual from working with children in any instance of regulated activity with children. The Secretary of State has appointed Maurice Smith, former HM Chief Inspector of Schools, to consider the issue of racism in schools. The review is looking at the measures currently in place to prevent political impartiality, racially motivated discrimination and the promotion of partisan activities in our schools, and whether these need strengthening. Although Mr Smith has been asked to focus on the maintained sector the review is also taking evidence from the independent sector. He is due to report at the end of January 2010 and we will consider the findings carefully before deciding whether any further measures are required to strengthen those already in place.

Date

5 January 2010

Reference

640; 716 c20-1WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Extremist Groups

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps are taken to prevent (a) extremists, and (b) members of proscribed groups, from (1) becoming teachers, and (2) working with young people.

Asked by

Baroness Neville-Jones (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

5 January 2010

Date

5 January 2010

Reference

639; 716 c20-1WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 10 December (HL433), why they consider that individual children might be identified as a result of data released combined with other data publicly available.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 January 2010

Reference

759; 716 c21-2WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government for each local authority for which they have data, (a) how many home-educated children are subject to child protection plans, (b) how many home-educated children have been taken into care or placed with a foster family, (c) what is the total number of home-educated children,...

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

15 December 2009

The department's policy is not to release any information that might lead to individual children being identified where data released could be combined with other data. As 74 local authorities identified a total of 51 home-educated children that were subject to child protection plans we are not able to release a breakdown of this data by local authority as the numbers for each individual authority would be very small and individual children might be identified. However, the department has provided a histogram setting out the spread of child protection plans by local authority and this can be found at (http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/ete/independentreviewofhomeeducation/irhome education/). We have not collected information about the number of home-educated children taken into care or placed with a foster family, neither have we collected any information about the number of home educated children subject to care orders who are from a traveller background, or who are in years 10 and 11. I attach a table showing the number of electively home-educated children in each local authority that responded to the questionnaire on home education distributed in September. However, neither we nor local authorities know how many children are being home educated as there is currently no requirement for home educators to notify local authorities or any other public bodies that their children are home-educated.

Local Authority	Total Elective Home Educated (EHE) population
Bath and North East Somerset	50
Bedfordshire	70
Bolton	81
Bradford	132
Brighton and Hove	157
Buckinghamshire	185
Calderdale	38
Cambridgeshire	200
Cheshire East	127
City of London
Cornwall	311
Coventry	60
Cumbria	261
Darlington	97
Derby	79
Devon	674
Dorset	157
Dudley	156
Durham	110
East Riding of Yorkshire	139
Essex	733
Gateshead	29
Gloucestershire	224
Greenwich	96
Halton	28
Hampshire	372
Isle of Wight	141
Isles of Scilly	0
Kent	673
Kingston upon Hull	84
Kingston upon Thames	44
Kirklees	67
Lancashire	465
Leeds	140
Lewisham	123
Lincolnshire	411
Liverpool	57
Manchester	91
Medway	195
Milton Keynes	96
Newcastle upon Tyne	52
Norfolk	375
North East Lincolnshire	49
North Somerset	121
Northamptonshire	183
Northumberland	46
Nottingham City	96
Nottinghamshire	238
Oxfordshire	329
Plymouth	135
Reading	50
Redbridge	55
Redcar and Cleveland	27
Rotherham	70
Sefton	58
Somerset	249
South Gloucestershire	108
Southampton	82
St Helens	33
Staffordshire	244
Stockton on Tees	31
Sunderland	66
Surrey	695
Torbay	91
Trafford	35
Wandsworth	47
Warrington	39
Warwickshire	123
West Sussex	407
Wigan	72
Wiltshire	148
Windsor and Maidenhead	*
Wirral	35
Wolverhampton	141
Total	11,6**

"* indicates numbers < than 10 per LA"

Date

15 December 2009

Reference

410; 715 c207-9WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is meant by "Known to social care includes Section 17, 37 or 47 enquiries" in the Department for Children, Schools and Families' working paper Independent Review of Home Education—safeguarding evidence.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2009

Reference

434; 715 c169WA

House

House of Lords

Pupils and the Media

Lords question for short debate on what plans they have to ensure that pupils in school acquire a better understanding of the influence of the media.

Lead member

Baroness Thomas of Walliswood

Answering member

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Questions for short debate

Date

9 December 2009

Reference

715 c1127-40

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 2 November (WA 7), whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of the original evidence, collected from local authorities and elsewhere, that formed the basis of Mr Graham Badman's letter...

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 November 2009

Reference

6215; 714 c93WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House details of the evidence on which Mr Graham Badman based his statement that he is aware of 52 care plans in respect of home-educated children; and what is the equivalent figure and evidence in respect...

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 November 2009

Reference

5983; 714 c7WA

House

House of Lords

Safeguarding Children

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Peers visiting schools as part of the Peers in Schools programme or otherwise will have to register with the Vetting and Barring Scheme run by the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

Asked by

Lord Greaves (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 October 2009

Reference

5597; 713 c142WA

House

House of Lords

Criminal Records Bureau

To ask Her Majesty's Government what impact the requirement for Criminal Records Bureau checks is having on school trips abroad and exchanges for the purpose of modern foreign language education.

Asked by

Baroness Coussins (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 October 2009

Reference

5720; 713 c122-3WA

House

House of Lords

Social Work

Lords question for short debate on what examples of good practice they have identified in residential work with children and in child and family social work.

Lead member

Earl of Listowel

Answering member

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Questions for short debate

Date

23 June 2009

Reference

711 c441-52GC

House

House of Lords

Children: ContactPoint

To ask Her Majesty's Government in what circumstances they would recommend that a child's record be shielded on ContactPoint.

Asked by

Lord Moynihan (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 June 2009

Reference

4249; 711 c246WA

House

House of Lords

Ofsted

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, having regard to the report of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) on Haringey Council's child protection services shortly before the death of Baby P, any action will be taken regarding Ofsted.

Asked by

Lord Ouseley (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 May 2009

Reference

3591; 710 c266WA

House

House of Lords

Children and Families

Lords debate on motion to call attention to Her Majesty's Government's policies on the well-being of children and families. Motion withdrawn.

Lead member

Baroness Massey of Darwen

Answering member

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Debates

Date

14 May 2009

Reference

710 c1109-54

House

House of Lords

Child Protection: Witchcraft

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 12 February (WA 217), how they intend to monitor the effectiveness of the guidance on Safeguarding Children from Abuse Linked to a Belief in Spirit Possession, published in May 2007.

Asked by

Baroness Warsi (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 March 2009

Reference

1571; 708 c226WA

House

House of Lords

Criminal Records Bureau

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will introduce measures to allow the portability of Criminal Records Bureau enhanced disclosure checks for people moving between similar jobs in the looked after children sector.

Asked by

Earl of Listowel (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 March 2009

Reference

1701; 708 c157-8WA

House

House of Lords

Children: Sexual Exploitation

To ask Her Majesty's Government when revised guidance on safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation will be published.

Asked by

Baroness Gould of Potternewton (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 February 2009

Reference

1408; 708 c37WA

House

House of Lords

Child Protection

To ask Her Majesty's Government who has authority to approve or disapprove an organisation's child protection policy.

Asked by

Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 January 2009

Reference

657; 707 c71WA

House

House of Lords

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