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I want to put on record my thanks to the Prime Minister, not only for turning the Labour party around and getting us elected, but for helping me to be elected as the Member for South Derbyshire so that I can represent constituents of mine such as Abbey Wright, whom...
I want to put on record my thanks to the Prime Minister, not only for turning the Labour party around and getting us elected, but for helping me to be elected as the Member for South Derbyshire so that I can represent constituents of mine such as Abbey Wright, whom...
I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for raising this matter, and send condolences to Phil Wright’s family following this tragic case. We are investing £3.6 million in suicide prevention as part of England’s first ever men’s health strategy. Both crisis and community mental health teams should be able to...
I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for raising this matter, and send condolences to Phil Wright’s family following this tragic case. We are investing £3.6 million in suicide prevention as part of England’s first ever men’s health strategy. Both crisis and community mental health teams should be able to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current a) average and b) maximum wait is for those with domiciliary care needs to access the Community Dental Service in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current a) average and b) maximum wait is for those with domiciliary care needs to access the Community Dental Service in England.
We do not hold data on the wait times for domiciliary care or the number of appointments carried out by Community Dental Services (CDS).
Domiciliary dental services are commissioned locally by integrated care boards to support those who are unable to access high street dental practices due to medical, physical, or psychological conditions. This is largely through CDSs, which carry the required expertise and equipment to treat individuals who are housebound or living in care settings.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many domiciliary dental visits were undertaken by the Community Dental Service in England in each year since 2010/11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many domiciliary dental visits were undertaken by the Community Dental Service in England in each year since 2010/11.
We do not hold data on the wait times for domiciliary care or the number of appointments carried out by Community Dental Services (CDS).
Domiciliary dental services are commissioned locally by integrated care boards to support those who are unable to access high street dental practices due to medical, physical, or psychological conditions. This is largely through CDSs, which carry the required expertise and equipment to treat individuals who are housebound or living in care settings.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of parking fines on care workers providing in-home services; and if he will issue further (a) guidance and (b) introduce measures to support care workers who are required to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of parking fines on care workers providing in-home services; and if he will issue further (a) guidance and (b) introduce measures to support care workers who are required to...
The Department has not made a formal assessment of the impact of parking fines on care workers providing in‑home services.
Parking policy is devolved to local authorities, which already have the discretion to offer exemptions or dedicated permit schemes for health and social care workers where appropriate. At present, local authorities remain best placed to determine appropriate support and parking arrangements, taking account of local conditions and existing pressures.
We are introducing the first ever Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care. The Fair Pay Agreement will bring together employers, worker representatives, and other to negotiate play and terms and conditions for the sector. This is intended to improve pay, support recruitment, and retention.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding, guidance, and training her Department plans to provide to local authorities to support the consistent and fair implementation of home-visit duties from the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding, guidance, and training her Department plans to provide to local authorities to support the consistent and fair implementation of home-visit duties from the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
The power for local authorities to request to visit a child in their home is intended to help the authority decide whether education is suitable for the child or, in the case of children subject to child protection processes, that it is in the best interests of the child to receive their education in or outside of school. The findings of a home visit, or the refusal to allow one, must be considered in deciding whether to commence the school attendance order process, but will not be the only factor determining that decision.
The requirement in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to consider a child’s home and other learning environments, and the power to request a home visit, addresses recommendations in the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the death of Sara Sharif.
Local authorities must always act reasonably when carrying out their duties. We will consult on statutory guidance, which helps local authorities conduct visits sensitively, and will develop training to help local authorities implement their new duties. A full new burdens assessment will be undertaken to determine the costs and resources required for local authorities to undertake these new duties, and additional funding will be provided.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence base underpins the proposal that a family's refusal of a home visit may lead a local authority to consider issuing a School Attendance Order under the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence base underpins the proposal that a family's refusal of a home visit may lead a local authority to consider issuing a School Attendance Order under the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
The power for local authorities to request to visit a child in their home is intended to help the authority decide whether education is suitable for the child or, in the case of children subject to child protection processes, that it is in the best interests of the child to receive their education in or outside of school. The findings of a home visit, or the refusal to allow one, must be considered in deciding whether to commence the school attendance order process, but will not be the only factor determining that decision.
The requirement in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to consider a child’s home and other learning environments, and the power to request a home visit, addresses recommendations in the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the death of Sara Sharif.
Local authorities must always act reasonably when carrying out their duties. We will consult on statutory guidance, which helps local authorities conduct visits sensitively, and will develop training to help local authorities implement their new duties. A full new burdens assessment will be undertaken to determine the costs and resources required for local authorities to undertake these new duties, and additional funding will be provided.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that home-visit requirements under the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill are applied proportionately, particularly in cases where families have no prior history of safeguarding concerns.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that home-visit requirements under the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill are applied proportionately, particularly in cases where families have no prior history of safeguarding concerns.
The power for local authorities to request to visit a child in their home is intended to help the authority decide whether education is suitable for the child or, in the case of children subject to child protection processes, that it is in the best interests of the child to receive their education in or outside of school. The findings of a home visit, or the refusal to allow one, must be considered in deciding whether to commence the school attendance order process, but will not be the only factor determining that decision.
The requirement in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to consider a child’s home and other learning environments, and the power to request a home visit, addresses recommendations in the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the death of Sara Sharif.
Local authorities must always act reasonably when carrying out their duties. We will consult on statutory guidance, which helps local authorities conduct visits sensitively, and will develop training to help local authorities implement their new duties. A full new burdens assessment will be undertaken to determine the costs and resources required for local authorities to undertake these new duties, and additional funding will be provided.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) safeguards and (b) limitations will apply to home visits conducted by local authorities under the proposed registration provisions in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) safeguards and (b) limitations will apply to home visits conducted by local authorities under the proposed registration provisions in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
The power for local authorities to request to visit a child in their home is intended to help the authority decide whether education is suitable for the child or, in the case of children subject to child protection processes, that it is in the best interests of the child to receive their education in or outside of school. The findings of a home visit, or the refusal to allow one, must be considered in deciding whether to commence the school attendance order process, but will not be the only factor determining that decision.
The requirement in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for local authorities to consider a child’s home and other learning environments, and the power to request a home visit, addresses recommendations in the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the death of Sara Sharif.
Local authorities must always act reasonably when carrying out their duties. We will consult on statutory guidance, which helps local authorities conduct visits sensitively, and will develop training to help local authorities implement their new duties. A full new burdens assessment will be undertaken to determine the costs and resources required for local authorities to undertake these new duties, and additional funding will be provided.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is his Department taking to help ensure hospices receive sufficient funding to carry out at home visits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is his Department taking to help ensure hospices receive sufficient funding to carry out at home visits.
We have provided a £125 million capital funding boost for eligible adult, and children and young people’s, hospices in England. This can be used by hospices to improve IT systems, making it easier for general practices and hospitals to share vital data on patients. It can also help hospices to develop and better their outreach services to support people in their own homes when needed.
We are also providing £80 million for children’s and young people’s hospices in England over the next three financial years, giving them the stability to plan ahead and focus on what matters most, caring for their patients, whether that is on a hospice inpatient ward or in patients’ own homes.
The Government is developing a Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care Modern Service Framework (MSF) for England. We will consider contracting and commissioning arrangements as part of our MSF. We recognise that there is currently a mix of contracting models in the hospice sector. By supporting integrated care boards to commission more strategically, we can move away from grant and block contract models. In the long term, this will aid sustainability and help hospices’ ability to plan ahead. Officials are working closely with a number of stakeholders from the hospice sector in the development of the MSF.
The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families receive personalised care in the most appropriate setting, and palliative and end of life care services, including hospices, will have a big role to play in that shift. The MSF will address the drivers and incentives that are required in palliative care and end of life care to enable the shift from hospital to community.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued on whether frontline staff are able to provide covid-19 vaccinations to unpaid carers who are present during home vaccination visits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued on whether frontline staff are able to provide covid-19 vaccinations to unpaid carers who are present during home vaccination visits.
The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The primary aim of the national COVID-19 vaccination programme remains the prevention of serious illness, resulting in hospitalisations and deaths, arising from COVID-19.
The JCVI advised in its autumn 2024 advice that, in the current era of high population immunity to COVID-19 and with all cases due to Omicron sub-lineages of COVID-19, currently available COVID-19 vaccines provide limited protection against transmission and mild or asymptomatic disease. The JCVI therefore advised that the focus of the programme should be on offering vaccination where it directly protects an individual at higher risk. In line with this advice, unpaid carers as well as household contacts of the immunosuppressed ceased to be offered COVID-19 vaccination from autumn 2024.
In line with the advice the JCVI gave for 2025 and spring 2026, a COVID-19 vaccination will be offered this spring to the following groups:
- adults aged 75 years old and over;
- residents in care homes for older adults; and
- individuals aged six months old and over who are immunosuppressed.
The JCVI keeps all vaccination programmes under review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing unpaid family carers to receive Covid-19 booster vaccinations alongside the person they care for where a home vaccination visit is already taking place.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing unpaid family carers to receive Covid-19 booster vaccinations alongside the person they care for where a home vaccination visit is already taking place.
The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The primary aim of the national COVID-19 vaccination programme remains the prevention of serious illness, resulting in hospitalisations and deaths, arising from COVID-19.
The JCVI advised in its autumn 2024 advice that, in the current era of high population immunity to COVID-19 and with all cases due to Omicron sub-lineages of COVID-19, currently available COVID-19 vaccines provide limited protection against transmission and mild or asymptomatic disease. The JCVI therefore advised that the focus of the programme should be on offering vaccination where it directly protects an individual at higher risk. In line with this advice, unpaid carers as well as household contacts of the immunosuppressed ceased to be offered COVID-19 vaccination from autumn 2024.
In line with the advice the JCVI gave for 2025 and spring 2026, a COVID-19 vaccination will be offered this spring to the following groups:
- adults aged 75 years old and over;
- residents in care homes for older adults; and
- individuals aged six months old and over who are immunosuppressed.
The JCVI keeps all vaccination programmes under review.
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
156: Clause 32, page 62, line 21, leave out from “education” to “at” in line 22 and insert “as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to any child living in England or Wales (whether or not that child lives in the authority’s area) or has provided such...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
156: Clause 32, page 62, line 21, leave out from “education” to “at” in line 22 and insert “as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to any child living in England or Wales (whether or not that child lives in the authority’s area) or has provided such...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
158: Clause 32, page 64, line 36, at end insert—
“(c) information about access to examinations for the General Certificate of Secondary Education.”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would add information about access to GCSE exams to the list of examples of matters about which a local authority...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
158: Clause 32, page 64, line 36, at end insert—
“(c) information about access to examinations for the General Certificate of Secondary Education.”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would add information about access to GCSE exams to the list of examples of matters about which a local authority...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
161: Clause 32, page 64, line 37, leave out “duty in subsection (1) does not apply” and insert “duties in subsections (1), (2A) and (2B) do not apply in relation to a child”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment is consequential on my second amendment of clause 32...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
161: Clause 32, page 64, line 37, leave out “duty in subsection (1) does not apply” and insert “duties in subsections (1), (2A) and (2B) do not apply in relation to a child”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment is consequential on my second amendment of clause 32...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
162: Clause 32, page 65, line 8, leave out subsection (3) and insert—
“(3) In section 569(2A)—
(a) after “section” insert “436B(6), 436C(1)(e), 436C(2), 436C(4), 436E(1)(a), 436E(7), 436E(9), 436F(1), 436F(2),”;
(b) after “550ZC(7)” insert “, or under paragraph 5 of Schedule 31A”.”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would provide that...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
162: Clause 32, page 65, line 8, leave out subsection (3) and insert—
“(3) In section 569(2A)—
(a) after “section” insert “436B(6), 436C(1)(e), 436C(2), 436C(4), 436E(1)(a), 436E(7), 436E(9), 436F(1), 436F(2),”;
(b) after “550ZC(7)” insert “, or under paragraph 5 of Schedule 31A”.”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would provide that...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
165: Clause 33, page 68, line 35, at end insert “; or has taken such action during the period of 5 years ending with the date on which a preliminary notice is to be served under subsection (1).”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would allow a local...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
165: Clause 33, page 68, line 35, at end insert “; or has taken such action during the period of 5 years ending with the date on which a preliminary notice is to be served under subsection (1).”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would allow a local...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
169: Clause 33, page 70, line 10, after “that Act” insert “, or which has been taken during the period of 5 years ending with the date that the order would be made,”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would also cover action taken by the local authority...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
169: Clause 33, page 70, line 10, after “that Act” insert “, or which has been taken during the period of 5 years ending with the date that the order would be made,”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would also cover action taken by the local authority...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
172: Clause 33, page 77, line 28, after “that Act” insert “, or which has been taken during the period of 5 years ending with the date that the order was made,”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would also cover action taken by the local authority under...
Moved by
Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)
172: Clause 33, page 77, line 28, after “that Act” insert “, or which has been taken during the period of 5 years ending with the date that the order was made,”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would also cover action taken by the local authority under...