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To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of expenditure from the Children's Fund has been incurred by community and voluntary groups in (a) the London Borough of Enfield, (b) Greater London and (c) England and Wales in each year since its inception; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of expenditure from the Children's Fund has been incurred by community and voluntary groups in (a) the London Borough of Enfield, (b) Greater London and (c) England and Wales in each year since its inception; and if...
Asked by
Andrew Love
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
1 July 2008
For answer on
3 July 2008
Answered on
7 July 2008
The Children's Fund allocations for Enfield, Greater London and England for each year since its inception are as follows:
Expenditure information for these years (which in some cases varies significantly) is not readily available. Administration costs of the Children's Fund Partnerships made up an average of approximately 12 per cent. of the funding allocation in each year with the remaining balance being used mainly to fund community and voluntary groups.
| Children's Fund allocations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| £ | |||
| Enfield | All London boroughs | England | |
| 2001-02 | — | 10,850,000 | 67,600,000 |
| 2002-03 | 63,219 | 18,100,000 | 118,917,000 |
| 2003-04 | 661,301 | 31,601,401 | 202,094,736 |
| 2004-05 | 874,843 | 26,848,933 | 160,026,096 |
| 2005-06 | 711,515 | 24,163,830 | 145,530,848 |
| 2006-07 | 711,515 | 22,633,981 | 134,164,710 |
| 2007-08 | 711,515 | 22,243,023 | 131,804,428 |
Subjects
Children's Fund
Date
7 July 2008
Reference
216557; 478 c1400-1W
House
House of Commons
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of children’s funds in supporting vulnerable children.
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of children’s funds in supporting vulnerable children.
Asked by
Sally Keeble
(Labour)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
21 May 2007
For answer on
24 May 2007
Answered on
24 May 2007
The national evaluation of the children’s fund reported in March 2006 and produced separate reports on five distinct groups of vulnerable children. Those groups of children were disabled, refugee and asylum seeker, black and minority ethnic, Gypsy Traveller and those at risk of committing crime and antisocial behaviour. The report showed that the children’s fund was facilitating good progress in addressing the considerable scale and complexity of the needs faced by children in those most vulnerable groups.
Subjects
Children; Protection; Children's Fund
Date
24 May 2007
Reference
460 c1421; 138962
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
The national evaluation of the children’s fund reported in March 2006 and produced separate reports on five distinct groups of vulnerable children. Those groups of children were disabled, refugee and asylum seeker, black and minority ethnic, Gypsy Traveller and those at risk of committing crime and antisocial behaviour. The report showed that the children’s fund was facilitating good progress in addressing the considerable scale and complexity of the needs faced by children in those most vulnerable groups.
The national evaluation of the children’s fund reported in March 2006 and produced separate reports on five distinct groups of vulnerable children. Those groups of children were disabled, refugee and asylum seeker, black and minority ethnic, Gypsy Traveller and those at risk of committing crime and antisocial behaviour. The report showed that the children’s fund was facilitating good progress in addressing the considerable scale and complexity of the needs faced by children in those most vulnerable groups.
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Asked by
Sally Keeble
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of children’s funds in supporting vulnerable children.
Subjects
Children; Protection; Children's Fund
Date
24 May 2007
Reference
460 c1421
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that response. The children’s fund in Northamptonshire is little known, but it has done outstanding work, particularly in tackling truancy and meeting the needs of minority children. Can my right hon. Friend tell me whether that funding stream will be continued, and whether it will continue to be ring-fenced for early intervention so that it can maintain the good work it is doing already?
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that response. The children’s fund in Northamptonshire is little known, but it has done outstanding work, particularly in tackling truancy and meeting the needs of minority children. Can my right hon. Friend tell me whether that funding stream will be continued, and whether it will continue to be ring-fenced for early intervention so that it can maintain the good work it is doing already?
Asked by
Sally Keeble
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
24 May 2007
I understand why my hon. Friend asks that question. As she knows, the children’s fund goes to children’s fund partnerships in about 100 local authorities. In the remaining 50 authorities, the fund is already pooled in the local area agreement of local authorities and their partners. Although the funding will continue, from 2008 it will be pooled in local area agreements in all local authorities, but I reassure my hon. Friend that I want to ensure that it remains identifiable as a distinct funding stream so that expenditure on important preventive services, in which the voluntary and community sectors have a particular role to play, will still be transparent. If people are concerned about the way the money is being spent locally, they can challenge it.
Subjects
Northamptonshire; Children; Protection; Children's Fund
Date
24 May 2007
Reference
460 c1421-2
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
I understand why my hon. Friend asks that question. As she knows, the children’s fund goes to children’s fund partnerships in about 100 local authorities. In the remaining 50 authorities, the fund is already pooled in the local area agreement of local authorities and their partners. Although the funding will continue, from 2008 it will be pooled in local area agreements in all local authorities, but I reassure my hon. Friend that I want to ensure that it remains identifiable as a distinct funding stream so that expenditure on important preventive services, in which the voluntary and community sectors have a particular role to play, will still be transparent. If people are concerned about the way the money is being spent locally, they can challenge it.
I understand why my hon. Friend asks that question. As she knows, the children’s fund goes to children’s fund partnerships in about 100 local authorities. In the remaining 50 authorities, the fund is already pooled in the local area agreement of local authorities and their partners. Although the funding will continue, from 2008 it will be pooled in local area agreements in all local authorities, but I reassure my hon. Friend that I want to ensure that it remains identifiable as a distinct funding stream so that expenditure on important preventive services, in which the voluntary and community sectors have a particular role to play, will still be transparent. If people are concerned about the way the money is being spent locally, they can challenge it.
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Asked by
Sally Keeble
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that response. The children’s fund in Northamptonshire is little known, but it has done outstanding work, particularly in tackling truancy and meeting the needs of minority children. Can my right hon. Friend tell me whether that funding stream will be continued, and whether it will continue to be ring-fenced for early intervention so that it can maintain the good work it is doing already?
Subjects
Children; Protection; Children's Fund
Date
24 May 2007
Reference
460 c1421-2
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the future funding of the Children’s Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the future funding of the Children’s Fund.
Asked by
Laurence Robertson
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
7 December 2006
For answer on
11 December 2006
Answered on
14 December 2006
The Children’s Fund will ultimately migrate into children’s trusts by 2008 and will build upon, complement and, in some cases, form the cornerstone of the trust’s overall preventive agenda. Given the contribution of Children’s Fund in providing good quality preventative services for 5-13 year olds and their families, we would expect that local authorities will continue to commission this work.Decisions about funding beyond 2008 will be taken as part of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). We expect any funding identified in CSR to deliver the kind of services which Children’s Fund currently provide will be pooled with funding to deliver other outcomes for children and young people. This funding will be routed through local authorities and it is unlikely that it will be ring-fenced.
Subjects
Finance; Children's Fund
Date
14 December 2006
Reference
454 c1378W;454 c1380W; 108852
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what projects originally funded by the Executive Programme Funds Children's Fund are operating; what provision will be made to allocate resources to those projects from the £14.6 million voluntary children's funding package announced on 6 March; how those resources will be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what projects originally funded by the Executive Programme Funds Children's Fund are operating; what provision will be made to allocate resources to those projects from the £14.6 million voluntary children's funding package announced on 6 March; how those resources will be...
Asked by
Mark Durkan
(Social Democratic & Labour Party)
Answered by
Shaun Woodward
(Labour)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
28 March 2006
For answer on
30 March 2006
Answered on
18 April 2006
Ninety-seven of the one hundred projects originally supported by the Children's Fund continue to receive grant assistance from the Fund. Three projects experienced implementation difficulties at an early stage and terminated their activities. Moneys have been set aside from the additional £14.6 million announced by the Secretary of State to help existing voluntary and community sector groups in their work with disadvantaged children and young people, to continue support to these projects until March 2008, as long as the assistance is still required by them, and subject to satisfactory progress being made, and monitoring and accountability requirements being satisfied.
Subjects
Northern Ireland; Children's Fund
Date
18 April 2006
Reference
63120; 445 c468-9W;445 c468-9W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much has been spent on (a) Sure Start and Children's Fund regional teams and (b) the Sure Start task force in each year since 1999; and what the estimated expenditure is for the next three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much has been spent on (a) Sure Start and Children's Fund regional teams and (b) the Sure Start task force in each year since 1999; and what the estimated expenditure is for the next three years.
Asked by
Lord Goodman of Wycombe
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
13 March 2006
For answer on
16 March 2006
Answered on
20 March 2006
The role of the Sure Start and Children's Fund regional teams is to support and monitor the delivery of Sure Start and the Children's Fund by Local Authorities. The available administration expenditure figures for these teams are set out in Table 1. Part of the role of these teams has been transferred to Government Offices from April 2006. My Department is considering how best to deliver support to Local Authorities in rolling out Children's Centres in the period from now to 2010.
The Sure Start Taskforce was set up in April 2005. There are currently 11 consultants in the Taskforce and their role is to support particular Local Authorities with issues related to the delivery of Sure Start. The budget for the Taskforce for the financial year 2005–06 was £800,000. The taskforce will be dissolved on 31 March 2006.
| Table 1: Administration Expenditure for Sure Start and Children's Fund regional teams | |
|---|---|
| Sure Start/Children's Fund(£ million) | |
| 2000–01 | 0.76 |
| 2001–02 | 1.47 |
| 2002–03 | 3.16 |
| 2003–04 | 4.03 |
| 2004–05 | 4.82 |
| 2005–06 | 4.50 |
| Notes: 1.The figure for 2005–06 is an estimate. 2.Children's Fund figures are included from 2003–04 onwards. |
Subjects
Expenditure; Sure Start programme; Children's Fund
Date
20 March 2006
Reference
444 c111W;444 c111W; 59082
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the nature of the grants made in 2004–05 through the children's fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the nature of the grants made in 2004–05 through the children's fund.
Asked by
John Hayes
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 February 2006
For answer on
27 February 2006
Answered on
27 February 2006
In 2004–05, children's fund grant totalling £160 million was allocated by the Department for Education and Skills to the 149 children's fund partnerships based in each local authority area in England. This grant was used to fund a range of preventative services aimed at children aged five to 13 addressing social exclusion amongst children, young people and their families. Children's fund partnerships are responsible for setting priorities, making funding decisions and commissioning services according to the needs and priorities of the area. The three most commonly targeted groups were children with ““behaviour difficulties””, ““self-esteem problems”” and those ““exhibiting antisocial or criminal behaviour””.The children's fund helps to ensure that preventative approaches to services and planning are embedded into the practice of all statutory and voluntary services for children and young people.
Subjects
Children; Costs; Children's Fund
Date
27 February 2006
Reference
53350; 443 c516-7W;443 c516W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures she has taken to reduce central management costs of the Children's Fund; and what savings have been made as a consequence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures she has taken to reduce central management costs of the Children's Fund; and what savings have been made as a consequence.
Asked by
David Gauke
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
13 February 2006
For answer on
15 February 2006
Answered on
27 February 2006
As part of my Department's aim to achieve 2.5 per cent. annual efficiency gains across the three years (2005–06 to 2007–08) Children's Fund partnerships have been asked to achieve savings by either reducing management costs by 2.5 per cent. of their allocation each year and redeploying these to front line services or achieving a net annual increase of 2.5 per cent. in the number of children and young people receiving regular support from the Children's Fund. Each partnership was required to set out in its delivery plan or in discussions with the Department how the efficiency gains would be achieved and how it would demonstrate their achievement.An initial analysis undertaken at the mid year point of 2005–06 indicated that savings of £3.8 million in Children's Fund Management costs were planned to be made by the end of the year. The actual savings made during 2005–06 will not be known until after the end of the year (around June 2006) when partnerships have had time to close off their accounts and establish their actual expenditure for the year.We will be measuring efficiency gains from a range of specific initiatives which contribute to our Gershon efficiency target, including the reduction of Children's Fund central management costs. These are set out in our Efficiency Technical Note. In most cases, the gains are recyclable at the frontline into other activities rather than being clawed back by the Department. The Department is reporting progress towards our overall efficiency target through existing departmental reporting processes. We reported progress towards our target in the Department's Autumn Performance Report and will report further progress in the Departmental Annual Report which we expect to publish in April.
Subjects
Children; Costs; Children's Fund
Date
27 February 2006
Reference
443 c516W;443 c515-6W; 52395
House
House of Commons
I should perhaps declare a non-pecuniary interest in that my family has attended Sure Start events, which have been excellent, and my sister works for the children's fund. Both schemes have provided excellent opportunities for people in my constituency, but they suffer from two problems. First, when delivering a scheme in a rural area with many small communities, they have a real funding problem if they are to provide the same opportunities in multiple locations. Secondly, they are insecure about what will happen when funding ends in 2008. Will the Minister agree to meet representatives from North Cornwall to discuss the situation?
I should perhaps declare a non-pecuniary interest in that my family has attended Sure Start events, which have been excellent, and my sister works for the children's fund. Both schemes have provided excellent opportunities for people in my constituency, but they suffer from two problems. First, when delivering a scheme in a rural area with many small communities, they have a real funding problem if they are to provide the same opportunities in multiple locations. Secondly, they are insecure about what will happen when funding ends in 2008. Will the Minister agree to meet representatives from North Cornwall to discuss the situation?
Asked by
Dan Rogerson
(Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 February 2006
I am really pleased that the hon. Gentleman and his family and friends have reaped the benefits of our investment in Sure Start. Sure Start is going well in North Cornwall precisely for the reasons that he identifies. Sure Start local programmes are pushing the boundaries to reach wider rural areas and helping us to learn how to reach small communities. There will be considerable investment in Cornwall for the next two phases of development of children's centres, with just about £7.5 million in revenue and capital for phase 1 and a further £5.5 million for phase 2. He can expect further children's centres in his constituency due to those phases, and I would be happy to meet a delegation.
Subjects
Children; Cornwall; Finance; Rural areas; Sure Start programme; Children's centres; Children's Fund
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c994-5
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
There are three Sure Starts in my constituency. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is vital that local authorities are fully engaged in the work of Sure Starts and are able effectively to monitor and support the work of Sure Starts in their area?
There are three Sure Starts in my constituency. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is vital that local authorities are fully engaged in the work of Sure Starts and are able effectively to monitor and support the work of Sure Starts in their area?
Asked by
Peter Soulsby
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 February 2006
Yes, I do. Through the children's trust arrangements, local authorities are taking a lead. I want local authorities to deliver the plans that they have set out for all the children's centres in their areas over the next four or five years. It is also important, however, that local authorities accept their responsibility for working with private and voluntary sector partners and with health and employment services, because the integration that we need in children's centres requires all those other partners to be fully involved. I expect local authorities to take a lead in ensuring that that happens.
Subjects
Sure Start programme; Children's Fund; Children; Finance; Children's centres
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c995
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
If she will make a statement on the future of Sure Start and the children's fund.
If she will make a statement on the future of Sure Start and the children's fund.
Asked by
Dan Rogerson
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
6 February 2006
For answer on
9 February 2006
Answered on
9 February 2006
Sure Start children's centres and the children's fund are central to the Government's determination to improve outcomes and life chances for all young children. Children's centres deliver a wide range of integrated services for under-fives and their families. By 2010, there will be 3,500 centres. Local authorities are responsible for their development, with partners. The children's fund is designed to ensure that preventive approaches are delivered locally, and delivery plans for children's fund partnerships have been agreed for the period up to 2008.
Subjects
Children; Finance; Sure Start programme; Children's centres; Children's Fund
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c994; 49941
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
I represent some of the most deprived wards in the country, where Sure Start and children's centres have made a real difference, not only in terms of education. An holistic approach is taken: children's health is improving and so is the community. I ask my right hon. Friend to continue to target such centres on the most deprived wards in the land.
I represent some of the most deprived wards in the country, where Sure Start and children's centres have made a real difference, not only in terms of education. An holistic approach is taken: children's health is improving and so is the community. I ask my right hon. Friend to continue to target such centres on the most deprived wards in the land.
Asked by
Brian Iddon
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 February 2006
My hon. Friend makes an important point. As the House knows, we are moving from an area-based local programme targeted on disadvantaged areas to a mainstream integrated service for all under-fives, with a children's centre in every community by 2010. However, I assure my hon. Friend that our focus for the full offering of fully integrated services will remain on disadvantaged areas, because we know that if we help disadvantaged children to improve their attainment early in their lives that will continue through their primary and secondary years and improve their life chances. The Government are determined to do that.
Subjects
Children; Disadvantaged; Sure Start programme; Children's Fund; Finance; Children's centres
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c995
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Sure Start children's centres and the children's fund are central to the Government's determination to improve outcomes and life chances for all young children. Children's centres deliver a wide range of integrated services for under-fives and their families. By 2010, there will be 3,500 centres. Local authorities are responsible for their development, with partners. The children's fund is designed to ensure that preventive approaches are delivered locally, and delivery plans for children's fund partnerships have been agreed for the period up to 2008.
Sure Start children's centres and the children's fund are central to the Government's determination to improve outcomes and life chances for all young children. Children's centres deliver a wide range of integrated services for under-fives and their families. By 2010, there will be 3,500 centres. Local authorities are responsible for their development, with partners. The children's fund is designed to ensure that preventive approaches are delivered locally, and delivery plans for children's fund partnerships have been agreed for the period up to 2008.
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Asked by
Dan Rogerson
(Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
If she will make a statement on the future of Sure Start and the children's fund.
Subjects
Children; Finance; Sure Start programme; Children's centres; Children's Fund
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c994
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
I am really pleased that the hon. Gentleman and his family and friends have reaped the benefits of our investment in Sure Start. Sure Start is going well in North Cornwall precisely for the reasons that he identifies. Sure Start local programmes are pushing the boundaries to reach wider rural areas and helping us to learn how to reach small communities. There will be considerable investment in Cornwall for the next two phases of development of children's centres, with just about £7.5 million in revenue and capital for phase 1 and a further £5.5 million for phase 2. He can expect further children's centres in his constituency due to those phases, and I would be happy to meet a delegation.
I am really pleased that the hon. Gentleman and his family and friends have reaped the benefits of our investment in Sure Start. Sure Start is going well in North Cornwall precisely for the reasons that he identifies. Sure Start local programmes are pushing the boundaries to reach wider rural areas and helping us to learn how to reach small communities. There will be considerable investment in Cornwall for the next two phases of development of children's centres, with just about £7.5 million in revenue and capital for phase 1 and a further £5.5 million for phase 2. He can expect further children's centres in his constituency due to those phases, and I would be happy to meet a delegation.
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Asked by
Dan Rogerson
(Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
I should perhaps declare a non-pecuniary interest in that my family has attended Sure Start events, which have been excellent, and my sister works for the children's fund. Both schemes have provided excellent opportunities for people in my constituency, but they suffer from two problems. First, when delivering a scheme in a rural area with many small communities, they have a real funding problem if they are to provide the same opportunities in multiple locations. Secondly, they are insecure about what will happen when funding ends in 2008. Will the Minister agree to meet representatives from North Cornwall to discuss the situation?
Subjects
Children; Finance; Sure Start programme; Children's centres; Children's Fund
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c994-5
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
My hon. Friend makes an important point. As the House knows, we are moving from an area-based local programme targeted on disadvantaged areas to a mainstream integrated service for all under-fives, with a children's centre in every community by 2010. However, I assure my hon. Friend that our focus for the full offering of fully integrated services will remain on disadvantaged areas, because we know that if we help disadvantaged children to improve their attainment early in their lives that will continue through their primary and secondary years and improve their life chances. The Government are determined to do that.
My hon. Friend makes an important point. As the House knows, we are moving from an area-based local programme targeted on disadvantaged areas to a mainstream integrated service for all under-fives, with a children's centre in every community by 2010. However, I assure my hon. Friend that our focus for the full offering of fully integrated services will remain on disadvantaged areas, because we know that if we help disadvantaged children to improve their attainment early in their lives that will continue through their primary and secondary years and improve their life chances. The Government are determined to do that.
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Asked by
Brian Iddon
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
I represent some of the most deprived wards in the country, where Sure Start and children's centres have made a real difference, not only in terms of education. An holistic approach is taken: children's health is improving and so is the community. I ask my right hon. Friend to continue to target such centres on the most deprived wards in the land.
Subjects
Children; Finance; Sure Start programme; Children's centres; Children's Fund
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c995
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Yes, I do. Through the children's trust arrangements, local authorities are taking a lead. I want local authorities to deliver the plans that they have set out for all the children's centres in their areas over the next four or five years. It is also important, however, that local authorities accept their responsibility for working with private and voluntary sector partners and with health and employment services, because the integration that we need in children's centres requires all those other partners to be fully involved. I expect local authorities to take a lead in ensuring that that happens.
Yes, I do. Through the children's trust arrangements, local authorities are taking a lead. I want local authorities to deliver the plans that they have set out for all the children's centres in their areas over the next four or five years. It is also important, however, that local authorities accept their responsibility for working with private and voluntary sector partners and with health and employment services, because the integration that we need in children's centres requires all those other partners to be fully involved. I expect local authorities to take a lead in ensuring that that happens.
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Asked by
Peter Soulsby
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
There are three Sure Starts in my constituency. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is vital that local authorities are fully engaged in the work of Sure Starts and are able effectively to monitor and support the work of Sure Starts in their area?
Subjects
Children; Finance; Sure Start programme; Children's centres; Children's Fund
Date
9 February 2006
Reference
442 c995
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will reinstate the Executive Programme funds which were abolished by the Direct Rule administration in 2002; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will reinstate the Executive Programme funds which were abolished by the Direct Rule administration in 2002; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Eddie McGrady
(Social Democratic & Labour Party)
Answered by
Baroness Smith of Basildon
(Labour)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
11 January 2006
For answer on
16 January 2006
Answered on
17 January 2006
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply I gave on 23 November 2005, Official Report, column 1980W.
Subjects
Northern Ireland; Children's Fund
Date
17 January 2006
Reference
42402; 441 c1258-9W;441 c1257W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will reinstate the Executive Programme Funds which were abolished in 2002; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will reinstate the Executive Programme Funds which were abolished in 2002; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Eddie McGrady
(Social Democratic & Labour Party)
Answered by
Baroness Smith of Basildon
(Labour)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
28 November 2005
For answer on
1 December 2005
Answered on
5 December 2005
I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 23 November 2005, Official Report, column 1980W.
Subjects
Northern Ireland; Children's Fund
Date
5 December 2005
Reference
440 c1073W;440 c1073W; 33535
House
House of Commons